Dazzle

Last Friday, we went to a restaurant called 'Dazzle' in Ginza.
It's a new restaurant that opened this year in the Mikimoto 2 Building.
They serve Pacific Rim~Californian Cuisine-ish dishes.

Firstly, we went to the bar on the 8th floor where we had
a delicious peach cocktail--fresh peach crushed in champagne.
After finishing this drink, we went on a special elevator to the main dining on the 9th floor. This elevator, for some reason, becomes dark just before
the door opens.

On the main dining floor we were welcomed by smiley staff, a huge diamond shaped
wine cellar and a number of swarovski crystal balls hanging from the ceiling. Everything
there is sparkling and shining.

We had 2 appetizers--crab cake and caesar salad, today's pasta, which was mushroom
& pancietta risotto with summer truffles, grilled platinum pork,
mashed potatoes (yummy!!), dessert and coffee. My dessert was a cream puff with
passion fruit flavored custard cream and coconut ice cream.
Apart from the food and cocktail, I had 2 glasses of wine, and the cost per person was
8,000 yen. This is quite reasonable for a restaurant in Ginza with good service and delicious
food. This restaurant has become one of my top reccomendable restaurants in Tokyo.

Ramen Museum

Today we went to the Ramen Museum in Shin-Yokohama.
The whole museum is made to be some city of Japan in the 1960s.
There are old fashioned bars, barbers, Japanese style hotels etc.
and you will feel as if you've time slipped.
There are 8 ramen restaurants, which are all famous, selected restaurants
from different regions of Japan. The types of ramen are different, so you can choose
the type of ramen that you like. They have regular sizes and mini sizes,
so if you're really hungry, you can probably eat 4 different mini-sized ramens.
I had 3 mini ramens, plus coffee-flavored milk and a bite of fried sugar bread...
and I'm full...!!!
The museum has pamphlets written in English, Chinese and Korean, so non-Japanese
speakers can also enjoy the place.