Ricotta Pancakes at the Royal Garden Cafe in Shibuya

Wait, so it's been 3 months and I haven't eaten a single pancake? How preposterous! Well thank goodness I'm in the right place, Japan seems to be undergoing a pancake boom for the past 2 years and everywhere I look I see thin dutch style pancakes, fluffy souffle pancakes, pancakes with whipped cream to the ceiling..
No complaints at all. It certainly looks better than IHOP.

Since I had class until 6 pm today, Joanna, Joey, Hinako, and Yui joined me at the rotary at 6:30. I swear everytime I go there I see someone I know. It's like the Hachiko of Shibuya, a popular meeting spot.
This dinner was also a congratulatory dinner for finishing all of my midterms, the last of which ended today.

The restaurant is called Royal Garden Cafe, and its actually pretty fancy shmancy. At one point during dinner, the staff turned all the lights off in the restaurant, blasted the happy birthday music, and brought out a birthday cake with sparkling candles. Well its my UnBirthday today, shouldn't that guarantee me a birthday cake too?

Hinako with our mushroom/prosciutto pizza. It's weird to be saying this but eating this actually made me miss pizza. I'm not even a pizza person. But the ooey gooey cheese..I've been eating too much japanese food I suppose. To the point where I forgot cheese even existed.

and dun dun dun dun. The ricotta pancake. 

Sounds simple on the menu, but actually so much more than a regular pancake. This was the only pancake in the restaurant, but only one is really needed. 

The pancake was so fluffy, my knife felt useless. They even gave us an entire banana! 

The three girls that I went with couldn't finish their pancake dish so Joey and I got to polish the remaining pancakes off. I love dining with people that have small stomachs. 

While I'm in the topic of food (wait but that's every post), I'll introduce you to my favourite food store near Waseda..Don Maru! 525 yen for any combination of sushi donburi. This one right here is the manpuku don, which basically translates to the Fulfilling Don? It just means you'll get full off of it haha

http://www.sasafune.co.jp/menu/index.html

The Happiest Place on Earth

This entire week has been so much fun, I don't even know what the meaning of work is. What is work? What is study? I feel like I've heard of it before...please someone give me the definition for it.

A rundown of my week..
Monday: School, and then Omoide Yokocho (Memory Lane) in Shinjuku.
Tuesday: School
Wednesday: School and then an all you can eat and drink party
Thursday: DISNEYSEA!!
Friday: Climbing Mount Takao and first Yakiniku in Japan
Saturday: Waseda Sai
Sunday: Keio vs Waseda Baseball game

Disneysea, as you can tell is definitely the highlight. When people tell you that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, it's not true. Disneysea is. A group of my friends and I were there for 10 hours and a half, and it was not enough time. By 9:30, half an hour before the park closed it hit me that there were all these places I wanted to explore more and shops that I wanted to visit. But no matter, I'll go again for Christmas with my sister when she visits :D

We got to catch the noon parade as soon as we got in at 11:30. Because we went on the day of Halloween, we got to catch the very last day of the Halloween themed park

My purple teriyaki chicken hamburger bun at the Old America theme section. The entire restaurant was a replica of a New York cafe, and although Jay (who is going to school in New York) says it doesnt exactly capture the look of New York, I would like to believe that this is what New York cafes look like.

One of my favourites of Disneysea: The Tower of Terror. 

I have a lot of great memories on this cruise boat in the American section. The view is spectacular from the deck, and the swing/jazz music that plays from the speakers really adds to the atmosphere. Like last year, I bought the apple cinnamon popcorn and lounged here for awhile. There are always only one or two groups of people up here, so its nice and quiet. 

My entire group on the Indiana Jones ride. This picture was taken right before the Giant Ball looked as though it was gonna crash into our car, so I have my hands up to protect my head. Obviously it didnt fall...stupid me.

No filter needed. Disneysea at night is absolutely GORGEOUS.

and right before we left the park. It was a very sad moment for all of us.

PS: I finally had my first Tim Tam Slam. I've always looked at my sister in disgust when she did it....But boy its goooood