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We savour our lunchtime's (and also out meals) here at Fat Buddha Store , so we were very pleased when the Nippon kitchen just opened it's doors round the corner from our store (91 West George St Glasgow). After setting up shop a few weeks ago, it's safe to say this has to be one of the best Japanese restaurant's the city has to offer. The Nippon Kitchen combines Modern Japan with Old Glasgow, in a Grade A listed building in the heart of the City Centre, providing a cool and contemporary eating space that is both beautiful and relaxed. Using locally sourced and specially selected Japanese ingredients, they serve up an array of authentic Japanese dishes including crisp tempura, mouth-watering rice and noodle dishes and fresh sushi, handmade to order. The Nippon Kitchen is sister restaurant to the award winning Nanakusa on Sauchiehall St in Glasgow, which you should also try out. The staff are welcoming, the service is great, the food is delicious, s...

  Edwin , a name synonoymous with great denim, has been at the forefront of their industry for almost 65 years now. Formed in Japan in 1947, Edwin founder Mr Tsunemi had a real passion and desire for denim, and unable to source it in his native home Japan, he looked to the USA. He begun importing used, dirty denim and laundering and mending them to then sell them onto his customers.   As the japanese manufacturing processes caught up in the late 50's and early 60's and the country began producing their own denim, Mr Tsunemi was unhappy with the expensiveness and the quality and was pushed to produce his own denim. In 1961, Mr Tsunemi created his first pair of denim jeans under the name Edwin and by 1963 he had produced the worlds heaviest ringspun denim (16oz) which featured Edwin's trademark rainbow selvedge which they continue to use to this day.  Since then Edwin have constantly been pioneering innovative new methods in denim manufactu...

By now everyone will have fully taken in the Tsunami mass devastation in Japan recently and many of the shops favourite brands have come forward and made t-shirts in support, heres a few of the best ones. Neighbourhood: Stussy: Bape: Proceeds from all the t-shirts sold will be going directly towards disaster relief efforts and charities working in Japan. Fraser