One night in The Junior Suite at Hilton Tokyo, Shinjuku – Review & one morning walk in Shinjuku

Arriving late at 10pm to Hilton Tokyo, no thanks to a delayed flight, I missed a Japanese dinner (one of my favourite cuisines) and had to order room service. Imagine seeing all the delicious food photos of your fellow friends on Instagram enroute from the airport and then being told that you have missed it.

A slight oversight resulted in a few too many lifts trips up and down during the check-in process. Imagine enduring that after a 7-8 hours flight followed by a 2 hours ride from the airport. I was starving, cold, exhausted and now, officially in a ghastly mood.

The Hilton hospitality kicked in at the right time. I was upgraded and walking into my Junior Suite, I felt my frustrations dissipate. The kind lady who escorted me to my suite assisted to adjust the air con temperature, the lighting and showed me the most important thing I wanted to see; the room service menu.

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Eating fresh, raw whale meat in Tsukiji Market, Tokyo, Japan

* Note: This action is solely my personal decision and has absolutely nothing to do with my sponsors for this trip.

I had been curious about whale meat for quite some time now. Those who have been following my blog would have realized that I’m game to try exotic/out-of-the-ordinary food as long as it doesn’t kill me. Heck, I even ate fugu (blowfish/pufferfish) laste year in Osaka, all warnings be damned.

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Greywacke Wine Dinner with Kevin Judd at Casa del Rio, Melaka

Kevin Judd is a busy man. Legendary for his involvement in New Zealand’s iconic Cloudy Bay, of which I fell in love at the first sip back in 2011 during a Cloudy Bay wine pairing dinner, Kevin produced the first 25 vintages at Cloudy Bay, and introduced the world to the fantastic Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough.

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Nyonya Chang – Nyonya Dumplings in Melaka

**UPDATE: 9 nyonya dumplings (chang) in Melaka : https://rebeccasaw.com/best-nyonya-chang-in-melaka-4-more-tasted-mrs-sim-mrs-lim-bukit-serindit-michelle-soo-mei-xin-cafe/

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I’m not a big fan of Nyonya Chang/Nyonya Dumplings actually. It’s just that when you’re in Melaka you have to do the Nyonya thing; eat Nyonya food and seek the local popular delicacies.
And since I haven’t ate rice dumpling; specifically Nyonya dumplings for a long time, I decided one is not enough and bought myself 3 on a recent trip and 1 more on a separate outing.

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