横濱人

横濱人
〒231-0861 神奈川県横浜市中区元町１丁目31 (ie, 〒231-0861 Kanagawa-ken, Yokohama-shi, Naka-ku, Motomachi, 1-chōme−31)
tel: 045-681-5225

what was consumed: japanese bar food!

when good friends come to town, you take them someplace where they'll get a taste of the local cuisine. d took the train from tokyo to see us in yokohama; we, in turn, took him out to japanese food.

my experience with washoku, at least until this point, had been limited. there were things i knew because of my various experiences around the world, but is that really japanese food? who knows. that said, i was once told that if there are "salary men" who dine at whatever location you're at, especially during the week, that restaurant is probably a safe bet. lucky for us, when we got to 横濱人, we joined quite a few other tables of salary men.

i can't say that 横濱人 offered dishes that were incredibly out of the ordinary; it felt like a typical japanese restaurant. but that was exactly what we were looking for - a little bit of sushi, a little bit of tempura, some agadofu, and of course onigiri (which i love). they had both the more typical onigiri as well as the grilled onigiri. both of them, please!

時遊陣

時遊陣
address: 〒231-0861 神奈川県横浜市中区元町３丁目141
(3-chōme-141 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0861)tel: 045-641-2224

what was consumed: washoku (aka japanese food). as we couldn't read the menu (and still can't read many japanese menus for that matter :/ ...) we asked for recommendations and then took them all. we had sashimi, roasted dry fish, shu mai, chicken wings ... and it was all pretty yummy.

first meal (out) in japan!

i've been looking forward to eating in japan. with some new additions/changes in my life, however, eating out had taken a back seat over the last 6-ish months (and from here out on, child-friendly dining options are going to become the norm). that doesn't mean we can't have good food, though, right? right.

soon after arriving, while MIL was still in town, we got our first chance to go out and eat in yokohama. BJL and i met up with our colleague friend who arrived in yokohama a few months earlier than we did. we told her, "dealer's choice," and suggested we go anywhere she hadn't been. so, by chance, we ended up at 時遊陣.

時遊陣 isn't on the main motomachi road; rather, it's on a side street of a side street. like many washoku places, they have a bar and just a few tables. the server spoke some english, but they didn't have an english menu. in japanese, we asked for recommendations, but the server responded with a few words in broken english until all of us told him that japanese was ok (this is usually how it goes). 

a good first go at eating out in japan, imo. and when we saw some salarymen/women enter, we were reassured that our selection was legit (haha).

online: http://www.m-jiyujin.com/

moromi kushi (모로미 쿠시)

moromi kushi (모로미 쿠시)
서울특별시 용산구 이촌로88길 16; also at 서울특별시 용산구 이촌동 300-268
tel: 02-794-7901

what was consumed: sashimi plate, squid ink calamari, and loads of yakitori

az and i were looking for a chill dinner place and stumbled upon moromi kushi. izakaya style, they offer japanese-style bar food as well as the usual japanese fare. we sat at the "bar" and watched our yakitori being made.

we perused the yakitori menu and were excited to see all sorts of things on the list. chicken skin, meatballs, kebab-style options, etc. we wanted them all! one was served with a sauce made with an egg yolk. yassssssss.

in addition to the yakitori, we made sure to sample some of the usual fare. the fried calamari was delicious, light, not too oily. and while squid ink stuff is en vogue these days (or so they say), i can't say i can taste the difference. but i like it anyway.

we also wanted to sashimi, and were told by the server that we had to purchase alcohol (otherwise, we'd have to pay what seemed like double the price ... !!!) but who were we kidding. saki, please!

while a little pricey, i can say that we enjoyed watching the craft of our yakitori being prepared. that made it that much more delicious for us. whoopee!

online: http://blog.naver.com/hulehule