Vegan Store, a completely vegan combini, opened in December 2019 in the Asakusa neighborhood of northern Tokyo. I had heard a lot of buzz in the weeks since the store’s opening, so I was itching to go see it for myself.

As an ex-New Yorker, I was extremely excited to learn that Superiority Burger was coming to Tokyo. A legendary vegetarian/vegan restaurant in the East Village of NYC, it has won many awards since their opening in 2015. It even beat

Bonenkai, which literally means “forget the year party” (bo=forget, nen=year, kai=party), is a Japanese tradition that takes place around December each year. Typically celebrated with friends and coworkers, it’s a way to commemorate the past year and almost always involves