Japan Trip (19) - The Fukubukuro Day
It's serendipity! Jae is also in Tokyo now so I got to catch up with him.
And today is the second day of the New Year which in Japan, means it's Fukubukuro day!
This means all stores sell limited special mystery packs for a certain value which is vastly less than the amount it is worth! Sometimes they tell you what kind of items are inside- eg 2 jackets, 2 shirts, 3 pants etc and sometimes, they only tell you the number of items- what's inside is a total mystery. Like Apple's bag may contain the iPad mini.
We started with a simple fukubukuro which contains two belts and a wallet (which we needed).
Then we progressed to mob stores in Harajuku n Shibuya for fantastic buys- we ended up with 4 fukubukuro each containing at least 1 full outfit.
It's freaking fun! Mystery purchases and then trading with each other to get what we want.
N cos one of them is a total mystery bag- we got funky clothes!
Lunch we stopped for sushi- sea urchin, fish foie gras, and this really excellent platter of grilled sushi. Damn nice, the oil from the fish fats flow into the rice- making it damn juicy.
And dinner, haha we needed a quiet place to check our buys, try on the clothes, so Jae found this pancake place! Complete with a quiet toilet for us to change n decorative mirrors in the restaurant which we appropriated for our fashion parade.
Ignore the heart- shaped pancakes! Got nothing going on! Haha we got them only cos they look really yummy. N they are freaking big n thick! A lot of ppl in the restaurants gave us weird stares though. I wonder what they were thinking.
And today is the second day of the New Year which in Japan, means it's Fukubukuro day!
This means all stores sell limited special mystery packs for a certain value which is vastly less than the amount it is worth! Sometimes they tell you what kind of items are inside- eg 2 jackets, 2 shirts, 3 pants etc and sometimes, they only tell you the number of items- what's inside is a total mystery. Like Apple's bag may contain the iPad mini.
We started with a simple fukubukuro which contains two belts and a wallet (which we needed).
Then we progressed to mob stores in Harajuku n Shibuya for fantastic buys- we ended up with 4 fukubukuro each containing at least 1 full outfit.
It's freaking fun! Mystery purchases and then trading with each other to get what we want.
N cos one of them is a total mystery bag- we got funky clothes!
Lunch we stopped for sushi- sea urchin, fish foie gras, and this really excellent platter of grilled sushi. Damn nice, the oil from the fish fats flow into the rice- making it damn juicy.
And dinner, haha we needed a quiet place to check our buys, try on the clothes, so Jae found this pancake place! Complete with a quiet toilet for us to change n decorative mirrors in the restaurant which we appropriated for our fashion parade.
Ignore the heart- shaped pancakes! Got nothing going on! Haha we got them only cos they look really yummy. N they are freaking big n thick! A lot of ppl in the restaurants gave us weird stares though. I wonder what they were thinking.