Namjatown

Last night we went to Namjatown, it was real great! It is an amusement park that is in the place we are staying that is run by Namco. It's basically a repository of arcade games made by Namco that you have to pay to get into, but it also has GYOZA STADIUM and ICE CREAM CITY, which are collections of many different stores that sell gyoza and ice creams respectively. Lyndal found a super fun drum game and played it (the people in the video are very bad at this game). Judging by ads on TV this game is coming out on DS shortly so if you know what it is called you should tell us immediately. [Addendum I have just found out that this game is called Taiko Drum Master and it is out on PS2? It is fun and I want to buy it]


This was a burger store at Namjatown. Should we have eaten here? Yes that burger does have corn in it. They also sold an America burger with a USA flag in it and some cheese with "HERO" burnt into it, p. great.


These cats were all over Namjatown, together with a really surly cat with a monocle and a pocket watch. Is this some secret mascot for Namco I don't know about? Anyway these cats are hilarious.


All of the stalls in Gyoza Stadium have these info sheets that tell you how big their gyoza are etc. We chose this lady because when we walked past she rushed out and told us that her gyoza were NUMBER ONE, which was good enough for us. Also this lady was literally half Shara's height.


She recommended the regular gyoza, so I tried that. Very salty and garlicy but I liked em 4 stars!


She also recommended the garlic butter gyoza, and Lyndal got excited and ordered that. It turned out that garlic butter gyoza is just regular gyoza but with a lump of butter and some dried garlic on top. Still the gyoza themselves were good and she liked them well enough, so she gives this 3.5 stars.



I ate this icecream. I got it from a place specialising in soft serve in Ice Cream City. They had like ten different soft serve machines to dispense many many flavours. This is chocolate and strawberry. It was pretty good 4 stars. Shara and Lyndal bought some crepes from Ice Cream City that will be reviewed at a later date, when we get the photos off Shara's camera.



We did not go to this restaurant but maybe we should have so that we could have eaten rice in the shape of a cat and a gigantic goblet full of jelly and icecream?


On the way back we saw this guy standing around a courtyard in a mall at 9pm. He was trying to catch a bug in the net he is holding. This appears to be his job. Also the courtyard was very large and encompassed two floors, so the bug could just fly away. Japan