not one shrine

cowritten with Becky Selengut; illustrations by Denise Sakaki

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A bite-sized (100+ page) Tokyo food adventure, perfect for your carry-on luggage.

One November, two friends left their families at home and set out on an epic food crawl that found them ogling robots, eating just-dispatched eel, drinking whisky chilled with hand-carved ice balls, consuming fish sperm on purpose, and getting kicked out of public baths. An all-new illustrated book from Seattle food writers Matthew Amster-Burton (Pretty Good Number One) and Becky Selengut (Good Fish, Shroom), with manga-inspired illustrations by Denise Sakaki.
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