When I visited Japan, I was expecting fantastic ramen, fresh off the boat sushi, crazy fashions, and crowded walks through Shinjuku. The last thing I was expecting was to be drinking the best drip coffee I had ever had sitting at a tiny, four-person noodle bar, listening to Rastafarian music in a suburb of Tokyo.
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A few months ago, Shojin, a vegan restaurant in Little Tokyo introduced vegan ramen on their menu. Our first attempt at trying this rare bowl of soup was foiled when we unknowingly arrived during their sushi night. Apparently, no ramen was to be had on sushi night.
A week later, we made sure it wasn’t sushi [...]
A few months ago (yes, yes, backlog of photos, sorry) I met Will for lunch at tiny, unassuming restaurant next to a taco stand on valley called Chuan Yu Noodles Town. We took notice of it after reading this post on eatdrinknbmerry displaying a seriously decadent bowl of beef noodle soup.
The restaurant itself is a [...]
Yu Shan Ge is a high-end vegetarian restaurant close to the Shandao Temple MRT stop. Even though we took a taxi to it from our hotel, we realized it was actually a walkable distance and walked the way home. After the filling meal we had, walking was a smart choice.
The restaurant itself is nicely decorated [...]
On one of the days in Taiwan, when it was raining and gray, we ventured out to a secluded vegetarian restaurant in some suburb of Taipei. If I had known what an adventure it would turn out to be, I don’t think I would have stepped out of the hotel that day.
First, it was pouring [...]
Let’s say you’re in Hong Kong and you’re a vegetarian or traveling with one and you or he wants dim sum. No problem! There’s a fully vegetarian restaurant at Admiralty, on a hill near the tea pot museum. It’s mostly a “drink expensive tea and eat snacks” place but it may be worth a [...]
For being a Cantonese speaking city, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of vegetarian restaurants there were in Hong Kong. But then again, it’s also a huge, worldly city, so I should have expected it.
One restaurant we went to twice was Cute Fei. It was an accidental find as we were trying to make [...]
