DFK Goes to Tokyo - Day 7
Another light eating day today. Been eating so much I guess
I needed a break.
While walking down the street I saw this sweet "ROBOT SHOP". I was in a rush so did not have time to go in, but it's probably better that way as I doubt the store would have lived up to the images my mind conjured up when I saw the name.
We went to a restaurant in the UDX building in Akihabara that sold a lot of things, but their specialty was miso soup. They had a whole menu with 20 different choices. We sampled the following five:
Mugi barley miso - This had seaweed and spinach. It was my fav of the ones we tried today. It had incredible depth of flavor - bitter, a little tiny bit of sweet, some umami, and extremely fresh tasting. Plus I'm a sucker for barley.
Sendai -Brown miso with eniokitake small mushrooms. This was also very good. But it had a tiny bit of that unfamiliar aftertaste but perhaps thats just an acquired taste that my unsophisticated palate can't appreciate. But in spite of that one of my favs.
Shiro White miso - White miso is most common in the U.S. and certainly what my palate is accustomed to. I was really impressed with the depth of the flavor of the miso. A little more intense than what I've had stateside with some subtle undertones earthy as well as slight sour. I did like this one very much.
Haccho Red miso This had watercress, turnips, and some enokitake mushrooms. It had an astringent aftertaste that i couldn't appreciate. Probably my least favorite.
French fries butter miso - This is just a gimmicky one I guess. Imagine eating a bowl of drawn butter with bad dried out french fries floating around in it and a slight miso taste. Actually this was probably my least favorite but I'm not really counting this. Makes for a good photo though, right?
That night we went to Park Hyatt in Shinjuku - the one from the movie Lost in Translation. It had breathtaking views of the city but a fog rolled in later in the night. This is a shot I took out of the window while we still had some visibility. One note I was really surprised at how poorly the servers spoke English. You'd think in this most famous of all hotels in Japan that they would be pretty fluent. Their English was ok but definitely not perfect. Glad we were with some fluent speakers. It was also ridiculously expensive.
While walking down the street I saw this sweet "ROBOT SHOP". I was in a rush so did not have time to go in, but it's probably better that way as I doubt the store would have lived up to the images my mind conjured up when I saw the name.
We went to a restaurant in the UDX building in Akihabara that sold a lot of things, but their specialty was miso soup. They had a whole menu with 20 different choices. We sampled the following five:
Mugi barley miso - This had seaweed and spinach. It was my fav of the ones we tried today. It had incredible depth of flavor - bitter, a little tiny bit of sweet, some umami, and extremely fresh tasting. Plus I'm a sucker for barley.
Sendai -Brown miso with eniokitake small mushrooms. This was also very good. But it had a tiny bit of that unfamiliar aftertaste but perhaps thats just an acquired taste that my unsophisticated palate can't appreciate. But in spite of that one of my favs.
Shiro White miso - White miso is most common in the U.S. and certainly what my palate is accustomed to. I was really impressed with the depth of the flavor of the miso. A little more intense than what I've had stateside with some subtle undertones earthy as well as slight sour. I did like this one very much.
Haccho Red miso This had watercress, turnips, and some enokitake mushrooms. It had an astringent aftertaste that i couldn't appreciate. Probably my least favorite.
French fries butter miso - This is just a gimmicky one I guess. Imagine eating a bowl of drawn butter with bad dried out french fries floating around in it and a slight miso taste. Actually this was probably my least favorite but I'm not really counting this. Makes for a good photo though, right?
That night we went to Park Hyatt in Shinjuku - the one from the movie Lost in Translation. It had breathtaking views of the city but a fog rolled in later in the night. This is a shot I took out of the window while we still had some visibility. One note I was really surprised at how poorly the servers spoke English. You'd think in this most famous of all hotels in Japan that they would be pretty fluent. Their English was ok but definitely not perfect. Glad we were with some fluent speakers. It was also ridiculously expensive.
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