Sunday, 6. January 2008
japanese Crepes No.2
carschti, 16:09h
05.01.2008 Narita
With the Keisei Skyliner from Ueno to Narita Airport. Lunch. Hotel. Sleep. Around 17°° we took a shuttle bus to Narita and went for some dinner.
After the dinner which was half of the price from the day before and much more satisfying (3 way menu) we found an unknown shop: Daiso. This is a 100 yen shop but bigger, better and with even more useful stuff. At first I didn´t know about the 100 Yen, there were no prices at all and so I took some of the things we wanted to buy (small puppets and some furniture for Yasmins birthday) and I went to the cashier. 630 Yen. Great for 4 dolls with chairs, a table, a cake, some plates and glasses. Ready, steady, shop!
04.01.2008 Tokyo
In the morning back to Tokyo. When we got onto the train, it started to snow. The night before we were all singing snow songs, to get some snow over the night, but it didn´t help until we left. So my daughter was so happy to see that singing sometimes helps.
Before we left I called the hotel in Kagohara to see if they have returned from their vacation. They did. So we went straight to Kagohara and picked up my luggage I left there for the past 2 1/2 weeks. Some of the things should go back to Germany, because I don´t need them and the room is not so big to store not necessarily needed things.
This was the last day in Tokyo area and so I wanted to show my girls the Tokyo they should know. They have been to America before and so the skyscrapers are not so interesting, but the 75m queue in front of a Crispy cream or the designers baby clothes and a night view over Tokyo. Best choice Metropolition goverment office building. So we got their. It was amazing.
After that we had a very confusing walk through the streets of shinjuku. Originally I was aiming for Tokyo hands. In the past I always ended there, but this time...
Ok, after a hundreds of stores, blinking lights, shouting people, crowded restaurants we finally made it to Takayama. By the time we got there it was already 18°°. Straight to 12-14th floor. The restaurant area. I was looking for shabu shabu. Nothing. Yasmin was already starving and when I saw the waiting time of one restaurant: 85 minutes, we decided to stop in the next restaurant with no queue. MISTAKE!!!
It was a crepes restaurant ("Breizh café") french welcome: Bonjour, french menu (which was good, so we could understand more than on the japanese version, but the food: NOT FRENCH!!! The only real french thing we had in there was a bottle of evian (1000ml). The glass and the label were french. But about the water I´m not sure. The bottle was open... In France the bottle would have been opened at your table. Our glasses were dirty and the crepes dough was made out of buckwheat with water. I doubt that an egg was even close to the dough during the whole preparation process.
The taste: *SMILE* The price: WOW! 5900 Yen for 3 pancakes with 1 bottle of water and an orange limonade. Highscore since the last weeks. This is not too expansive, I´m not used to pay much for good food not for french fake pancakes.
With the Keisei Skyliner from Ueno to Narita Airport. Lunch. Hotel. Sleep. Around 17°° we took a shuttle bus to Narita and went for some dinner.
After the dinner which was half of the price from the day before and much more satisfying (3 way menu) we found an unknown shop: Daiso. This is a 100 yen shop but bigger, better and with even more useful stuff. At first I didn´t know about the 100 Yen, there were no prices at all and so I took some of the things we wanted to buy (small puppets and some furniture for Yasmins birthday) and I went to the cashier. 630 Yen. Great for 4 dolls with chairs, a table, a cake, some plates and glasses. Ready, steady, shop!
04.01.2008 Tokyo
In the morning back to Tokyo. When we got onto the train, it started to snow. The night before we were all singing snow songs, to get some snow over the night, but it didn´t help until we left. So my daughter was so happy to see that singing sometimes helps.
Before we left I called the hotel in Kagohara to see if they have returned from their vacation. They did. So we went straight to Kagohara and picked up my luggage I left there for the past 2 1/2 weeks. Some of the things should go back to Germany, because I don´t need them and the room is not so big to store not necessarily needed things.
This was the last day in Tokyo area and so I wanted to show my girls the Tokyo they should know. They have been to America before and so the skyscrapers are not so interesting, but the 75m queue in front of a Crispy cream or the designers baby clothes and a night view over Tokyo. Best choice Metropolition goverment office building. So we got their. It was amazing.
After that we had a very confusing walk through the streets of shinjuku. Originally I was aiming for Tokyo hands. In the past I always ended there, but this time...
Ok, after a hundreds of stores, blinking lights, shouting people, crowded restaurants we finally made it to Takayama. By the time we got there it was already 18°°. Straight to 12-14th floor. The restaurant area. I was looking for shabu shabu. Nothing. Yasmin was already starving and when I saw the waiting time of one restaurant: 85 minutes, we decided to stop in the next restaurant with no queue. MISTAKE!!!
It was a crepes restaurant ("Breizh café") french welcome: Bonjour, french menu (which was good, so we could understand more than on the japanese version, but the food: NOT FRENCH!!! The only real french thing we had in there was a bottle of evian (1000ml). The glass and the label were french. But about the water I´m not sure. The bottle was open... In France the bottle would have been opened at your table. Our glasses were dirty and the crepes dough was made out of buckwheat with water. I doubt that an egg was even close to the dough during the whole preparation process.
The taste: *SMILE* The price: WOW! 5900 Yen for 3 pancakes with 1 bottle of water and an orange limonade. Highscore since the last weeks. This is not too expansive, I´m not used to pay much for good food not for french fake pancakes.
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