Over the weekend, I ate blood. I gambled at the temple of tack that is the Venetian. I sweated my ass off running from meal to meal and love....
5 Aug 8:31 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

This is as true in sake tasting as it is in war. At a recent sake fair in Ochanomizu, however, I found myself without one, drifting around a....
12 Jul 11:05 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The neighborhood of Kinshicho has a somewhat unsavory reputation. It is perhaps best known for its abundance of “gaijin pubs” (aka seed....
13 Apr 9:20 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Although sushi is probably Japan’s most famous culinary export, tempura is a close second. Wooing the world through the international lan....
27 Mar 11:27 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The weather in Yahiko yesterday was gloriously warm. After three days in the frozen center of Snow Country, it was nice to be able to walk a....
13 Mar 11:13 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

My morning yukata is bright blue, covered with pink and white flowers. We arrived in the quaint village of Yahiko after 6:00 yesterday eveni....
12 Mar 9:18 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

In late November, I found myself frantically searching for a bottle of barrel-aged taruzake. I checked several stores and was met with the s....
9 Jan 3:27 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

It was a whimsically warm autumn morning. The sky was the placid blue of a Magritte painting, and the leaves were flecked with rust. Even at....
11 Dec 2:18 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The weather's been on a crazy emotional roller-coaster ride. We'd had a pretty chilly cold snap a couple of weeks ago. Then, after days of w....
30 Nov 11:27 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent]