Hello Kitty Jap Style Tea House- Kyoto

Stumbled onto a hello kitty tea house in kyoto while walking along sennenzaka and ninnenzaka area. The cafe was quiet and not crowded unlike the rest of kyoto.

Hubby and I each ordered a main course with an appetiser. It's actually a tofu and some salty tofu drink set. U are supposed to mix the matcha powder shaped like a bow and the spring onions and etc into the tofu and mix it before eating. 

Hubby ordered the soba and inari sushi set.

I ordered this rice with tea set. Supposed to pour the tea pot over the rice and eat.

At the end of the meal, we can keep the chopsticks as souvenirs. Although I'm not a hello kitty fan but this is a nice quiet place to rest and take a break from the crowd and the prices are quite reasonable considering it's hello kitty theme.

Laduree Cafe Ginza

Visiting a laduree cafe is one of my to do list in Japan since I did not get a chance to go when I was in France.

The laduree cafe was situated on the second floor of Mitsukoshi departmental stall. I was there on Friday at around 4pm. There was no queue and I was seated within 5 mins. Service was excellent. We tried the afternoon tea menu set at about 3000 plus yen per person. Each person can chose 2 types of macaroon, 1 cake, 2 finger sandwiches,1 hot drink and 1 cold drink. 

Sadly, the strawberry shaped cake is no longer available. So I end up chosen the raspberry pink macaroon tart thingy and hubby chose the chestnut mont blanc cake. As for the macaroon, I chose caramel banana and yuzu ginger which are in season. 

For hot drink, I chose the Marie Antionette tea which turned out to be too strong in taste for me. I prefer the Ginza special anniversary tea which hubby chose instead.

When it comes to macaroon, I prefer Pierre Herme more. However, the yuzu ginger macaroon by lauduree was surprisingly nice and flavorful without being too intense on the ginger taste. I like it so much that I ended up buying a box of 4 macaroons all yuzu ginger...haha

Happy day at Pom Pom Purin Cafe

This place is so cute! A MUST come place for Pompom lovers! I was in my little paradise....haven't felt like that for a long time....

I was there on a weekday around 11plus in the morning . There was no queue and I was seated immediately. Loved the decoration of the cafe! 

I ordered the beef curry rice. Arghh....so cute...can't bear to eat it. It taste v nice too!

Hubby ordered the pasta which comes with a free pompom purin cup as seen on the left side of the plate. 

OMG! The dessert is so cute...just looking at it is therapeutic enough.

There is a small little corner at the cafe selling pompom merchandise. Wish they could expand it and make it bigger....

My drink collection in Japan- Nov 2015

On my way to gotemba outlet....love the packaging on the drinks in japan. Since its autumn/winter season, my bottle also wearing a scarf.....so cute

Day 1- Akihabara otaku shopping

My Akihabara stash...I finally got myself the Kenshin figurine which I always wanted to get but it's so hard to find. Finally found it at a second hand shop selling for about $100 plus SGD.....it's in v good condition. It's definitely a spurge but well....money can always be earned but u won't get to see this nice Kenshin figurine around for sure. Also got myself a cute pug ball, a stupid looking plushie and some amiibo cards. Oh...and some nice gachapons not shown here in the pic.

Anyway, hubby had a bigger harvest day than me today...he is like in his otaku paradise today....

Was knocked out at around 8pm and woke up around midnight unable to get back to sleep again....think my sleeping pattern had been badly disrupted....

Weather here is not cold yet. ....at least it's much warmer than France. 

Off to Japan....

Waiting to board the plane at T2 changi airport for Narita.

Late lunch at ichiban boshi

Ordered this sushi set for $19.90. Not bad.