Cake lovers heaven

If you are a cake lover, you must visit this “Food Show” at Shibuya station.
It has all kind of cake shops inside of it; both Japanese and Western cake are available.
The price of each piece is between $2 CAD to $200 CAD.
You will fall in love with the packing too.
Local would usually buy them as a gift.
If you pass by the station, I would strongly recommend you to spend 15 mins.

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Odaiba Hot grill fried noodles

Odaiba is about 30min from downtown Tokyo by train.
It is a small island located at Tokyo coast; many couples like to spend their weekend there.
We went there mainly for the 70s look of Japan.
There are 3 shopping mall connected together by the board walk.
The 70s street look of Japan is located just above the “Little Hong Kong” floor of the “Deck”.
There are also 100 yen shops and other department stores around the area.


When you get tried from all the shopping,
You can find the food court at one of the mall basement area for some local snack.
The portion of this meal is enough for mom and I.
It is fried noodles on a hot grill, including one side and one drink. (we got fried chicken skewer and yogurt drink)
It was 950 yen, approximately $10 CAD.




If you keep walking on the board walk, you will find this Takoyaki vender.
They sells all kind of Tokoyaki (Grilled Octopus balls).
They top it with some fish flakes.
The fish flakes dance on the Tokoyaki because of the steam,
it is fun to watch them and more fun to eat them.
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Underground food court

It is way too hot to walk around on the street during summer time in Japan.
We have found an underground food court right at Shinjuku station.
There are many kind restaurants, from sushi place, to tempura place, to steak house to noodles place; they are all inside the underground food court.



The bean curd udon soup only cost me 450 yen, which is about $5 CAD.
When I order this, I pointed at the food display model and bang! They guessed what I wanted.
Mom chose something more flavorful, she ordered a stew beef undo soup.
It is only 500 yen ($5.25 CAD).


=p hehe, I just want to show you this last picture to make you starve for this.
Seafood tempura don!
Don in Japanese means rice.
They lightly fried all the seafood (shrimp, fish of all kind and veggie) and top it on a bowl of hot steam rice, drizzle some secret soy sauce with the sizzle sound. LOVE IT!
This set with clam miso soup cost 2200 yen ($25 CAD).

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Traditional Japanese Breakfast

I always admire the art of Japanese food.
They believe food has it own nature spirit.
To respect the spirit and customers, they would give the food its best taste and the best presentation.
This traditional Japanese breakfast is simple.
Yet, many chefs spent hours and hours in the kitchen to prepare this meal.
From the way they cut the vegetables to pickles to plating, the chiefs make this meal magical to us.
The breakfast set (from top left): Pouched hot spring egg, Boiled fresh vegetables, Local grown cabbage salad, Pickled seaweed and Steamed white fishes. Served with steamed rice, Mushroom miso soup and Grinded cinnamon vine paste.


What really is pouched hot spring egg?
It is basically just pouched egg. The only different is that the egg is cooked in hot spring. The temperature of the hot spring can easy achieve the perfect cooking process for the egg. Allow the egg yoke to remain soft and smooth.

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Convenient Stores in Japan

Why do we all love Japanese convenient stores?
First of all, they are 24 hrs/.
Secondly, they are everywhere, usually 2 or 3 located near your hotel.
And lastly, they sell almost everything you could think of.


Oh, forget to mention that mom and I had so much fun doing shopping in the convenient stores.
We had convenient dinner for 2 nights.
They were cheap, fresh and tasty.
Our meal including Grilled salted fish, King crab legs, Egg tofu, Pickles, Sashimi, Five Beans salad, Hot soup with pork, Grapefruit drink and Plum wine.


Nothing is better then this paper box plum wine after a meal.
Japanese convenient stores carry all kind of liquor in small size.
Don’t you worry about alcohol in the late night.

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