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Toronto has a lot to offer for multicultural cuisine, just have to drive to places that's all and gas isn't getting cheap =(

Well, the area where I work at isn't as international cuisine friendly, but at Damansara Uptown which is 5 minutes drive away, there're a number of Japanese, Korean, Italian, European, Vietnamese and even Swiss restaurants in the vicinity. And of course lots of Mamak and Chinese eateries. :p

That 6-car park looks really neat. Reminds me of the movie I, Robot when Will Smith's character parks his car.

Oh yeah, we have a large variety of international cuisine here. One of the main things to do here is eat. Both pricey and cheap places to chose from. Excellent east Indian restaurants that look much more appetizing. Ever come to visit Danny I'll prove it to ya.

Did you remember to switch your phone off when you took that picture standing in the priority seating area? eh?

Stupid comments of the day (I'm sure you missed them):

- Why did Astro Boy never bothered in at least wearing a T-shirt?
- Nice Boat~!
- Better to have "Have a delicious sand for lunch" than "Have a delicious wich (sic) for lunch"... Seriously!!

And heck, the selection for international food is huge here. No problem in finding the most suitable one for the taste of the person you want to have a date with. ^^;

"A guard protecting his cones." - Haha, that made me laugh so hard, lol. On topic though, we have many international cuisine places here in Sweden, but I don't think we have anything Korean =/.

Cologne isn't bad about international cuisine, you find bout everything here. Though in case of japanese cuisine i prefer Düsseldorf (little Tokio - yay).
This post reminds me to my first trip ever to Japan, i was 17 - young and dumb. So when i did meet with a person for interviews i asked him where to go for lunch as my company back then would pay and so on... and i was being draged of into a GERMAN restaurant... humpf... i fly half around the globe to have german food... orz.
He did notice that it wasn't such a smart idea afterwards and draged me into a bookstore to buy me a load of "Wining and Dining in Tokyo" books... i still have those but i bet they are outdated lol... 10 years... *sigh* =.=

Here where I stay, definitely lots of International food to choose. The problem is that eventhough there's a lot to choose, you need to find a good place. Some are just...not so good ^^;

I like the parking lot methods XD

As for cleaning figures/Gunpla, I recommend using a blow dryer, but don't forget to put it under cool air, because you don't want to accidentally "melt" your figure with the hot air XD

Fast and save time too d^^b

I recently got this random gachapon thing that plays the theme music from the Takadanobaba station and it's the theme song to Tezuka's Astro Boy! ^__^

Astro Boy was and is my favourite anime of all time I think. The new series looks great but I think I've only watching the first season...

Lots of international cuisine around my area (suburb) here. A really nice and cheap Indian place about 10 mins away. A great Korean place nearby, too.

I've always wanted to know how you clean / dust your figures, Danny. Thanks for sharing that bit of info.

Re: Achim Haetsal, I've actually had this before when I didn't know what drink to get at a local Korean grocery store. It's very yummy, I have to definitely agree. Quite filling, too.

Can't decide if I should get Mario Kart Wii yet. I know if I do, I won't get any work done after my day job. There're so many games I want too, like Ninja Gaiden DS, Prof. Layton, The World Ends With You, GT5 on PS3, etc. etc.

Within a a few blocks of my university are lots of different small eateries representing the diverse somewhat cooking competent immigrant population who want their kids to go to UC Berkeley. Good eats, that.

We have a few places here in Lund. Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Greece.

Awesome photos as usual Danny, I love how you brush your figures. Could use one of those too. ^^;

Where I live, we have a chinese and and indian close to us (naturally, not one but two fish and chips and a sandwhich bar too), however I would probably have to travel 30 mins/45 mins on the train to the city to find Japanese, Korean etc. I've not actually seen any Japanese or Korean there though...

So, not much different types of food :D I'd love to try Korean food though!

That car park looks quite awesome too.

just out of curiosity, how many figures do you carry around on a daily basis. you always seem to have a different figure for each shot!

The Indian bread there makes for funny pun (as in Yakitate!! Japan!)

Kuroyanagi: "Kore wa nan-da!"
Azuma: "That's why I told you it's Ja-pan!" ^^

Btw I lurve how detailed the photos depict Tokyo since that makes me feel like being there by myself.

