住民が新しくお店を出すために、引っ越された。

浅草方面のオークハウスへｗ
そりゃ、一度住んじゃうと、充実したシェアハウスから抜けられないｗ

引越した理由も、たんにお店へ朝から晩までいるから。
近場に引越さなきゃ、レストラン商売が軌道に乗るないため。
オークハウスはたくさん物件あるので、困らないｗ
僕も実のとこ、いろいろあって６回引越した。
すべてオークハウスｗ
楽チン。

んで、以前同じ家に住んでて、現在は浅草エリアのマネージャーさん＆住民とお店へ。

浅草の隣りの駅、稲荷町から徒歩５秒ｗ

お店の名前は、

中国意境菜 白燕 （バイエン）

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1311/A131101/13238666/

もともと、恵比寿の高級＆有名中華で長年シェフされてた右腕な方。
そりゃ、おいしー♪
たまに、家でも本格的中華を教えてくれたり、作ってくれたり。
めっさいい人。

そして、おいしかった♪

みんな同じ家なソーシャルレジデンス仲間。
なので、食事もシェアしてみた。
いろんな味が食べれて、大満足。

改善点が大事なので、一緒にお店の外へ出て、
お店への動線をみっちりアドバイスさせてもらった。
僕からのプレゼント。

僕らは住んだら、引っ越しても、仲良いことがけっこーある。
毎週、数人は元住民が遊びに来るし。

ぜひ、浅草近くへ行ったら、仲間のこのお店も食べに行ってあげてちょでっす♪

中国意境菜 白燕 （バイエン）

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1311/A131101/13238666/

I don’t know where this is coming from but Japanese people are in love with curry. It is one of the most popular category of food in this country after Japanese food. This does not mean all the curry restaurant in Japan is great. Good curry restaurants are always hard to find and most of the times they are unevenly located in the city. While Jinbocho (神保町) is the area widely known as “curry hotspot“ in Tokyo where you can find many exotic curry restaurants, Tachikawa is also known as many good curry restaurants. My favorite is still Shravan even after trying dozens of curries here but the city is always changing and there comes a new player every year.
I found out earlier that there’s a buffet style curry restaurant opening in Tachikawa. Curry buffet is something I have never heard of in Tokyo. I did not know anything else about this restaurant but this new style for an Indian restaurant got my attention.
The name of this restaurant is called “カレー会議室” which literally translates as “meeting room curry”. Such a weird name for a curry restaurant I know but I guess it’s something that sticks. As soon as I went inside, I noticed the restaurant itself is pretty small. Only a dozen people can fit in the entire restaurant.

Inside the place looked pretty new and clean. I also noticed this is not the authentic type of Indian restaurant. The interior theme is more of Asian than Indian. Just like any other buffet style, there are rice and food on the counter. The system was pretty straightforward. You pay at the cashier upfront. The cashier is right at the gate of the restaurant. Then you can use one of the wooden plates and you take whatever food or drinks available. Return the plate back to the cashier and leave.

Lunch Buffet is 1300 yen plus 10% tax and Dinner Buffet is 1500 yen plus 10% tax. Take out box is kind of like a mini buffet which you get to fill the take-out food box with the same food by yourself and leave without taking a seat in the restaurant. I assume the tax for this take out box is 8%, and not 10%, according to the recently updated tax system.
I thought the pricing is pretty reasonable for all you can eat style buffet.

There are two kinds of rice available at the restaurant and I was happy to see the basmati rice. Compared to Japanese rice, basmati rice is much drier and you won’t get full as quickly.
There were 3 kinds of curry when I visited there, coconut chicken curry, tomato chicken curry, and Pork Vindaloo. All the curry was surprisingly all great. I especially loved the pork vindaloo. It was pretty spicy. I have to admit that I was very surprised by the quality of food. Everyone knows that a buffet food often taste like garbage and keeping your expectation low is usually the best and sound approach. Well it is not the case in this restaurant. Despite the weird name, they are actually doing an excellent job.

Curry is not all about this new restaurant and perhaps it is their key factor to be successful. I usually care about what I eat every day and I try to stay healthy. Eating a decent amount of vegetables is always something hard. There are so many kinds of good quality steamed vegetables as toppings for curry in this restaurant. This is part of your buffet so you can refill these vegetables as many times as you want. These vegetables are not really seasoned so they are as natural as they are. The restaurant says they use no MSG, no flour, no sugar to their curry and less oil as they can. I don’t think the curry is meant for vegan or vegetarians in that sense but this is definitely great for people who want some healthy food with lots of vegetables.

