Toys of the week...

Welcome Ninja Fans,

View of the main 'hall'

Friday was another of the WHAG outings – this time devoted to checking out the Ramen Museum. It was a bit of odd set up and not really that interesting, but it certainly was worth the trip for the bowls of ramen! Also while there our picture was taken by a pro photographer who was taking shots to celebrate one of the stores 10yr anniversary book. Hopefully in November or thereabouts I will find said book in the stores J

Fascinating stuff.....

The weekend then saw Kate and I attack the ‘Kitchen Warehouse’ district of Tokyo. The warehouse comprises a street several kilometres long and is lined with stores for everything to do with kitchens – ranging from the humble tin opener (which we needed) to tables with built in bbq (Korean style) all the way to plastic food.

How would you like that pasta?

The train trip there was without issue (no friendly Indians offering back rubs nor backpacks getting stuck in the door) and only took us about 30 min in total from Yokohama to the north side of Tokyo.

On our shopping list was (as mentioned) a tin opener, a whisk, a masher and a Bamix/hand blender/food processor thingymabob.

What on earth do we need those for I hear you ask, well last week I embarked upon some cooking adventures and made a soup which needed to be pulverised. Let me assure any fans out there that you can make broccoli soup taste A1 (especially if you add cream and extra cheese).

Anyway back to shopping….. as you can see by the pics of our purchases, we may have got a little distracted. The cake tin is awesome – Dad, Sammie and Cussy I think the days of you carving funky shapes out for birthday cakes is over or at least if the boys want cars….. there was also a train one, but Kate said I could only choose one :( 

Some of the purchases

I also really wanted a vegetable chopping knife so we trawled through several shops before finding this little gem. The real clincher was when they said they would engrave my name on the knife for free and it would only take 2 mins. They really should have asked my name before saying that, coz it took the poor guy about 10 minutes to transcribe it to Kanji and then another 10 to engrave. After all that we have no idea whether it is actually my name but it makes for a good story!

for the lack of a better word...... AWESOME!!

Your name is WHAT??!

At 4:50am on Sunday morning we were awoken by a ‘smallish’ aftershock of about 6.5 I think. I still don’t know when the shakes become quakes in their own right, but this one was classified as an aftershock. In any case it ruined our sleep as the rocking isn’t as soothing as it was when we were little tots!

Sunday lunchtime we went for a short ride to do some more shopping only to discover it was, ‘bring your pet to the shop day’. I must remember to take Kate shopping on this day more often as Kate’s affinity for all creatures great and small ensures the shopping is over much quicker than usual!

Until next time….