Cream Puffs from kanda-seiyoken
These are Cream Puffs which are made from fermented butter. Orange flavored Cream Puffs are the limited time offer. The puff shells are very crispy!
Tag: sightseeing
Jelyfish fantasy hall
Enoshima Aquarium has a beautiful jellyfish displays. half-dome space was inspired by jellyfish body.
9 big or small water tank are there. you can see 10 kinds of jellyfish regularly in there ;)
mysterious & beautiful!
Enoshima Aquarium “Jellyfish fantasy hall“
Isetatsu lover!
I’m a big fan of Isetatsu.
A lot of wonderful hand printed “very Edo taste” Japanese papers with colored figures (chiyogami) are in the tiny shop. these are of course expensive…
and the shop makes cute and useful goods from chiyogami designs.
I recommend handkerchiefs and postcards(^_-)* these are not so high prices & we can use these everyday!
I can’t stop myself when I found the latest one!!
Gotoku-temple
We went to Gotoku-temple. the temple is not so far from Shinjuku or Shibuya, however there’s many trees & flowers ;)
The Gotoku-temple has an opinion this temple is the lucky-cats’ birthplace.
One day over 370 years ago, the feudal lord named Ii passed by this temple ,a cat rised its right hand and act like to say “Please come in!!” he wondered that & went with the cat.
Just after a moment he came into the temple, there comes a thunderstorm!
the lord thought the cat is genius & bring lucky, so he made there to family temple.
Maybe he was a cat lover!!(^_-)* it’s a cute legend, I think.
Gotoku-Ji (Gotoku-temple) （in Japanese Wikipedia）
Kimu Katsu : tonkatsu restaurant
On any given night,there is a long line of people waiting outside to get a table for Kimu Katsu
restaurant.
Their specialty is tonkatsu, deep-fried breaded pork. And their unique technique, which is to
tenderize the meat before breading it.
The meat is juicy, but not oily. And the breading comes in six different flavorings.
Kimu Katsu’s katsu is the “millefeuille” of katsu. You must tast Kimu Katsu even if you had to
wait almost 60 minutes outside in the cold.
Preparing for Easter at THE PENINSULA HOTEL TOKYO
My friend and I had a break at The Peninsula Boutique & Cafe. We had a quiet and realxing time with hot chocolate and cafe latte. They are preparing fancy French chocolate Easter eggs for Easter.
Tokyo Hotels: The Peninsula Tokyo Official Site, Tokyo Luxury Hotel
Tokyo Breakfast : The Westin Hotel in Ebisu
This is a healthy Breakfast which is called “Tokyo Bresakfast” form The Westin Hotel in Ebisu. “Tokyo Bresakfast” is Tofu-and-vegetables-dominated menu.
Westin Tokyo Hotels: The Westin Tokyo - Hotel Rooms at westin.com
Yokohama red brick warehouse
Yokohama is a city near from Tokyo. You can go there by train in 30 minutes or so. Many noted beautiful places are in there, Yokohama people are very proud of their town;)
I went to Yokohama red brick warehouse. The warehouse was built in 1907, it was of course warehouse at first. then became US army headquarters when WW2 was over. after that, became warehouse again. Now, there is not. there are many foods, clothes, zakka shops!
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What Japanese food “Monjayaki” ?
“monojyayaki”
Do you know “monjayaki”? It’s similar to “okonomiyaki”, but “monjayaki” is known as a snack food of Kanto area including Tokyo, while “okonomiyaki” is its counter-food in West Japan such as Hiroshima or Osaka.
This is “okonomiyaki”.
“okonomiyaki” by laughlin
“monjayaki” is made like this: Firstly mix the ingredients like cabbages and sea food with water and flour, then place the mixture on a heated plate. As you turn and mind the mixtures with scraper tool, the liquids is evaporated. Once the mixture is partially sort of burnt it is ready. Now you’d take the individual smaller scraper and help yourself a small portion by scraping the cooked (burnt) mixture directly from the plate.
The way of cooking and eating “monjayaki”
I know eating burnt bits is rather wired and shocking way of eating, but it is tasty.
eating “monjayaki”
There is a “monjayaki” restaurant that had celebrities including Brad Pitt visited in Tukishima, a downtown area of Tokyo. I reckon trying ”monjayaki” is becoming a part of Tokyo tourism for foreigners?
Marunouchi HOUSE
“Marunouchi” is the business center of Japan and Japanese headquarters of those trading firms and major financial institutes are standing side by side here.
shin-marunouchi building by .Amy.huimei98.
“Marunouchi HOUSE” has been opened last year as a community place where the people who work for these companies to meet and communicate. It is located on the 7th floor of the Shin-Marunouchi Building with cafes, restaurants and bars. In the open space, people can get together bringing the food & drinks they select from those shops.
You can look down Tokyo station or Imperial Palace from up there, and it is transformed to a club space with famous DJs playing at night. (I haven’t been there myself yet, but heard that DJs like Tei Towa and FPM’d played there.)
Because the concept is to “invite” your friends to Marunouchi, the area seems to be a sort of “established” during the day time, but “Marunouchi HOUSE” at night sounds like a casual and fun place. If you have a change to come to Tokyo, why don’t you check there?
(marunouchi) HOUSE
Marunouchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
