A sit-down breakfast...
Location: Deli Cafe, in Osaka station
Food:
1. Dee - Beef Volcano Bun + Hard-boiled egg
2. Rah - selection of sandwiches
Drink: Salt Caramel au lait - very interesting taste, dee was waiting for the coffee to kick in until i told her there was none in the drink 4/5
Beef bun: interesting construction 3.5/5
sandwiches: a nice selection, egg was nice 3.5/5
Den Den Town (formally known as Nipponbashi):
This is the equivalent of Akihabara (of Tokyo) in Osaka. Consists mainly of electronics, anime/manga, & collectibles stores, Dee & Rah made up nearly the entirety of the female population on that street. After passing many stores containing items that we couldn't really buy anyway, we stumbled into the collectibles section of the street..... & proceded to spend many hrs trawling the stores, to re-emerge with new guitar/mini/ff/haro models. (where guitar=guitar, mini=mini cooper, ff= final fantasy, haro=character from gundam, image from google below).
Lunch:
We realised at 2pm that we hadn't had lunch yet... & stumbled into a sushi place on that street (name unknown).
Location: Den Den Town/Nipponbashi
Food: Salmon Ikura Don (ie salmon & salmon roe on rice)
For Y700, this value is incredible and hard to beat. A big bowl of hot rice, topped with about 7 LARGE pieces (meaning each piece is 4-5X typical Sydney sashimi size) of fresh salmon about 7mm thick. Huge amount of salmon roe on top. Add soya sauce and wasabi. Hot tea and miso soup (a bit strange tasting) also served. YUM.
At this local stand up bar, no one spoke an ounce of english. It didn't matter it was stand up- we demolished the huge bowl in 5 minutes flat. Again to iterate- YUM. 8/10 for food.
9/10 reflective of price.
After lunch, it was a bit of shopping & then off to our long train journey to Nagano (as a stop-over to our ultimate destination of Yamanouchi - the town with the snow monkeys).
Snack: Melon Pan Ice
While waiting for the train, Rah found a vending machine selling ice-cream, of which one was Melon Pan Ice - ie Melon pan (aka one of rah's fav foods) in ice-cream style! Yum! 4/5
Dinner: Eki-ben
Ekiben, or railway boxed meals, are a specific type of bento box, sold on trains and train stations around Japan. Thank you, Mr Wikipedia. Mr Wikipedia shares that "The "Golden Age" of ekiben, however, ended three decades ago." ... sure, thanks! We got our Ekiben from the Daimaru basement at Umeda station in Osaka - a final goodbye!
Fig 1.1: Dee's Ekiben (L) and Rah's Ekiben (R), being consumed on the bullet train.
(1) Dee's = Eel, potato salad, assorted pickles with pretty mushroom, tamago (egg) with tofu, lotus root, prawn.
I chose this Ekiben because I suddenly felt I had been stuffed with carbs - rice and rice and ramen and udon and rice... hopefully its all fixed now! Being on a moving vehicle, my brain turns off and I automatically go into sleep mode, so I really didn't think about my food. It was probably a 5 or 6/10 overall.
(2) Rah = Pork on rice, fish, tamago, pumpkin, potato salad.
Fish was a little too salty but the rest was quite nice. I will say 7/10.
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