Tokyo foodporn :Q____
I have so many photos from Tokyo this time. (Though I didn't use my system camera a single time, even though I brought it! Uselessss~. So sadly all my photos are iphone photo quality, gomen m(___)m )
There are so many photos that I want to separate the posts somehow, and I was thinking I should start by posting some foodporn since this was probably the tastiest week of my life, lol! So expect lots of pictures of food and me raaambling on and on about food behind the cut!
Not that interesting, but my standard breakfast this time around! Melonpan (sweet white bread!) and orange juice. So brilliant to have a combini (small convenience store) in the hotel building, it made breakfast shopping extremely convenient. Which was good when we left the hotel room eaaarly every day and came home late late laaate every night.
Lunch on the first day at a low price chain in Akihabara! Very very delicious despite being incredibly cheap. *_*
A present from my friend Tomo-san. We'd been talking about umeboshi so she was a total sweetheart and brought us umeboshi gummy candies. It was a bit sour sweet.
This is my favorite food in the WORLD. It's curry rice with fried chicken from the curry chain Coco Ichibanya, and it's SO FUCKING OISHII I CAN'T. If you ever go to Japan or have been there before and haven't tried this food before, make sure to try their curry, it's so good. And they make it to your liking since you can choose spice level yourself and you can choose from so many different toppings as well. GO, GO! *_*
Super delicious avocado burger in Omote Sando. We had a lunch break there after an insane day of shopping kitchen supplies in Asakusa. Omote Sando Hills is a fancy high end mall in Omote Sando a short walk from Harajuku. Surprisingly they have a whole bunch of really nice restaurants that aren't all that expensive on their top floor. I totally recommend heading in there to check out the food places, don't let the super expensive clothing stores intimidate you! :)
We went to a suupaa (Supermarket) in Asakusa as well and flailed over all the food and shopping and how CHEAP everything is. (Except for fruit. X___X) And inside the supermarket we also met two nice elderly ladies. Appearently the supermarket had a special offer on that very day, between 9-10 am, where they handed out discount stickers outside the store. I don't know if we got inside earlier than that or if the one handing out stickers outside didn't dare to hand it out to two gaijin gyaru (foreign girls) and ignored us when we went inside. Anyway, these two ladies were so sweet and gave us their stickers AND explained to us how to use them so we could get a dicount on every item over 100 yen. So so sweet. It seemed like we had a magnet making elderly ladies and men (ojiisan's and obaasan's) come to us and do nice things for us. : DDDD
Anyway, here are some more sweet bread but with BUNNIES on them! Bunny-bread! :D
Karaage! Fried chicken with mayonnaise and cabbage. Such an easy dish but so good.
For lunch on Monday, the day after my two PLAYZONE shows on Sunday, we went to Shibuya to have Okonomiyaki at my favorite Okonomiyaki restaurant in Tokyo.
PLAYZONE-themed Okonomiyaki! :3
Yakisoba is one of my favorite things. Also eggs (pretty much any kind of egg, no matter how it is cooked) are one of my other favorite things. HERE THE TWO ARE COMBINED. Yakisoba wrapped in an omelette - Omusoba! So pretty, and so delicious!
And for the first time ever I got to try Monjayaki! Also extremely good; this one contained fish eggs, small shrimps, mochi and yakisoba snacks! It was my first time trying it, courtesy of Tomo-san, and it was so so good! *___*
Another night we went to have this fantastic dinner at an Izakaya with my friend J-chan. She had promised to take us to her recommended Izakaya and I think it was the best food experience I've ever had! Everything was SO good. I'll just post pictures of some of the dishes we ate. (I don't even have pictures of most of it, I got so distracted by how TASTY it all was!!)
RAW CHICKEN. At first I got a bit O_O at the fact that you appearently eat raw chicken in Japan because in Sweden that is a HUGE No-No! But after the initial ^^;;; feels, I dared to try it and it was so good- you ate it with chopped spring leeks and a dip sauce.
The froth on this beer!! ♥
SEVERAL DISHES WERE SERVED IN HEART SHAPES!!! ♥♥♥ I adoreeed it and I went into these "KYYAAAAHHH~" modes pretty much every time the waitress came in with new food because it was so adorable! :333
An explosion of tastes in this little dish! *_* Avocado with cooked seaweed with a hint of wasabi and maaaaybe green mandarin? and sesame and nori flakes. It was just so perfectly well rounded and tasty nd I could've eated severalof these all by myself! XDDD
My fantastic dessert! Matcha ice cream served with mochi, matcha jelly and azuki beans. Soooo goood.
