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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I first heard of this place 4 years ago from a friend and today I finally was able to eat at Gokan in Ikebukuro. The soup was so packed with chicken flavor and the wontons and chashu really complemented it well. It was very salty but not overly so. I need to learn to make a soup like this at home.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got the venison, which I’ve never even seen offered at other curry shops as a meat option

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just ate at the curry shop owned by Kaz Ayabe of Boku no Natsuyasumi fame and it was delicious! @kohler.bsky.social next TGS it’s well worth a trip to Ikebukuro to try it.

A plate of Japanese curry topped with a generous amount of venison meat

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday I finished the second leg of my #ShimanamiKaido cycling trip after spending the night in Setoda. I experimented with filming parts of the ride, and I thought it was fun to watch them back so I sped it all up and cut it together. Maybe this will get someone else interested. #Japan #Cycling

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Took a nice little day trip to Niigata yesterday to see one of my favorite Japanese bands, Hey-Smith. I even somehow found some time to visit the hard off and found a copy of Bubble Bobble and got some good wakame yakisoba at the station. The vacation part of my trip is off to a good start!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She didn’t recommend a specific tea but the shop she recommended is in Sugamo so i plan to swing by bedore the end of my trip to do some souvenir shopping www.instagram.com/yamaneen_sug...

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also got some extremely delicious beef tsukemen which is giving me ideas of things to try cooking when I get home, as I can actually get good beef in the US

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s a ramen festival right near my Airbnb in Nakano. There was a very interesting collab between the chef behind Ramen Feel, a legendary shio ramen shop, and Pickerel from Rhode Island doing a clam shio with Rhode Island clams. I feel so lucky to have been able to try this limited ramen tasting!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bay kinda sucks for game shops. Retro Rewind in Milpitas does a game swap meet every so often and their shop is nice but it’s not reachable without a car. I’ve also heard Cake Hoarder in Modesto is nice but that’s a super long drive. East bay doesn’t have much. But we have good Ethiopian food!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had an hour before dinner and decided to check out a local coffee shop. The owner was super friendly and chatted with me in simple Japanese for nearly an hour, giving me some great recs for where to buy nice green tea from her home prefecture of Fukuoka. Please visit if you’re in Ginza! #日本語勉強

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Went to one of the top rated burger places in Tokyo. Got the “folky smoky” burger with avocado and jalapeño. Insanely good! On top of the beef patty there was BBQ pulled beef as well. Very smoky and spicy. If I could get this in the US I’d go here all the time.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the way back since it was actually hot/sunny today, I grabbed some soft serve from a super highly rated place in the basement of Nakano broadway. The top flavors were strawberry and Okinawan lime and both were unbelievably good. The pistachio was just fine but man Japan knows how to do fruit well

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Went to Hachioji to check out the hard off there. Didn’t end up buying anything but ate some delicious niboshi shoyu ramen. This shop was a true one-man operation. A single dude cooking the noodles, cutting the chashu, warming the soup, washing dishes everything! This is my life goal to be like him

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also had this excellent appetizer of peaches from Akita (the chef’s home town) and Japanese tiger prawn as well as a very nice craft beer from Kanagawa. Definitely worth stopping at Crazy Bravo in Shinjuku!!!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s been a couple years since I last tried Tokyo pizza and I wanted to sample something different. Found this amazing place that serves both Japanese and Italian fusion cuisine plus Neapolitan style pizzas. I got the half margherita with prosciutto and half mackerel and niboshi with avocado base.

A perfectly cooked pizza with one half containing margherita and the other half containing mackerel served over mashed avocado.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really neat find at the BEEP in Akihabara: a Katamari Damacy demo disc for PS2. No idea if this was a good price or a ripoff, but I’ve never seen it before and I’m happy to add it to my list of Katamari memorabilia at home.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep finding new tsukemen shops that change my conception of what ramen can be. This place does shrimp tsukemen that was so insanely packed with seafood flavor but then adorned it with things like cabbage and mozzarella in the soup. They recommended finishing the soup with pesto rice which I tried

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The typhoon is dumping buckets of rain on Tokyo but it’s actually incredibly pleasant to sit outside under and umbrella. We found a nice microbrewery in Shinjuku to hang out and stay dry.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Where is this? And how much was rhythm tengoku going for?

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m in Hakone for the weekend. Just got some of the best gelato ever right down the street from my ryokan. The quattro formaggio is one of the best ice creams I’ve ever tasted. Incredibly strong cheese flavor to it. I plan for sure to go back tomorrow and try more flavors.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@jeaye.com they’re infringing on your branding

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did not expect a Crazy Taxi / Ichiran collab to be something I would see at TGS

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Took my Atari coworkers to get some Niboshi ramen at the famous Nagi in Golden Gai. I hope they all liked it. It’s very different from the kind of ramen you typically find in the US but the noodles and soup are both exceptional and so unique!