Overall, I am very happy with the quality and the style of this restaurant. Maybe next time I try their take out box and see if it’s worth it.

『ビーパル』の撮影でした。

12月号の特集で登場します、２回目！ うれしいな♪

（１回目のことはこの記事の最後に書きます）

 

 

「アクティブ旅人の旅グッズ」的なテーマです。

撮影は三宅島にいく直前にありまして、この後竹芝桟橋まで慌てて行ったのです。

そんなわけで、超本気の旅グッズになります！

自分でも、何が撮影で使われるのかわからずに荷物をいつも通りに作り

バックパックを背負い、スーツケースを引いていきました。

 

 

ぱっかーん、神保町のスタジオで景気良く荷物をほどくと

自分ではおもしろいの？　的なものも注目されるものなんですね。

ドローングッズや、ドローン自撮りで使う大量のワンピースや

ギョサンなんかはまぁ想像つくとして、ドライヤーの大きさにも仰天されてました。

 

これはAmazonのスクリーンショットだけど、わたしのはパンダシール付きです。笑

海外でも使えるコンパクトドライヤーも持ってるけど、あえて巨大な方を持っていきます。

スーツケースを占有する存在感と、ズドンと圧のある700gの巨体ですが

使えば使うほどサラサラになる天才ドライヤー レプロナイザー 2D Plus　なのでね！

ドローン自撮りでの自分は豆粒でほぼわからないでしょう！

でも髪の毛はサラサラで写りたいなぁって。完璧気分の問題です。笑

 

 

その他、馬油や、ハーブソルト、青汁などなど。

ブラをあんまりしたくないので乳首だけのヌーブラも持っていくのですが

それはうっすら画角に入ってたな。笑

旅話からプライベートなことまで、大層盛り上がりだいぶ楽しい撮影になりました。

12月号たのしみだな～♪

ご一緒していただいたみなみなさま、ありがとうございました！！

 

 

ところで、同誌に初めて登場させていただいたのは9年前で

石田ゆうすけさんの「旅人図鑑」という連載でした。

 

 

グッズに小さいビデオ入ってる！ GoProとかまだなかったんです。

横型パソコンキーボード型携帯も！ この後iPhoneにしました。

ドローンに出会う前まではスーツケースは使っていなかったので

（今は重すぎにつき35Lバックパックと両方）

バックパックは55リットルの巨大サイズ。後ろから撮った写真自分が埋もれてます。笑

 

さらにいうと、そのときは結婚していて

「世界各国の料理を作るから、普通のご飯がたべたい、と言われる」

とかいうノンキなコメントが載っていましたねぇ。笑

そして離婚するとき、そのまんまの言葉をいただきましたよ。はは！

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わたしが住んでいる日本最大のシェアハウス会社 オークハウス さんの物件に

ご興味ある方がいらしたら、こちらのリンクから

HPに飛んでお問い合わせくださいませ★　　するとまぁ！(´°Δ°`)

あなたとわたしに いいことあるそうなので、よろしかったらお願いいたします。

Rooftop always attracts me no matter where I go. That’s where I would like to spend my time just to relax for a coffee or a beer in the afternoon. If I had a choice, I would choose a cafe or bar with rooftop for sure. I’m not the only one to think this way.
The sad fact is… that nice rooftop cafe or bar is kind hard to find a rooftop in Japan. Not too sure why but maybe people worry about the noise.
I thought there are some strong reasons like typhoons, earthquakes, or at least some kind of architectural reasons that makes it hard to build and maintain a rooftop. The apartment I visited for BBQ on the other day made me think that maybe buildings in Tokyo are just old.
“Bamboooo house” is located in Komae, about 15 mins by walk from Komae Station. I visited there for BBQ at night with some friends who live close to the apartment.

The entire building of Bamboo House was new and clean. I checked online and found out it’s only 3 years old. As soon as I stepped in, I noticed each room is separated just like any other apartments in Tokyo. There was no common space except the massive rooftop where a couple of dozen people can fit for any kind of outdoor activity. It’s big enough to host a BBQ, kids can run around and it’s totally safe. The sky looked so much bigger than anywhere I’ve ever been in Tokyo.

