March 7, 2007

  • Japan Trip, Part 2

    On Wednesday, Jeannie introduced me to her cool friend Rika and we went outfor some Thai for dinner. Ok, right now I am sitting on an clean unmatched pile ofsocks on a metal folding chair as I type this and it's very uncomfortable. Why do some socks dig deeper into my underside more thanothers? I'm just going to hurry up and slap some pics on here becauseI'm too lazy to just throw the socks on the floor and write a proper update.




















    Afterdinner we wandered around the Ginza strip. Jeannie decided she wanted a picture of her standing in a traffic intersection. I mistook her grinto be directed at perhaps a semi barreling down on me behind my back and hurriedly snapped the picture.









    I went to HMV, which is like Tower Records and picked up some J-pop cds.Can't leave Japan without at least one sugary pop song, and the one I bought came with a free poster that I lugged back to America.





    Ithink I was waiting at this Uniqlo store for like half an hour waiting for Jeannie and Rika to finish browsing. My feet were killing me. Also, Japan has no benches or seats in clothing stores for tired men. I wanted to pop a squat out front, but I thought maybe it would be rude.





    Jeannieis pretty good at finding weird things to do in Japan. They have a lot of theme restaurants out here, and we went on a hunt for the VampireCafe.





    Vampire Cafe turned out a little disappointing. Aside from the dim lighting and gothic decorations, there was nothing vampiric about the place. No Dracula, no bats, not even this. The servers dressed goth, but wore no fangs nor capes and were all polite as Japanese people are wont to be.





    Maybe the way Jeannie was posing in this pic was probably the scariest thing I saw all night.





    Bland red wine that accompanied the "sitting fee".





    Salmon strips with... onion? Not very appetizing.













    Jeannie's dessert





    Whenmy dessert came out, the waiter said something in Japanese and Rika started laughing. She explained that the waiter told her one of the cream puffs was actually spicy. We played russian roulette and took turns eating one at a time.





    On the very last turn, we all ate our pieces at the same time. Rika finds out the hard way which one had the horseradish.





    As you can tell, hanging outwith Jeannie pretty much entailed eating all the time. On Thursday, Jeannie took me to Kua Aina for Hawaiian burgers.





    The avocado burger is probably one of the best burgers I've ever had





    We headed out to Harajuku next in search of Jeannie's favorite ramen shop









    Jeannie apparently had no idea what Ramune was prior to going to Japan. If you're curious, you can probably just go out to your local asian supermarket and give it a try.





    Ramen was pretty good, but this was after eating the Hawaiian burgers an hour before.





    Afterwards,we headed off to look for the cushion cafe- a bar/cafe consisting ofbig cushions. I think we were both imagining sitting on huge beanbags,but it was not the case.





    All the individual cushiony sections had been reserved and closed off, sowe were seated at the enormous lit central table by ourselves.





    Not quite as cushiony as I thought, but it sure did look comfortable.





    Probably best food and drinks I had, surpassing Vampire Cafe.





    Jeannie and "the best" strawberry mojito evar.





    The flatbread/pita with three separate dips were alright, but nothing to write home about. Which I guess I just did.





    Dessert was pretty good though





    On the way home, Jeannie saw this mirror and wanted me to shoot a picture of us in it. The camera wouldn't focus on us- just the mirror- and so Jeannie was actually in that pose for a while. The best part is that people were walking by and there was even a woman facing us on the phone.





    Usually while Jeannie gets ready to go to work in the morning or as we're heading home for the night, I bust out with deep philosophical questions like "Would you rather make out with a guy with really yellow straight teeth or white really crooked teeth?" My questions are usually met with a "I don't wanna hear it" from Jeannie. :( ((((((((((

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