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Monday, April 04, 2005
tsukiji fish market
gosh, who in their right mind would want to go to a stinky wet fish market at 6 in the morning (besides the sacrificial mums who wants to cook nice fish for all us ingrates!)???
apparently, lots of ppl.
believe it or not, it is one of the tourist spots in tokyo. i guess it is more for the angmohs, who dun get to see much of this scene ard, otherwise it is just a large-scale version of what you get to see in singapore... except i dun get to see much live fishes.
ok... another reason as to why ppl visit here (this applies to me) is....... you can find the best sushi in the whole of japan (extends to whole world too) right here...
went there on saturday morning.. *yawns* feel tired whenever i think of how early i had to wake up... err come to think of it, i didn't sleep a wink the nite before haha... (went for some midnite ofuro near my dorm)...
before going to the tasty parts, lets start of with something more, errr... gross.. ;p
specially customed vehicle used here in the fish market
look! the guy is already used to his "celebrity" status here! haha... but seriously, these vehicles are really cool...
... gross...
which just brings to mind, Libing... haha... my good jc pal who had a phobia of dead fish - he can't stand the sight of any... wonder whether he has conquered this fear now... hmmm.... haha... Libing are you there!??!
market
this guy is boiling the prawns
a closer look at the tasty-looking prawns.... yum
an even closer look... look! drool! (kidding)
btw, just like in america and canada, they don't call prawns prawns... they call them shrimps. when you say prawns to them (or to americans or canadians for that matter), more often then not, they will think you are talking in some foreign language (yes yes, english is a foreign language in japan, but you get my drift?)... so these huge prawns here are... shrimps. duh.
frozen tuna being dragged
anyone played Dark Cloud 2 on PS2 before? remember 1 weapon Max has called frozen tuna? there you have it =)
slicing up the fish
ok enough of the gross stuff... we finally come to 大和寿司 (daiwa zushi), according to some locals, the best sushi in whole of Japan, and the world! well... it had better be good (and it was), since i queued ard 100 minutes for the breakfast and paid 3150 yen for it!
best in japan!
30 mins in the queue...
while i was in queue, i caught sight of an interesting signboard...
tsuma?
Tsuma for 260 yen/kg... tsuma? isn't that japanese for wife? they are selling wives for 260 yen/kg?? imagine if your other half is 45 kg, she would have costed you only 11700 yen (183 SGD)... haha so cheap...
but of course it has any meaning to it... upon checking up, tsuma also means garnish... which also adds another interesting connotation... wife = garnishing? =p well judging by how the japs treat their wives, probably... haha...
(btw, the perverse-looking person taking picture on the right is augustine... he is, well, perverse ;p joking lah)
anyway, kick me for forgetting to take pictures of the nice sushis.... sigh.. was too busy eating them ;p
leave you guys with a nice picture of some fleurs...
some flowers
posted by winz at 11:48 AM
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