May 3, 2010

• Tokyo 2010: Kayabuki

  As Much fun as Nikko and the Sakura blossoms were, the real reason for the detour from Tokyo this trip was to visit neighboring utsunomiya, famous for its gyoza, and moderately less famous, but infinitely more fascinating for The Kayabuki restaurant and its unique waitstaff

  Creepy Mask, right? But after receiving our hot towels, the waiters decided to take a break to come and join us during the meal

  

  Without the mask fukuchan is slightly less creepy, but her assistant, yaachan is beyond adorable. What you may notice in the 3rd picture is fukuchan deciding to bite my head while yaachan tries to eat my jacket. For her behavior, fukuchan had to be disciplined and I was politely invited to spank the monkey. Please commence snickering

  

  As you can see the restaurant is fairly small, and typical izakaya fare: gyoza, kara-age (think fried chicken), some other stuff that we didnt really pay attention to because we were too busy playing with the monkeys who would pick at the vegetable parts of our food. In the background are photos of all the various people who have come to investigate this eatery, including CNN, BBC, and multiple japanese news networks. Who doesnt love a monkey?

  

  Now everybody brace yourselves for a big “awwwwwww”

  Assuming xanga’s new editor worked, above is a photo of the baby monkey eating.

  

  After dinner came grooming,

  

  Dessert…

  

  Then more delicious monkeys!!

  I kid, I kid. Instead we actually watched the monkeys ride on a rocking horse, do backflips, and spin in circles while balancing on a giant ball. However, given that we had to make sure to catch the last train and not be stuck walking 30 miles back to tokyo, we had to cut our time short. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to smuggle or barter a monkey out, but there’s always next time.

  With just one day remaining in tokyo on my vacation, I had no idea what I would do next…and until the next post, neither do you!

   

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