I remember I mentioned I wanted to try whale meat one day and ever since then, one of my old shool crew (shouts to you RH!) would ask me at least once a year- "so did you have your whale meat?". It became... a ritual. Until now. I ate whale meat. It's official.
goShogo presents: I ate Whale Meat
Where: Tokyo Kanda District, Ichinoya The lunch special is $9-10 ish. Steal! We ordered the Tatsuta-age (fried) meal and the sashimi meal from the lunch special. The owner/ chef tells us his store is supposedly one of the best joints for maad years. Cool. We got there on a weekday, lunch hour with customer: 1. Suspect. But the store itself was old as hell so I won't doubt it's been around for a minute. THOUGHTS - It's aite. Blubbery a bit? The sashimi had three types of whale parts. One was the redmeat (dripped in blood), second was fat part and third was white meat near muscle..?? I'm assuming. The tastuta-age uses the redmeat. It's basically ocean version chicken!! 3.5 out of 5 flavor. But I def will eat moar.
and other adventures
I only had two days free for venture stats so didn't do much but did do something. Here's a tip of ice cube. Just the tip. The discount shop king - Do you want to shop for good priced everythang?!!! "DON KI HOTE" is the place to be!!! They basically line their shopping isle with whatever they can get for discount so some items might be limited time offer. They had whiskey lined up (700ml) for like $20 bucks. Unbelievable. This one beer caught my eye "hemp organic beer: Canabia". German imported. Grabbed it, dropped doe on it, opened it, guzzled it. Tastes like weed!!! You're basically drinking weed tasted beer. 2.5 out of 5 clouds. I prefer separate experience.
The freshest fish you'll ever devour - My Jpn friend took me to Tsukiji after he got off work for his choice sushi spot. It's a local joint so tourist will have no idea. Local off hour salarymen hangs there. Once you get a table, you MUST know what you're ordering. If not, you're a derp face. It's like those Italian deli's in NY.
We ordered omakase (leave-it-up-to-the-chef) platter. This is good because usually the chef cooks up some flavor-ful sh!t with whatever freshest they got for the day. The platter came mad quick. Yo.... the. best. sashimi. evar. Super chunky, super fresh, super cheap, super quick. GADDAAAMNN!!!! We ordered the platter, fatty tuna, broiled meat stuff, couple of beers and high-balls and the total was mega. cheap. WTF. 5 out of 5 saliva.
Tokyo National Museum up in Ueno district - Super cool. Admission was couple bucks and you get to check out old school Japan artifacts. There's a hall filled with life-sized to bit bigger statues of Buddhas. Very divine. Rusty as hell though. There's a huge section of pottery and dogu stuff. watch Ancient Aliens and you'll get the jest of it.
Bonus:
Edo Castle Ruins in the city - In the middle of the city?!! It was a small corner in the street, you can walk past it thinking it's just old wall. There's a slab that explains wth and it's apparently one of the outerw walls of the Edo Castle.
Mt. Fuji from a distance - It's taken from the suburbs of Tokyo.
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