Destination: Japan
Duration: 15 Days 15 Nights (May 31~Jun 14, 2014)
Day 10-13: A Long Working Week – Weight Gaining &
Heart Stopping
Second week in Japan was busy as usual – it was public
holiday in Penang on Jun 09 but we still need to work since we were in Japan. The
week went by with tons of FOODs and some shopping around Kawasaki area – boring
huh? =(
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| This is what happen when you have nothing to do but go shopping - 100 Yen Shop |
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| Look at all the Lego in Bic Camera! |
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| More Shopping! *facepalm* |
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| Shinkansen Train from Daiso |
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| Doraemon at Azalea Underground Mall |
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| There is a Doraemon Museum in Kawasaki but quite far from Nikko |
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| More Stuffs again!!! |
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| Hello Kitty & Dresses! |
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| Milk Bath Salt from Muji |
We also bought Japanese Cherries from Sanwa - smaller and a bit sour if compared to the one from Australia.
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| Japanese Cherries! |
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| Smaller & Sourish |
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| Matcha Latte from Starbucks - Courtesy of Big Brother Trey! |
Let’s see a breakdown on the 3 main meals of the day - shall we?
Breakfast: Carbo, Carbo & Carbo!!!!!!!! *facepalm*
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| Cream Puff & Hokkaido Milk on Monday |
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| Sausage Wrap on Tuesday |
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| Huge Curry Bun on Wednesday |
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| Lots of Ingredients inside! |
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| Sandwich & Vegetable drink on Thursday |
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| Hokkaido Steamed Cheese Cake & Soya Milk on Friday |
Lunch: Fattening Bentos or Restaurant…
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| Take out Sushi on Monday from Azalea Gourmet Walk |
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| It's Tamago Bento! Wish i have more Wasabi! |
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| MOS Burger on Tuesday! This is much better than Loretta Burger! |
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| My Colleague's Ebi Burger |
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| Another Colleague's Sausage on Doughnut Burger |
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| Tempura Bento on Wednesday again... We do love the tempura! |
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| Curry Chicken Rice on Thursday |
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| Flooded by Curry!!!! |
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| Finally eating out on Friday |
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| A Pleasant Restaurant hiding in Azalea Gourmet Walk |
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| Grilled Chicken Rice - It's YUMMY! |
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| The Lunch Set |
Dinner: Random Restaurants around Kawasaki area. Here are
some of the dinners we had. Let’s the picture do the talking. LOL!
Monday - we stumbled upon this Ootoya Restaurant at the shopping street opposite Kawasaki Station. Their menu was extensive and price reasonable - food quality was great too! Highly recommended!
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| One of the Best Restaurant we tried in Kawasaki - Opposite Kawasaki Station |
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| Lots of Condiments |
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| Care for some Desserts? |
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| Lots of Choices in their menu with pictures! Pictures in Menu is important for us! |
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| Boss' Thick Soya Milk |
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| Boss' Salmon Fish Set |
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| Colleague's Deep Fried Pork with Curry Sauce & Egg Set - a MUST TRY! |
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| Colleague's Deep Fried Chicken Set |
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| My Grilled Pork Set! NICE!!!! |
The Sushi Platter was nice - it was just that i was not a fan on some of the raw stuff in the set. But i did love the salmon & tuna. =) My colleagues loved their set and i was especially attracted to the tempura set - MY GOSH! It was such a glorious sight! But i didn't think i had the stomach to finish the deep fried tempura myself though.
Wednesday - As usual we wondered around the street and ended up in a Ramen restaurant. We need to buy ticket to order the Ramen. I ordered the Soy Sauce Ramen and it was quite salty. Not too impressed though - still prefer the Ramen in Nagoya (link). Anyway, the restaurant gave out white rice free of charge along with the Ramen but we declined since the Ramen portion was already huge!
