Thursday, May 17, 2007

Day 1: Osaka

The japan trip consists of relatives and friends from both taipei and kahsiung, so my sister and I and a couple of aunts departed from the Taipei airport to meet my mom and another aunt. Anyway, less details and more about the trip. We took JAL and the food is fantastic.


I had unagi with rice and the other option was meat balls with rice. The entree and sides are cold soba, and some curry chicken. The plane landed at osaka, Kansai airport (i think), which is a huge airport built on a reclaimed island. We left the airport quickly for the first stop. LUNCH!



According to the guide, this is where Takoyaki originated from.


Entree was Takoyaki (Octopus balls), the Tako was huge, unlike those in australia and was cheap too. Next! Ramen! We had Cha Su Ramen next from also one of the older places. Not too impressive. Very very salty. But the soup is tastier than those from Ichiban Boshi, and also comes with free flow of rice with kimchi and chilli preserved chives.



The rest of the day was mostly shopping, but guess what we found. Taiko-no-dazijin the playstation game in arcade. It was really fun. Though it took us a while to figure out what the instructions are. but it was fun.


3 comments:

DnT Blog Guest said...

Yay! Japanese food and electronic games!! More!!! Hope you're having a great time ^_^

mido said...

Japan was nice. But i am just not used to travelling with so many people and doing the up and down the bus every hour and not having enough time to look around. So it was quite tiring.

case-in-point said...

i've gotta get myself to osaka for those takoyaki. My bro said they are cheap too!

anyway, keep posting (and if it's a pretty pic can u post it in a larger size?)