Japan Archives - The Sebastian Buhai Blog

Jazz Impressions of Japan

The flawless Koto Song is my newest ‘creative background piece’: works miracles for theory modeling! For running regressions give Tokyo Traffic a shot.

More on Brubeck’s best album ever (with some credits to my jazz-expert friend Dean).

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2011 San Pellegrino world top restaurant ranking

See here the top 1-50. And I am proud to note that I have tried by now 4 places in the 2011 world top 12, namely:

Noma (1): been there twice already, see here impressions (and some pictures) from the first time, the second was a lunch in October last year– still have to get hold of those pictures online somewhere.

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Noma rulez!

The 2010 S. Pellegrino world top 100 restaurants came out yesterday: René Redzepi’s Noma is la crème de la crème (’10 S. Pellegrino profile).

No doubt you recall I had dinner there less than a month ago.

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Sunday night econlinks

Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.

The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).

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Tokyo, Narisawa, Takemitsu: Arigato!

It happened almost two months ago (see last bullet point here), so I’ve thought it is about time I gave you some impressions about my Tokyo trip :-). Obviously I do not plan to get into what you can find described in detail online, e.g.

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