We had lunch at a Yaki Niku place. A meal set menu where you grill your own raw meat at the table and create ur own sauces to go with it. I love this way of eating as much as I like tapas. It's so laid back and you can order the meats you want and cook them exactly to your taste. It was all excellent value (considering the rubbish exchange rate) of about a tenner!
After lunch we set out to Oji park to meet up with Yoko who I met on Sundays lunch. There were two beautiful areas of Sakura, one set around a river and another on an nice high piece of parkland.
Namjatown is a bizarre little place, it seems to be centred around different types of food and computer games. It's like all the rubbish bits of Alton Towers before you reach the good rides all conveniently stored under one roof and charged an admission for.
Our first stop in here was ice-cream city, famous from the recent JLC documentary of Japan it's an area where many different types of ice-cream are brought together in one place, some genius and the rest pure disgusting. Examples like, seaweed, chilli, sweet potato, squid ink, soy bean, tomato etc
There were three of us so we each chose a flavour that had the potential to be either disgusting or brilliant. The choices in order of best tasting were:
Double cheese: Very nice, more of the taste of cream cheese than the one of mature cheddar I was expecting but obviously with it being another fairly product it worked really well.
Chicken: The initial taste was good and the first few spoons tasted OK, it was the little chances of actual chicken getting lodged in-between my teeth that was off-putting.
Garlic: The worse by a long way, nothing good to report here. Garlic after taste but actual tasting experience of socks or as Neil 'bad socks'
After that we sauntered round more Namjatown weirdness and stumbled on the Gyoza city, similar concept to the ice-cream city but based on Gyoza. We only chose nice ones here and were suitably impressed!
On the way back myself and Neil decided to grab a quick drink at the 'Hub'. It turns out the quick drink didn't happen. So its official, my limit of Long Island Iced Teas server from pint glasses (on an empty stomach) is 3!
These are beautiful drinks with an immense amount of alcohol in them. The bar was quiet but we managed to befriend the couple next to us on their first date who despite the interruption bought us a round of drinks. Even if the drink was to get rid of us we continued chatting but becoming more raucous.
To shorten the story we both got absolutely ratted and had an elongated journey home via every road in Ikebukuro, a few falling down in bushes, and a long hunt for a lost glasses lens!
Location:Tokyo
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