November 30, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day $6 – Ginza La Tour, Michel Troisgros

On my first morning in Tokyo, I awoke to find the sky overcast.  I put on my coat, left my sunglasses behind, and ventured downstairs where I asked the concierge if there was a chance it could get sunny at some point.  “Oh, no,”she replied, straight-faced.  “It won’t get sunny until January.” So I headed [...]

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November 29, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day #5 – Faro, Kadowaki, and the Sights of Ginza!

I honestly don’t know how I did it on previous trips here.  Between all the eating and the drinking and the strolling and the not-much-sleeping, when the hell did I ever have time to blog? Anyway, another full day yesterday.  I spent the morning uploading a whack of pics and videos, then headed out.  Lunch [...]

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November 28, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day #4 – Dai San Harumi, Tokyo Big Sight, Les Creations de Narisawa! Now With 60% More Robots!

Okay, I’ve got a lot of ground to cover so let’s get right into it.  First off, the mystery of Ginza line-ups solved.  Every year I come down to Ginza, I see these enormous line-ups. We settled in at which point Chef Kazuo Nagayama made his grand entrance.  I’ll tip the review by telling you [...]

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November 27, 2009: Toko Travel Day #3 – No Pepsi Cucumber, Coke! Aroma Fresca! A Sneak Peek at Tomorrow’s Gear-eat Entry!

No, I haven’t tracked down Pepsi Cucumber yet but I assure you I’ve tried and will continue to keep looking.  In the meantime, here are a couple of other interesting items I aim to sample while I’m here… I swung by the Mori Art Museum yesterday, but the next exhibition doesn’t begin for a few [...]

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November 26, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day #2 – Aronia de Takazawa, Chikuyo-tei Honten, and more strolls and sweets.

So, what better way to include a day of eating than eating some more?  After a memorable lunch at Chez Matsuo, a late afternoon snack at Pierre Herme, and a pre-dinner appetizer at the Pierre Marcolini Cafe, we headed off to Akasaka and dinner at Aronia de Takazawa. According to the direction I got from [...]

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November 25, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day #1 – Fit Over Fat, Lunch at Chez Matsuo, Strolling up an Appetite!

Needless to say my sleep schedule is all screwed up.  By the time I got to bed last night, it was a little after 11:00 p.m., and even though I was thoroughly exhausted, I lay awake, wound up as tight as a fancy new watch.  Finally, about 1:00 a.m., I gave him and took some [...]

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November 24, 2009: Tokyo Travel Day

As per Air Canada’s suggestion, I got to the airport well in advance of my scheduled flight time and, as a result, ended up arriving at the departure gate with plenty of time to spare. And by plenty of time, I mean about two and a half hours. It would’ve been a full three but [...]

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November 23, 2009: Okay, NOW I’m gone!

The mystery of the missing outline deepens. FACT: I had it with me when I left the restaurant Friday night. FACT: I remember tossing it onto the passenger side seat along with the half-dozen comic books I picked up on the way to the restaurant and the leftover grilled cornish game hen I was to [...]

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November 22, 2009: Wait! I’m not gone yet!

I leave for Tokyo tomorrow. Today, I finished packing. I think. I mean, I’ve double, triple, and quadruple-checked and it appears as though I’ve remembered everything. But, of course, I won’t really know whether or not I’ve remembered everything until I actually need everything. And I won’t get around to needing everything until I’m in [...]

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November 21, 2009: Prepping my Tokyo trip. Stargate this and that.

In less than 48 hours, I’ll be Tokyo-bound. But between now and then, I’ve got A LOT to do. Still, there’s always time for a blog update… Yesterday, we gave and received notes on three outlines: Episode 1 (Paul’s story, which will shoot second), Episode 3 (my story, which will shoot fourth), and Episode 4 [...]

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