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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I’m still going through my Asia trip photos from May. At least now, I’ve made it to the Japan pictures.
On my first night in Japan, after finding our hotel, which just so happened to be less than a two-minute walk from Shin-okubo station, I was famished. It was late enough that I didn’t want to [...]
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 [...]
Located across from National Taiwan University is Wistaria Tea House, a spot where locals and tea-drinkers gather to pass away a free tranquil hours. If it looks out of place sandwiched between modern apartment buildings and shops, it’s because it was built in 1921. It played a prominent role to Taiwanese officials during the Japanese [...]
Part of my Asia trip was to accompany Will on his quest to fill every open space in our house with tea and tea accessories. Taiwan is supposed the place to get your tea on, so we ended up going on a lot of tea-related outings.
One spot we went to was called 回留素食茶藝館 (hui liu su [...]
One must-see stop on our trip to Taiwan is Shilin Night Market in Taipei. Everyone that we talked to before our trip mentioned it once they found out we were visiting Taiwan. The main part is a large building with dozens of small food vendors under one roof, but walk a block or two and [...]
