{"product_id":"9780983162988","title":"Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo","description":"Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans vacationing in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the world's greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inexpensive foods, from eel to udon. A humorous travel memoir in the tradition of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Pretty Good Number One is the next best thing to a ticket to Tokyo.\u003cp\u003eNow with a new afterword by the author, covering robotic sushi and spending the holidays in Tokyo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The layers of the city, its extraordinary food pleasures, its quirkinesses, emerge as the author and his family spend an intense month living in Tokyo and exploring widely...Warning: this book will make you hungry. You'll yearn, as I do, to catch the next plane to Tokyo, so you can get eating.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Naomi Duguid, writer and traveler; her most recent book is BURMA: Rivers of Flavor (Artisan 2012) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the book I've been hoping Matthew would write: smart, opinionated, and wickedly funny, crammed with in-the-know tips and observations about visiting Tokyo. From the intricacies of garbage sorting to the chirpy jingle for the local supermarket, the pleasures of pan-fried soup dumplings to the pain of junsai, I laughed, cringed, and got so hungry that I had to eat three bowls of cereal to make it to the end. I love this book.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Molly Wizenberg, author of A Homemade Life and blogger, Orangette\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Amster-Burton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013830033648,"sku":"9780983162988","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983162988_p0.jpg?v=1763886397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983162988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}