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From Rome to Tokyo: Trapizzino’s Italian pizza sandwiches are delish

Evie Nyan
Jun 6, 2016
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Tasty, Rome-style Italian pizza sandwiches have hit Tokyo, and we couldn’t resist shoving several of them in our faces. Nom!

Food & Drink, Italy, Japan, Lifestyle
(Italian • Kichijoji • pizza • Restaurant • sandwich • trapizzino)

Can you handle the overflowing sushi rolls at this conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Hokkaido?

Krista Rogers
Jun 6, 2016

Sapporo’s Nagoyaka-tei takes full responsibility for these (literally) over the top roe-lover’s rolls.

Food & Drink, Japan, Lifestyle
(Hokkaido • ikura • Nagoyaka-tei • Restaurant • roe • Sapporo • sushi)

Baked fresh to your specs in just one minute: 800 Degrees Pizza opens first store in Japan

Evie Nyan
Apr 19, 2016

Neapolitan-style pizza comes to Shinjuku, with fully customisable pies baked from raw to crisp perfection in only one minute using wood-burning ovens.

Food & Drink, Japan
(800 degrees • food • pizza • Restaurant • shinjuku)

Noodle stall in Thailand is dishing out some mighty fine treats for your eyes and your taste buds

KK Miller
Mar 12, 2016

We’ll take whatever this guy is serving.

Food & Drink, SE Asia
(hot men • Noodles • Restaurant • Thailand • tom yum)

Our Japanese team discover “the most delicious way in the universe” to eat cucumber

Master Blaster
Mar 2, 2016

Cucumbers are great fruits that can be enjoyed in a variety of ways, but by sheer chance our writers have found a way to heighten the flavor and texture of a cucumber to unprecedented levels.

Japan
(cucumber • food • motsunabe • organ meat • Restaurant • Tokyo)

Kewpie Mayo Cafe celebrates Mayonnaise Day with a month of mayo-hem, special menu

Evie Nyan
Mar 2, 2016

We visited the Kewpie Mayo Cafe on Mayonnaise Day, March 1, to sample some smooth and sophisticated mayo-drenched cuisine!

Food & Drink, Japan
(cafe • kewpie • mayo • mayonnaise • mayonnaise day • Restaurant)

Busboy found cleaning tables at blinding speeds in yakiniku restaurant

Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2016

It’s good to see that the youth of today still know how to take their jobs seriously, but this guy definitely goes above and beyond!

Internet, Japan
(busboy • customer service • fast • Mie • Restaurant • yakiniku)

Eat like a big kid at this Kyoto cafe with their “Kids’ Special” just for grownups!

Evie Nyan
Jan 20, 2016

Want to eat like a big kid, only with more grace and style? This restaurant in Kyoto offers a “Kids’ Special – for Adults”! Naturally we had to go and scoff—er, try—it for ourselves…

Japan
(food • Japanese food • kids lunch • Kyoto • Restaurant • taste test)

We pig out on tonkatsu at Marugo, the Michelin-approved breaded pork palace【Taste Test】

Evie Nyan
Dec 14, 2015

Our reporters made pigs of themselves at Marugo, a pork cutlet restaurant featured in the 2016 Tokyo Michelin Guide.

Japan
(food • Michelin • pork • Restaurant • review • taste test • Tokyo • tonkatsu)

Japan’s rags-to-riches Nepalese restaurant “Daisuki Nippon” closes doors after five years

Master Blaster
Nov 5, 2015

November marks five years since Vikas Pradhan sent out his first tweets in broken Japanese describing the hardships of starting a restaurant. In response and a heartwarming show of support, the Twitter community rallied behind Pradhan not only online but in actual paid visits to his Nepalese cuisine restaurant Daisuki Nippon, putting it firmly in the black.

However, in a rather sudden turn of events, Pradhan tweeted that as of 31 October the original Daisuki Nippon had closed down.

Japan, W Asia
(business • Daisuki Nippon • Nepal • Pradhan Vikas • Restaurant • twitter)

Mr. Sato takes our newest reporter to a sushi restaurant, he mistakes it for a love hotel!

Krista Rogers
Oct 20, 2015

It’s been one month since Nakazawa, who’s also a guitarist for two bands, joined the Japanese RocketNews24 team. On a recent day, our veteran reporter Mr. Sato told Nakazawa to follow him as he ventured into the outside world. When Nakazawa asked where they were going, Mr. Sato coolly replied: “To a good place. I’m going to make you happy.”

Not one to argue with a perpetual fan-favorite reporter, especially as a new recruit, Nakazawa obediently agreed.

Two short train rides later, our two adventurers finally arrived at their destination: a collection of bars and other late-night eateries near Tokyo’s Kita-Senju Station. Nakazawa followed Mr. Sato silently until the expert reporter suddenly stopped in his tracks. “We’re here,” Mr. Sato announced. Nakazawa looked up and was shocked to discover that they were standing in front of what looked like a hotel—and not just any hotel, but a LOVE hotel!

Japan
(food • Kita-Senju • love hotel • Mr. Sato • Restaurant • sushi • Sushitani • Tokyo)

Vampire Cafe: Over a decade of Tokyo’s best undead dining in Ginza

Preston Phro
Aug 25, 2015

As one of Tokyo’s swankiest neighborhoods, Ginza is home to numerous up-scale restaurants and cafes that will as much do damage to your wallet as fill your stomach with delicious food. From French cuisine to delicious brunch, you can find just about anything in Ginza—including a Vampire Cafe!

Though you might not expect to see many theme restaurants like this in Ginza, it turns out these bloodsuckers have been going strong for over a decade. If you’re hoping for a night of spine-tingles and blood-red everything, this is the place for you!

