We also FINALLY got some good ol fashioned conveyor belt sushi!! We actually tried to go a couple nights beforehand and as we got there (it was a cheapo place for sure, but still figured it would be OK) the staff never said anything about grabbing a number (from this little digital machine by the door). The guy just said he was preparing the tables. Then as we realized what was up Naomi was pissed, ripped a strip off the waiter for being a dunce and we left. Sushi from the supermarket instead, oh well.
However we finally went to a huge mall nearby (think Mayfair with 3 stories and a movie theatre) and it turned out, in their GLORIOUS restaurant section (I could have eaten there for a month) they had a nice quality, slightly pricey, conveyor sushi place. Of course we went! No idea why micky and mini were in their advertising.
Ok back to sushi. This place also had the digital number waiting system. The waiter did his job and actually told us about it. Good guy.
This is just our soy sauce and the help yourself green tea.
A super frosty ice cold beer. It was delicious. The glass is basically frozen solid.
Enjoying some green beans and goldfish crackers.
The closer one is chawanmushi. An egg pudding with fish stock, some salmon eggs, mushrooms and fish cakes in it. The other is an Udon noodle soup with a tofu pocket.
Some deep fried octopus legs. (Japanese Kentucky Fried Octopus)?
Some inari on the left (tofu pockets stuffed with rice) and tuna on the right.
BBQ eel with BBQ sauce.
Unidentified white fish, with a plum sauce on top.
Tai (sea bream) with green onions.
Negitoro. Tuna belly with green onions. My favourite.
This. Oh my god it was amazing. Very lightly grilled tuna (with blowtorch), pepper and BBQ sauce and onion on top. It was amazing. I think I had 4 plates.
Not pictured is the copious amounts of the above I ate again and again most likely. I forgot to take a picture of our stack of plates at the end! For shame.. If you notice the plate colours, that is how they tell the price and tally it up. The most expensive I think was 4 dollars. Cheapest about 1.50.
And some pictures of the place in action
That black nozzle thing is where your hot water comes out for tea. Just push your cup into it.
Plates prices are blurry in the background. Trying to take quick pictures in case someone sees and gets offended.
It delicious. Very hard to control yourself at these places.
Next up is a couple shots from my favourite cafe! Hot chocolate with whip and cheese cake and a berry sauce. Scrumptious as always.
Naomi had a sweet potato cake. Also quite good!
And Charles in yet another shopping cart. Not as fun, but different.
Naomi's sister and 2 kids came to visit us. Her husband has been in China for over a year now I think (posted there by work) and will still be for a year or so more. Poor guy. Charles got along great with them and had fun playing with toys together. That day Naomi's mom decided we should go for lunch at, funnily enough, the conveyor built sushi place Naomi chewed out the other night! Hey why not. It was more successful this time at least.
They have these touch tablets where you can express order whatever you want. The nephew instantly sat down and pounded out a big order of sushi. Over the next 45 I am pretty sure it was a constant flow of stuff coming.
Oh, and it would come like this (mostly, unless it was soup or drink). Delivered via shinkansen! You push a little red button when you are done to send it back. It was awesome. Funny though because most people just end up doing this the food going around on the conveyor is rather sparse. Why take the old one when you just order a new one? Bit of an odd system but a neat one.
This was the cheapo place, but I enjoyed it. I didn't bother with food pictures as it was similar to before, just less nice looking. I would say it equals 95% of all Victoria sushi joints however at about 1/3 the price.
It was nice they came to visit early (it was supposed to just be on Jan 2nd when her brother and kids were going to come too, but her sister thought it was not enough) as it would turn out the family gathering got cancelled. More on that in a minute.
New years eve we managed to stay up till 12am (spent 4 hours watching a yearly music show that went until 11:40). As you can see the party was in full swing. There was actually no countdown on the channel we were on. It was showing live footage of a bunch of different temples around Japan, and when it hit 12am one of them showed the priests all lined up ringing one of those huge bells like you saw earlier. I guess that would be a fun event but with a kid this young would probably not be easy to go to. Next time maybe!
So the January first rolled around. Plan was to head to a temple and do some other things out and about. However, when we woke up we noticed Charles had a fever. Hm. A little while later when we went to change his clothes we found he had little red spots showing up on his legs and stomach area as well as one hand. Huh. Nono it can't be chickenpox... Fast forward a few hours later after at trip to the doctor (after finding one that was actually open!) and yes, confirmed, it was chicken pox.
Great. He was scheduled for his latest vaccinations around now, which include the 2nd chicken pox ones, and just our luck we had not done it yet. Sigh. However since he had the first one it turns out it made his case not nearly as bad as someone without them! That following night was pretty rough and the whole day he was quite depressed and just wanted to be held. However since then has slowly gotten better and as of now his scabs are healing over so it should be ok for going home! It never spread to his face either, just legs, 1 hand and bit of back and stomach.
Needless to say this pretty much cancelled any other plans we had, including the temple visit and family get together on the 2nd.
ANYWAY. Back on to less depressing news. News years morning we had a traditional breakfast with sake (Japanese wine), mochi soup and a collection of fishcakes (that had little pictures on them) as well as tiny fish which I hastily, when nobody was looking, dumped on Naomi's plate.
Dessert was different sweets. Sweet red bean paste inside mochi.
And with Sakura leaf tea (which was super fishy tasting, dont ask me why. I traded that for green tea).
We still managed, even with the sicko baby, to get birthday cake on the way home from the doctors. It was a collection of different types. Green tea, strawberry mousse, chocolate, and vanilla sponge. All were delicious! Well the few I had anyway.
Also, from one of our trips. Before he got sick. Stopped by a local Mister Donut (Tim Hortons). I love these guys. Refillable coffee and the donuts, from the left, were a strawberry icing, strawberry cream filled, double chocolate with whip cream center, and a kids one that had a green jelly in the middle.
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