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Yakiniku SEIYUZAN (焼肉銘菜星遊山) dinner - we ascended to the 41st floor of Shiodome City Center in Ginza and had the best Yakiniku we’ve ever had, overlooking the Rainbow Bridge and Ginza’s neon lights. All thanks, once again, to our best Japanese family friend, Inami-san.

For the first time, I tried matsusaka beef (松阪牛 Matsusaka-ushi, also “Matsuzaka beef”), which is supposedly one of the most famous beef types both in Japan and internationally, with a high fat-to-meat ratio. It’s a black-haired wagyū, originating in the Matsusaka region of Mie, Japan. Locally, Matsusaka beef is considered one of the three top brands (known as “Sandai Wagyuu”, “the three big beefs”), along with Kobe beef and Ōmi beef or Yonezawa beef.

Shiodome city center 41F, 1-5-2, Higashishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-7141

(〒105-7141 東京都港区東新橋1-5-2 汐留シティセンター41F)

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Bento Box and Kinder Surprise

discovered Bento Box along LP Leviste Street today! As in, the Bento Box that used to partnered with World Topps along Katipunan Avenue before, beside Flaming Wings! I spent many a dinner there during my Freshie days. I remember exactly where I used to sit, who I used to see/go with there… Franny Ledesma’s Health Sciences block, the MGT-H block with Mario and Pao… Francis, Jonah, Sabs… I don’t know if you can remember…

Anyway, the best thing there that I’d never fail to eat was their Peanut Butter Mango Cobbler. Basically it’s a small bowl of vanilla ice cream with mango slices, peanut butter, and crushed grahams. This Makati branch disappointed, however. Service was horrible, waiters didn’t know what they had on the menu, they seemed absent minded and plain dumb, it was such a bust.

This was what Tam ordered:

delicious Sukiyaki

I ordered from the other menu (Bento Box was sharing a restaurant with I <3 BBQ) - “Sizzling” chicken barbeque, no part of which was actually sizzling.