Another food post!

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Weather: mostly nice cause it's spring/summer
Author: Amy (it's a FOOD post... who did you expect?)

In no particular order, here are some of the places we tried out.

SWEETS PARADISE

Sweets Paradise is an all-you-can-eat place specialising in cakes and dessert stuff. They've also got pasta, sandwiches and soup to even out the taste-buds a bit but cakes and fondue are the main attractions.

Choices, choices!

Chocolate fountain. I think S & Chris wanted to dive into it...

After...

The cakes weren't bad but weren't mind-blowingly good either. I liked the millecrepe the most, which is basically many layers of crepes with fruits and fresh cream in between. And suprisingly, the cabbage rolls were pretty tasty too! Cabbage rolls are meat (chicken in this case) wrapped with cabbage leaf, then steamed or boiled in soup.

CAFE SARDI

This is a cafe in Shibuya that S & I happened across and the special french toast of the day was very good. The jam was not too sweet and everything complimented each other very well.

Special French Toast of the day - french toast with berry jam and ice-cream.

Mango milk pudding because I love mango and milk pudding.

A few days later, I brought Chris to try the special of the day but it happened to be blood orange something with coconut sauce... Since neither Chris nor I liked coconut sauce, we passed and got normal french toast instead to try it out.

Plain french toast

French toast with rose jam

Honestly, the second time was not that great maybe because the french toast was very normal. The first time was the best.

SUSHI ZENMAI

This may sound familiar to some of you. That's because we've been to this restaurant before! Or at least the store in Tsukiji. This is a chain of sushi restaurants and Chris brought S to the Shibuya store on his last night in Tokyo. S really liked the sushi from what I hear and was very adventurous in trying out all sorts of sushis we don't get back in Perth.

S loved his sushi...

A few days later, Chris and I went back cause I was in the mood for sushi. The most outstanding sushi I had that day was the broiled maguro...

Broiled maguro

The texture was superb with a hint of crispiness on the top charred side coupled with the cool chewy raw insides, with a pinch of rock salt. I ordered two... Heh heh...

IZAKAYA EXPERIENCE AGAIN

We brought S to an izakaya in Shibuya that we had never been to before. It turned out to be quite a nice place. We ordered quite a lot of stuff but only took pics of a few more interesting ones.

Sashimi salad. I love this!!!

Fish ball with cheese inside. Sprinkle some salt lightly and eat

Salmon sushi. Not that memorable unfortunately...

Takoyaki with melted cheese!

SOME KOREAN RESTAURANT...

We felt like having Korean one day and we wanted to try out someplace new. It was a Monday and a lot of the restaurants were closed. So, clever me chose a place that had really good-looking waiters. If I'm going to try a new place and can't decide where to go, I may as well choose some place with eye-candy, right? Can't beat that logic!

I had beef bulgogi because I couldn't decipher the rest of the menu. A lot of them were intestine stuff...

Chris had a cold noodle dish which is excellent for summer cause it's refreshing.

I was curious as to whether the bulgogi would be different to the Korean restaurants in Perth but it was pretty similar. I think I like ssamgyupsal the most...

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT YAKINIKU

We also went to an all-you-can-eat yakiniku place in Ikebukuro.

S showing us how it's done

The cuts of the beef was nothing like wagyu but there is certainly a lot in quantity. The seafood was surprisingly quite fresh! We tried a few new things like:

- Natto salad (only Chris ate this one)
- Raw minced beef salad (surprisingly not beefy!)
- Raw daikon salad
- Ox-tongue (I did not dare touch this after a previous experience...)

Charring our food nicely

The rest of the stuff we ate was pretty normal, like beef kalbi, chicken, seafood, grilled vegetables, sausages, fatty pork, etc...

Our 3rd or 4th helping?

We topped it off with very refreshing mango sorbet.

Happy Chris? Poor thing could only eat chicken, seafood and vegies

After that, we went to a pub and happened to catch the soccer game between Japan and Uzbekhistan (?).

Cheering on Japan

Well! We've done quite a lot lately, haven't we? Thanks to S coming to Japan, we managed to go to a few places for once. We've been quite lazy lately, only working and staying at home. So it's great when someone comes over and we finally get off our lazy bums and do something productive.

Until next time, take care all!