Tuesday, 26 November 2013

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








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