Monday, August 04, 2014
Japan, Part Six
Brunch is my favourite meal of the day. It offers the best dishes with the best ingredients - so my excitement levels were high when Patrick suggested we would eat at Bill's for today.
Bill's is a popular brunch restaurant with locations in Sydney, Tokyo & London.
I'd heard about it before & was ready to attack a proper western-style brunch.
For drinks, Patrick ordered a lemonade, Shirley ordered a frappe of sorts & I ordered a green juice/ apple, cucumber, spinach, chia seeds & young coconut. (Sidenote: it was warm & there was way too much cucumber.)
I ordered the poached eggs on sourdough with extra avocado...
Shirley's...
& Patrick's full english breakfast...
I think it's incredibly difficult to mess up brunch, it's so foolproof. It was a good meal, but as far as brunch restaurants go, it wasn't the best. Still good, though, still good.
We then headed on over to Takeshita Street in Harajuku...
Even though we just had our full brunch and it was hot like nothing else, we decided we needed crepes in our bodies.
Beware, the menu is HUGE and for an indecisive person, can make the crepe-choosing process quite the chore. In the end, I went with settled with strawberries & cookies & cream cheesecake.
This was probably my favourite day in Tokyo, the sun was out & the food was good.
My next post will show you what we did that night, that was really the cherry on top of my sundae. Or the chocolate flakes on my crepe...
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Japan, Part Five
Today in Tokyo was full of my two favourite things: food & views!
We also labelled it 'Rebecca Day' - which meant I was leading the way & giving Patrick a break from being our tour guide! On account of this, breakfast was at my fave spot: Starbucks on Q Front!
We made our way to Shinjuku which was very similar to Shibuya (where we were staying). A lot of shopping & all, so after a bit of wondering & walking around we stopped at a restaurant called Hawaiian Pancake Factory. In hindsight, this was probably a poor decision. Level 6-8 of this building was full of restaurants of different cuisines & themes, and instead we ate at this restaurant on Level 2 that left us... quite disappointed.
We then headed to Akihabara which is tech-city! Anime, computers, cameras galore! We shopped & wandered for a few hours before heading back to the hotel for a rest & being greeted with this gorgeous view:
Dinner time came around and we were having my fave food ever: BURGERS!
Freshness Burger, to be exact.
They ordered a melon soda float & I ordered an orange juice. I have quite the obsession with juice.
Beaut.
Dinner was had but we were still so tired from the long day of walking & sweating... & sweating some more so we decided to call it a night & head back to the hotel for rest.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Uobei
Traveling is fun for a number of reasons, but one of the primary reasons on everyone's list is FOOD. Tokyo invites a number of different cuisines but of course, while you're in Japan... it's sushi time!
We hit up Uobei in Tokyo which was unlike anything we'd ever been to/seen/heard!
Kind of like a sushi train experience only you choose what comes to you. You get an assigned number, seat in your position & choose your dish. A few minutes later the dish slides on over in a sushi-train like manner.
I don't actually remember the names of the dishes but I'm hoping the foodporn will suffice...
I do know this one. Breast & plum roll - the best one! Ordered a few of these...
The aftermath.
We visited this restaurant twice, partially because of the novelty & of course because of the food. The greatest part of all is that on each occasion I was stuffed full but didn't pay over $15. Absolutely incredible. If you visit Japan, I would definitely recommend checking this place out!
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