Would love to have more details photographed down. ^^

And, in my area, I haven't really traveled that much so I don't know what kind of international cuisine we have here in Sunway. I have seen Chinese (lots of them) and Japanese restaurants, though.

Singapore is definitely the place to visit if you want to eat... LOL @ the guard guarding his "cones" , I don't know why but it just sounds wrong...

Taibei's full on international cuisine, but so far we've found that much of it is really Taiwanese food in disguise – kind of bland. Some really good things are out there, though; just usually more expensive.

I haven't seen any korean places here in edinburgh, but i know there is one in our neighboring city glasgow. But otherwise there are a few japanese restaurants, but more indian, chinese and thai restaurants, as well as a lot of european cuisine. That being said, edinburgh is a pretty international city, so i'd imagine there are a variety of cultural restaurants available; i think i saw an ethiopian restaurant too.

How cool are those car parking units right. I was wondering, if you use your car in tokyo, how often you take advantage of these systems?

We've got plenty of international food around Brisbane, though most of the cheaper stuff is of Asian and Indian heritage.

Current favorite is Hanaichi, which does a selection of Japanese food... not to mention that AU$5.90 will get you a meal ten times better than Maccas and twice the size. The other good one is Govindahs, which is a Krishna joint, but if you're a student about seven bucks will buy a plate you'll never finish.

the indian food looks like roti prata. yum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti_prata

and lastly, resident evil 3 is alright. much much better than 1 & 2.

Danny you have a flying license? A 2-seater plane is pretty cheap these days, you could easily get one for about 7.5 million yen, and it runs on petrol too!

I also use a brush to dust my figures about once a week, then about once every 2 months I'll remove them and give the shelf a wipe before putting them back.

Japanese, Chinese, English, Italian, Scottish, Irish, Vietnamese, Indian, Polish, Thai, Mexican etc... There is a huge sushi following in Utah so there are a ton of sushi bars and Japaneses steakhouses where I live. I just went to a Irish restaurant that opened up last week and the meat loaf was like mush. Tasted nasty. Some place called MacCools.

my goodnes, , morning something rice o.o i never drank that even though i live in korea for a long time. anyways i have to go to japan @.@ need to buy me some new plastic models

Another great set of A Week in Tokyo! Is Tezuka still alive by the way?

My city/region has cuisine of ALL OVER THE WORLD. But, I don't have much time to go to the restaurants and taste a piece of the world.

Clumsy Danny! Dropping your figures, disgraceful!

Aww man, I really want some of that Yakiniku, and some of that delicious sand.

NO WAY DANNY! You met Milla in real life? WOW!

I'm always drinking that rice drink, one of my favorites. I didn't know it was Korean, I thought it was a Mexican thing!

Sadly, I don't have a Wii at the moment. I'm going American right now, with the Xbox 360!

That parking thing looks cool, hopefully something bad never happens.

I LOVE YOU DANNY!

A plane!!!! You want to buy a plane....where you will park at.....

Omg!! Who's the guy in the Mario Karts CM?!?! I saw him in a cm while in Japan, but i forgot his name! :( And OMG at the toys in McDonald's!!! What is this?!?! Japan gets the cool stuff while we get the ugly "barbies" and "transformer" "figures" XD

Hello I'm new here, but I have a questions. I am going to go too school for animation after I take three college drawing art classes. Any ways my question is this, if I don't find work or don't find anything I like in the U.S. in animation could I go to Japan, and work for a animation studio? Or would that be a bad idea. I'm not looking to be famous, I just want a job where I could be creative and do what I love doing most and that is drawing. I know that there is lots of pressure in the anime business to get things done on time and come up with new ideas. But I am good at what I do and put a lot of work and effort into my drawings, and I'm going to have nine college credits and I'm also going to have a bachelor degree in art and media fron the International Art Institute in Minnesota. So I would not see why people over seas would not want to hire me.

Speaking of food, would anyone know if they have vegan cuisine in Japan?

Veganism is no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no animal by-products.

