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Let’s find out if this Tokyo restaurant is a foreign tourist trap or a place that’s truly worth visiting.
We’d had high hopes for the ice cream’s first jaunt outside of the U.S., but it’s not what we were expecting.
We tickle our taste buds with a grotesque-looking but premier version of the infamous “foreigner-repelling food.”
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