We had breakfast at the hotel this morning -- a pretty buffet breakfast like dinner, so of course we tried everything :3 They had pretty pastries and pretty fruit, and also some stir-fried food (which was kind of weird) and Japanese-style breakfast food, too~ I got a pineapple danish, a muffin, a waffle, a hash brown, and a piece of tofu, along with rice and rice seasoning on top ^ ^ I also tried Darjeeling tea with cream and sugar, and another tea (forgot which) with cream and sugar. Tiffy got a waffle, a pancake, a piece of salmon, a hash brown, and a chocolate danish with milk. And I also made her try natto, a fermented soy bean dish exclusive to Japan. It smells... very... ripe.
ahem. it doesn't taste as bad as it looks, but it's still really bad lol not something i want to for breakfast...or ever again actually lol
After that, I got a Calpis popsicle bar at the Imperial palace. It was actually pretty good -- just tasted like frozen Calpis :3
For lunch, we ate a rice casserole dish in Asakusa, by the Sensouji temple. The other choice for lunch was sashimi, so it turned out that Tiffy and I were the only ones to eat that for lunch. Sorry Tiffy TT__TT But the ladies were dressed up nicely in yukatas. And, I think, that's a kind of dish that you wouldn't be able to get in the states, even though it was only a mixed rice kind of dish. The rice came in a pot, sort of like dolsot bibimbap, with chicken, shrimp, and some veggies on top. We got miso and some side dishes, and this pretty square of tofu with a maple leaf on top, which you are supposed to dip into soy sauce. We also got a little dish of green onions to add to the soy sauce, if we want. Everything was really good :3 We were super full at the end~
Right after that, Maiko-san took us (just me and Tiffy) to a famous taiyaki stand (we had asked her just before lunch about it). It was actually very fresh and yummy! We liked it a lot, although we were so full we could only eat a bite each before saving it for later XD The outside is a kind of sponge cake, and it's filled with red bean paste.
In Ginza, there wasn't any food, since we were visiting shops, and then we headed to our hotel in Shibuya. Maiko-san showed our group Mark City, a mall near the famous Crossing in Shibuya, where there were a lot of the recommended food restaurants. She highly recommended a tonkatsu shop to us, where the tonkatsu looked so delicious and fluffy.
Since there was a long wait, no one actually ate there. I think a lot of them went to the soba shop, which was also recommended. Tiffy and I weren't hungry at all, so we bought some pastries from a cafe nearby. There was a bit of a mix-up because we didn't know there was a line to get into the shop XD;; In the end, we took our desserts to go, checked out 109 and the crossing in person, and then went back to the hotel to enjoy our sweets and some green tea I stole from our first hotel (eheheh...). I got this mushroom-looking thing called monburan, which consisted of this lightly whipped mousse(?) with a bit of a chocolate taste, a bottom layer of cake, a little bit of red bean in the middle (which was a surprise, because I totally didn't expect that), and a soft biscuit on top. Tiffy got blueberry layered cheesecake, which was actually pretty good, even though I don't like cheesecake. It had layers of cake, blueberry jam, and blueberry cheesecake.
ahem. it doesn't taste as bad as it looks, but it's still really bad lol not something i want to for breakfast...or ever again actually lol
After that, I got a Calpis popsicle bar at the Imperial palace. It was actually pretty good -- just tasted like frozen Calpis :3
For lunch, we ate a rice casserole dish in Asakusa, by the Sensouji temple. The other choice for lunch was sashimi, so it turned out that Tiffy and I were the only ones to eat that for lunch. Sorry Tiffy TT__TT But the ladies were dressed up nicely in yukatas. And, I think, that's a kind of dish that you wouldn't be able to get in the states, even though it was only a mixed rice kind of dish. The rice came in a pot, sort of like dolsot bibimbap, with chicken, shrimp, and some veggies on top. We got miso and some side dishes, and this pretty square of tofu with a maple leaf on top, which you are supposed to dip into soy sauce. We also got a little dish of green onions to add to the soy sauce, if we want. Everything was really good :3 We were super full at the end~
Right after that, Maiko-san took us (just me and Tiffy) to a famous taiyaki stand (we had asked her just before lunch about it). It was actually very fresh and yummy! We liked it a lot, although we were so full we could only eat a bite each before saving it for later XD The outside is a kind of sponge cake, and it's filled with red bean paste.
In Ginza, there wasn't any food, since we were visiting shops, and then we headed to our hotel in Shibuya. Maiko-san showed our group Mark City, a mall near the famous Crossing in Shibuya, where there were a lot of the recommended food restaurants. She highly recommended a tonkatsu shop to us, where the tonkatsu looked so delicious and fluffy.
Since there was a long wait, no one actually ate there. I think a lot of them went to the soba shop, which was also recommended. Tiffy and I weren't hungry at all, so we bought some pastries from a cafe nearby. There was a bit of a mix-up because we didn't know there was a line to get into the shop XD;; In the end, we took our desserts to go, checked out 109 and the crossing in person, and then went back to the hotel to enjoy our sweets and some green tea I stole from our first hotel (eheheh...). I got this mushroom-looking thing called monburan, which consisted of this lightly whipped mousse(?) with a bit of a chocolate taste, a bottom layer of cake, a little bit of red bean in the middle (which was a surprise, because I totally didn't expect that), and a soft biscuit on top. Tiffy got blueberry layered cheesecake, which was actually pretty good, even though I don't like cheesecake. It had layers of cake, blueberry jam, and blueberry cheesecake.
Monburan. Doesn't it look like a mushroom?
Blueberry cheesecake :3
Yep, I thought those Monburan were mushrooms also XP
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