No Sake No Life
This week has been a bit of a whirlwind but I've remembered to take pictures more often so now there is a nice collection to reflect on.
The first photo's are from a place called Sushiro - it's a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants but unlike in England, it's ridiculously cheap at just ¥100 a plate. Each plate has two of that type of sushi on, rarely something will be more expensive. The premise for those of you that have never visited a place similar (looking at you Yo! Sushi) is that you grab whatever takes your fancy from the conveyor - or you can order something specifically from the little touch screen above the conveyor in your booth. If you order, they put your plate on a little red bowl with a colour indicator which tells you which table it's for. We were the gold table so all of our orders came on the red bowl with a gold label.
I went to Sushiro after work with my ALT friends Amy and Tawanda and it was a well needed catch up for all of us. We didn't want to eat and run so we wandered over to a place called Don Quixote. I'd never been before and the name didn't give away anything about the place so I asked the girls what I was getting into - thinking it was a casino or something. Well, it does hit you with everything going on at once but it's definitely not a casino - it's a store. It is known as the tax free store - if you're on holiday in Japan, hit up a Don Quixote for some tax free shopping!
We wandered the very bright and visual aisles, adverts coming on as we walked past and playing music at us. There were some interesting items - I came across one of those chicken's that makes a funny noise suspended on a hook and couldn't resist playing.
Click for Chicken
Once I'd spent a good 15-20 minutes laughing at that chicken, we wandered around the food section of the shop and I found loads of kitkat flavours and some clear coke. Amy says that it is disgusting and to avoid at all costs, even just trying it for the novelty - so naturally, I'm intrigued. I will post an update if I ever decide to try it.
The inside was well decorated, and it was the traditional kneeling style tables with decorated room separators and the entrance way had lovely decorations and pictures all up the stairs.
The food was nice, but more expensive than we'd hoped. So after a polishing it off, we decamped to a bar with an all you can drink offer. You pay a fixed price and then you get 2 hours to polish off as many drinks as you like. We ordered a fair few and it's safe to say no pictures exist of those 2 hours. I wandered home that evening, ready to experience the archery the next day!
The first photo's are from a place called Sushiro - it's a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants but unlike in England, it's ridiculously cheap at just ¥100 a plate. Each plate has two of that type of sushi on, rarely something will be more expensive. The premise for those of you that have never visited a place similar (looking at you Yo! Sushi) is that you grab whatever takes your fancy from the conveyor - or you can order something specifically from the little touch screen above the conveyor in your booth. If you order, they put your plate on a little red bowl with a colour indicator which tells you which table it's for. We were the gold table so all of our orders came on the red bowl with a gold label.
{Who doesn't love a neon green drink?}
We wandered the very bright and visual aisles, adverts coming on as we walked past and playing music at us. There were some interesting items - I came across one of those chicken's that makes a funny noise suspended on a hook and couldn't resist playing.
Click for Chicken
Once I'd spent a good 15-20 minutes laughing at that chicken, we wandered around the food section of the shop and I found loads of kitkat flavours and some clear coke. Amy says that it is disgusting and to avoid at all costs, even just trying it for the novelty - so naturally, I'm intrigued. I will post an update if I ever decide to try it.
{Raspberry and I believe cranberry and almond}
{Macha and macha and rasberry}
{The devil's drink?}
And that pretty much concludes the midweek fun and before long it was the weekend! Amy and I met up for a few drinks and we came across some cute tanooki statues outside this izakaya but when we saw the lamp above it - we had to go in!
{Words to live by}
The inside was well decorated, and it was the traditional kneeling style tables with decorated room separators and the entrance way had lovely decorations and pictures all up the stairs.
That chicken!!!
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