Berkeley has much more international food than "American" food. I guess it's because Berkeley is really accepting of immigrants/other cultures, so people feel comfortable opening up shop here.

Also that parking space is really cool. Wish we had that here in the states.

your caption about the guard and his cones cracked me up LOL nice pix, want to go back to japannnnn

There is a huge multicultural restaruants here in Toronto. All you need to do is look around. Japan seems to have something interesting every week.

Yup, plenty of international food places in LA area, I'm sure you would know ^^;

I'm a fan of Milla Jovovich but Bio Hazard 3 kinda sucked out of all 3 movies. Bio Hazard 3 really goes away from the game story line and goes on its own story which don't work that well. You should at least watch it once if you already seen the first two.

well there's a Chinese restaurant around my house they cook really good, there are more restaurants where i work though there's a Japanese, Indian & Arab they all taste good!!

Great pics as usual! How exactly does one get their car out when another is parked beneath? Does the platform extend?

now that I think about it, there is a very large variety. From spanish, italian, korean, japanese, ok you know what, nevermind, its los angeles -.-

we've got everything.

oh nice an english pub, was worried i wouldn't be able to get a good roast any more

A week in Tokyo is more like "what you eat this week in Tokyo" to me now. I like the food you show here; always make me hungry when I see them >.<

Philly, (Philadelphia) is famous in the U.S. for it's food.

I thought konbini is spelt with a K. Like: http://www.konbini-life.com/

i can get almost every type of food here....but the price of some cause me not to eat them

ahhh... good food, great views and sightings...

Where I live now there are all sorts of cuisines...
The city even has a neighborhood which is reference to good cuisine in Brazil.

I posted some stuff I ate on a nice and not too expensive restaurant I went this week.

Just today, we've had dinner on a nice barbecue restaurant (all you can eat).

They are kinda unique to Brazil.
Not exactly cheap for brazilian standards, but worth every penny.

The Fillet Mignon with mustard and honey sauce was delicious... their specialty.

Yep... I always repeat every post that I dream of moving to Japan, but one thing I would miss a lot is the restaurants in Brazil. Though I also thing japanese restaurants are great... I would miss the barbecues and some other brazilian stuff...

i can't wait seein all this by myself ^^
4 days of waiting before the heaven :D

Danny : do you prepare somethind the next couple of weeks in Akiba ? If yes, i hope bumping on you ;-)

living here in Melbourne is almost like theres too much multicultural restaurants sometimes, but then again i dont really eat out at all so it's fine

i wish thered be more shops that sell anime and manga goods though

OOOH! OMG! That Astro Boy opening is soo cool! Who sings it? And whats it called? Because i really wanna download it ^_^

International cuisine is really really hard to come by where I live. A few decent Korean restaurants, one or two decent Japanese restaurants, and that's it. Local food here is great, but I crave for more washoku. for that I have to hop on a plane to KL for decent ones.

I barely eat out at restaurants . . .
But, I heard that in some restaurants and stores in Japan they don't allow gaijin in at all, unless they have Japanese friends w/ them. Not sure if that's true because there seems to be a lot of respect and what not . . .
=/

Winter Sonata is still 'it' in Japan?Wow.It's my favorite drama of all time.I've been working to translate this into manga years back but time is always my enemy.I've done few sketches of it so far...
....so far,couldn't seem to falter it...

This series is always a lot of fun for me. Thanks for taking time during your busy day to take photos and put words to them Danny.

Time does go too darn fast... I know I have some strong memories of places in Osaka. It kind of worries me what it be like when I'm in Japan every day. ^^;

I have seen the area around this photo http://www.dannychoo.com/slide/eng/weektokyo/19509/photo/A+Week+in+Tokyo+13/ so often on flickr. It is really nice for me to finally know where it was in the city. I really look forward to spending more time in Tokyo in the future.

I finally bought a PowerShot http://web.canon.jp/imaging/dcp/p870is-i860is/index-e.html to replace my old point and shoot. As you can imagine I'm eager to wear it out in Japan this summer. ^o^

I haven't found many good international restaurants in this area. I need to start asking people who I figure will point me towards a few good ones. It's surprising too, since the Detroit metro area has become very international since I was a young guy.