And because of their heart-shaped food (and cute waitresses in short yukatas), this place was famous for being "cutesy" as well and here are two other desserts... vanilla flavoured shaved ice and coffee flavoured shaved ice filled with jelly... AND SHAVED ICE BEARS I CAN'TTTTTT. My "KYAAHHHHHH~" level rose to a million degrees right then, I can tell you that. It might also have been that I was sliiiightly tipsy at that point, maybe maybe. :333
As I said, all the food at this Izakaya in Shinjuku was fantastic and I hope hope hope I can go there again next time! It was amaaaazing~
So now for something else...
Playzone lunch! Right by Aoyama Theatre there is this nice little cafe/restaurant with a small lunch menu with delicious food! I had their clam pasta, which was delicious!
If you're a cold blooded person from northern europe used to top temperatures of +25 degrees C, there is only one was to survive summer in Japan (+35-40 degrees C). And that thing is Kakigori (shaved ice). I love ice in general and kakigori in particular... and I seriously found a vending machine that sold shaved ice. XDD How does that even work, Japan??
There are so many international chains we don't have in Sweden. Mr Dounut, for example. (And Starbuckkkssssss why don't we have starbuuuucksssssss, Starbucks come to meeeeeeeeeeeee) Here we had a tea and dounut break late one evening when we had been stuck in a mad rainfall in Asakusa during a fireworks festival XD
This is what we laughed at the most, food wise! Close to our hotel there was this bakery that called themselves scandinavian and it had this Finnish flag and everything. And the bread was absolutely delicious but nowhere NEAR like scandinavian bread at all! XDDD NOrthern Europe are known for healthier dark whole wheat bread and whatnot, and here they only had sweet white bread! XD As I said, it was very very good though! :3
We also ate so much jelly during the trip. And since I think mango makes everything better, I of course went for the mango jelly! Yummyyy~
And last night dinner! There is this amazing Indian restaurant in Tokyo Midtown near Roppongi that we went to. They have an amazing view out over Tokyo Midtown and it was lovely decorated and wonderful!
Courtesy of the restaurant! They served us papadums and three dips. A cilantro dip, a yoghurt dip, and a mango chutney.
Mojito! The drink of all drinks~
Palak Paneer and my favorite Garlic Naan
Yummy dessert in the shape of a New York cheesecake and fresh fruit!
Oh my goodness, this got so image heavy even though I only posted the food pictures! SORRY
And now I need to go and get some sleep, but making this post made me hungry. XDDD
There are so many photos that I want to separate the posts somehow, and I was thinking I should start by posting some foodporn since this was probably the tastiest week of my life, lol! So expect lots of pictures of food and me raaambling on and on about food behind the cut!
Not that interesting, but my standard breakfast this time around! Melonpan (sweet white bread!) and orange juice. So brilliant to have a combini (small convenience store) in the hotel building, it made breakfast shopping extremely convenient. Which was good when we left the hotel room eaaarly every day and came home late late laaate every night.
Lunch on the first day at a low price chain in Akihabara! Very very delicious despite being incredibly cheap. *_*
A present from my friend Tomo-san. We'd been talking about umeboshi so she was a total sweetheart and brought us umeboshi gummy candies. It was a bit sour sweet.
This is my favorite food in the WORLD. It's curry rice with fried chicken from the curry chain Coco Ichibanya, and it's SO FUCKING OISHII I CAN'T. If you ever go to Japan or have been there before and haven't tried this food before, make sure to try their curry, it's so good. And they make it to your liking since you can choose spice level yourself and you can choose from so many different toppings as well. GO, GO! *_*
Super delicious avocado burger in Omote Sando. We had a lunch break there after an insane day of shopping kitchen supplies in Asakusa. Omote Sando Hills is a fancy high end mall in Omote Sando a short walk from Harajuku. Surprisingly they have a whole bunch of really nice restaurants that aren't all that expensive on their top floor. I totally recommend heading in there to check out the food places, don't let the super expensive clothing stores intimidate you! :)
We went to a suupaa (Supermarket) in Asakusa as well and flailed over all the food and shopping and how CHEAP everything is. (Except for fruit. X___X) And inside the supermarket we also met two nice elderly ladies. Appearently the supermarket had a special offer on that very day, between 9-10 am, where they handed out discount stickers outside the store. I don't know if we got inside earlier than that or if the one handing out stickers outside didn't dare to hand it out to two gaijin gyaru (foreign girls) and ignored us when we went inside. Anyway, these two ladies were so sweet and gave us their stickers AND explained to us how to use them so we could get a dicount on every item over 100 yen. So so sweet. It seemed like we had a magnet making elderly ladies and men (ojiisan's and obaasan's) come to us and do nice things for us. : DDDD
Anyway, here are some more sweet bread but with BUNNIES on them! Bunny-bread! :D
Karaage! Fried chicken with mayonnaise and cabbage. Such an easy dish but so good.
