tell me sweet little lies
so here i was one morning at omotesando, and i saw this rather chichi burger joint, full of darkness and minimalism and simply named quarter pounder. people were staring and curious but it was way too early for burgers.
when i was done shopping for toys and a t-shirt from the uniqlo UT store (“UT is not only a place to buy creative t-shirts, but also a place where the style of buying t-shirts is creative“), it was time for lunch.
i took a peek inside.
what sealed the deal for me was that there were only 2 things on the menu – a double quarter pounder with cheese set for 600 yen and a quarter pounder with cheese set for 500 yen. that’s it – nothing else.
(it reminded me of my own unborn murakami cafe)
you can’t see it in the picture as i took it in the morning but the lunchtime queues were long. so i thought this was the hippiest thing this side of tokyo and being the trendy coolhunter you know i am, joined the queue and procured a 500 yen set that came with fries and a tasty beverage.
i stood outside to have a bite.
it tastes just like mcdonald’s. my god, IT IS MCDONALD’S!
it’s a QUARTER POUNDER, you silly silly boy.
yup, i flew all that way to eat mcdonald’s and all i can say is that they did a marvellous job. well played!
(more pics here)
scary gaijin
on the street leading to kiyomizu-dera in kyoto, there’s a cute little terrier (if i remember correctly) that sits in front of a cafe. it’s a guard-mascot-tout of some sort.
missing my milou much, i petted and praised it. i wanted to reach out to its owner, a gentle old man, and the words that came immediately to my mind were oishii desu.
the fact that i was at a cafe played tricks on my mind but thankfully i kept my mouth shut, smiled at the owner and walked away.
sushi dai, tsukiji market
some of the things the miele guide says about sushi dai:
“the sushi couldn’t get any fresher than this.”
“the omakase seto is a remarkable bargain and sushi this good could easily cost 10 times more elsewhere.”
“be prepared to queue up and wait. For hours.”
the day i made a deer cry
any list of greatly blessed, highly favored and deeply loved animals on earth would surely include the delightful deer of nara park.
at least a thousand of them roam the park freely without fear, thanks to their official status as National Treasure.
of course, i had to come along and spoil it all for one poor deer.
you see, visitors can buy crackers to feed the deer and i have gotten quite good at it, especially making the crackers last a long time (hint- treat the deer like women).
there was this young deer who was after my cracker, (wasn’t really mine, whoelse gave me a few pieces). it followed me and i let it lick and have small bits of the cracker every now and then. we walked for more than 5 minutes on a straight path before it finished everything.
so i said goodbye to the deer and left it there.
it then started to make these loud whiny noises (they are similar to women in this way). and i was rather embarrassed because there was this group of Japanese teens who was staring at the both of us.
thankfully whoelse was nearby and she had more crackers. i explained the situation to her and when we returned to the deer’s side, she was full of shit (the deer not whoelse).
she was shitting all over the place.
we led the deer back in the direction we came from. we tried abandoning her earlier but she made these really frightful noises and refused to budge. eventually, when we left her, she was still whining softly but trodded off at the very least.
i know i am a bad person. still, i hope the deer (probably a female) doesn’t have severe abandonment issues.
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