Japan
(food • Restaurant • Tokyo • travel • Vampire Cafe)

Onigiri good enough to get off the train for: We tried the food at Bongo and it was amazing!

Preston Phro
Aug 18, 2015

Otsuka isn’t exactly the most famous neighborhood in Tokyo. Located next to bustling Ikebukuro, it’s a quiet area and most people assume there’s not much to do. Whether or not that’s actually true, one of our Japanese writers found himself getting off the train at Otsuka Station the other day with a singular purpose in mind: He was there to eat onigiri (rice balls).

But should you hop on a train to Otsuka just for some food you can buy at a convenience store? Is this onigiri restaurant really worth a trip to this quiet neighborhood? Read on to find out!

Japan
(food • onigiri • Restaurant)

New Tokyo restaurant promises food that tastes like crap: actual poo-flavored curry

Master Blaster
Aug 18, 2015

It’s getting harder and harder to be truly original these days, and nothing much seems to surprise anymore. And then something like Curry Shop Shimizu opens in Tokyo. This is a real curry restaurant that specializes in poo-flavored curry.

The very notion of that is sure to send a flurry of questions up to the old cranium, the biggest one no doubt being “How do they know what poo tastes like?” Well, they actually have a good explanation for that, along with answers to other questions you may be pondering…

Japan
(curry • feces • food • Funabashi • Pooh • poop • Restaurant • Tokyo)

Tasty and cheap: 30 minutes of all-you-can-eat yakiniku for only 780 yen

Aleisha Riboldi
Aug 10, 2015

We used to think that the 45-minute all-you-can-eat lunch of cook-your-own grilled meat lunch for 950 yen (US$7.60), offered by the Jimbocho Shokuniku Centre restaurant, was pretty hard to beat in terms of value for your money. However, we’ve recently learned that there’s another yakiniku restaurant in Tokyo that offers an even better value!

If you love meat and are looking for a bargain, read on to learn about our meal at Asakusa Buta Yashiki Horumon Sakaba.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • Asakusa • Restaurant • yakiniku)

Japan’s largest all-you-can-eat-and-drink offer spans eight different restaurants in Osaka

Master Blaster
Aug 9, 2015

Since 1 July, a small corner of the Chayamachi district in the downtown Umeda area of Osaka has been holding a huge deal: All-You-Can-Eat-and-Drink Alley. For a flat rate of 3,500 yen (US$28) you can have three hours to run wild and eat as much as you want from eight different restaurants in the alley, going back and forth among them freely.

Still not enough? Okay picky pants, how does also having all-you-can-drink of any drink from coffee to wine sound? We thought that would convince you! Let’s take a quick look at what’s in store (or stores rather) for you there.

Japan
(all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • food • kushikatsu • Osaka • Restaurant • Shabu-shabu)

Our Japanese reporter gets a heaping helping of American Denny’s

Master Blaster
May 30, 2015

Our Japanese writers are certainly no strangers to American cuisine or at least the lower echelons of it. Whenever in the USA they tend to try places unheard of in Japan or compare easy-to-order fast food fare like McDonald’s.

One place that’s often overlooked on these trips is Denny’s. Already a well-established “family restaurant” (low-priced restaurant with waiting staff) in Japan they just assumed it was more of the same in America too.

However, after his close encounter with an empty gate at Area 51, our reporter Go Hatori was cruising across the vastness of the US and began feeling a little fatigued. He suddenly spotted that familiar yellow sign of a Denny’s and thought it would be a good place to catch a quick little bite.

Little did he know what lay in store…

Japan, USA
(Colorado • Denny's • food • Restaurant • review)

We go to Kanazawa to meet Bao, the miniature pig who works in a pork restaurant【Video】

Fran W
Mar 5, 2015

Kanazawa City in central Japan is famous for fresh fish and seafood, kaga yasai (15 types of vegetables, officially ordained as “local”), and delicious rice and sake. But it’s not all fancy shellfish and obscure vegetables. The aptly named restaurant TABOO in Kanazawa has a real live miniature pig as its manager!

“But, surely the pig’s not actually there in the restaurant?” wondered our reporter Yoshio. “If so, he probably just works weekends.” What’s more, isn’t working in a pork restaurant something of a dangerous endeavour for a pig? “What if he’s already been eaten?” There was nothing for it – Yoshio’s mind was made up! He must head to Kanazawa for himself and attempt to secure an interview with this most unusual of restaurant managers.

Japan
(pig • Restaurant • review • taboo • video)

Haneto Izakaya: Enjoy Aomori food and music from the comfort of Tokyo

Preston Phro
Jan 6, 2015

Tokyo is a wonderful city; there’s no denying that. But sometimes you might want to get out into the country and experience some of the different cultural areas of Japan. Of course, if you’re busy working all week or only in the country for a brief time, you may not be able to get out to a place like Aomori Prefecture.

Recently, however, we were in the mood for some tsugaru-jamisen and a few glasses of Aomori Prefecture’s distinguished sake. We didn’t have time to jump on a train to the northern prefecture, but, fortunately, Tokyo is home to Haneto Izakaya, an establishment featuring food and music from Aomori Prefecture. Check out the food, drinks, and a video of their amazing shamisen player rocking the joint!

Japan
(Aomori • food • Haneto Izakaya • izakaya • Restaurant • Tokyo)

A restaurant in China is offering discounts to overweight men and thin women

BUSINESS INSIDER
Dec 12, 2014

In a ridiculous way to draw in more customers, a restaurant in China is offering discounted or free meals to customers of a certain weight, according to CRI English News.