トーランス市から嬉しいお知らせが届きました！   2024年10月1日に大谷翔平選手のふるさと岩手県奥州市と、ドジャースの本拠地・ロサンゼルス近郊のトーランス市が友好都市になりました！   公式署名式はトーランス市庁舎で行われ、トーランスのジョージ・K・チェン市長と市議会メンバー、奥州市の蔵成純市長...

今日は、日本でも人気があるローストビーフ丼レッドロック Redrock　ロサンゼルス・トーランス海外第一号店をご紹介。Redrockはローストビーフはもちろんのことオムライスやカレーといったご飯に合うメニューがたくさんあります。店内の雰囲気はお洒落でこじんまりとした空間でした。写真に撮ったローストビーフ丼（レギュラーサイズ）を頼んだのですが、初め小さく感じ、「これで足りるかな？」と思いラージサイズにするか迷いました。ですが、実際食べてみるとお肉がたくさん重なっていたこともあり、お腹いっぱいになりました。レギュラーサイズでとても満足できる量だと思います。【Yelp情報をここで一つ！】ローストビー...

By Keiko FukudaThe two words, “Nagoya” and “ramen”, were not linked together in my mind. Then, in May of 2019, a friend, who is from Nagoya, asked me to go to this Nagoya-originated establishment with me, which just had its grand opening. That was when I first recognized Josui Ramen. Here, in Los An...

By Keiko FukudaThere is a restaurant in Torrance that has gained popularity quickly in the past few years for its vivid ambiance, in which you enjoy fresh seafood and meat dishes. It is “Izakaya Hachi”. Another Hachi restaurant also opened in Costa Mesa in Orange County a year ago. They opened their...

by Keiko FukudaJapanese food fans in the South Bay area are talking a lot about having lunch at Wadatsumi lately. I visited Wadatsumi in May, shortly after the opening. About 20 of us, business colleagues, had lunch in the space for large groups. First, I was impressed by the rich variety in the men...

By Keiko FukudaIt was about 6 years ago when I first noticed the store sign, “Koshiji” in the corner of a mall in Torrance in the outskirts of Los Ang...

By Keiko FukudaThe ranking contest, “Los Angeles ramen top-10” in the LA Weekly magazine in 2013 awarded Umenoya in Torrance as No. 3. The article read, “You don’t hear the typical loud vibrant greeting as many ramen restaurants here, but you can taste all their efforts in making a bowl of ramen”. I...