{"id":7,"date":"2011-03-08T02:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelraab.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-03-08T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:16:52","slug":"food-adventure-hole-hole-and-mister-donut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Food Adventure: Hole Hole and Mister Donut"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, while I’m living it up here in Tokyo, I want to challenge myself to branch out and try as many different restaurants as possible. There’s a delicious Ramen place by the apartment and I’d be completely content paying them a nightly visit, but I feel I should take this opportunity to put my taste buds on the front line and do some exploring. That, and some things are just very cute\/creative and deserve a little recognition.<\/p>\n

Last night Dan and I headed to Shinjuku where I got a new phone that I can actually use in Japan (a Droid Desire, love it) and at one point we were told to come back in a half hour while they got the phone up and running with a sim card and stuff. So Dan and I went out across the street to a Mister Donut for a quick bite. Nothing special, a run of the mill donut shop, though they have cute donuts from time to time like this little guy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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After getting my phone we wandered aimlessly down a street or two and approached the first restaurant we saw. It was called Hole Hole and it looked to have Hawaiian fare.<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t too adventurous, I would definitely come back here if I was missing a taste of home. We had Kona Longboard beers, a margherita pizza, chips and cheese and what I can only describe as a ball of mashed potatoes and cheese, deep fried. DELICIOUS but I didn’t feel too adventurous. I did order drinks for the first time though and that was exciting. I’m attempting to speak up as much as possible to get more comfortable with Japanese. Baby steps \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, while I’m living it up here in Tokyo, I want to challenge myself to branch out and try as many different restaurants as possible. There’s a delicious Ramen place by the apartment and I’d be completely content paying them a nightly visit, but I feel I should take this opportunity to put my taste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,14,16,11,15],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donut","tag-food","tag-hole-hole","tag-japan","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}