There was actually fireworks going on in Noborito along Tama river which is only a few stops away by train. I could not think of better place to watch fireworks. The rooftop is located on the top of 3rd floor. As you can see, most of the buildings we can see from the rooftop are lower than the Bamboo house.

It was a big party with at least more than 30 people. Many of them live in the apartment. How convenient it is to host a BBQ on the top of the building that you live and share food with your neighbors and you can just go back home in two mins. This totally reminded me of the days I was living in Oakhouse Kichijoji 2 ( oakhouse.jp/eng/house/157/ ). There was no rooftop but we had a backyard big enough to host an entire people living in the house.
There was a gas BBQ grill and tables and chairs on the rooftop. The best part was the whole ground on the rooftop was covered with fake grass. Green always makes things nicer.

I spotted some of the people who know me from Oakhouse Kichijoji 2 and later I found out they were planning a surprise birthday cake for me after the BBQ. My birthday was just a few days ago. It was very nice of them.

If you are the one who like rooftop, you should definitely check out Bamboo house in Komae.

100年に1度とか言われた台風19号。
ぶっちゃけ、メディアは視聴率で稼ぐので、不安をあおるのが商売。
なので、メディアの言うことをどこまで信じてよいのか、わからない。

とはいえ、不安は不安。
なので、みんな外にも出れず、家のリビングに居た。
50人分のお菓子を配ったけど、なくなったほど。
つまり、50人以上が常にリビングをウロウロしてた。

よくリビングに降りるみんなが、
１階に大集合しているなんて、珍しい。
普通は数十人は用事で外へ出てるので。

１日中、みんなでゲームしてたｗ
ゲームタイトルは
①ボムなんちゃら
②インカの黄金
③カタン
おもしろかった。

④人数が多いから、人狼も開催。
人狼はここソーシャルレジデンス蒲田での歴史は古い。
主催さんが引越していまうたびに、違う人がリード役をしてくださる。
現在は、クニさんって方が仕切ってくださる。
感謝。おかげさまで超盛り上がる。

台風へのビビリなど一切なく、ゲームしまくって終えた。
これ、ひとり暮らしだったら、
絶対に携帯からの「非難しろ」ってな警報音でビビりまくってたかと。
精神的にみんなでいると楽ちんだし、ベストな動きもシェアし合える。

シェアハウスって最高。
そして、大人数なソーシャルレジデンスは最強♪

台風ビビったなら、みんな引越してきちゃいなよ♪
ソーシャルレジデンス蒲田
https://www.oakhouse.jp/house/465

今週から三宅島にいます。

火山島まるだしの猛々しさがかっこよくって！

どこを車で走っても、火山の中から抜けられない。

そんな感覚で、人はなぜここに住むのか疑問が

むくむくと芽を出して来ます。

とはいえ「ここで生まれたから」そんな理屈ではない愛が、

こうして島の歴史を作って来たのでしょう、

と行き着いちゃうんですけどね、他の田舎と同じように。

ところで台風19号やっばいですねぇ。

わたしはまさかの三宅島での台風籠城。

島の方々も今回の大きさにはびっくりしてるけど、

対策して乗り切るしかないのでしょう。

で！　台風本番２日前にあたるきのう、

島をぐるりとドライブして様子のぞいて来たら

いやーかっこよかった!!! あんな波みたことないよってのが

ドッカンざっぱん、島のぐるりにおそいかかって！

（Instagramのストーリーに動画あげてます、すっごいよ）

おそれおののいて、さっそく備えようと

牛乳３本、チョコ３袋、アイスクリーム買って来たら

「停電で即死だね」

納得。笑

おとといの夕焼け、嵐前の空はかっこよかったなぁ。

きっと嵐後もご褒美的にすごいから、期待してるんです。

そうそう、ここへは東海汽船さんの「橘丸」って船できました。

夜22時30分に出発して

東京湾にうっとりして、甲板でともだちとお酒飲んで

グースカごろ寝して、気がついたら朝焼け前に島に到着。

移動が完全アクティビティでわくわく高まるし、

この日はまるっと１日使えるし、このスケジュールすごい好き。

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わたしが住んでいる日本最大のシェアハウス会社 オークハウス さんの物件に

