Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans vacationing in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the worldâ€™s greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inexpensive foods, from eel to udon. A humorous travel memoir in the tradition of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Pretty Good Number One is the next best thing to a ticket to Tokyo.

Now with a new afterword by the author, covering robotic sushi and spending the holidays in Tokyo.

â€œThe layers of the city, its extraordinary food pleasures, its quirkinesses, emerge as the author and his family spend an intense month living in Tokyo and exploring widelyâ€¦Warning: this book will make you hungry. Youâ€™ll yearn, as I do, to catch the next plane to Tokyo, so you can get eating.â€

â€”Naomi Duguid, writer and traveler; her most recent book is BURMA: Rivers of Flavor (Artisan 2012)

â€œThis is the book I've been hoping Matthew would write: smart, opinionated, and wickedly funny, crammed with in-the-know tips and observations about visiting Tokyo. From the intricacies of garbage sorting to the chirpy jingle for the local supermarket, the pleasures of pan-fried soup dumplings to the pain of junsai, I laughed, cringed, and got so hungry that I had to eat three bowls of cereal to make it to the end. I love this book.â€

â€”Molly Wizenberg, author of A Homemade Life and blogger, Orangette
Country USA
Manufacturer Mamster Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-02-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mamster Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-02-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

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