Nov 2006

Get ready for the Gunpowder Footstep Show.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Went to kamarkura the other day.
Kamarkura was once (for afew years) the capital of japan.
it is now a popular day trip from tokyo with heaps of cool temples, and the main attraction, Daibutsu.
Daibutsu is a huge bhudda statue, that used to be in a large hall, but a tsunami washed away the hall, but ol daibutsu kept chillin.
Daibutsu is also famous because i took melon and mig there once.

also, while talking great statues - the colonel is going to make another blog appearance. So i took a pic of the KFC Xmas poster for everyone, showing you the fantastic Xmas dinner for $40, well the kamakura KFC went one better, dressing thier colonel in santa gear. awesome.

So being right next to the largest fish market in the world - you can basically get the freshest sushi (told you you'd be jealous melon)
we found this rad place near the market, and the chef there loved us. he thought my japanese was good (which it wasn't) but he thought we were crazy for trying all the weird sushi out.
some quality pics of a quality breakfast.

Our Chef going to work on some fish.

Possibly the craziest sushi we had was a shrimp. now i know what your thinking - shrimp isn't that exciting, but it was straight outta the tank and cut up, some wasabi slapped under and bam, on our plates. crazy thing was, thing was still moving on our plate. the chef was laughing his ass off when we pointed at the shrimp in the tank.

Yesterday i went to Tsukiji Fish market. so the deal with this place is, it is basically where japan buys and sells its fish as soon as it is off the boat. I had to get up at 5:30, to make sure i caught all the action.
I went with my friend Connor who is here on holiday from the states.
Tsukiji was like 5 times bigger than the vic market, and completeley chaotic, so muc going on, and then there was the fish. at first me and connor weren't sure we were in the right place, then the smell hit us, and hit us hard. you get used to it after a while, but there are dudes on little motorbikes riding fresh fish to trucks, people walking around everywhere, yelling and selling fish and anything from the ocean, and people chopping up fish live for you.
here are some of my pics:

Ramon, it is good stuff. i never really got into it too much last time i was here, but this time - it is all about ramon (had some other good foods here too which i will post later to make melon jealous)

Some Ramon i had the other day

oishi!!!

Ramon Shop in Shibuya

Ramon shop in Shinjuku