A bowl of niboshi ramen with a quite dark broth full of pepper and standard toppings.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hmmm video didn’t get shared for some reason

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eating horumon (all the weird parts of the cow that Americans would throw away) yakiniku while Tomoyasu Hotei tunes are blaring on the sound system. This place is is everything I want out of a trip to Japan in one single hole in the wall.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You’ve sold me. There’s a KFC around the corner from my Airbnb in Nakano so I’m gonna have to check this out…

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lunch for today: curry at one of the Tabelog top 100 curry shops in Japan. Extremely flavorful spice mixture in here that’s a fusion of Japan and India and China. There is a subtle sichuan pepper flavor as well. Amazing ginger ale too!

A big plate of spicy chicken curry and ginger ale

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ただいま！ I’m back in Japan for #TGS2026 #TokyoGameShow so you better believe the first thing I did after dropping my bags off was get some ramen. Sadly this place had sold out of the tsukemen but their shio ramen was amazing! The seafood flavors you find in soup here just don’t exist in US ramen shops

A bowl of shio ramen with two kinds of chashu

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kinoko @kinokosaur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Been cracking up rewatching this one. Credit to Smasher (@bikedecorations.bky.social) for both the video edit and epic chair throw. 🤘 Feat. me and @davesies.bsky.social on the walkie talkies. #BigWalk

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Leading up to last year's TGS, I've been trying to make daily Japanese study into a habit. Today I finally reached my first ever 365 day streak on @bunprosrs.bsky.social I feel like my Japanese is improving, but I'm excited to see if I can notice a difference when I go back to Tokyo next month.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Alright I encoded a version based on a proper side-by-side rip I found online and now I feel like I can finally once again watch the greatest 3D movie ever filmed as it was meant to be seen.

The movie Jackass 3D being displayed on a 3DS

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I recently found a copy of Jackass 3D in proper side by side format. I can’t think of a better movie to shrink down and view on my 3DS…

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kinoko @kinokosaur.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Is this anything?

"Now That's What I Call Music" cover art text made with the generator in the quote post to read "Steamed Hams That's What I Call Hamburgers".

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Implicit Conversions™ @implicitconversions.com · 16/07/2026

Defend Earth against the mysterious Cosmic Demon Empire with 70s-Style Robot Anime Geppy-X, available today on Steam, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X|S! Never before released outside of Japan, Geppy-X is a must have for fans of anime, super robots, and 2D shmups!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Working on games like this is the dream when doing retro game ports. Like most people experiencing the game today, I had never heard of it until we started work on the project, and I instantly felt it was a hidden gem. I am thrilled that a new community is discovering and loving it, as it deserves.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We included an option to show the original PS1 videos in their 15 fps low res glory if you would prefer. It’s in the emulator settings menu.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

More ramenposting. I made tsukemen using leftover soup and chashu from earlier. I will certainly be making it again! Probably the best ramen dish I’ve ever cooked. The soup consistency was exactly what I imagined as I was making it. 10/10

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ah yes fitting a red tent in the back of a car is always a challenge. But at least it’s a cabinet that doesn’t require a trailer to move around. Good luck restoring it!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Haven’t made ramen in a minute. Made the soup, tare, eggs, menma, and chashu from scratch. I did buy the noodles though. Broth was not clear like I hoped but the flavor was excellent.

A bowl of chicken ramen topped with sliced pork, nori, menma, egg, and negi.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

All this needs in order to be a Bojack headline is the character is named Jacob Eelordi and is an eel for some reason.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Nice, glad you enjoyed it! The light kelp broth is one of the reasons I love it. Definitely easier to eat on hot days than some of the heavier soups.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I plan to approximate this by just making pizza at home and putting Japanese curry on top of it. I bet it would turn out pretty well.

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Many people in the community asked for this feature, so we made it happen! You can toggle between the original and high def versions of the movies in case you want to witness the animation exactly as it was on the PS1 in all its 15 fps glory!!!

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70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X: New Feature: Switch Between Remastered and Original Movie Versions

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’m glad this dumb meme I made became part of our official skeet

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Thanks for sharing, the dozens of us out there that still listen to ska need to do what we can to keep it alive!

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Dave Fishel @davesies.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Very cool to see so much interest in this game from the press. Lots of neat stories in this interview that I haven’t seen anywhere else in English speaking media.

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