No Maps for These Territories

Crazy couple of days here in Tokyo!  Range and I found some great indian food in Shinjuku (thanks to a recommendation by Yuzo), and all of us went to check out Namjatown in Ikebukuro, which is a themed park owned by Namco, the gaming company.  Inside it is Gyoza Stadium, which is  bunch of shops selling gyoza (a japanese dumpling with meat in it).

The inside of that place is totally crazy.  I wish I had been able to go to something that cool when I was growing up, it was like Chuck E Cheese times 100.

Range enjoys his indian feast.

Our new friends in a pub in Shinjuku.  We went to the Hub, and Range tried really hard to practice Japanese on the folks we met there.

I tried to be all Japanese, but she was throwing up the horns.  I got owned!

Salarymen will seriously pass out anywhere.  This is in Mos Burger.

Rough night.

NO PUDDING NO LIFE, SON.

Here we are in Gyoza Stadium.  Lots of little shops selling all sorts of different gyoza, all delicious.

This joint was packed.  We had to fight our way up to each booth to taste the offerings.

These gyoza were amazing, you squeeze some lime juice on them, and it’s like heaven in your mouth.

Inside Namjatown there’s a store selling the weirdest flavored ice cream you’ll ever see.  This one is flavored like edamame (soy beans)

Dracula ice cream is flavored like garlic, of course.

Curry ice cream?

Snake ice cream??  I was going to buy this to make Range taste it, but it was $10 for a little bowl.  It’s funny, but not $10 funny.

Octopus ice cream.

I can only imagine this one was shark fin ice cream.  On earth day, no less!

This ice cream cone was so ridiculous that we had to buy it.  Not only did it have cookies and marshmallows, but it had another smaller ice cream cone EMBEDDED in it!

I would just like to remind you that these boob puddings are being sold at a theme park for little children.

What appears to be a bowl of ramen is actually a bowl of ice cream, made to look like ramen.

We found a pet store in Ikebukuro where you can pay $10 to go sit in a room full of cats and pet them.  We didn’t feel like paying, but I saw these insanely cute little guys sleeping on each other.