breakfast - customised cup noodles from the museum! look at the ingredients. there's so much you can't see the noodles. i chose prawn, egg, potato and hiyoko chan fishcakes
shinsaibashi! a really long shopping arcade ♥ ♥
snack - creampuffs!
they had many flavours, like custard, strawberry, chocolate, and each cost about S$1.60 i think? the interesting thing is, the puffs are ready made, and each one has a hole in its side. and when the customer chooses the flavour, the guy will insert what looks like a suction tube and pump the chosen flavour cream in!
outfit of the day!
ribbon blouse - chinatown; green midi skirt - hervelvetvase; bag - guess; sunglasses - taipei
shinzi katoh teapots!! i LOVE her crockery and household stuff and basically everything. everything's so quirky.
was so so tempted to get this alice teapot/cup. how adorable is it. but the hefty price tag deterred me #regrets
tako shop girl cheerfully wearing a cute tako ball on her head
takoyaki #1: oishiii
park in the middle of america mura - well they call it a park, but technically it's just a granite platform at the crossroads where people sit around to smoke, eat, people-watch, be watched...lots of interesting characters, like the punk foreigners pictured, fashionistas etc.
We decided to have another round of tako 'cause this tako shop was featured in our tourist map as a famous shop. Apparently making tako trains your muscles. Look at the beefy arms of the oji-sans! Don't mess with tako ball makers yo. ...OR maybe they're takoyaki chefs by day, yakuza by night D:
Sitting by the riverside
Takoyaki #2: squashed from carrying it around!!
Exhausted from shopping
River view of Dotonbori area
Al fresco tatami seats at this ramen stall so you can people-watch as you slurp your ramen. Note the couple wearing matching couple shirts! It's quite common to see couples on the streets wearing matching stuff (in Taiwan as well). Somehow it looks normal and even cute when they do it in Japan (and Taiwan). But in Singapore it just looks...odd.
One thing that makes Japanese streets so interesting are the wall features/signboards that shops mount on the exterior of their shops. They're so huge and colorful. Walking down the streets my head just can't help swivelling left and right trying to absorb it all.
There was this loongg queue in the middle of the street for one of the food shops.
くいだおれ (pronounced ku-i-da-o-re) means to eat till you drop!
Wall feature of a ramen shop - dragon going through the wall with a bowl of ramen in claw
Famous entertainment/food/shopping district near a river. The singapore equivalent would be the Boat/Clarke Quay area perhaps?
Hosts and friend...at first it was pretty exciting spotting them walking up and down the streets, 'cause they stood out so much. But on closer look we found their hair over-styled and their makeup a tad too thick. The normal Japanese guy on the street looks cuter imo. Although it really is quite curious what goes on in all the shops that we passed...
The street filled with 無料案内所s! That was what all the signboards read...the literal translation would mean they are free information centres? We have no idea what's inside though. But we saw many hosts and some hostesses walking up and down the street and standing around, and people standing around touting business. So we came to the conclusion that the shops in that street were host clubs. I walked through the street wielding my camera like a handy shield and looking as touristy as possible, so they stopped short of coming up and promoting to me (^-^;)
Hostesses in kimono on the street!
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