We arrived in Kyoto by the Shinkansen, or bullet train, at about 10:00 Friday night. We found our hotel, due to my mad Japanese skills, and checked in. Then we went to find food. There was a small restaurant across the street that had, like most restaurants, plastic food in the window.
Did I mention this yet? Most restaurants have a large window out front with very realistic looking plastic models of their dishes, which is handy for those of us who don't read or speak the language. So we went in, and it was a vending machine place. We chose our meals, but couldn't figure out how to make the machine go; this was when we began to discover that Kyoto was not as bilingual as Tokyo. We stood around until a guy walked in, and we intently watched what he did, then copied it.
We ended up with delicious food, so far everything I have eaten has been great, and we decided that this is an idea that we need to export to the US. Plastic food and vending machine restaurants are the future!
After we ate, we wandered around a little and went into an am/pm, which is a lot like a 7/11 here. After buying munchies and drinks for the big walk tomorrow, we went back to the hotel for some much-needed rest.
4 comments:
Mori-sensei told us that in Japan, the food in pictures and stuff is what the food actually looks like. they don't make it look better than it really is. Did we discuss that already?
anyway, those vending machines sound v cool. does the food actually come out of them, or does it just tell the people inside what to make?
is Kyoto really beautiful? That was the city in Memoirs of a Geisha, right? was it as pretty as in that? have you crossed any of those arched bridges?
it does
yes
second one
in some places, not so much in others
right
not really, most of the stuff from the movie was destroyed in WW2
no
how's that?
miss you sweety!!
"My mad Japanese skills"
Hehe!
We went to an Italian restaurant when I was five and I actually bit a slice of plastic pasta. Is there any kind of vending machines like that here?
-Matt C.
In China town in Chicago the plastic food thing is the same. At this one place the plastic food didnt look very good, and neither did the food...
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