As previously mentioned In another post I had three things I wanted to get done as soon as I got into Tokyo: Finding the tourist information center, locate a locker to store my backpack and get something to eat. It was almost 5 pm and I hadn’t eaten anything since breakfast which had consisted of a can of peaches. Finding the storage locker was easy, I took a picture of the storage locker area and signs so that I would be able to locate it again when I returned (Tokyo station really is that big and confusing!). The cost for the locker was 400 yen a day (about 5-6 Canadian dollars again depending on the currency exchange rate). While wandering the Tokyo train station I stumbled upon a nice little restaurant serving some delicious looking (and smelling) bowls of food. Here’s a picture of the outside of the restaurant (Don’t ask me what it was called):
I entered the restaurant and was greeted by a waiter who guided me to a seat at the counter. I looked over the menu for a few moments and decided to go with a noodle seafood dish along with a side of shrimp dumplings:
The seafood bowl was absolutely amazing. As they say hunger is the best spice but despite being starved I can honestly say it was fresh, warm and very tasty. There was one type of ingredient in the dish that I didn’t recognize so i made sure to take a close up in case a reader knows what it is. The shrimp dumpling was exactly as advertised but I was still surprised to see one whole shrimp in each dumpling along with stuffing.
As you can tell from one of the pictures above, there wasn’t much left on my plate by the end of the meal!
Finally I’m not a big fan of egg drop soup. I think (if I’m not mistaken) that the soup included in the meal was an “egg drop” soup. I mention that I wasn’t a fan of these because in all honestly it was one of the best soups I had the pleasure of tasting while visit to Asia. It was light, warm, tasty and refreshing. Words I wouldn’t normally associate with this type of soup. Here’s a quick pick of the soup in question:
Although it was a little on the expensive side (14 000 yen depending on the currency exchange around 17-18$ Canadian) I felt the meal was well worth the price.
I was pretty excited thinking that I had just eaten my first Japanese meal but I later learned that it was actually a Chinese dish ;-) With a full belly and re-energized spirit I headed off in search of a place to stay. You can read about it here.
