Japan Trip

[BigRig]

The food and alcohol is cheap.
All premixes are highball (soda/ soda&lime/soda&lemon) nothing with coke/cola.
Bottles come in every imaginable size.

3 bowls ramen, 3 bowls chicken yakitori & rice, 2 high balls, 3 cokes and 1 tea was $20

7 eleven, Lawsons and family marts are everywhere and they sell everything.
The food and snacks in these convenience stores are excellent.

Everything comes in sweet or savoury.

Public transport is efficient, weather is hot and humid. People are super friendly.

[The Stig]

What areas are you staying in ?

[BigRig]

Staying in tokyo (shinjuku) for 7 nights, then go to osaka for 7 nights, kyoto for 7 nights, kanazawa for 2 nights, then back to tokyo for 2 nights then fly home.

[BigRig]

Went to Disneyland today and it's bloody hot (38c). Stoppped in to 7/11 for a couple drinks. 5 cans for 793y

[bluc]

Nice score. We are so ripped off hear....

[BigRig]

Nice score. We are so ripped off hear....

So true, told the wife if booze was this cheap at home i wouldnt need my still :laughing-rolling:

[The Stig]

So what’s that in real money ?
And , come on , you would still have the still :obscene-drinkingdrunk:

[harold01]

that's exactly what I was going to say

[iOnaBender]

So what’s that in real money ?

Around $8.50AUD

Cheers

[Wellsy]

Hmmm $1:70 a can it would definitely be worth thinking about for the convenience but then again lol

[BigRig]

Todays drop of choice is a lemon sour. Vodka, sake (maybe its shochu), bitter lemon syrup and soda.

[BigRig]

Some food pics

[The Stig]

Look delicious

[Wellsy]

Hmmm I don’t really go for those cook it yourself restaurants, I much prefer them to cook it first then make it look pretty :)

[BigRig]

So i have now been here 2 weeks and have got stuck in to a lot of wonderful beverages i hadn't before. Shochu, shoyu, sake and plenty of whiskeys , gins and even an oyster stout at miyajima island. My fave so far is a kyoto plum and berry liquer which is a plum wine blend with a shochu gin. Comes out at 30% so still has some kick. I am bringing 9L of it home duty free.

[The Stig]

I don’t suppose you were in Motegi yesterday ?

[BigRig]

I don’t suppose you were in Motegi yesterday ?

Sadly no. Wife and kids wouldn't hear of it.

[bluess57]

Lucky you BigRig being in Japan. I've been 4 times - going for the snow seasons. The japanese whiskeys are in short supply last I heard. Chose wisely what you bring home :-)

[BigRig]

Yeah true, the shortage has driven all the prices up. I settled on 1 bottle of hibiki whiskey and the rest of the quota was their local liqueur's, sake and shochu.

I absolutely loved their local liqueur's, they taste fresh and not overly sweet. The sake, shochu and wines were also very good. I was surprised how different all the sake's are. Some dry, some floral and everything in between.

Recommend the trip @The Stig and anybody else thinking about it.

[bluess57]

I'd previously bought back Hibiki , worth it for the decorative bottle alone.
Preferred the hakushu though, can't remember how old the were.
Love a hot sake in the cold weather in Japan , great country to visit.