In keeping with my food theme this week, here is yet another entry on food and new restaurants. Tonight's culinary exploit was to the local udon restaurant. Udon is a kind of Japanese noodle. They are very fat and I don't normally like udon because it is like eating a bunch of white flour to me. Not so exciting.
Hiroshi took Erik and I to an udon chain restaurant tonight though and it was good! This was mainly because there was a topping bar and you could load up your udon with fish flakes (love them!), sesame seeds, grated ginger and pieces of tempura. Tempura is a frying technique in Japan and usually the little blobs of tempura batter that fall off during the frying process are saved to put on udon. Yumm!
Feeling greedy and glutinous, after udon we went back to the yakitori restaurant from last week for some beers and some chicken. The guys were still yelling out orders and having fun. All in all, I'm sure we were given a significant portion of our order free - we each had two beers and a bunch of chicken and all we ended up paying was around 3000 yen. Seeing as one beer is probably 5 or 600 yen, I know we didn't get charged for everything. Definitely have to patronize that place again. Gotta love free food!
Since we were absolutely stuffed, we walked along the river between Gotanda and Osaki stations towards Osaki to hit up the game center. I got to play the taiko drum game which I like. The game center has changed to a prepaid card system. The prepaid card is good for stores all around the Osaki area so that is cool. Now we can listen to the chirp of the card system every time we buy something. Ah technology.
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