Ryogoku on an Empty Stomach
There’s a VICE video where Yuka Uchida and sumo champion Konishiki Yasokichi eat through Ryogoku in Tokyo. Marinated squid, fried chicken wings, raw fatty tuna, cold beer. Good stuff, eaten casual and right. That’s the sumo wrestler thing—you grow up knowing where the food is because your body needs it.
I watched it with a cheese roll that barely counted as food. That’s the gap right there—not geography, but what you’ve learned to eat. Whether Ryogoku is something you hunt for or just your Tuesday.
The envy was clean. Not his life, just that ease. The confidence that comes from eating well long enough that bad food becomes genuinely strange.