Nozomi & I took a short trip to Tokyo mostly to go to museums and eat food we can''t find in Utsunomiya. I'll post pictures of the museum parts later, but for now, here's the food:
The first night, we had dinner with Nozomi's sister (who lives not far from this part of Tokyo) at a Peruvian restaurant. I was checking on a website that lists international restaurants in Tokyo before we left, and when I saw that there is one restaurant there with cuisine from Peru, I thought that would be a fun adventure (especially when the review said it was delicious and not too expensive). The review was absolutely right-we had a table full of new, wonderful tastes! It turns out that Peru's embassy is not far from the restaurant, and as we were eating dinner, it looked like some of the other diners might have a connection there. My brain was doing strange language mixing for much of the time we were there; I started to think in Spanish part of the time, but sometimes some Japanese words got inserted in my mind...confusing but fun. I asked the waiter, "excuse me (in Japanese); can you take a picture of us? (in Spanish)" and thanked him and said the food was delicious in Japanese and Spanish as we left.
For lunch today, we ate at a bakery restaurant that's part of a chain that has a location here in Utsunomiya. It has sort of a general European fusion style-nothing surprising, but both of our dishes were great, and the bread was VERY VERY good! Sorry--we didn't take any pictures there.
Dinner today was at a Jewish deli ("David's Deli"-successful enough that they had their own personalized dishes). We had a hummus and baba ganoush plate with pita bread, falafel sandwich, tabouli salad, and chicken. It was fantastic!
And, our snack we ate just now was..... donuts from Mister Donut-YUM! That's a little international because the chain started in America, became very successful, opened branches in Japan, became even more successful here than it was in the States, and eventually closed all the stores in America, but that's another story...
The first night, we had dinner with Nozomi's sister (who lives not far from this part of Tokyo) at a Peruvian restaurant. I was checking on a website that lists international restaurants in Tokyo before we left, and when I saw that there is one restaurant there with cuisine from Peru, I thought that would be a fun adventure (especially when the review said it was delicious and not too expensive). The review was absolutely right-we had a table full of new, wonderful tastes! It turns out that Peru's embassy is not far from the restaurant, and as we were eating dinner, it looked like some of the other diners might have a connection there. My brain was doing strange language mixing for much of the time we were there; I started to think in Spanish part of the time, but sometimes some Japanese words got inserted in my mind...confusing but fun. I asked the waiter, "excuse me (in Japanese); can you take a picture of us? (in Spanish)" and thanked him and said the food was delicious in Japanese and Spanish as we left.
For lunch today, we ate at a bakery restaurant that's part of a chain that has a location here in Utsunomiya. It has sort of a general European fusion style-nothing surprising, but both of our dishes were great, and the bread was VERY VERY good! Sorry--we didn't take any pictures there.
Dinner today was at a Jewish deli ("David's Deli"-successful enough that they had their own personalized dishes). We had a hummus and baba ganoush plate with pita bread, falafel sandwich, tabouli salad, and chicken. It was fantastic!
And, our snack we ate just now was..... donuts from Mister Donut-YUM! That's a little international because the chain started in America, became very successful, opened branches in Japan, became even more successful here than it was in the States, and eventually closed all the stores in America, but that's another story...
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