31st october
stella took the day off to accompany me on my last day in tokyo. we decided that it would be a eat-a-lot day so we started off wandering in ekoda (cos we saw a good ramen review in a ramen magazine)
bought a yakisoba bread (it says okonomiyaki bread actually...) at a random bakery

we chose this ramen restaurant cos it looks pretty appealing




ordered the limited autumn edition

it looks really awesome but actually it's one of the worst ramen i've ever tasted. it's supposed to be a thin shoyu flavour but the soup was horribly salty and stank of tonkatsu (pork). luckily we shared a bowl if not i would have died.
after lunch, we headed to ikebukuro and shopped around tokyu hands looking for stella's big birthday card. i saw a couple of posters which i took a liking to and started snapping them. luckily i wasn't caught ;p

they just look so marvelous... i wish i could create something like that...
we then stopped at a cream puff cafe and slacked there for a while. stella was again studying her menu as usual.
she had a cream cheese ice cream puff with mixed fruits, and a matcha bubble tea

while mine was a matcha puff with mixed fruits

we stayed there till we felt there was too much smoke polluting our personal space and left for dinner at this tendon ya. i hate restaurants which allow smoking, it doesn't really make a difference whether you have non-smoking spaces/smoking spaces because once someone smokes the whole place becomes a smoking area.



shared a bowl of tendon (lots of mixed tempura), it only costs 500yen and it tasted great

stella finally drank her chocolixir but she said it wasn't very good. i find it not so bad, just a tad too sweet.

back at sakuradai, we found a ramen shop that has a lot of people queueing for it


wowwwww... we didn't to eat it eventually cos it was closed the next day (;_;)
later on, we went out again to meet stefan and daeyoung for karaoke till dawn xp
we bought lots of food in

the new mac's corokke burger was great

the manager of the store realised we had a lot of outside food and gave us a warning. seems like there are cameras in every room... scary.
we still had fun singing anyway.
stefan's german song

daeyoung's korean song

and stella's chinese song (ye zi by the twins, quite nice)

and my blood+ i was too excited with the animation scenes :D

no idea what's with stella and her raise-your-hands though.

5th august
again, we woke up late (duh we reached home at like 7am) and met up late. i went to shop around at sunshine with hoeman and he treated me to coldstone.
this is some coffee-based ice cream with peanut butter, pecans, cookies and cream. yum.

then at night, we met up with stella and jiayi at doma-doma (izakaya) after my english lesson with a new student.


the food is great and the appetizer rocks (there's fish and some others which i can't really identify)

the girls ordered lots of matcha based stuff while hoeman daringly took some water with plain alcohol which sucks imho. but he thinks it's nice. he must have been in self-denial.
kan-pai!

and our food
doma doma's tofu

fish

vege mochi

tiramisu creme brulee dessert

for some reason we forgot the time and stayed there till about 1am plus. which means we just missed our last train. so we walked around ikebukuro trying to look for a cheap karaoke bar and we found studio noah offering 980yen till 5am (others were like 2000yen++). so of cos we went there to sing! and reached home about 7+am again.