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Mika Reilly
http://snacksofjapan.tumblr.com
Formerly of Wellington and before that, Chicago, Mika Reilly now lives in a Tokyo apartment block where even after a year she still can't comfortably navigate her tiny kitchen. (It doesn't matter, there's always a ramen shop nearby.) She once wrote a food blog. Her latest project is an exploration into the multifarious snack food offerings of Japanese convenience stores. Instagram - @mikareilly | Twitter - @mika_okay
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Articles by Mika Reilly:
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Ghost Soup
Published. 14 Jul 2021 in Features & Travel
A tale of fermented fish brine By Mika Reilly
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Kumamoto
Published. 01 Mar 2018 in Features & Travel
Saturday 7:10am, Haneda Airport. Outside is a thick vichyssoise grey fog that bleeds seamlessly into the sea. We take off into the soupy air, shadows of freighters and fishing boats hanging in the murk below.
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Tokyo – Train Station Food.
Published. 05 Oct 2017 in Features & Travel
Tokyo is a superlative city by many measures – most populous urban area in the world, biggest metropolitan economy of all the world’s cities, home to the world’s busiest train station – but anyone who’s been to Tokyo knows there are two things the city does particularly well: food, and public transportation, and food in […]
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Yokocho
Published. 12 Jan 2017 in Features & Travel
PART ONE I. Under the tracks My first encounter with a yokocho was long before I moved here, back when Tokyo was still an unfamiliar gleaming enchanting mess of lights, a tangle of train lines and zebra crossings packed with an implausible number of people.
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Itadakimasu
Published. 09 Jun 2016 in Features
Verb, honorific. “I humbly receive.”
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