Review - Touzan - Kyoto
Review - Touzan - Kyoto
Ceramics, sake bottles and patterned tiles embellish the minimalist modern Japanese design at Touzan. Private tatami rooms have been reinterpreted as dining alcoves created by suspended blinds, while the main dining area looks out onto a wide Japanese rock garden. On the Grand Menu, perennial favourites like tempura, nishin soba and Kobe beef sit alongside more exotic fare like seared sea cucumber entrails….
New - 82 Ale House: Akihabara
Very close to Akihabara station, this bustling bar from the ubiquitous Hub chain is a convenient place for a casual drink and snack after a day of electronics shopping or manga browsing….
Who are you calling ‘Mummy’s boy’?
‘This is some screwy way for an adult to be spending his career, right?” laughs Brendan Fraser. The actor stars in two big summer movies released in Japan in August. And each film puts Fraser in a role that is far from unfamiliar. Though he has participated in a gamut of screen genres, Fraser has been more or less pigeonholed into two of them: adventure films, thanks to the success of the Egyptian-themed “The Mummy” (1999) and its sequels, and comedies — romantic and otherwise — such as “George of the Jungle” (1997) and the 2000 remake of 1967’s “Bedazzled” (which originally starred Dudley Moore). Both his new movies are popcorn-munching adventure flicks; but perhaps the more anticipated is the sequel “The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” which opens in Japan on Aug. 16.
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