Sunday in the Park With Hakan
Do you remember Hakan? The teacher who took us to a Turkish restaurant a few months ago? Last Sunday, we returned the favor and gave him a slice of Americana: Sunday Brunch at the New Sanno. Such a spread. My eyes were WAY bigger than my stomach, but I discovered that I do, in fact, like Eggs Benedict. I always thought I didn't. They also had a drink called Russian Brunch: champagne, vodka, and OJ. Packs more punch than a mimosa. Yum.
After, we walked off the brilliant amount of calories by strolling to the Imperial Palace East Gardens. It was a ridiculously sunny day, and everything was overexposed and green.
Apart from the usual gardeny stuff, there was a section that had small stands of different varieties of bamboo. I thought these two interesting, especially the green-stripey one:
There was also a Music Hall. If it looks really out-of-place and kinda 1960s, that's because it was built in the 60s for the Empress. It looks cooler up close, where you can see all the neat mosaic:
I thought it looked rather pretty against the extremely blue sky.
After, we strolled through the Ginza and ogled all the must-have handbags and chandeliers in stores we could never afford. We found a place for early dinner that was quite good, or at least my sandwich was: pumpkin and mushroom. Sounds weird, I know, but it was so intriguing and delicious that I've decided to recreate it for our Halloween party. Pumpkin, right?
Said party is tonight. Jeff at first resisted the idea of a having a bunch of drunk people in costume at our place (his party side at war with his don't-piss-off-the-neighbors side?), but Macky and I wore him down in the end. Too much hassle and last-minuteness to try and have it in a bar or somewhere. Don't have to find a sitter, drive, or worry about other people getting home (plenty o floor space). Costumes are more difficult, since there's no such thing as Display & Costume here (someone should open one), but we'll do our best. So next post's pictures will be undoubtedly bizarre, and hopefully we will have gotten through it without souring our relations with the neighbors.
After, we walked off the brilliant amount of calories by strolling to the Imperial Palace East Gardens. It was a ridiculously sunny day, and everything was overexposed and green.
Apart from the usual gardeny stuff, there was a section that had small stands of different varieties of bamboo. I thought these two interesting, especially the green-stripey one:
There was also a Music Hall. If it looks really out-of-place and kinda 1960s, that's because it was built in the 60s for the Empress. It looks cooler up close, where you can see all the neat mosaic:
I thought it looked rather pretty against the extremely blue sky.
After, we strolled through the Ginza and ogled all the must-have handbags and chandeliers in stores we could never afford. We found a place for early dinner that was quite good, or at least my sandwich was: pumpkin and mushroom. Sounds weird, I know, but it was so intriguing and delicious that I've decided to recreate it for our Halloween party. Pumpkin, right?
Said party is tonight. Jeff at first resisted the idea of a having a bunch of drunk people in costume at our place (his party side at war with his don't-piss-off-the-neighbors side?), but Macky and I wore him down in the end. Too much hassle and last-minuteness to try and have it in a bar or somewhere. Don't have to find a sitter, drive, or worry about other people getting home (plenty o floor space). Costumes are more difficult, since there's no such thing as Display & Costume here (someone should open one), but we'll do our best. So next post's pictures will be undoubtedly bizarre, and hopefully we will have gotten through it without souring our relations with the neighbors.
posted by Sandi at 10:31 AM
1 Comments:
Is there away to contact you?
I just visited japan ( osaka,nara,kyoto) and loved the country and people. I would love to find out how you and your family did it ?
Tanks for any incite.
John
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