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...Some are made at home, but many thousands are sold at convenience stores and specialised bento shops, and even by restaurants to meet peak lunch hour demand....
...There are bento boxes of prepared food – gyoza, sushi, sashimi. You can buy suspiciously perfect strawberries or rarefied soy sauce, serious Japanese whisky or pristine tofu....
...But that does this place a bit of a disservice: in its own right, it is probably one of the best Japanese restaurants in Switzerland, if not Europe....
...“I err all the time with pronouns,” Butler shrugs, in a Japanese restaurant overlooking a rainy London avenue....
...Later, a Japanese submarine shelled the Islands. The Clunies-Rosses’ high point came when Queen Elizabeth II visited in 1954....
...However, I have been pleasantly surprised by the evolution of the Japanese restaurant scene in the UK capital since then....
...“I used to buy my girlfriend SK-II skincare sets without batting an eye,” he said, referring to the Japanese premium brand whose sets usually cost about $200....
...The property consisted of two linked Grade II-listed former agricultural buildings: the larger one was originally a tithe barn; the smaller one a cart shed....
...But it joins a slew of neighbourhood spots that out-of-towners might like to seek out, including Japanese bento box and izakaya joint Mori Mori, New York-style pizza-by-the-slice venue Palms Pizzeria and...
...I’ve recently discovered Atoboy, a terrific, deeply satisfying restaurant in NoMad, owned by the creative couple Ellia and Junghyun Park....
...July 29-30, newportfolk.org Womad, UK There are few festivals where you can catch performers as wide-ranging as Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, Brazilian rapper Emicida, the UK’s Soul II Soul and Portuguese...
...restaurant on the roof – even if you’re not staying at the hotel: it’s open to the public)....
...Known for its samgyeopsal (grilled pork belly), this barbecue restaurant is popular among Japanese students as well as foreign tourists for its generous portions (and for the fact they use fresh rather than...
...Then there’s Nama, a beautifully designed Japanese restaurant with an omakase counter hewn from a single slab of fragrant hinoki wood....
...It should talk to the Japanese people coming back to Paris to enjoy the holidays, to the American audience — the number one foreign visitors are the Americans....
...We have their brilliant bento boxes, which are served with such elegance and artistry. They look and taste beautiful....
...The Japanese market has long been regarded as difficult to crack because of the dominance of local brands like Toyota, Honda and Nissan....
...These mischievous mammals are so inventive and well adapted to their urban home that they feature in the BBC documentary series Planet Earth II....
...There is the ghost of colonialism too — the station was a pet project of King Leopold II. But the overriding sense is of a structure ecclesiastical in its splendour and scale....
...It’s peak Saturday afternoon brunch hour, but this cavernous Japanese restaurant is nearly empty, light flooding through the two-storey windows as generic piano music plays....
...And these stakeholder concerns have prompted Uniqlo, a Japanese clothing retailer, to stay in the country....
...Not the fact that there were five or so restaurants on board: faine dining, French, Japanese, and the S.A.L.T kitchen (standing for Sea and Land Taste, it’s a big thing, intended to “take guests deeper into...
...(There is also a wide selection of mezcals and some good Japanese whiskies on offer.)...
...Known in the guidebooks as “kitchen town”, it is the place to find everything from sampuru — the plastic food samples displayed outside many Japanese restaurants — to bento boxes, chef uniforms to fish scalers...
...He could take a film like The Magnificent Seven which was showing at the local cinema and compare it with the Japanese film The Seven Samurai, then somehow link that culturally to James Joyce, the endless...
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