In the restaurant, there are seats around a counter with a big fire pit in the middle. When you order a fish, they place it on a skewer and stick it in the sand by the fire. It is seasoned and roasted whole, and then they open it and place it on your plate. It was very good!
They have various skewers that they use.
The kids loved it and got quite good at digging out bites from the whole fish.
Great restaurant!
Here is what it looks like from the outside.
After dinner, we were looking forward to trying an interesting place we read about called Namja Town. It is a quirky amusement park/ food theme park. It is located on two floors of a shopping mall. Most of the space is filled with various games and rides. However, there are three food areas: Dessert Republic, Ice Cream City and Gyoza Stadium. As we had just eaten, we were not interested in Gyoza Stadium. We were not really interested in the desserts they offered in Dessert City except for one thing - the Miracle Fruit.
There is a special fruit discovered centuries ago in West Africa which contains a protein called miraculin. The protein stimulates the tongue's tastebuds and makes sour things become sweet. This is the reason we wanted to come to Namja Town - to see if what we read was true. The Miracle Fruit Cafe is located in a small corner in Dessert Republic.
The menu shows that they sell the miracle berry along with low sugar desserts.
So we ordered a miracle berry for each of us and a platter full of sour fruit. Here is Andrew tasting a lemon BEFORE he ate the berry.
Here are the berries. You place a berry in your mouth and let it sit there for three minutes. After the three minutes, you spit out the pit.
We were excited to see if it worked, so we all grabbed a lemon slice and ate it. Amazingly, it was actually quite good. It still had a little bit of sour, but it tasted very sweet and good. We finished off that plate of lemons, limes and grapefruits quickly! I don't know why this fruit hasn't been publicized more. It is really amazing!
We had to visit Ice Cream City next. It is this bizarre collection of different ice cream stands.
One of the ice cream stands consisted of little ice cream cups in over 200 different flavors. Some of them looked good (berries, cheesecakes) and other looked like this:
No, we didn't try any of those weird flavors...we settled for regular gelato. After we had our treats, we headed off for some karaoke. All over Tokyo there are these huge buildings full of little karaoke rooms.
We had our own little room, and after figuring out how to work the machine, we began singing. At first people were a little shy, but they quickly found their groove and had a blast.
After every song, the computer gives you a score on how you performed.
When our allotted time was up, nobody wanted to go. It really is a lot of fun.
We said goodnight to Japan and prepared for our journey back home the following day.
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