Tag: Japanese Cuisine
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Sunday sushi at Shokudo
A good friend of mine recently recommended a small restaurant in the heart of Gigiri. ‘It’s the best Japanese food I’ve had in a long time’, he said. My friend is a talented chef, so I took his word for it and booked a table last Sunday afternoon. The restaurant is called Shokudo, and it’s…
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Nikkei Cuisine: Where Japan Meets Peru
With new restaurants and bars popping up every month, Nairobi’s food scene is diversifying rapidly. In recent years it has benefitted, in particular, from the arrival of a number of Latin American inspired restaurants such as Fonda NBO and Mercado, and East Asian restaurants such as Cheka and Pan Asian Yao. And now, as a…
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Sampling a Lebanese Cuisine in Westlands
The Phoenicians were sailors, weren’t they? And, back many years BC (from 1,500 to 300 BC, to be precise), their lands stretched across what is now Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Syria and south-west Turkey. Even further, their colonies, so Wikipedia tells us, reached right across the Mediterranean and to the Atlantic Ocean. So it is hardly…