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These guys were on my way back to the office today, so I figured I'd stop in to finally give their fried rice a try. It wasn't ava...

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Vatos Urban Tacos is a Korean-Mexican place from Seoul that has been in Singapore for a while now. But I had very little desire to go, ma...

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Having spent the last five days in Japan , you'd think that ramen would be the last thing on my mind after getting back to Singapore. ...

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After clearing immigration at Haneda, I went to the food court near gate 140. I nearly went to Rokurinsha , especially since they had a sh...

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This gyukatsu wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be. That might've been in part due to the picture that they have hanging i...

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I can't remember how I found out about this cozy smoky yakitori place, but it was on our way home tonight and still open late(1-19-2 ...

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Here's another place that came up in conversation last night . And they conveniently had an outlet at Ebisu station where we were tran...

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Somewhere during the course of conversation tonight, this shop came up. The original store's location (1-1-7 Ebisu, 03-5795-0750) was ...

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This was a cute and cozy little izakaya in a very quiet neighborhood not far from Roppongi (2-2-20-1 Nishiazabu, 03-3407-8127). It's ...

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Given that we didn't really have a proper breakfast or lunch today , we went to go get a bite to eat. I was hoping for something soupy...

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I used to be able to stay with a relative degree of confidence that I've never had a bad meal in Japan. That changed with that gyudon ...

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After a night out on the town, I needed some food. My friend pointed to this tonkotsu place (Nishiazabu 3−21-24, 03-3408-4775), saying th...

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High-end sushi restaurants can apparently be difficult to secure a reservation at unless you do it far in advance. On short notice though,...

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Sushi was requested for lunch today, so we went to the hotel concierge to ask them for a recommendation, and she suggested this kaiten sus...

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For breakfast, I popped into an outlet of Matsuya . The first thing on the ticketing machine was this "Standard Morning Set," wh...

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So this is the restaurant that we were really going for tonight (2-16-7 Honmachi, 03-6300-4863). As the name suggests, they specialize in ...

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We weren't planning on eating here. But there was another yakitori alley near Shinjuku station that we passed by, and the smell of c...

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This was not just a last minute stop, but almost literally at the last second. We had just landed at Haneda and were on our way into the h...

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A chain from Thailand has opened up a small stall in Tanjong Pagar (1 Tanjong Pagar Plaza #01-31). They specialize in coffee from Chiang M...

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The Wah Kee folks have opened up a table service restaurant at Esplanade Mall (8 Raffles Avenue #01-13C, 6327-9187). When I arrived tonig...

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I must have walked back and forth in front of this place at least four or five times before I finally realized where the door was (3 Picke...

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A place from Taipei called Hei Wushi has opened on the former grounds of Hangoga (2 Bayfront Avenue #B1-01B, 6688-7138). It's a hot p...

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Keisuke opened his new hanbaagu restaurant today, which apparently also goes under the much longer alias Teppanyaki Hamburg Nihonbashi Ke...

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Despite the name, this place is not in Punggol , but at the Bgain 22 Old Street Coffee House (22 Havelock Road #01-669), just in front of ...

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Hainanese Western food usually isn't my first choice at a hawker center. And yet, I've noticed recently that these guys (70 Zion ...

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This burger shop from LA has opened up an outlet at Hotel G in Singapore (200 Middle Road, 6809-7990). They had a handful of specialty bu...

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Perhaps to no surprise, yet another poke shop has opened in Singapore (13 Stamford Road #B2-30). What's interesting about this one tho...

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As much as I love Spain and could eat there forever, I was really craving some tonkotsu ramen after landing today. So I went to Ippudo w...

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My layover was a good number of hours in Frankfurt today, so I went into town with an old friend. We went to the Sachsenhausen neighborho...

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There was one more thing that I wanted to get before heading home: horchata with fartons . See, the Spanish version of horchata is diffe...

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I saw those little things at another tapas counter recently, wondering what they heck they were. I figured that they were either clams (I ...

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So it turns out that I'm in Valencia in the run-up to Las Fallas, a local festival involving firecrackers, ornate costumes, and huge p...

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One of my main reasons for going to Valencia on this trip was to get a proper paella. Of course, paella is available all over Spain, but a...

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This was an unexpected find (34 Plaça del Mercat, +34-963-154-071). Similar to Tasca Angel , it was a tiny little shop overflowing with pe...

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This rowdy little bar (1 Carrer de la Puríssima, +34-963-917-835) was completely jam-packed with people when I arrived today. Still, I wea...

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Whoa, this place is huuuuuge! (Plaça de la Ciutat de Bruges, +34-963-829-100) It's much bigger than La Boqueria in Barcelona . And as ...

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If I were living in Valencia, this is the kind of place I would be going to (57 Gran Via del Marqués del Túria, +34-963-510-040). Granted,...

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If I heard it correctly, this place is from the descendants of a former jamón dealer (26 Carrer d'Isabel la Catòlica, +34-963-516-734...

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As I headed towards this place (69 Carrer de Josep Benlliure, +34-963-672-314), I was craving a beer. But after walking in, I completely c...

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Oh man, that was honestly one of the best things I've ever eaten. And the beauty of it was how simple it was: just eggs done over easy...

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After those tapas, we still needed a proper dinner. At that point, I remembered that there were a couple places nearby that did calçots d...

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This tiny little conservas shop (25 Carrer del Poeta Cabanyes, +34-934-423142) opens at 7PM on weekday evenings. And when I got there at ...

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I never made it to elBulli before they had closed. So I was eager to try some of Albert Adrià 's stuff in town, like perhaps Tickets. ...

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This was my kind of place (17 Carrer de la Unió, +34-932-703-458). And fortunately, a teammate of mine had a reservation! We sat down at t...

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I don't know if I just overlooked it last year, but there are a few small tapas bars in Barcelona's Fira Gran Via . And some of th...