Showing posts with label Roppongi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roppongi. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 January 2008

The New 'Chu

I have a few ideas of new places to go in the near future, but today was not going to be one of those days. 


 After not fully waking up and getting out of the house until about 3pm, the choice was made to go to Roppongi. 

 The gf wanted to go to the National Art Museum to get a present for her friend at the museum shop there.

 

 
I thought it'd be a good time to get a new 4 litre bottle of Shochu, as my faithful bottle of Green is almost coming to a end. 

 The Museum is actually quite an interesting looking building. She bought a printed carry bag at the shop and then we made our way to Midtown. 

 We perused the international supermarket, Precce. "Sampleman", my alter ego, found some juicy beef samples and regained his power to fight evil once more. 

 I mentioned the azuki and butter rolls we had in Ginza to the gf, so we made a bee-line for the bakery area and got some. Lucky they had them here. It saved us a trip to Ginza.


  We saw some Masuno Sushi so we bought that as well. We found a small seating area just outside the supermarket and ate them both there. 

 I am really getting a taste for raw fish. Who would've thought? 

 Once you get over the, "but it's not cooked" feeling, it's quite a tasty treat. Bring it on! 

 Finally we made our way to Don Quijote to get me that 'Chu!




Originally I had in mind to get another four litre bottle of Green, but there was a bottle of Suntory Shochu for 1880 yen saving about 500 yen, so I decided to give this one a try. Shochu is shochu right? I'll soon find out. 

 Leaving there I had in mind to try the expired coffee coupons, but the girl was too smart and turned them around to tell me they were overdue. 

 I did my best surprised look and shot out of there as quick as I could. 

 I have to go to bed early tonight. I have to get up at about 6am. That should be fun.

Sunday, 16 September 2007

Ark Hills Autumn Festival 2007

We went to Roppongi to see what was going on at the Ark Hills Autumn Festival 2007. 


 When we got there it looked to be aimed especially for kids so it was quite boring. The highlight, if you could say that, were the Ball Rockin Crew, home boys twirling and bouncing a basketball in imaginative ways. Hmm.. ok. 

 Next we went to Midtown again. The best thing there was going into the basement shopping centre for food samples. I even had some Australian beef. Oh I miss real chunks of meat and cheese!

  We were both still hungry so we went to a busy Udon restaurant and had some real yummy Udon noodles.

 

From there we stopped into the Don Quixote store. I couldn't resist the exercise bronco, Rodeo Queen. 

 I am tempted to buy a 4 litre bottle of Green shochu for the bargain price of 2500 yen. That would be a 700ml of Vodka for that price! Look for a pic sometime in a later post.


  Lastly, we walked to the nearby Tokyo Tower. 

This is Tokyo's answer to the Eiffel Tower. Up close it looks nothing more than a TV tower (which it is). 

We didn't think it would be worth the 820 yen to check out Tokyo's uninspiring skyline.