Tag: Beer
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Osaka, Japan and the cult of the octopus dumpling.
Compared to the glittery metropolis of Tokyo or the ancient sublimity of Kyoto, it’s easy to forget the more grounded and working class city of Osaka. But that would be a mistake. The second largest metropolitan area in Japan at over 19 million, Osaka is bursting with welcoming personality and Osakans are well known…
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Bitterballen, hotchpotch stampot, jenever, and haring. Hunting down traditional Dutch food in Amsterdam.
Honestly, when it comes to northern European food, I hadn’t heard good things. But I have to say I fell in love with traditional Dutch food. Tasty bar snacks, hearty home-style meals with long simmered meats, a variety of cured fish, hunks of rich meat and cheese, good local liquor, unhealthy things to eat drunk…
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The West Virginia hotdog and other sandwiches of my youth. A tour of classic diners and drive-ins of Huntington, West Virginia.
Huntington, West Virginia is my childhood home. Where I was born and raised. And where my family still lives. I grew up exploring the beautiful decay and abandoned industrialscapes that once boomed here some time before I met the world. Huntington is also a hotdog town and I grew up eating lots of hotdogs.…
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Robots, lasers, and noodles! Prowling Tokyo’s Shinjuku redlight district.
Shinjuku is a major metropolitan transit hub inside of Tokyo with over 3.64 million commuters per day at the Shinjuku station as well as the city’s predominant redlight district. The stacked fluorescent neon strata fantasy worlds of new Tokyo japanimae and the glittery underworld of the Yakuza often depicted in movies finds its inspiration…
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From trdelníky to goulash: the hunt for traditional Czech food in Prague.
Umodre Kachnicky Restaurant specializing in duck. I chose the tasting menu. The Hemingway Bar The Chili Bar The Chili bar is a tiny bar hidden away in a hard to find…