Izakaya dining is very popular in Japan, and so far one of the best (and cheapest) that we've found is the 270Yen place. I'm sure there is an official name for this restaurant chain but we just know it as the 270Yen place. Basically everything on the menu is 270Yen, except for certain items. Izakaya's are known in Japan for being popular drinking establishments that also serve food. There's a variety of food choices that can be ordered and are meant to be shared with the table.
You order from a electronic menu that talks to you, and then a waiter brings you what you order
Thought we'd be safe and order something fried... turns out we ordered some sort of chewy, nasty, fried substance. We later found out that it was gristle.
カルピスとマンゴ サワー
Calpis and mango sour
Some sort of fried ice cream type of dessert
After the Izakaya my friend Sophie and I went wandering into town, we wanted to check out the night life. We went into a building we assumed was a bar called ダッグ (daggu) It was the smallest bar I've ever been in. There were 3 older men and a few women, barely enough room for all of us. (It was about the size of a walk-in closet in America) Sophie and I were trying to figure out a polite way to back out of the room when suddenly the music became so incredibly loud. Turns out the man next to me was singing, we found ourselves a couple of locals at a karaoke bar. Also it took us a hot minute but guessing from the bar decorations (random baseball memorabilia) that the place was called the Dug Out. Clever.
The bartender was very nice, she informed us that we were not the first gaijin to enter her establishment. Then she wanted us to duet My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion. She was so nice and laughing definitely would have been rude but it was hard keeping a straight face during her performance. She also took a picture of us with her camera, don't know where that picture's going to turn up.
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