Eleven days and 999 pictures later, I am back from Japan! We touched in Melbourne last Saturday, and I spent the whole weekend recuperating from the long and tiring plane rides back home. Between then and now, I have had Nasi Lemak (Singapore Airport), Briyani, spicy Szechuan chicken, a copious amount of lavender tea, a large flat…
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I have small and big things on my to-do list for this Japan trip, one of which is to try the iconic Japanese Starbucks Matcha Pudding.…
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Dōtonbori might be the one neighbourhood in the entire Japan where I have eaten most, even compared to the more famous ones in Tokyo.…
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After more than a day of travelling, we finally arrived in Japan. So far, I have had a beef bowl in Yoshinoya and checked in to the hotel.…
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On the weekend, I watched the Girls' latest season. Shosh wakes up in her Tokyo apartment, living in Tokyo and breathing Japanese culture.…
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It wasn’t even 8 AM yet and it didn’t take a genius to realize why I needed to queue for more than two hours just to stand in front of Sushi Dai at Tsukiji Fish Market and stare at people eating sushi. The famous Japanese Sushi restaurant is the same size as my room…
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“All the Japanese food I ate on my Japan trip has been amazingly delicious. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in a hole in the wall restaurant or inside top to bottom glass doors restaurants; something I bought from 7-11 or vending machine“, I tried to convince Fafa to book a table at Jiro Sushi…
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I flew to Japan last Saturday with my best friends. My second Japan trip, to fulfil the pact we made at the airport three years ago, to come back again because it’s JAPAN! I dislike repeating things and for someone who hasn’t seen much of the world and with limited work leave, I shouldn’t…
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Today is the last day of my second Japan trip and has shaped up to be one of my most memorable travel tales. I have had too many first-time experiences jam-packed into the day before even 9 AM. This is the story of how I ended up eating sushi for breakfast at the world-famous…
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Visiting Shibuya means walking on the iconic Shibuya crossing. The world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, the Shibuya crossing is a quirky thing to tick off of the Tokyo travel list. I expected to see some weird shenanigans while walking on the Shibuya crossing. But instead, rushing among thousands of strangers, I felt overwhelmed. I chalked it out as a dehydration…
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