a business trip, I'd call it (if one would read only this post) an "exploration of Japanese food in Tokyo". Not that I hadn't already experienced that, since we had been visiting Japan during our honeymoon, but let's say that refreshing the tastebuds on the matter was a pleasant experience (sadly, at one occasion we ended up in an italian restaurant...! no words on that!!!).
I just know the name of two of the restaurants we have been around, for the rest, we moved randomly just picking what inspired me and my colleagues.
Obviously, our aim was at eating (and I was hungry - so I ended up eating a lot!)
Our first lunch was on the road to the office building. The place was very local, no english menu. I ordered a tonkatsu but my nose was bleeding (amazing timing - I was almost dying!) and I ended up filling my nose with tons of paper and not feeling any taste of the food I was longing to eat so much!
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Tonkatsu
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After not sleeping on the plane and half a day of work, I was tired. But that didn't help the jetlag. Lying sleepless at night became the norm.
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| The view from the hotel room (with a nice reflection) |
The first evening we ended up eating sushi of course, topping it with some dessert at "Dean & De Luca" (no comment. Finding a place where to get some dessert was the hardest thing in the world).
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| The sushi, alright but nothing comparable to what we ate the last night! |
In this yakiniku place they were eventually selling some dessert and we decided to try.
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| No idea what this is |
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Ice cream with green tea and azuki
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Everytime we were walking in Shinagawa I remember feeling the amazing smell of roasted meat. That is why we ended up impulsively there.
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| Shinagawa station |
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Shinagawa
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I "imposed" a couple of things to my colleagues.
First, okonomiyaki, which they had never tried before (now we have big plans to open an okonomiyaki restaurant in Malmö).
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| Okonimiyaki Kiji, in Shinagawa |
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| Okonomiyaki |
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| Keeping our okonomiyaki warm |
The place was quite popular and we had to wait half an hour before getting a seat. The day before it was about the same situation and we ended up resigning the plan.
We topped the okonomiyaki with some tasty cake nearby the hotel. Nothing very japanese!
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| My cherry pie |
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| Green tea and azuki pie |
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| Double chocolate pie |
We even took some time off for lunch for going and buying some knives in Kappabashi. That took much more time than we thought it would and we (I!) made a mess with the trains on the way back.
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| Kappabashi |
We of course had lunch on the way back, stopping at Asakusa. We probably messed up the order somehow because we got just singular dishes instead of the meal with rice and pickles. So, some of us went out very hungry having had just some sashimi...
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| My fish (was it grilled mackarel?) |
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| Aubergines and Gyoza |
The other thing that I forced down my colleagues (and has been my obsession since forever) is taiyaki. They didn't dare to get the ones with azuki jam, but of course, I went classic and wasn't very much disappointed.
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| The taiyaki place in Shinagawa |
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Very happy!
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For lunch, we managed to eat in the strangest places. One was a very tiny place, where the daughter of the lady cooking food was speaking a fantastic english. We didn't know what we were ordering, but at the end we got served something that was possibly fried chicken?
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| The mysterious chicken dish |
The last day, I was busy thinking of what to buy for the dear ones home and I stumbled upon some things that I was very very very tempted to buy...
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| Lady Oscar make up!!!!! |
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| Sailor Moon make up |
Finally, the last evening we decided to go to Shibuya. One of our Japanese colleagues joined us after our exploration of the Tokyu Hands store in Shibuya.
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| Shibuya. Hachiko is on the left |
Thankfully we had our colleague. Otherwise it would have been taking us forever to find where the sushi place that we were aiming at was. It was almost impossible to find it!
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