Activity 1: Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Location: Bakery from yesterday and "KIOSK" at Umeda Station.
Food:
1. Rah: Weiner-pan + Kirin Royal Milk Tea (hot)
2. Dee: Inari-zushi (in triangle shape)+ canned creamed-corn soup
Weiner pan : like normal sausage in a bun, with mayonnaise. 3/5
Kirin Royal Milk Tea : as it always is, perfect.
Inari-zushi: I'm not sure why it was a triangle shape, but that meant there was more soy-bean skin, so super yum. It was made to stand up next to the onigiri's.
Canned creamed corn soup: yum. Crunchy corn kernels, not soggy, despite the soup being hot in the can and preserved. I don't know how they do it. Hit the right spot on chilly morning.
Location: Takarazuka (kind of half way between Osaka and Kobe)
Osamu Tezuka is the genius who drew Astro Boy. In light of that, no more really needs to be said.
Thankfully, manga illustrations can still be appreciated without language.
The best part was an interactive section where we could string together scenes of astroboy/other characters, as well as drawing our own characters with a lightbox and animating them. Oh & we got to colour-in characters (hopefully it wasn't just for kids), we both chose the really cute unicorn Unico.... now to find out who it actually is...
Lunch: Omu-rice
Clara and I were both craving Omu-rice, so we gave in.
Omurice is a contemporary Japanese dish most often found at Japanese family diners (such as IZUMI), and consists of an omelette made of fried tomato rice (often with onion, bacon, peas, etc). The rice is skillfully encased in omelette, then flipped onto the plate and topped with sauce, usually tomato, tomato-beef or curry. We opted for the tomato beef and mushroom.
Activty 2: Hep Navio shopping
"IZUMI - Coffee & Restaurant since 1963"
Location: Between manga museum and JR station.
The dish itself was above average in taste, and plentyful. Egg could've probably been slightly less runny. 7.5/10
Ambience: yellow lighting, typical japanese diner nothing flashy.
Service: the lady waiter followed me outside the restaurant (at her own will) and allowed me to order by pointing at the plastic food display :) GENIUS!
Contemplate going on Hep Five (Ferris wheel on top of Hep Navio) then decide against it, instead trying on sunnies, GAP jeans and eating...
Afternoon Tea: Parfait time!
Apparantly the French word for "perfect", it can refer to a frozen dessert made of sugar syrup, egg, and cream invented n 1984. In American (and Japanese) culinary lands, it usually means a layered dessert in a tall glass with cream, ice cream, fruit, cubes of heavy cake (eg pound), jelly, nuts. In japan, they like to add corn flakes for crunch.
This is a parfait.
Location: Parfait, icecream and frozen yogurt store at top of Hep Navio
(L) Minuet Green Tea Parfait: 4/5
(R) Green Tea Parfait: 4/5
Whilst eating parfait Clara's Compact Flash memory card corrupted, losing ALL our photos today from the museum! Shock horror!! After some more shopping at Hep Five we rush home in a desperate attempt at data recovery. Of course such geeky and difficult tasks need our brains to be performing optimally. Brain food = personalised cup noodles!
Dinner: Personalised Cup Noodles
Location: from Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum, eating next to laptop
Food:
1. Rah's: Sio soup base, Egg + Shrimp + cartoon chicken (which is actually fishball-like-substance) + roast garlic
2. Dee's: Sio soup base, Egg + Shrimp + cartoon chicken + asparagus
Sao soup base is spicy in a peppery way.
5/5. We have good taste.
Drink: Melon Cream Soda, complete with pictures of penguins on cover that we got for 100yen at a vending machine - must love japanese vending machines!
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