Water and Wine: Tokyo

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Monday, September 5, 2011

MEETING HELLO KITTY AT SANRIO PUROLAND

We were gradeschoolers when Sanrio Puroland opened in 1990 (don't you dare compute for our age!!!), and we've always wanted to go there since then to see Hello Kitty. Unfortunately, our parents think the idea of taking us cute little girls to Japan just to see Hello Kitty is absurd.

We never got over the fact that we weren't able to meet the REAL Hello Kitty when we were kids, so when we went to Tokyo, going to Sanrio Puroland topped our list.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

GUCCI CAFE

We were walking around Milan with friends when we saw the Gucci Cafe in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. We have to try it, we thought in chorus. We stood in front of the cafe for a few minutes, discussing if a cup of Gucci coffee is gonna get us bankrupt (as if we weren't already). We figured, each of us can just order one cup (they won't see us again anyway, who cares if we're not spenders! As if we live there!) and really, it can't be THAT expensive.

We checked the menu... oh my God, it's Guccissima leather. We slowly opened it, hoping to see right away which one's the cheapest item. HAHAHA. Holy cup. They don't indicate the prices on the menu. No no no, we can't risk it. What if it's 200 euros per cup? By european standards alone, coffee already costs a fortune. What more if it's Gucci? Ayoko maghugas ng plato. We backed out.

Imagine how happy we were when 3 years later, while walking around Ginza, we saw another Gucci cafe! The only other Gucci cafe in the world! We cannot let this opportunity pass again! Without thinking, we ditched our Disney Sea plan and spent the afternoon having coffee instead.

Gucci building in Ginza

Gucci cafe is on the fourth floor of their flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo.

the cafe's reception desk

the cafe's interiors

Guccissima leather menu

Macy check check checkin' out the menu

The price isn't as bad as we thought. This panna cotta for example, is 1300yen.

Panna Cotta

Hot drinks, salads, and other light snacks are around 1000-2000 yen.

Belgian Hot Chocolate

Prosciutto Panini

They also sell these Gucci chocolates and we couldn't stop ourselves from buying.

photo from vanillaseven.com

And oh, it was raining that day and we find it so cool that their paperbags come with raincoats!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

IT IS SHIT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

For Filipinos, the toilet paper is never enough. In a typical Filipino bathroom, you'd see either a bidet, a telephone hand shower, or a dipper (which we call tabo). We always cap off our visit to the throne with any of those three.

So you can just imagine how inconvenient it is for us Filipinos to travel to another country and check-in at a superb hotel, only to find out that all you'll see in the bathroom is a roll of toilet paper. Horror roll. Which is why, to be on the safe side, Macy has been assigned as our official tabo provider. She always brings her Hello Kitty dipper (honestly kind of a hassle to bring) whenever we go out of the country. It is light, but its shape is not one that we would consider as 'easy-to-pack'.

Thank God Filipinos are very good in improvising whenever the need arises. We may not realize it but we've actually come up with different solutions to fulfill our bathroom needs.

For example, Filipinos use an empty mineral water bottle in lieu of a dipper, but we find it confusing at times. We always have this fear of mistaking the butt-bottle as our complimentary bottled water from the hotel, thus the question "Is this the bottle I was drinking from a while ago or is this the one we use to splash water on our bunzz?" always arises.

Filipinos also try to make do with the glass bathroom cups that are provided for brushing our teeth, but those aren't easy to use either. One would need at least 10 refills before it gets the shi+ out. Try to visualize how troublesome it is to sit down the throne, wash with a cup, stand up again, walk to the sink to have it refilled, and do everything 10 times.

We understand that the Filipinos aren't a significant chunk of international hotels' target market but we really hope they'd be willing to consider what is basic for us.

In relation to this, allow us to thank Japan for their well-equipped toilet seats, even in public places. We love the seat heater function, the setting for water temperature, and the adjustable water pressure. Oh, and the music-or-flushing-sound option izz the bezzzt!

a toilet in Fukuoka

a toilet in Tokyo

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

ENGLISH FAIL

We are not perfection because we are not English spokener all the times, but we always notice the wrong grammings of the other peoples hahaha. Everytime we travels and see many mistakings, we picture it then smile or laughing defending on the gravity of the wrongdoing. Here are many plentyful of photos we shot in difference part of the earths. Injoy!

Wow, cellphones could speak!