In a city that serves up caviar facials it’s hard to imagine that vegan beauty rates high on the agenda. But with Tokyo’s penchant for covering all beauty trends you’ll be happy to know a …

“Is that everything you want, because you can only order once. It’s a pain to serve you,” said the manager of Manwaro, the only restaurant in Chinatown with a vegetarian menu. It would be overstating …

The Alishan Cafe in Saitama have kindly agreed to teach us how to make their amazing dishes. Once a month we’ll publish one of their recipes, starting today with the turnip quiche you see to …

The skinny-celebrity-bashing, immigrant-wary Voice of Middle England (Daily Mail) has an article about mushrooms attaining “superfood” status

Vegans looking to indulge their sweet tooth should check out the vegan baking classes at Under the Light Yoga School. Over the next two months cooking teacher Yoshi will teach three two and a half …

Justin Norrie of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age reports on the madness of the current fad for banana-based weight loss in Japan:
Such is the appeal of a banana-diet craze sweeping Japan that importers …

A fair bit less subtle than the last erotic veg ad, here’s a semi-SFW piece of ’70s porn-inspired persuasion. I have no idea where this originated, but I found it on Veoh.

Vegans avert your eyes — as I write this post I’m chomping on a “fromage beurre” from French bakery/cafe Viron in Shibuya. The baguette looks a bit too simple to warrant the ¥704 price tag, …

Mail order company Karuna sell their own-brand mock nikuman dumplings. They arrive frozen, but 15 minutes in a steamer and you’ll get a juicy, thick bun with a surprisingly meaty taste.
Ingredients: flour, bamboo shoots, cabbage, …

Call this our Rashomon post: one meal, five diners, four reviews. The venue was 我や (Gaya) in Aoyama.
1) A smiling waitress greeted me at the huge, wooden sliding door and escorted me down a short, …