Short trip to LONDON, BILBAO and PARIS in 2015

I updated "Travel" tab, please check my journal about the short trip to London, Bilbao and Paris. I visited three cities in May, 2015. It took a year to complete my journal... I am planning to write about "Trip to LA" and "Singapore", but I don't know when I can finish it...

Snoopy Museum, Tokyo

On April 23rd, the first Snoopy Museum was opened in Tokyo outside of US. The exhibits were from the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. 

They are all Snoopy. The very first Snoopy, the appearance looks different from the one I know. His appearance changed gradually. Right one could be the oldest and the left one is the present Snoopy we all know now!

Penuts, the first publication was published in 1953.

Can you see Snoopy? It's very different from now....it's a dog!

The picture is created by different comic strips.

Admission ticket.

The design seems different for each.

It's not allowed to take a picture in the first exhibition room (Original comic strips are exhibit), but we are all allowed to take a picture in the second room..

The exhibits will change every 6 months.The opening exhibition is "My favorite Peanuts".

You can buy a ticket the day you visit, but the museum recommend you to purchase a ticket in advance thru the internet. The admission time is decided and they limited the visitor who can enter the museum at the time. The admission time starts from 10:00 AM and the last one is from 6:00 PM. Once you enter the museum, you can stay there as much as you want.

The exhibits are not many... I finished to see all of them in one hour.

There are museum shop " Brown Store" and the cafe " Cafe Blanket". I wanted to stop by the cafe, but I saw too many people were waiting in a long line...It seems it would take more than a hour to get a seat... I just stopped by the museum shop and got some souvenir for my friend and myself. 

I used to have many Snoopy, but these are the only things I could find at my parents home. My mother kept the handkerchief I used when I was a kid. The color is faded...but I remember these were my favorite. (We use handkerchief since child, and most of them are petty fancy.)

SHAKE SHACK

Shake Shack was already popular before it opens its doors, because it was featured on TV and magazines.

The opening day, people were waiting in looooong line to buy a hamburger, and I've heard people were waited for three hours to place an order for the fist few days.

Me? I didn't get the hype, because I hate having to wait, especially for food... The day I went there was four months after its open. 

I still saw many people were standing outside for placing an order, but it was less compared to couple month ago. 

 While we were waiting our turn, we could check the menu. After checking out the menu, we placed our order with the cashier and proceeded to wait another ten minutes.

We got a beeper, and we could find a table and wait for the burger until it's ready. 

Shack Burger, French Fries and Black Sesame Shake were my choices from the menu. The burger was a little below my expectation... It's good, but I don't know it's worth to wait for many minutes in a long line. Black sesame shake was much better than expected! I think it was the best shake I ever had!

I don't think I will go back there for the burger, but I want to try their black sesame shake again. 

Can't wait for another new shop from any foreign country. It is nice I can taste something new without visiting the country :)

Janice Wong

Another new restaurant was opened in Tokyo. 

Janice Wong  Dessert Bar is from Singapore. I’ve known her restaurant though television five or six years ago; Japanese pastry chef and she was competing each other with their original desserts. Her presentation was pretty nice, the desserts she made was pretty fancy and gorgeous. I dreamed of try her desserts, but it was impossible without visiting her country, Singapore...at that time.

Now I can have her desserts any time I want, because her dessert bar is in Tokyo now!

All the menu is really unique.  There is no pics or images on the menu, so I had to visualize the image of the dessert with some hints describes from each dessert menu. But it was too hard to imagine how it looks like with my poor imagination... 

My friend ordered "Red Miso Mustard".

I tried a bit, too. It tastes really MISO!!!

Can't explain exactly how I felt from the first taste... It's MISO, but it's dessert. 

Red Miso Mustard

Red Miso Barbarois, Mustard Yuzu Ice Cream, Lemon Foam, Mustard Crumble

 Her specialty is that she creates the desserts by using local ingredients. Miso is one of the Japanese seasoning. It's hard to imagine it is used for full of a dessert!                                                                                                                                                                     

I ordered "Chocolate H2O".

Chocolate H2O

Bitter Chocolate Water Mousse, Salted Caramel

Yuzu Calamansi Gel, Yuzu Sorbet

I don't go Shinjuku much, buy there is a reason that I need to visit Shinjuku again. Wanna try another dessert next time!

The restaurant is elegant and peaceful, but very customer friendly at the same time.

It's a bar, so you can enjoy alcohol, too.