ご興味ある方がいらしたら、こちらのリンクから

HPに飛んでお問い合わせくださいませ★　　するとまぁ！(´°Δ°`)

あなたとわたしに いいことあるそうなので、よろしかったらお願いいたします。

実のとこ、ラグビーを詳しいシェアメイトがいない。
260人いるから、いるのは確かだろーけど。
みんなで持ってる知識をシェアして、楽しんでた。

知識のシェアができるのも、ソーシャルレジデンスに住むメリット。
大人数が住んでるから、いろんな知の集合体になってる。
ギャンブルや旅やミニマリストなら、僕におまかせｗ
この３つは、世界でも、トップレベルな自信ありｗ

そして、話を戻すと、うちのリビングはデカい。

けっこー遠くからでも、大画面のテレビがあるので、観戦できる。
これだけ、見てる人がいても、ラグビー詳しい人がいないｗ

まぁ、ラグビー大好きな人は、バーとかで盛り上がったり、
うちからだと横浜が電車14分と近いので、
横浜のパブリックビューイングで見ているのかも。

持ち寄りで観戦パーティーも開催してた。
まぁ、毎日がパーティーみたいなとこある。
そりゃ260人いれば、そーなるっすよね♪

日本が勝つまで、ドキドキだった。
そして、あさって13日が大一番。

またみんなで見よーー♪っと
あっ♪　たまたま引越しがあったから、いま珍しくうちに空きあり。
一緒に住もう♪
一緒に応援しよ～♪
ソーシャルレジデンス蒲田
https://www.oakhouse.jp/house/465

我らがマネージャー、ましゅーさんが率先してくださる
【スキルシェア企画！】

第一弾は、僕がスピーチの講演会をした。
↓そのときの過去記事↓
https://www.oakhouse.jp/blog/tokyonomado/?p=11599

第２弾は・・・
どぅるるるる～♪　じゃん♪

いろいろなスペシャリストの住民やすさん。
イケメンっすｗ

どのテーマをセミナーするか、選択肢を３択くださった。
住民が多数決で、決める！
始める前から双方向なすてき企画！

そして、カラオケ好きなシェアメイトの多数票が入ったのは、
【カラオケで輝く歌い方講座】

内容、マジで濃い！
それがなんと100円ｗｗｗ
ふつーなら3000円とか5000円とかな講座かなと。

ガチですげー学びになった。
終えてすぐカラオケ行きたくなってた人、多数ｗｗｗ

企画してくださったマシュー・マネージャーが動画も創ってくださった。

マジでスキルが爆上げなソーシャルレジデンス！
そりゃ260人いるから、各自のスキルをシェアしだせば、凄いことにしか成りえない。
みんな、スキルシェアしに来て♪

ソーシャルレジデンス蒲田
https://www.oakhouse.jp/house/465

佐渡に行ってきました。

あー楽しかった！

北沢浮遊選鉱場はラピュタみたいでむっちゃかっこいいし

玉堂窯元の陶器作り体験はもうーいろいろ刺激されたし

（土気持ちい、創作意欲かきたてられる、下手して大笑い、ゴーストばっかり思い出す）

渋くて、味わい深くて、さみしい空で

でも釣りのおっちゃんが陽気な防波堤の朝は

よく行く南の島のそれとはまるで違って

もう宇宙船とマンボーくらい違って

「朝」の種類について考えたし

海と山に挟まれた小道はそれは牧歌的で永遠歩いてたくなるし

宿根木の町並みは雨が似つかわしすぎて

カメラ欲が爆発するし、

意外なのはおしゃれなお店が多くて女子女子できるし、

なんか佐渡の底力を見せつけられました。

これからあちこち連載などで佐渡のこと書いていきます。

ご覧いただけましたらうれしいです。

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わたしが住んでいる日本最大のシェアハウス会社 オークハウス さんの物件に

ご興味ある方がいらしたら、こちらのリンクから

HPに飛んでお問い合わせくださいませ★　　するとまぁ！(´°Δ°`)

あなたとわたしに いいことあるそうなので、よろしかったらお願いいたします。

In September 2019, I made a trip to South Korea with a group of friends that I spend my time while I was in Oakhouse Kichijoji 2. Two of our Korean friends got married and invited us to attend their wedding in Seoul. This is the PART 2 of the post. Make sure to read through the PART 1!

