The day was still young and we did not know what to do. In the end, daddy searched for shops selling sake cups. Okies.. so we hopped onto the metro and headed out to the first shop. It was a bit of a walk from the station. The shop was upstairs. At first glance of the potteries there, I had to quickly remind Mei-mei to be careful. I'd faint if you broke anything. The sake cups were nice looking, but the prices were even nicer! Yikes.. we quickly made our exit from the shop.
Then Ko-ko tried to find another shop. We walked and walked to this other shop which was larger but equally as expensive. So we left the shop too.
We were about to give up. Daddy did another search and there was a shop in the mall near Osaka Station. OK, let's try that place. The station was super crowded! We finally found the place and got a rather pretty set of 6 glasses at a reasonable price.
We had nothing much to do, so we did a quick search for GU as Mei-mei wanted to get a sweater from there. Sigh.. you should have taken up my offer when we went shopping in Kyoto. Now we have to go on a treasure hunt again. The nearest one is in Lucua. We walked on the giant overhead pedestrian bridge. Look at the city:
As we walked towards GU, we actually walked pass Uniqlo. I thought to myself that we could consider shopping here too.. but within a few seconds of having that thought, I saw a long, snaking queue.. which turned out to be the queue to pay at Uniqlo.. ok, let's scrap that plan!
GU on the other hand had fewer people, so we quickly grabbed and paid for your sweater, looked around a little and got out of there.
Next stop was Sinsekai. Went back to the station and hopped onto the metro heading to Dobutsuen-Mae Station. A short walk later, we're here:
The shops here were so brightly illuminated. It started to drizzle as we arrived, but we thought that we'd walk around and look for somewhere to have dinner.
Posing just before the rain
But the rain started to get bigger and bigger drops. So we dashed into the nearest restaurant. It's called Kushikatsutodashi Kushiemon. The waitress outside firstr explained (by showing us a card in English) that adults will minimally need to order a drink each... ok, not an issue.
We were quickly ushered in and given a nice table (floor seating). Ordering was simple as it's via QR code.
We were given these to start snacking on while ordering our food:
Our wefie
Our orders came rather quickly. We remember this from Ahodori Shogointen in Kyoto.
There was a very big selection of kushikatsu. We ordered so many to try out:
And.. also we had more beef stew:
When we were done with dinner, the rain had stopped. So we walked towards the Tsukenkaku. It's so beautifully lighted up. The lights change colors too.
Showing me her silling face!
Billiken seems to be a mascot of sorts in Osaka, so we also took a photo with "him":
Just as we were wandering around the Tsukenkau area, we spotted someone in a bright orange jacket! Yup, it's Uncle Dennis and Ashley Kor-kor. So we walked back to where the restaurants were and left them to have dinner there while we made our way back home to rest.
We walked thought the Shinsekai Market, but everything was closed since it's quite late. Only saw a man with a stall with a couple of customers eating whatever he's selling:
Another quick photo
Ashley Kor-kor and Uncle Dennis also arrived home not too long after we did. So after showering, we had drinks and some snacks:
Saw a lady buying this in Kuromon.. was yummy albeit sticky
Also found this famous creme brulee which was mentioned all the time on Facebook, so had to give it a try too. So yummy!
And of course, my hungry boy had to eat his instant noodles:
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