Obsessed with food

Yesterday Paul had a full day of work, so I was left to my own devices in the city. After spending 2 hours geting my blog in order, I headed out for lunch to Isetan. This is a department store perhaps a notch above David Jones. There are small boutiques for Chanel, Cartier, Hermes etc etc within the store, but frankly a lot of the products didn't impress me. The food court was a floor of about fifteen restaurants. I went to one place and ordered a neapoli pasta (tamago nashi desu - meaning without the raw egg that it would normally come with - mmmm). I then went to a sushi deli next door and ordered a tray of seafood sushi that looked fantastic in the window. It was actually pretty good, although the prawns throw me because they look delicious and cooked and are in fact raw. I had other sushi with a slice of raw tuna, or salmon, or squid, and all were delicious. Then I headed down to the food hall which is very much like that in David Jones or Harrods. The food is of very high quality. I ordered a potato bake, which I see everywhere in Japan. The lady explained to me that it had poteto and cheezu and poteto and cheezu, indicating layers. It looked so greasy and western that I was instantly sold. But the highlight of my food obsession yesterday lunch was discovering the food hall kiosk which sells every possible fruit in dried form. They had blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, mangos, mandarins etc etc. I picked up 50g each of the mangos and strawberries which were delicious. But not cheap at ¥714 per 100 grams.

I have heaps more to tell about yesterday, including a visit to an izakaya (where I had my first full-till-I'm-stuffed meal in Japan) and an 8-hour karaoke marathon last night/this morning with all-you-can-drink nomihoudai (which we are still recovering from). Paul thinks he is Diana Ross, and in a way he is right. After all she is an alcoholic. But he is pressuring me to get ready so we can go to a temple in the "countryside". More later.