– DAY2: Visiting friend’s grave (and Korean BBQ)

Attending our friends wedding was not the only purpose of our visit to Seoul. A friend who lived in the same house passed away. This is such a sad story so I keep it short and I intentionally hide her name.
I was shocked when I heard the news that she was diagnosed as leukemia. She was one of the youngest and happiest of everyone I met in the house. She was also funny and bright up our conversations in the living room in Kichijoji 2. Very fluent in Japanese and she was looking for a job in Japan after she temporarily left the house to finish her study in Seoul. I remember she actually found a job in Tokyo and she was supposed to be coming back. It is so not fair. That’s what I thought when I heard the news. I tried to call her but it didn’t go through. She told me later that she was in coma because of her conditions. She called me back about a month later to tell her situations and what’s going to happen. She told me she was going through series of tests. Some tests come with extreme pain and it was hard to hear about it. I remember she still sounded positive and funny with many jokes. She told me she is going to have a marrow transplant which is something I only have heard in a drama. She said messaging and calling was the only way for her to communicate. With leukemia, it’s not safe to be talking to someone else in person because of her weakened immune systems. It was hard to believe that this was really happening to someone this close to me. She passed soon after.
After all the conversation and news, I still could not believe that she is no longer there. Part of me was still imagining she suddenly shows up in our living room and we just have fun talking about stupid stuff.
The reason I wanted to visit her grave on this trip was to show her respect but part of me wanted to convince myself that she really passed, to give myself a sense of closure.

Her grave in Ansan city

I was originally thinking about going to the grave site by taxi but another local friend got his car and drove us there. He was extremely nice. The road trip was fun but much longer than we originally expected. It took almost 2 hours to get there and I don’t think we could have done with taking a taxi. So we really cannot thank the local friend enough for that day.
After visiting the grave, we dropped by a lunch place on our way back to Seoul. The friend told us a local Korean BBQ place and we bought him a lunch. This was the least we could do for him. and this Korean BBQ was the best I’ve ever had in my life.

You know when you have good food, you remember the experience but not the taste itself. When the food is extremely good, you remember the actual taste and it doesn’t go away for years. This was exactly the case when I had this Korean BBQ. It was soooo good. I thought we do BBQ better in Japan but what we have in Japan is nothing compared to this Korean BBQ I had.
I’ve been to Korea many times before and I had so many BBQ in so many different restaurants. I was not impressed this much. I think this restaurant we went was a really good one in the entire country.

– DAY2: Walking around Hongdae area

We went back to Seoul by 2pm. Wedding and visiting grave was basically our two biggest reasons for our trip. Now that we did both, we didn’t really have much to do. We decided to just walk around the area we were staying because we realized we actually didn’t explore the area much. We were told that our area is called Hongdae and it’s one of the newest, kind of hipster area in Seoul. Hongdae is the name of the University located nearby. Lots of nice looking cafe and restaurants were around. We noticed many places are open compared to the first day we arrived. The shop owners must have decided to close the day because of the typhoon. Now that typhoon is gone, all the shops come back in business.

We tried some cool looking cafes around and walked toward the station where it’s supposed to be even busier.
The rest of the group joined us at the park where it used to be old train tracks. There used to be trains running but now it’s re-developed and it’s a nice park.

We spotted another nice cafe with a rooftop and we stayed there until sun sets. There were some good street performers as well. We were there for hours but there were people going by constantly. It must be a really popular location.

– DAY2: Another rooftop party with bride and groom

Earlier this day, we found out that it’s one of our friends birthday. We had Korean fried chicken and stick candles into the chicken to make it look like birthday cake. We probably didn’t have to do this because the bride and groom joined us later and they actually brought a birthday cake!

Just like the day before, we spent the rest of the day on the rooftop. We never ran out of alcohol because there was a 24/7 convenience store just a minute from the house. It was just so much fun we kept on talking and stayed up for a while. It was just like Oakhouse Kichijoji 2 but it’s really nice to stay outside on a rooftop. There was nothing to worry about because our flight was in the afternoon.
It’s so much fun to go on a trip with friends like this. It is easier for a family traveler like me and my wife too. Just knowing that there are someone else to take care of my kid is reassuring. I should do this kind of trip more often.