Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Japan has definitely been an experience.  We started off the day like every other with school until 12.  After school Seth said he wanted to go to Tachikawa (a few stations away) to go for a nice lunch as our Thanksgiving meal.  We found a tappanyaki restaurant that looked good.  Not recognizing much on the menu we guessed and hoped it would be good.  We ended up with two types of yakisoba noodles with cabbage and pork which was mostly good, the sauce was a little over powering though.  And then we also ordered what appeared to be a seafood pancake.  On the pictures it was covered in some type of brown sauce and then a white sauce drizzled all over.  When the lady brought the pancake out it only had the brown sauce.  She was carry a bottle of something white, she asked if we wanted the mayonnaise on it as she was turning the bottle over.  Seth, who is completely disgusted by mayonnaise, and me, who knew that about Seth's disgust, both practically shouted NO before she could even finish the sentence. The pancake type dish was okay.  It had cuttlefish, shrimp, and some type of tentacle that we assumed was octopus inside it.  Again the sauce was a little too strong.

After this meal we all agreed that it isn't really a Thanksgiving unless we are all too stuffed to eat.  No one was at that point yet so we decided to go up to the next floor and try another restaurant.  We settled for a dessert waffle place called Mother's Leaf and Tea House.  We ordered 3 different types.  The first was a chocolate waffle with fresh raspberries, raspberry sauce, and a scoop of mango ice cream and raspberry whip cream.  This was by far the best of the three!  The second was a regular waffle with bananas and almond slices and drizzled in chocolate sauce.  It also had a scoop of mango ice cream and whip cream.  Very good.  The third however was more of what we were hoping to avoid haha  It was a regular waffle with a scoop of mango ice cream and whip cream.  But onto of the waffle and scoops was a heap of purple bean paste frosting.  As if that wasn't bad enough, there were also candied sweet potatoes, kidney beans, and some mixture of lentils and beans all on top.  What is it with beans in this place!!

After the waffles we weren't quite feeling ready to go home yet.  While walking around the train station Marley spotted the Krispy Kreme haha

It was definitely a dessert filled Thanksgiving!