Sep 28, 2019

Little Indonesia / Okubo, Tokyo

I think that Indonesia is a Japanophile country.The population of Indonesia is approximately 260 million.Many Indonesian people visit to Japan but I hardly see the stores which sold Indonesian products even Tokyo.The store that I try to introduce now provides various foods and groceries with better prices than any other stores.

Access:
The closest station is Sobu Line, Okubo Station.


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You can see a Little Indonesia's sign.
Looks like a Indonesian style design.


Here we are at the store where we wanted to go.
It takes about one minute from Okubo Station.







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On the right:
Sweet soy sauce which called Manis ketchup in Indonesian language, it's very
sweet and with tastes tailored to fried noodle or fried vegetables.

On the middle:
Sambal sauce like a chili sauce. I like to dip sambal sauce with KFC.

On the left:
Gadogado is a spicy peanut sauce. it's tailored to barbeque chiken.

There's some places which sells Indonesian groceries, I think this place is cheaper than any other shops.


Sep 15, 2019

Multinational zone / Shin-Okubo

The area around this station has Asian community that gives unique atmosphere. It feels like this town is not Japan.

Islamic Street, there are Islamic communities with Asian, Turkish and African. You can find a lot of Haral stores in this area. Just walking down on this street, It feels like traveling to Islamic World.




I went into a eating place but employee said that we gonna have to close this restaurant for worship. Can you wait for us? I'll be back about ten minutes. Usually Japanese people never treat customers like this. I was a bit confuse about that but I admitted his offer because I wanted to respect his religious attitude. Islamic street soon surrounded by prayer's voice from loudspeaker...


I think Islam communities in Japan are very small. I hope this street
would be more prosper in the future.

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You can also see many Nepali own shops these days.Some photos I shown you below where I took was a Nepali Deli. I bought some foods at around of 6pm.
A employee gave me 30% discount for foods. You might consider that you visit there after 6pm and buy some food. so maybe you save your money for a meal.





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Finally, I will introduce a Chinese Supermarket that sells foods, groceries and books. That Supermarket has three floors, fully air conditioned and clean.
The basement floor has not only Chinese groceries but also sells another Asian countries like a Thai and Vietnamese.


I didn't take some photo in the store, so if you interested in some information, please visit a website.

https://www.kakyo.asia/index.html