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Sushi Studio Japanese Restaurant Neutral Bay Sydney Review

Sushi Studio Japanese Restaurant Sushi Studio Japanese Restaurant is usually booked out. It’s rare to be able to just walk in and get a table. You would not be able to figure that out simply based on the entrance. A standard, basic restaurant sliding door entrance with common white Formica top tables in a minimalist eating area makes this look more like a glorified food court than the premier Japanese sushi gastronomy fantasy that it really is. The place is legendary among other sushi restaurant chefs and you are likely to find other restaurant owners and sushi experts dining here too. So, not…

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Secret Sydney Bars Walking Tour Guide 2014. A Guide to Finding Over 37 Interesting, Unique and Hidden Bars in Sydney City, from The Rocks to City Centre

Secret Sydney Bars Walking Tour Guide Secret Sydney Bars ebook! Do you love craft beer, wine, whiskey, sake and other alcoholic drinks? Do you love exploring different bars? Are you always trying to find a new bar to experience? Sydney features a lot of hidden bars in many strange and wonderful places like in forgotten laneways, at the back of basement shop hallways and down fire escapes. Even locals don’t know where many of them are. This guide will show you where to find some of them and give you a brief idea of what to expect in a walking…

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Smash Cut Cinema Newtown. Free Movie Above Newtown Hotel Every Tuesday Night

Smash Cut Cinema Smash Cut Cinema is a great way to relive old classics and discover new favourites. I’ve been meaning to attend a Smash Cut Cinema screening for awhile. While I’m generally not into discovering old movies for myself, Smash Cut usually shows films that have amazingly executed scenes, brilliant acting and an engaging and well-written script. So, rather than trawl through the millions of movies online to find something that might appeal (an incredibly time consuming process that usually means giving up and writing something instead) I can simply check out Smash Cuts recommendations and attend a screening. I had some…

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Din Tai Fung Dumpling Restaurant World Square Sydney Review

Din Tai Fung Dumpling Restaurant At the opening time of 5.30pm there was already a queue at Din Tai Fung, a popular Taiwanese dumpling restaurant in the Korean Town area of Sydney City. We were quickly ushered to our seats as Taiwanese, Chinese and Thai waiters and waitresses dashing back and forth with menus to waiting patrons. To order we checked the number in the menu and wrote the number we’d like on a folded paper record. This is the perfect way to make sure that patrons not only got what they wanted, but also couldn’t then say they didn’t…

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Manotsuru Sake Brewery. Sado Island Niigata Japan.

Manotsuru Sake Brewery Manotsuru Sake Brewery on Sado Island, part of Niigata Japan, is easily missed if you don’t know what you’re looking for. A small warehouse with sake distillery tanks, a tasting and sales area as well as a presentation for tourists and sake aficionados at the back, it was hard to believe this tiny place produced world renowned award winning sake. However, I was really excited to be there as this had been the sort of place I’d been wanting to see since arriving in Japan. We were treated to a presentation video which showed the sake making…

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Tarai-Bune Rides (Tub Boat Rides) Ogi Area, Sado Island, Niigata, Japan. Video.

Tub Boat Rides Tub Boat Rides on Sado Island, Niigata City Japan Tarai-bune tub boat rides are a fun thing to do if you can spare about ten minutes! The Tarai-bune is the symbol of the Ogi area and you can see this symbol in a variety of places, even randomly placed among street paving stones. After a long drive down some winding streets we ended up in a parking area not far from a hidden tub boat spot. We walked down some traditional Sado Island streets and found the tiny office for the tub boat experience. After paying the…

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Löwenbräu Keller. German Restaurant. The Rocks, Sydney

Löwenbräu Keller German Restaurant Recently I had the opportunity to eat at Löwenbräu Keller, a German Restaurant  in The Rocks area of Sydney. It is part of the Urban Purveyor Group which owns other similar places such as the Bavarian Beer Cafe, The Argyle and Sake. As it was my partner’s birthday she was able to take advantage of the ‘free main meal with ID proof of same day birthday’ deal. If you have a birthday coming up and have at least one other with you ordering a main meal, you can get your main meal free. (Subject to change.) My…