Thanks for the link to Joi Labs. Joi Ito always has a lot going on. I'm sure he must be a really interesting guy to talk will. Hopefully i will get a chance to meet him in the near future.

Enough babble from me for now. I want to go play with my new camera. ^^

Chicago has lots of different cuisine. The Asian restaurants are generally on the far north side. There are not as many Japanese restaurants as Korean and Indian, and Thai ones. (But there are more Japanese restaurants than Vietnamese restaurants.)
Danny, where were you living nine years ago? Near Higashi-Murayama station?

It's too bad that in Singapore, wall-decorating public places is generally looked down upon...

I usually clean my Gundams whenever my mom wants to do a major cleanup of the house, or when I fell like it, which means once every few months. I'm a terrible modeler, eh?

I've always wanted to ask; which is more expensive, a boat or a plane?

LOL, those two...

I have a weakness for anything that looks like soy milk, including that rice drink. Mmm....

I have a question about the parking system; if the top car wants to move away, what happens to the middle one?

I can't say anything about food diversity where I live. First, Singapore's capital is Sinagpore. We don't get town differentiation. Second, all the food centers in Singapore, regardless of location, have a set of Western food, Indian food, Chinese food, and Malay food stalls. Recently there's even Korean, Japanese, and other types springing up. Um... so, yeah.

Philladelphia(I dont live there, but I used to, and that's still where I go for my dining out ventures) has many places, since it's the typical northeast american city, Tons of different foods, So far I havnt been to any of the expensive resteraunts, but I've had quite a bit of different cultural foods now.

Still, the one thing that saddens me is that if you want good Chinese food, and when I say good i mean 'Real', you'd have to go all the way to Chinatown every time, and even with that you'd have to know what places to go to.

Where I live you can probably find any kind of food you want to eat if you look, it's very multicultural in California (at least in the more populous areas).

Love the parking! Hope I can get one in my house too! ^.^

I think you can get any type of food you want here in Toronto being a multicultural city.

It's usually concentrated in certain area and sometimes it's called Little <insert country name> eg. Little Italy although it's not limited to that particular area.

The food ranges from indian, chinese, western, italian, vietnamese, greek, middle eastern, japanese, korean and more ^__^

we've got a wide variety of international dishes here and we even have fusion dishes where two or more different dishes are fused in harmony to make a new one ^___^

That Garage looks sweet. Wow Japan or Tokyo area has a lot to offer in types of food to eat.

BioHazard 3 movie sux.

Got quite of a selection of cuisines around here but not that many good japanese food places though.

I love how you hold your meetings over dinner. Wish I'd be able to do that. lol

Wherever you go in Washington, we have a mix of cultures. Especially in the downtown district, so much to choose from (you can get lost in it).

Locally here in Tacoma, the local Pal-Do Worlds are refurnishing. Alot more of their businesses are popping up. Even some are import shops, and not just restaurants anymore.
* I still have to try some bubble tea

Most of the anime retailers are in Seattle, because hey its a busy town. Hopefully more anime shops may pop up again.

There are alot of Chinese and Japanese places were I live, they just opened a Thai place that's pretty close. There once was an Indian place but they moved out of town and into the next city. I dig the parking space photo that could help here in the states like in L.A. or N.Y.

theres tons of international food around vancouver, well lower mainland of british columbia, if you know where to look that is...i'm still finding out about places and i've lived in vancouver ever since. just last year i found out there was an arabian restaurant near the downtown core. and of course alot of places come and go so never know what can be found...kind of like a treasure hunt but with food instead hahaha.

o ya we have international food here mostly asian n latin cuz that pretty much who lives here pretty good indian food too. and the phu 90 shop is good too

Have lots back in Manila. Have a bunch here in Halifax too, but the Chinese and Japanese food here are kind of bland. Especially the Chinese food. We have to ask at some restaurants to cook it in their original style ^_^; Otherwise, we'll end up with cherry sauce... which is neon red @.@

Biohazard 3 was horrible! The acting... the writing... Ashanti... Horrible! Biohazard 1 was the best, the second installment was just... 'ok'.

Oh snap so intense

I like those cars. ^.^