Best Puffer Fish Under $60!

Quick Points: Price: For under $60 you can experience what all the fuss is about Puffer Fish and get a bit of the cultural Japanese experience (usually starting price is around $100) The REAL “Chicken of the Sea”: Puffer Fish tastes like a combination of really tender, juicy chicken thigh with a mixture of soft, delicate white […]

Bariki Yakitori Shinbashi 馬力

Eating Where the Locals Eat I wanted to go to a local place. Sure, there’s plenty of amazing food to eat here in Tokyo but when you start LIVING here, it’s not always about the food. It’s the atmosphere, the people, the history. Some of you visiting Japan might want to experience this type of local feel but […]

The Historic and the Rusted New

“You should go take a run” He said. So I did He told me this the morning after I had just went to a busy district in Tokyo called Omotesandou which is in the middle of Tokyo. I had gone to Omotesandou to get an iphone. After pushing my way through the maze of the […]

Scenes from Itabashi, Tokyo during my morning run. #thepracticality #VSCOcam #ozekijapn #Japan #板橋

Saying Goodbye To A Place You’ll Never Leave

At a recent party that I hosted, a friend came up to me and asked me, “So…do you feel ready?” I took a sip of my drink and I quickly glanced around my surroundings before answering her question. We were standing outside in my backyard as my other friends sat or stood talking and laughing with each […]

End of Winter, Peacoats

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring This post comes a little late given that winter has pretty much ended here in San Diego. So before the weather gets any more warmer here are some last shots from my winter wear Pea Coats Are Essential When you think of winter I think of Pea Coats. […]

The Hidden Agenda of Solving Mysteries

I love to solve mysteries When I was a kid I remember the one book series that I really liked was Encyclopedia brown. It was a book about a kid who was so smart that he could solve his father’s police work over a family dinner discussion. This love for mysteries would grow as I read Agatha […]

How to Pick a (SOLID) Matching Outfit Part 2

Welcome to part 2 of matching your outfit with solid colors. In my last post I shared how I approach matching a solid color shirt which can be difficult given you have to figure out what colors to match (apart from my other post where you had options based on different colors on your shirt). […]

How to Pick a (SOLID) Matching Outfit Part 1

In my earlier post I talked about how to make a simple matching outfit by using the two colors on your shirt. Its was hopefully a simple and easy way of building an outfit that fits you. But what if you had a shirt that just had one colour on it? You can certainly wear the same color […]