So I had to take a picture of the menu, because I'm pretty sure you only find this in Japan. Apparently Cheese naan is relatively popular in Japan. There's also dry fruits naan, chocolate naan and honey cheese naan.........O_O Needless to say I refused to try the cheese naan although the same guy did his best to make us buy it (typical Indians), and I told everyone that the plain naan or garlic naan would be best with the dishes.
The naans were bigger than I thought they would be, which was good. Although they put them in baskets which were difficult to eat out of. But overall the food was pretty good, and I was in heaven since it had been so long. To top it off, they were playing Bollywood songs (Zindagi na Milegi Dobara, etc.) so I was in a really good mood haha.
Me and the birthday girl :)
Before paying the bill I quickly went out to go pick someone up, and on the way I ran into another Nanzan group of foreign exchange students. They were wondering what to do for dinner, so I told them about INPAL after which they needed no more prompting. I told the Indian guy later I was giving him good business =P
After dinner I was craving ice-cream, so I made everyone accompany me to the Baskin Robbins in Sakae. As expected there were so many unique flavors; I tried the tea and apple one which was actually not bad at all, but I finally settled on pistachio and chocolate (I had to restrain myself from the hazelnut chocolate).
It was around 10pm by this time, so most of the stores were closed. By the way this place is all underground connected to the train station.
That same night my friend really wanted to go out drinking, so I took her to (yes) the same Izakaya. I invited some of my dorm-mates as well.
I ordered a Nihon-syu again (hot Japanese sake), and two other fruity drinks, and ate a lot of edamame. That's not beer, just water in the beer jug, FYI. =P The one on the far right is the sake; you serve yourself from the bottle-like thing. I think it was made of some kind of stone, probably because it was hot sake.
The next day I made dinner for one of my Japanese dorm-mates, since she had made me that spaghetti bento earlier that week. I cooked her an Indian (Hyderabadi) style chicken curry. Though it was my first time, I thought it came out pretty well if I do say so myself! I asked them to pose, and this is literally what they did not even kidding. Oh Japanese people sometimes.......=)
Another day my new Japanese friends took me out to a Chinese restaurant. It looked extremely shady from the outside, but the inside was normal enough (why are all the best places located in the shadiest areas?!) I couldn't get a good picture, the lighting sucked.
I let them do all the ordering, since I couldn't even read the menu. They ordered SO MUCH haha.
It was my first time eating something like this; it's pork and I think it's like the backbone or something. I felt like a caveman:
I don't really know the other stuff they ordered, but here's what they looked like:
This kind of tasted like sweet and sour chicken:
They ordered gyoza, of course =P
Dumplings!
It was so much food oh my gosh
But we finished it all! We would have slept at the table if we were allowed.
On the way back to the train station, we stopped at a Lawson (convenience store located all over Nagoya, maybe even Japan). I saw this and had to take a picture. I didn't know it was possible to make Toy Story cuter than it already was; leave it to the Japanese:
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