Desiree Koh:
The thing about Japan is that I can never get full just by eating at one place. The portions are too small and the servings too delicate. We got in late in the afternoon, so wandered over to the Golden Gai in Shinjuku near the hotel in search of food. An
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The Seafood Special, which consisted of a scallop, squid, silverfish (and also mackerel, which was off the grid at the time).
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Fried tuna cheeks. Cheeks. So trendy in culinary arts right now.
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So, like, that and the Vegetable Special was so not enough. So it was off to Claudia Pizzeria for this proscuitto pie, which I had very high expectations for, as they had the brick oven and I saw some nice bubbling happening on the crust. Alas - the crust
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A little place off Shimbashi station, turned out to be pretty good local bar food. Here's a stew of pork parts.
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Mochi pizza intrigued me! And I liked it a lot, although I thought it was too salty with the sauce. The crust is made from rice cracker, which actually brought it pretty close to the texture of Neapolitan thin crust, if perhaps just a smidge less savory.
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Natto - fermented soy beans, deep fried. I can't bear this.
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A crazy bucket of sashimi. Crab legs, various types of fish, and a mackerel's head. Insanity.