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Food & Drink | EVERYMAN EATS Dec 21, 2012

Food festivals: all yesterday's parties

by Steve Trautlein

The best of 2012 The inaugural Tama Geta Shoku no Saiten in Hachioji offered locavores a chance to sample the creative cuisine of western Tokyo. Thirty vendors showed off dishes such as motsu yaki-udon, a bowl of beef tripe and noodles from the town of ...

Food & Drink | EVERYMAN EATS Nov 23, 2012

Japan's white-collar feeding grounds

by Steve Trautlein

Forget izakaya, soba restaurants and divey Chinese eateries — if you really want to see salarymen in mass munching mode, catch them in their natural habitat at the office shokudō (cafeteria), where colleagues rub shoulders daily over a tray of freshly made rations. Besides ...