Oddball~
Hehe, I doooon't know but it might seem odd to get this excited over this, but please remember that I work as a chef, so this is actally normal behaviour to get this excited about things like this. XDDD
When I was in Tokyo this time me and my friend had decided that we absolutely MUST go to Kappabashi Dori in Asakusa. This street is commonly known as "kitchen street" and it is exactly what it's called - a street totally concentrating on stores selling kitchen supplies and restaurant equipment. It was INSANE. I've never been there before and I can't understand why now, because... ahhh. *___* 160 stores of brilliant knives, gorgeous porcelain and plates and whatever you can think of. It was amazing. We were there for four hours and didn't even get through half of it before we had to rush off somewhere else (time was never even close to enough on this trip...)
Anyway, we found several amaaazing stores, and I wanted to buy everything in the WORLD and some more. Especially in the knife stores because... ahhh. I don't know how many of you who are familiar with knives and the importance of the quality and the handiwork, especially for use who use it as our most important work tool every single day. Japanese kitchen knives are well known for being the best, and in general they have the highest quality. They are made with the same technique as the old samurai swords, which of course means they are insanely sharp and also means that they are INSANELY expensive. A good Japanese kitchen knife cost roughly 3000 swedish kronor if you buy it here. At least.
After a few hours there we found this amazing knife shop and I thought I was going to faint of all these beautiful knives. And after a good old while I could finally decide on one.
Just look at this beauty right here:
it's perfectly aligned, the blade is exactly the same weight as the blade so it weighs completely evenly in the hand... seriously I can't even. It's perfectly made.
Close up of the beautiful blade. The "bumps" are not only there for prettiness, but they're in fact there to keep the things you chop from getting stuck to the blade. The wave pattern is where you can see the many many MANY layers of steel the blade is made of.
And, ahh, the kanji you can see? As a free service, he engraved my name into the blade. First he looked up what "Emma" is in Kanji, asked me if the meaning of the characters he found were to my liking and then he engraved them and ahhh I am so happy! (Emma in Kanji is appearently "Truth" and "Happiness"! ♥)
And the price for this? 450 swedish kronor. ABsolutely NOTHING. I regret not buying more... maybe next time. :3
Okay flist, sorry! I'll stop spazzing about KNIVES now. :333
When I was in Tokyo this time me and my friend had decided that we absolutely MUST go to Kappabashi Dori in Asakusa. This street is commonly known as "kitchen street" and it is exactly what it's called - a street totally concentrating on stores selling kitchen supplies and restaurant equipment. It was INSANE. I've never been there before and I can't understand why now, because... ahhh. *___* 160 stores of brilliant knives, gorgeous porcelain and plates and whatever you can think of. It was amazing. We were there for four hours and didn't even get through half of it before we had to rush off somewhere else (time was never even close to enough on this trip...)
Anyway, we found several amaaazing stores, and I wanted to buy everything in the WORLD and some more. Especially in the knife stores because... ahhh. I don't know how many of you who are familiar with knives and the importance of the quality and the handiwork, especially for use who use it as our most important work tool every single day. Japanese kitchen knives are well known for being the best, and in general they have the highest quality. They are made with the same technique as the old samurai swords, which of course means they are insanely sharp and also means that they are INSANELY expensive. A good Japanese kitchen knife cost roughly 3000 swedish kronor if you buy it here. At least.
After a few hours there we found this amazing knife shop and I thought I was going to faint of all these beautiful knives. And after a good old while I could finally decide on one.
Just look at this beauty right here:
it's perfectly aligned, the blade is exactly the same weight as the blade so it weighs completely evenly in the hand... seriously I can't even. It's perfectly made.
Close up of the beautiful blade. The "bumps" are not only there for prettiness, but they're in fact there to keep the things you chop from getting stuck to the blade. The wave pattern is where you can see the many many MANY layers of steel the blade is made of.
And, ahh, the kanji you can see? As a free service, he engraved my name into the blade. First he looked up what "Emma" is in Kanji, asked me if the meaning of the characters he found were to my liking and then he engraved them and ahhh I am so happy! (Emma in Kanji is appearently "Truth" and "Happiness"! ♥)
And the price for this? 450 swedish kronor. ABsolutely NOTHING. I regret not buying more... maybe next time. :3
Okay flist, sorry! I'll stop spazzing about KNIVES now. :333