Next Day (A Too Short Day at Tokyo Disney Sea)
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| Sushi Set at Lazona Mall Foodcourt |
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| Colleague's Deep Fried Chicken Set |
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| Colleague's Tempura Set! Looks how alluring this is!!! |
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| Bought Supper from Lazona Mall - 30% discount |
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| With BEER! |
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| The Pork Stick! |
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| Condiments in the Restaurant - look at the Fried Garlic! |
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| Their Menu |
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| My Soy Sauce Ramen |
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| Colleague's Aka Miso Ramen |
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| Colleague's Tonkatsu Ramen |
Thursday - We had an appreciation dinner at
Kakiyasu Sanjaku Sanzunbashi (link)
at Lazona mall. The food choices were quite limited but the quality was great.
They also had these awesome square plates divided by 9, 6 or 4 portion so that
you wouldn’t mix the food together.
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| Lazona Mall at Night |
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| The Square Plate!!! LOVE the Mar Por Beancurd!!! So Spicy! |
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| Some Pizza? YUM! |
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| More Mar Por Beancurd |
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| Dessert!!! |
The best thing about the buffet - FREE FLOW
ALCOCHOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Asahi from the Tap was so refreshing until I gulped
down 3 glasses of that (I was parched ok!). Then we took our time to sample the
plum wine and the sake as well. The plum wine tasted nice only when it was
diluted with enough ice – else it would be too sweet and too strong. We were
not impressed with the plain sake though – too strong and too plain for us.
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| Drink Drink Drink!!! |
Day 14: A Last Minute Escape at Shibuya
It was our last Friday in Japan so we’d decided to get to
Shibuya after work. The train was horribly full with people and we all got
squashed. Anyhow, Sammy finally managed to meet his friend Hachiko again after
8 months and he was overjoyed. =)
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| Sammy with Hachiko! |
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| Getting Ready to Cross the Famous Shibuya Crossing! |
We walked pass the famous Shibuya Crossing and went to
shop by shop for some ‘marketing research’. Hahhaa.. this time i didn’t take a
picture of the famous Shibuya Crossing from the top though – to take a look at
the organized chaos of Shibuya Crossing – Click HERE for my last Shibuya Visit.
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| Lots of Shops here |
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| Awww.. Cute lil puppy! |
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| Shop Shop SHOP!!! |
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| Sammy was there! |
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| What is this?! |
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| There are lots of crossings in Shibuya! |
We got into Shibuya 109 and looked at those Japanese clothing
– they were pretty and all but it was apparent that we were TOO OLD for that
(TOO FAT as well!). *facepalm* We were starving but cannot made a decision on
what to eat for dinner. I saw this little Soba restaurant having cheap and nice
menu but my colleagues decided against it since there was no chair in the shop!
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| Shibuya 109 |
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| Cute Socks!!! |
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| This definitely caught our eyes! |
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| Soba? I want some! |
At the end, they went to another fancy Ramen restaurant –
I couldn’t stomach another Ramen (Ramen was not my thing anyway) so I’d decided
to try the ‘standing’ restaurant to eat the Soba instead. Did I mention I love
Soba? I bought myself a ticket from the ticket machine and the food was served
fast! I didn’t even know what I was ordering but it ended up being some deep
fried long chewy fishball stuff and I loved it. My 1st ever
experience eating in a shop standing! How precious! =)
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| Colleagues went for Ramen and i went for Soba! |
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| My Soba Ticket! |
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| Slurp!!! |
After food, we met again at the huge Uniqlo building just
opposite the small street. There were 3 floors of pure Uniqlo for man and
woman. The choices were significantly more than Uniqlo in Malaysia – they had
more formal clothing as well and some of the dresses look great and only cost
1990 Yen due to sales season! SHOPPING TIME!!!
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| Let's Rumble!!! |
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| Goodbye Shibuya! |
We finally called it a night and ended our last night in
Japan – our flight back to Penang would be on tomorrow night so we still had
some time to romp around Japan. My colleagues had decided to stay put in
Kawasaki whilst I planned to go for Disney Sea! Hooray!
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| People Standing eating Soba in Shinagawa Station |
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| Nice Egg Shell Dessert in Shinagawa Station during Train Transit |
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