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Goodnight, Sweet Katsuya
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Published: March 4, 2025 05:33
There is a sentence that I read as an undergraduate studying anthropology that has stuck with me for many years, though its author has left me: “an old man on his deathbed is a library on fire.” I got to thinking about this quote after what happened to an…
Go Pig or Go Home
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Published: October 25, 2024 06:28
The situation at hand in September was one of families, or more specifically, my family. My parents were visiting from the UK and I have to feed them every so often or they start complaining. And my parents, just to make things more difficult, are riddled…
Review #4: The Hottest Motto
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Published: July 26, 2024 05:34
Uh oh. It’s dinner time and I cannot be arsed to put in any effort. What to do. I gotchu blud We’ve discussed restaurant types before, at least in terms of the izakaya/family restaurant divide. There are also the quick 定食(teishoku) restaurants like…
Review #3: A Saucy Time at Inawashiro Original Beer Brewery
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Published: May 22, 2024 04:02
Photo by Kodai Monma on Unsplash Fukushima struggles a lot. Most people reading this are going to know some of the whys. It struggles with educating its youth, having some of the lowest test scores on certain subjects in the country. It struggles…
Review #2: A Misokatsu with Gusto
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Published: April 9, 2024 07:09
ガスト says "Gasto" in the alphabet but it's also translated as "Gusto" so yes that qualifies me to use this joke Last week my aunt was visiting and I found myself at the hard end of a long family outing involving a more than trivial number of stairs. With…
Review #1: The Supatonk (aka. the basic homekatsu experience)
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Published: March 31, 2024 23:28
York Benimaru, aka Benimaru, aka Yorkie Bens Here it is. The benchmark. The line against which all other eateries and forms of breaded pork are up against: the tonkatsu you can bring home from your average supermarket, complete with salad and sauce, to…
Tonkatsu Basics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tonk
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Published: March 22, 2024 07:42
Some things in our life are memorable because they are unique. Special. Experiences like no other. Then there are the things that are beloved constants. Objects that have always been there, like the cold in winter, ice cream in summer, or the queue for…