japanese mall – Careful Now!

A mystery pastry box!

What delectable, sweet wonders will it hold!

A hot dog. A red bean bun. A curry donut. Something with a jalapeno on it. This box is what crushing disappointment looks like.

This is a hand massager that you can disguise as Rome’s famous “Mouth of Truth.” You just put the little cutout in front of the massager, then stick your hand in, and then your hand gets stuck in a death grip while the machine makes a loud growling laughter sound. How relaxing.

Totally cute packaging, but the farmer seems to be planning something nefarious and the horse has no idea. That weird baby in the corner just looks evil.

“Let us out!”

Brave or foolhardy?

Or just plain stupid?

Yes, someone parked a Bentley in the Mitsuwa parking lot, the most hazardous parking lot in the history of all mankind.

February begins at Mitsuwa marketplace!

Let us celebrate Japanese packaging design…

Raccoon dogs hawking booze!

Hamsters hawking false eyelashes!

Sweaty ladies hawking “detox” pads for your feet!

They have no peer at this sort of thing.

Curry katsu ramen…

Unless you desire to experience bloat along the lines of a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, or perhaps a small blimp, I would recommend avoiding this dish.

His tea…

…his soul?

Now *that’s* an endorsement!

More from Mitsuwa…

I can’t keep away!

I don’t know what this is, but whatever is being sold, it’s very angry.

Drink up!

Ohtani-san is serious about his green tea.

Beef udon soup. A+!

This surely must be the world’s most disgruntled purse.

I can’t get enough of Mitsuwa…

…as anyone who has seen enough of my photo journals already knows. But when we got a call that we were going to get the new doggo a week ahead of schedule, we frantically started eating at our favorite places knowing we wouldn’t be able to do that together for awhile.

My favorite brand of tea. Accept no less than Tea Meister LEGEND! (It’s the cheapest…)

Mystery pastry box! Not the best, but not the worst either.

It’s like “Where’s Waldo?” except it’s find K!

Seriously, I could eat one of these every day.

Pork katsu. Seriously, the amount of meat used to take up most of its half of the plate, so that’s sad, but occasionally, I’ve got to have it.

See you soon, Mi-Tan!

Epic ramen fail…

My goal is to try every type of ramen sold in the local Japanese grocery store. This one had no English anywhere on the package, so if there were cooking instructions, but how hard could it be? It’s cheap ramen.