Forrest Brown

I love Japanese food, but sometimes you have a craving for a hamburger.

Taiwanese dumpling restaurant Din Tai Fung on the 12th floor of the Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku.

Long Line

Exspensive dumplings. This Din Tai Fung was much more expensive then the one in Arcadia. Six dumplings were 819 yen or about $9.50.

Ramen for Lunch. Many small restaurant in Japan use vending machines at the entrance of the restaurant for ordering your food. Put your money in, select what looks good and the machine will spit out a little ticket that you give to the server when you’re seated. I liked it because usually the buttons on the vending machine have a photo of the food on them, so it makes ordering easy for someone who doesn’t speak or read Japanese.

Ramen

Food ticket vending machine

Lunch at a Korean restaurant on the restaurant floor of the Shinjuku Takashimaya Department Store.

Korean Tofu Soup

Sushi for Dinner.

Sushi

Here’s my dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Shinjuku. The chicken wings were really awesome, sweet and spicy, but the yakitori wasn’t anything special.

Chicken Wings

Chicken Yakitori

My steamed buns look like boobs.

Steamed Buns at Din Tai Fung in Arcadia, California.