The Taste of Fish

Posted by Wayne (Melbourne, Australia) on 13 August 2008 in Cityscape & Urban.

This is the restaurant that I constantly and almost religiously visited for dinner every time I was in London. It’s called Tokyo Diner (as you can clearly see fro the picture and the webcam from the link) and while it has a rather unassuming store front…the food inside is the stuff of myth. It even has its own wikipedia page. Prices were cheap (its listed at the 7th best cheap in the whole of the UK) and the food was fresh and bursting with flavor. The most interesting features of this joint are that it offered ‘Omori’ sizes for free → essentially a free upsize and that it deleted tuna from its menu as part of a conservation/awareness effort to protect the rapidly diminishing blue fin tuna fish stock in the world. Check out their menu (totally awesome!)

It is fitting then, given that most of my memorable meals in the UK were of Japanese food, that the in-flight movie that I was most drawn to was a Japanese production called The Taste of Fish which had as its primary backdrop the market environment of the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. The story line was sweet and novel but I was entranced with the Japanese food and produced that was featured.

I’ll be rather busy for the next couple of weeks catching up on work and finishing up my thesis so this will be one of the last posts in a while.

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