Day 11: Tokyo 3: Kappabashi + Odaiba

Breakfast


From local convenience store (called MiniStop)
Dee: "Smart Boss" + layered round cake
Rah: Kirin Special Afternoon tea + CheesePizza-man (manju)

The usual goodness expected. 3/5
The "Smart Boss" is not my favourite BOSS. A tad bitter, no creamyness.

Kappabashi
Kappabashi, supposedly also known as Kitchen Town (thanks google!), is a street near Asakusa station in Tokyo. Its basically a very long street of kitchen / restaurant supplies shops. Including: ceramics, lacquerware, glassware, restaurant signage, professional plastic food displays, uniforms, etc. Its much more interesting than it sounds on paper!! Of note, Dee acquired a new knife :)


Ramen Lunch


Once again, after a manic 3 hours of kitchen goods shopping, Clara and I were delirious from exhaustion. We hit a ramen joint next to the station which had a few locals in it.
Location: Opposite the intersection of exit A1 at Asakusa subway station
Food:
1. Miso Ramen
2. Shio Ramen
3. Soft Boiled egg to share.
Yum.
Score: 8/10. Noodles were thicker than usual, but still tender and al dente. Stock was tasty, not too grainy. Veges were crisp, roast pork was perfectly fatty.

Odaiba
We visited Odaiba to take photos of the Fugi TV building, which is so very prominent in Digimon. Its this awesome building looking like a grid with a huge sphere in the middle of it.

When we arrived, we saw.... the statue of liberty.... um.... were we in the right country? did the train take us to USA instead of just to the island? (turns out Odaiba has a mini-version of it)




We were lucky to have clear skies and watch the sunset along with 20 other photography nuts armed with SLRs and tripods and the like. Together we froze in the cold, until survival of the fittest, one by one they went back inside until the final few fought for the best spots.

We gave up after dark, and warmed our hands with another can of hot Boss Coffee window shopping at Aqua City.

Okonomiyaki Dinner



Location: Fugetsu, Odaiba Aqua City
Food:
1. Butsu (ie Pork) Okonomiyaki
2. Ebi (ie Prawn) "Modern" Okonomiyaki (ie with noodles)

Score: 8.5/10, okonomiyaki always hits the spot. It was also a different experience to the last one as they cooked it in front of us..... unfortunately, it also meant that it seemed to take longer than usual to cook.... the guy kept coming, doing something, then saying "Mou chotto" (ie a bit longer) for ages & ages, until finally he put on (heaps of) mayo & okonomiyaki sauce & said "Hai, ittadakimasu". The wait was well worth it tho =), we were both stuffed & actually had trouble finishing it (either really generous portion sizing, or we really shouldn't have had those boss coffees).