uni & ikura nigiri
chutoro & tarakoe
botan ebi & akagai
hotate & kazunoko
We ate so much sushi/sashimi in a one hour span it was as though we hadn't been fed for the past 10 days or something. I think we racked up like 20 plates per person? Which left us feeling so full we could barely move, so we ended up heading back to the hotel for hot showers & afternoon naps.
By the time we all got up, the sky was dark out and it was dinner time.
Walked to our favourite shabu shabu house in tokyo, and it was so crowded but fortunately mum had the foresight to get the concierge to reserve a table :)
The beef costs $25sgd a slice, making that plate cost like $350? But oh, so worth it. Melt-in-your-mouth good.
super cute giant bowl of noodles we saw on the street. i think from chopstick to bowl, it's literally 1/3 my height! and then waiting for my brother while he bought krispy kremes. i personally do not fancy them, not a sweet tooth i guess?
Can't believe we spent our first day just eating and sleeping but well, as it turns out the rest of the trip pretty much followed suit.
Mum & I, Bro & Dad.
We had lunch at a tempura bar, and we ate all sorts of tempura: squid, prawns, a million different types of fish, a million types of veges, chicken! It was a tempura lovers' dream but I'm not a tempura fan, like I pinch off d's tempura sometimes but personally I wouldn't order it myself ever? Oh well.
the parents went off to do their designer shopping but my brother and i went to wander the street stalls. usually when i'm in a foreign country, i like to explore all their local designers rather than branded stuff or high street stuff which i can easily find in london/singapore? so we walked on and on and on in the back alleys of tokyo/shinjuku.
porn & free tissue culture?
met the parents at ginza 9 for kani :)
i think it wasn't kani season though, so the crabs weren't as big as when we usually go in the thick of winter- dec/jan period?
super yummy all the same though we had kanisuki nama taraba, kani miso, kani karage, kani nabe, kani zosui, kani shabu... basically kani everything :)
woke up the next afternoon (the parents came back from breakfast/shopping and banged on our door and we refused to open it for the longest time) and went down to shibuya
brother/father went back to sleep and mom & i headed down to harajuku
and we had dinner at the shabu shabu place again :)
after dinner, i had razzle berry which i'm guessing, is japan's version of london's snog or singapore's frolick. the whole place is pink and sparkly, too cute <3 taste wise, i still love snog the best :)
razzle berry, and the testicular sized wine-grapes that my brother bought. juicy!
lunch: negitoro don without the negi, and maguro yamakake, both my favourites!
literally stuffing my face, hahahaha.
this is the takopachi that opened up in sinagapore's ion? where there is always a queue whether you go at 11am or 3pm or well, anytime at all it seems. i tried this in japan without knowing it's the same one until i accompanied daren to get some at the ion later on. the one in singapore only has tako fillings though. i think the one in japan has lots more choices :) yums.
dinner at a fugu-house in tsukiji, we've been going to this same restaurant since i was a kid, or as fast back as i can remember, and the kani house itself is at least 100 years old i think? amazing!
fugu sashi & fugu chiri
pufferfish ftw!
my retarded brother drags me out onto the streets of tokyo in my pyjamas to get supper, and of all the amazing japanese food we could have we had macdonalds.
lunch at sushi/sashimi bar :)
we totally uni overloaded! think between my brother and i alone we had like seven or eight orders of uni?
kazunoko and awabi. my mom loves loves loves awabi and it's not that easy to find in singapore so she overloads in tokyo. i don't like it, too chewy i think.
akagai/tamago/hotate. sushi bar concept where you just tell the chef what you want and he makes it on the spot for you :) instantaneous gratification!
walked to the ueno market :)
went to my parents' favourite tea shop
my retarded parents bought like $600+ sgd worth of tea?! and then we realized that we spent the remaining of our cash on tea, like we had already shopped/ate away all the cash my parents bought. tragic.
aside from selling all sorts of fresh and dried foods, ueno market also sells all sorts of consumer goods. i think it used to be a black market waaay back, but not anymore? they have everything from super colourful dunks, to a rackful of pink crocs and even pink/purple ugg boots!
life sized doraemon, huge huge huge gigantic ugg boot... nothing i'd ever actually buy at ueno but it's always fun to walk around :)
went for desserts ...
and found out after we ate that they don't accept credit card so we had to dig out all our spare cash/coins. insanity!
my dad spotted this couple on the roadside eating sandwiches and insisted they were hosts from japan hour or discovery travel and living show or something so we said hi and as it turns out he was right. they told him he watches too much telly, quite funny.
spent the rest of the afternoon shopping before having dinner at tian giu?
super yummy chicken wings & shishamo
we ordered like 8 dishes at first and the waitress was saying it would be too much.. after she left my dad said "she doesn't know my children" hahahaha and he was right, it wasn't enough we had to order more, we really eat too much. gluttons we are.
on the last day, we went back to the shabu shabu house for the third time! that slice of melon costs $9sgd :/
we did our last minute shopping before heading to the airport, got checked in real quick and then had dinner/snacks in the JAL lounge while waiting for our flight :)
we bought 32 pieces of onigiri :) and finished at least half of that on the plane, yums! my japan trip: lots of sleep, shopping & food. then again most of my family holidays are lazy, chillax holidays, so that pretty much sums it up!
and then it was back home and baby picked us up at the airport :) just for the record, the six days i spent with my family in japan were the only six days the entire summer that baby and i didn't see each other every single day. it was just six days but it felt so long and i even made him a leaving gift and he gave me something when i got home, i know, damn lame but whatever haha :) now that i'm back in london, i won't be seeing him for much longer than just six days, and my days feel so long without him in it, but on the brightside, the countdown is on, and it's less than a month. YAY.
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