life outside the viewfinder

Finding a Japanese restaurant in London is easy. Finding a Japanese restaurant that you’d actually take a Japanese friend to – where would you dare? So what about a Japanese restaurant run by the same Korean proprietor who opened Koba in the next street?

Having such a fun brunch at St. Ali with different friends from different walks of life all getting to know one another. (L-R) Chris, Winnie, Kay, Mai An, and myself.

Back in 1998 I was lucky enough to do an exchange year in Singapore and had one of the best years of my life there. And permeating all the memories was the amazing local food there in all its sheer variety, availability, and abundance which I missed when I went back in London.

Intrigued by London Eater’s review of lunch at Nuno Mendes’ (of Viajante fame) Corner Room, I was glad that Jayna and Winnie were up for trying it out too.

Last Saturday, a group of us took part in Search Party, organised by Create London for the which got us walking around Shoreditch for 3.5 hours solving a series of 8 clues to discover the final party location.