Best Local Japanese Food Sakari Sushi Lounge “Sakari” is defined as: (1) summit; (2) peak; (3) prime; (4) to be at one’s best. It’s a fitting name, as Sakari Sushi Lounge has been deemed the best place to find Japanese food in the greater Des Moines area. And that’s no...
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Fugazi is inspired by the Japanese izakaya, casual pubs for after-work drinking and eating. The focus here isn’t just on Japanese food though, as they offer Asian treats like Korean fried chicken and heaping bowls of Malaysian laksa too. Skip the beer and pair it with sweet and cooling ...
Remy the rat lives a life that's very unbecoming of a rodent. This Paris-based pipsqueak has the finest taste in food, which confuses all of his fellow rats. Those two sentences don't make sense, though, do they? Or at least they wouldn't until you realize that Remy is voiced by ...
Japanese Street Food Tour– My kids love food tours and they’re an easy and fun way to introduce a new culture to your children. This is a great tour of energetic Shibuya and loaded with iconic sites and great food (and pretty kid-friendly). If you can only do one tour in Tokyo, ...
After being plunged into the stop-motion imaginarium of Tim Burton (although the film, in truth, was actually directed by Henry Selick), we follow Jack Skellington, otherwise known as the Pumpkin King and the most heralded resident of Halloween Town. One day, he stumbles into the portal to ...
Finally, though, months after the unexpectedly successful film’s theatrical release, Netflix has not only secured its streaming rights, but it also surprisingly dropped the sci-fi horror epic on its platform in early June. A new Japanese entry in Godzilla’s packed back catalogue, Minus One ...
The locals even tell them they’ll be fine if they just stick to the path… Why it’s scary: When two become one and Jack brutally falls to a mysterious lupine predator on the moors, a bitten David is taken to hospital in London. Regardless of what this says about the NHS’s ...
There is an English dub of Godzilla Minus One on Netflix, but the original Japanese voice track has better performances. This is one of the best Godzilla movies ever made in part because the creature is allowed to be a fearsome monster instead of a heroic giant. It’s also notable for ...
This gorgeous animated film tells a tale set in the fictional town of Smeerensburg, Jesper (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) is a spoiled postman who somehow makes friends with — you guessed it — Klaus (voiced by J.K. Simmons), the local toymaker. Older audiences will appreciate veteran ...