A Week in Tokyo Part 5 – Marushizu in Tsukiji
Not far from Tokyo’s frenetic Tsukiji Fish Market can be found Marushizu (丸静) – one of the best places to eat fresh grilled eel, known as unagi…
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One of the interesting things you’ll notice when feeling hungry in Japan is that many restaurants display plastic samples of their dishes in their windows in…
Read articleFrom Japan with Food
Online food documentary series The Perennial Plate spent two weeks travelling around Japan to create a stomach rumbling short film – From Japan with Love (and Dashi)…
Read articleShanghai vs Taipei Xiaolongbao
A recent article published by CNNGo on ‘40 Taiwanese foods we can’t live without‘ garnered over 90,000 Facebook likes and many passionate comments within a few…
Read articleNingxia Night Market
As any visitor to Taipei discovers, one of the cities main attractions are its many night markets. On my previous trip I covered some of the…
Read articleExploring Chengdu
A few weeks ago my younger brother visited me in Hong Kong and given it was his first time to China I decided to take him…
Read articleReturn to Busan
It’s been over a month now since my last trip to Korea but I wanted to share a few photos from Busan (부산) which I visited…
Read articleShenzhen Update: Earthquakes & More
It’s been a while since I wrote anything about life in Shenzhen so I thought I’d provide a quick update of what’s been going on the…
Read articleDay Break at Tsukiji Fish Market
Usually the last thing you want to be doing while on holiday is waking at 4am in the morning but that’s exactly what I did on…
Read articleDim Sum Surprise
I was having lunch at Jin Yue Xuan 金悦轩 dim sum restaurant in Futian (Shenzhen) recently when I noticed something unusual out of the corner of my…
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