The upmarket supermarket chain Daimaru Peacock has some kind of tie up with Waitrose and so a fair few Waitrose goods are available in them. The bad news is that quite a bit of that is pasta, pasta sauce and olives (just like in Tesco, for some bizarre reason), and that not all branches have [...]
Archive for November, 2011
29 Nov
British food in Hanamasa
Hanamasa is a big chain of shops with some cheap stuff (although not usually as cheap as the appearance of the shop would make you imagine), and some imported stuff like Brazilian stew that is difficult to get elsewhere. Not much of specific interest of those from the UK during my last visit, unfortunately, but [...]
26 Nov
The best tea in Tokyo coffee shops
No, not the tea ceremony – I personally seek out the nearest I can find to a cup of Yorkshire Tea between lessons. Here are my personal selections: 1. Excelsior Assam – 280 yen 2. Doutor “hot tea” – 200 yen (and pack of teabags sometimes available to try and sometimes your best option that [...]
22 Nov
British food in Seijo Ishii supermarkets
They are pretty expensive but there are 40 stores in Tokyo, mainly near or even in station buildings, and even quite small stores usually have Twinings tea at reasonable prices and 40 PG Tips for five or six hundred yen. Some stores also sometimes have Vegemite and/ or Marmite, although it’s over 750 yen for a tiny jar [...]
21 Nov
How to get to Tesco Kasuga
The map on the Tesco Japanese-language site shows Korakuen station, but I went there from Iidabashi and it seems a lot easier. JR Iidabashi has two exits that are miles away from each other, so make sure you come out of the one that is towards Suidobashi, not the one towards Ichigaya. You’ll come out on [...]
21 Nov
Tesco in Tokyo
I finally bumped into a Tesco last week and if you want to find one too you’d better do so quickly before they sell the chain off or close the rest of the stores, which will probably be fairly soon. It’s mainly like any of that fairly recent Japanese supermarkets-that-look-like-convenience-stores (Lawson 100, QQ shop, My [...]
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