Hello! Back with me!
Writing again in the train after finishing the whole day doing enzyme structure refinement training, I guess I can do this, posting one blogpost every week J
Differs from the last topic which tends to deal with my inner struggle, this post is really light. Yes, I will only talk about a cute café near my place, Hands Café Chuo Rinkan.
Access : 2nd floor Etomo Shopping Mall, just outside Chuorinkan Station in the terminus of Tokyu Denentoshi Line
Price : 1500-2500 yen for one meal with drink, moderate for café type in Tokyo
Reservation : cannot be made
Website : https://www.handscafe.jp/chuorinkan/
What’s special about this cafe?
In normal day this café is just another western-style type of café, but once every one or two months this café has a collaboration with some cartoon character or set a certain theme to make a thematic café. I went to this café twice already during a collaboration with capybara-san character and Korilakkuma (a minor character in Rilakkuma series). Let me tell you about the story in detail!
Capybara Café
Period : April 2017
This visit was random and I did not even know that capybara exist in this world. So, if you guys also don’t know what capybara is, capybara is a kind of rodent (larger type compared to rabbit) ^^
During this time, the whole café was decorated with capybara plushy, you will get one or two dolls in each table. Really, at first I thought it was a cat (blame the shape of the mouth, lol). And the shape of some of the plushy resembles rat in my opinion, but it’s cute, anyway.
Food was also decorated with capybara theme, but it is also possible in that time to order the normal café menu. I ordered beef stew with omu-rice (omelette rice, rice covered with thin slice of fried egg) which tasted really good. I really like the mash and hash-brown potato served on side.
Korilakkuma Meets Chairoikoguma Cafe
Period : June 2017
So who are these bears? They are rilakkuma’s friends, lol. And why do they have the similar name as Rilakkuma?
Ko (小) in Japanese means small and indeed korilakkuma (the white bear with pink outifit is small and cute). While chairo (茶色) in Japanese means brown, indeed the other bear is dark brown and I think probably still smaller than Rilakkuma. So that’s the origin of their name, I guess. Don’t ask me about more detail, I know nothing about rilakkuma’s story line.
Differs from the previous visit, this visit was planned with my best friend and I was able to do more makeup and styling to match the atmosphere of the café.
Compared to capybara café, I think that this theme is more popular, since I think every Japanese knows who rilakkuma is.
That time me and my best friend decided to order one main course and one dessert.
Main course (right side) : チャイロイコグマのがお〜！てりやきチキンバーガープレート(Chairoikoguma’s face shaped teriyaki chicken burger plate)
Dessert (left side) : なかよしストロベリーマウンテンパンケーキ (strawberry mountain pancake)
It was very nicely decorated and cute. Unfortunately, the main course did not taste as nice as the capybara’s menu.The chicken burger tastes a bit bland, and it really has a small piece of chicken >.<
It’s just full of vegetables only (maybe it’s designed for those petite Japanese girls, not for a meat-lover like me)
Ah, and I think for this theme they have more varieties of cute drink as well. We had fun doing our routines as well (dress up, eating small portion in a cute café, acting like a cute Japanese girls) but ended up eating again afterwards, as always.
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So, that’s it for now. I hope you guys enjoy reading this post ^^
And if you visit Japan don’t forget to visit thematic café like this, since it is so cute! (although it may not have the best food taste). I will keep you updated more about daily kawaii things and restaurant near where I live! See you!
xoxo, with love
Afifa Ayu Koesoema
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