Monday, April 16, 2012
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Overall the dishes weren't that great, pretty average actually but well worth it for the experience! :) After that we wished our friend well on the rest of his trip and went to meet up with some friends at McDonalds.
Joe visits Kichijoji
By sweetreat in Atre, food, Friends, Ghost, Hara Donuts, Izakaya, Kichijoji, Nakamichi, Tokyo, 幽霊
A friend from Melbourne happened to be visiting Japan for a couple of weeks so today he came down to our part of the woods! He helped us quite a bit while were travelling around Beijing struggling to communicate with no Chinese at all haha! Time to return the favour! :)
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| At Inokashira公園 |
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| Visiting the funky shops around the area |
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| lol |
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| Atre |
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| Dessert sandwiches?? I gotta try these one day.. |
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| Nakamichi Street |
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| Hara Donuts for 'healthy' donuts |
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| Frog themed shop lol |
We decided to take them to the 'Yuurei Izakaya' (ghost themed) cause we've been dying to try this place out too! From the entrance you can already an eerie sounding 'whooooo' constantly being played as you walk down into the restaurant. It's pretty damn dark in there. A white clothed girl welcomes us and after confirming the number of guests she claps her hands twice and a giant spider drops from the ceiling. Almost had a heart attack!
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| We needed to wave this severed hand for service :D |
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| Went with the student course (2500円) which consists of a secret dish lol |
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| The secret dish was a roulette game! One of these contained wasabi, and our good friend was the unlucky one haha |
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| Apparently he 'died' haha |
Overall the dishes weren't that great, pretty average actually but well worth it for the experience! :) After that we wished our friend well on the rest of his trip and went to meet up with some friends at McDonalds.
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| This is Naoto's cracked phone, it still works surprisingly :) |
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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Love my town
By sweetreat in Cupcakes, Exchange, food, Kichijoji, Momen, shopping, Tokyo
Before settling in, my friend told me that Kichijoji was the number one place in Japan place where everyone wanted to live. After being here for a few weeks, I can completely understand why; heaps of places to shop, restaurants from all over the world, cutest boutiques and coffee shops.
Since I had nothing to do today I decided to explore a bit more.
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| Cutest cupcake shop! |
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| a humburger jacket lol |
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| Lots of 'ふるぎや' second hand stuff really adds to the charm of Kichijoji! |
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| Came home with these delicious cupcakes! :) |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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I miss Mum's cooking
By sweetreat in Cooking, Exchange, food, Japan, Ricepaper Rolls, Vietnamese
Since coming to Japan, my friend and I have been seriously craving food from the motherland. So after a trip to the international grocers, we were finally able to gather the necessary ingredients to make rice paper rolls! We decided to invite everyone else in the dorm to try these awesome rolls. :)
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| Made our own dipping sauce! Finding the fish sauce was annoying - it's called nanpla (ナンプラー）in Japanese |
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| Success! :) |
Overall I think we made our mothers proud :)
