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Food & Drink

Quick smart

A new generation of restaurants is sating customers' hunger for fast, filling bites. We meet three ventures turning tasty takeaways into fine art.

  • Issue #164
  • 11 min read
Illuminated orange arrow sign with light bulbs spelling 'BEER DINING' pointing toward restaurant entrance
Food & Drink

Bowled over

Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in.

  • Issue #129
  • 10 min read
Four staff members smile outside a traditional Japanese udon restaurant with wooden signage and noren curtains.
Culture

The opener

We report from an idiosyncratic nation that has won us over with its quirky kerbside totems, drinks-filled vending machines, mascots and of course, shower toilets.

  • Issue #129
  • 7 min read
Two traditional Japanese tanuki (raccoon dog) ceramic figurines wearing straw hats displayed outside a building.
Food & Drink

Get in gear

Once viewed with disdain in Tokyo, food trucks are now transforming disused parts of the city thanks to a canny new firm.

  • Issue #124
  • 8 min read
Get in gear

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