If I’m being totally honest, my favorite dining experiences over 7 trips to Japan have not revolved around sushi, ramen, or tonkatsu, but around wagyu beef. Yes, a sushi omakase can be absolutely sublime, but the environment is typically a lot more subdued to pay respect to your sushi master. A premium yakiniku experience with …
Yakiniku translates to grilled meat, and chef Vanne Kuwahara’s yakiniku restaurant in Ebisu is my all-time favorite place to get it thus far. You can think of it as a meat omakase, where you get course after course of different cuts of the highest grade wagyu beef, with each one cooked meticulously over the charcoal …
Talk about a SEGGSy breakfast! A cast iron skillet is steak’s best friend, so what better way to make use of it than cooking an ENTIRE breakfast in that single skillet? This steak and eggs with caramelized onions all comes together in the skillet so you get allll the flavor but with minimal dish-washing. A …
Before dining at Ding’s Club, I had never actually heard of celebrity chef and Kung Fu Star Steve Lee Ka Ding. But seeing a cardboard cutout of the actor-turned-chef at the entrance of the restaurant let’s you know that he’s a pretty big deal. In fact, his first restaurant, Ding’s Kitchen, is so popular that …
As the plate of oysters the size of my head hit the table, I knew this was not going to be like most other izakayas. Fukuro is the newest addition to Hong Kong’s popular Black Sheep Restaurants, which boasts hot spots like Ho Lee Fook and NYC import Carbone. Fukuro, which translates to “owl,” is …
