One of my favorite ramen restaurant in Shijuku is Kamukura (exact location in Google Maps). The other day, at the entrance of the restaurant, I bumped into this photo of Wentworth Miller, the actor that plays Michael Scofield in Prison Break. I asked one of the cooks about it and he told me that Wentworth Miller had just been eating ramen in the restaurant the day before. I wonder if after being for so long on the run he finally ended up in Japan… 😉
A new sushi place has recently opened near my house. I share with you a couple of pictures of the set menu I ordered the other day. The sushi set was 1,100 yen (around 8 euro/12 dollar).
I came across this interesting stuffed blowfish. Now you can see why it is called “blowfish” or “ballonfish”. Fugu or blowfish usually have this appearance when they are calm, but when they get angry they inflate themselves until they acquire quite a spherical shape. When they inflate themselves they turn into a balloon with spikes, its poison is one of the most dangerous in the world.
If you travel to Japan and want to try fugu there are a lot of specialized restaurants that only serve fugu cooked in different ways. To recognize a fugu restaurant is quite easy because they usually have an aquarium plenty of blowfish at the entrance to the restaurant:
One of the restaurant waiters fishing a fugu for one of the clients.