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Weekend baseball/softball league?
Don't really know where to start looking. Hey - looking for a weekend baseball or softball league for adults. Don't mind trying out for a team. Ideally minato/shibuya/shinagawa-ku.
Don't really know where to start looking.
there's also the tokyo adult baseball club (tabc) that plays at jingu gaien or aoyama gakuin fields sometimes, you can find them on the tokyo baseball club website. they're more structured than pickup games but still pretty social, and they usually need subs on weekends. registration is like 3000 yen for the season which is cheap for the field time
I've seen games at Shinagawa's Katsushima Park on Sundays, pretty casual drop-in thing. Might be worth swinging by with a glove and seeing if they need an extra.
yeah the Tokyo Gaijin Baseball League is pretty active too, they play around Oi Racecourse sometimes. pretty chill group, you can find them on meetup or just google the name
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Where can I find crispy, pan-fried bacon similar to a certain international style?
if u have a costco membership the kirkland thick cut is the move, 4 packs of 500g for around 2500 yen and it crisps up proper in a cold pan. for smaller runs, precce in azabudai hills & the basement at isetan shinjuku both carry imported US & danish brands in the chilled case, just read the label for "thick cut" or "smoked" and not "loin". also worth knowing japanese bacon is often wet-cured so pat it dry before frying or it steams instead of crisping
kaldi coffee farm is hit or miss but their smoked bacon from denmark shows up pretty regular, the 200g pack runs about 600 yen. what actually works better for me is asking the butcher counter at peacock or life to slice the block bacon thick, like 5mm, they do it for free and it crisps way better than the pre-packed stuff. also fwiw cheap bacon crisps faster, the fatty supermarket kind at 300 yen a pack works fine if u cook it from cold in a dry pan and pour off the fat as it renders.
tbh the gyomu super store brand bacon is surprisingly decent for crisping up, its not thick cut but if you cook it low and slow it gets pretty crunchy. the key is the dry cure vs wet cure thing, wet cure steams. also check hanamasa if you have one nearby, they sell big packs of american style bacon thats actually smoked and firm.