For lunch on Monday, the day after my two PLAYZONE shows on Sunday, we went to Shibuya to have Okonomiyaki at my favorite Okonomiyaki restaurant in Tokyo.
PLAYZONE-themed Okonomiyaki! :3
Yakisoba is one of my favorite things. Also eggs (pretty much any kind of egg, no matter how it is cooked) are one of my other favorite things. HERE THE TWO ARE COMBINED. Yakisoba wrapped in an omelette - Omusoba! So pretty, and so delicious!
And for the first time ever I got to try Monjayaki! Also extremely good; this one contained fish eggs, small shrimps, mochi and yakisoba snacks! It was my first time trying it, courtesy of Tomo-san, and it was so so good! *___*
Another night we went to have this fantastic dinner at an Izakaya with my friend J-chan. She had promised to take us to her recommended Izakaya and I think it was the best food experience I've ever had! Everything was SO good. I'll just post pictures of some of the dishes we ate. (I don't even have pictures of most of it, I got so distracted by how TASTY it all was!!)
RAW CHICKEN. At first I got a bit O_O at the fact that you appearently eat raw chicken in Japan because in Sweden that is a HUGE No-No! But after the initial ^^;;; feels, I dared to try it and it was so good- you ate it with chopped spring leeks and a dip sauce.
The froth on this beer!! ♥
SEVERAL DISHES WERE SERVED IN HEART SHAPES!!! ♥♥♥ I adoreeed it and I went into these "KYYAAAAHHH~" modes pretty much every time the waitress came in with new food because it was so adorable! :333
An explosion of tastes in this little dish! *_* Avocado with cooked seaweed with a hint of wasabi and maaaaybe green mandarin? and sesame and nori flakes. It was just so perfectly well rounded and tasty nd I could've eated severalof these all by myself! XDDD
My fantastic dessert! Matcha ice cream served with mochi, matcha jelly and azuki beans. Soooo goood.
And because of their heart-shaped food (and cute waitresses in short yukatas), this place was famous for being "cutesy" as well and here are two other desserts... vanilla flavoured shaved ice and coffee flavoured shaved ice filled with jelly... AND SHAVED ICE BEARS I CAN'TTTTTT. My "KYAAHHHHHH~" level rose to a million degrees right then, I can tell you that. It might also have been that I was sliiiightly tipsy at that point, maybe maybe. :333
As I said, all the food at this Izakaya in Shinjuku was fantastic and I hope hope hope I can go there again next time! It was amaaaazing~
So now for something else...
Playzone lunch! Right by Aoyama Theatre there is this nice little cafe/restaurant with a small lunch menu with delicious food! I had their clam pasta, which was delicious!
If you're a cold blooded person from northern europe used to top temperatures of +25 degrees C, there is only one was to survive summer in Japan (+35-40 degrees C). And that thing is Kakigori (shaved ice). I love ice in general and kakigori in particular... and I seriously found a vending machine that sold shaved ice. XDD How does that even work, Japan??
There are so many international chains we don't have in Sweden. Mr Dounut, for example. (And Starbuckkkssssss why don't we have starbuuuucksssssss, Starbucks come to meeeeeeeeeeeee) Here we had a tea and dounut break late one evening when we had been stuck in a mad rainfall in Asakusa during a fireworks festival XD
This is what we laughed at the most, food wise! Close to our hotel there was this bakery that called themselves scandinavian and it had this Finnish flag and everything. And the bread was absolutely delicious but nowhere NEAR like scandinavian bread at all! XDDD NOrthern Europe are known for healthier dark whole wheat bread and whatnot, and here they only had sweet white bread! XD As I said, it was very very good though! :3
We also ate so much jelly during the trip. And since I think mango makes everything better, I of course went for the mango jelly! Yummyyy~
And last night dinner! There is this amazing Indian restaurant in Tokyo Midtown near Roppongi that we went to. They have an amazing view out over Tokyo Midtown and it was lovely decorated and wonderful!
Courtesy of the restaurant! They served us papadums and three dips. A cilantro dip, a yoghurt dip, and a mango chutney.
Mojito! The drink of all drinks~
Palak Paneer and my favorite Garlic Naan
Yummy dessert in the shape of a New York cheesecake and fresh fruit!
Oh my goodness, this got so image heavy even though I only posted the food pictures! SORRY
And now I need to go and get some sleep, but making this post made me hungry. XDDD