A Glutton's Day Off | Picture Book Museum and Hungry Stroll Cafe
Welcome to mu's note, where I love snack time.
The "mu" in mu stands for "muffin".
Speaking of muffins, there are English ones and American ones, aren't there?
I often eat sweet muffins with bananas, but a toasted, warm English muffin with ham, cheese, and a salted and peppered fried egg is perfect for breakfast.
I'm always thinking about wanting to eat something delicious, and the other day I read an article on note by Masabaan-san about food.
What came up were 1) Taiwanese rice balls, 2) coffee, and 3) chocolate.
Coffee and chocolate are as essential to me every day as the air I breathe.
And just the other day, I had happened to find a Taiwanese breakfast shop.
Seeing the cross-section of that delicious-looking rice ball made me want to wake up a little early on my next day off and go out for a Taiwanese breakfast.
Taiwanese Breakfast: wanna manna
It has been two years since wanna manna in Osaka opened its second location near Iidabashi Station.
there are many specialty shops for
zaocan, which means breakfast in Chinese.
You can easily enjoy that kind of atmosphere here.
A half-sized Taiwanese rice ball.
The classic soup made of softly set soy milk
also comes with a fried bread stick called youtiao.
In the back left is a thin crepe with egg inside called danbing.
The black tea and soy milk are refillable,
and it comes with a small pineapple cake.
The fillings are packed tight and full, including pickled mustard greens, takana, meat floss that looks like furikake,
peanuts, egg, and youtiao (the fried bread stick that was in the soy milk soup).
The surrounding rice is sticky rice with a natural sweetness,
and everything together in my mouth was a delicious work of art 😋
I scooped up the fried bread that had soaked up the soup and become soft
with my spoon and ate it with the soup.
I polished it off in no time 😋
Since I had a hearty breakfast, I'm heading to my next destination.
I take the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line to Takadanobaba.
I transfer to the Seibu Shinjuku Line and get off at Kamigusa, where only local trains stop.
It's a small station, but it's famous as an animation town because there are many animation production companies, and the train departure melody was the Gundam theme song.
Chihiro Iwasaki Art Museum of Picture Books
I arrive at the Chihiro Iwasaki Museum.
It's a place I've been visiting every few years since I was a child.
In addition to Chihiro's works, there are special exhibitions such as picture book original art displays.
The studio desk, chairs, bookshelves, and art supplies are all kept just as they were.
white roses descended from above.
by Kayako Nishimaki, the author of 'My Dress'.
The works are lithograph prints.
and then perform the miraculous feat of aligning the positions perfectly six times.
Even though there are only six colors, it looks as if it were painted with many paints,
revealing cheerful and colorful buttons.
Admission in Tokyo is 1,000 yen for adults,
but on the back of the ticket, it says there is a repeat discount,
allowing you to enter for half price, 500 yen, next time with the same ticket.
After slowly walking around the four exhibition rooms and buying a picture book at the shop, it was already noon.
Next, I took the Metro Tozai Line again to head to Kagurazaka.
It is a town with shrines, high-end restaurants, and many long-established shops, but there are also many small cafes that caught my interest.
Coffee and Hot Sandwiches: arbor coffee
On the glass, it is written in white letters,
3rd anniversary.
Arbor means tree or gazebo.
(The photo above is from arbor coffee's Instagram)
I love the design of the table legs.
It conveys how much they value comfort.
A hot sandwich shop
Luckily got a seat without waiting
iced coffee
The tomato and chicken sandwich also looked delicious
The side of cabbage had cumin seeds in it
I held back and chose some baked goods as a souvenir
Hummingbird cake
Buttermilk scones
Orange and poppy seed cake
if you walk a little, there are slopes everywhere
with inclines like a light mountain climb,
and many monuments marking the names of the slopes stand there
Up and down,
up and down,
the temperature has also started to rise
I instinctively searched for "ice cream Kagurazaka"
Dessert was gelato from a chocolate shop: Gelateria Théobroma
I discovered a red door in a space that felt like a foreign country
A gelato shop from a famous chocolate store
Since I walked a lot,
I decided to have a chocolate parfait
The generous amount of gelato was
chocolate and pistachio
Cool mango and raspberry sauce
Sponge cake and small crunchy balls
I'm full from the big parfait
After the high school girls who were enjoying various flavors of gelato at the next table left,
it felt like a storm had passed
I decided to try going to another cafe for the after-meal coffee time I was looking forward to.
It was just snack time, and the small cafes scattered around all seemed to be full.
As I continued down a path I had never taken before, I found a sign at my feet.
Coffee at the end of the day at elm green coffee
The wallpaper looks like William Morris
Savoring the feeling of time passing slowly
so as not to let it slip away
'Kamome Books'
It also has a gallery and a cafe
Above all, the book categorization and introduction comments are fun
I'm also curious about the ice cream sign
so it's a shop I'd like to enter next time
With my stomach and heart full, I'm now heading home.
Thank you for joining me on this glutton's holiday that started with a Taiwanese rice ball.
May there be something delicious near your day as well.
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