The Place With All The Gyoza

Now that I have been here for six months site seeing has become cumbersome. The problem with Tokyo is that although it is awesome, most of the places just have the same stuff. Visiting a new temple is not that exciting anymore, and the downtown neighbourhoods all have excactly the same buildings, and department stores. So you just can't wonder around anymore.
Yesterday, after hours of lackadaisical debate, Matt, Natalia, Uli, Jonathan, and I went to Ikebukaro. Ikebukaro is another downtown district of Tokyo, like Shinjuku. It was there that we finally found a store that sells individually packed pairs of women's panties, but they weren't used, so our search continues. Yes, that exists here, but that's not what this entry is about, relax. The place we went to was a place called Namjatown, in a giant mall called Sunshine City. The place seemed like it was designed literally after a person's dream. It was seperated across two floors and along each floor there were booths that had carnival games, and restaurants. The theme of the place would change. It would go from film noir, to haunted house, to prison, to ice cream wonderland, to magical castle, to rainforest, all enclosed in this winding and confusing labyrinth. In fact we got split up at one point and couldn't find each other for twenty minutes. The film noir section consisted of these artifical streets that were made to look like a side street in Beijing, including fake cars, shrines, steam, concrete, and almost two dozen minature restaurants and food stalls that each served a different type of gyoza. We all split 24 gyoza and grabbed some burgers from a restuarant called Big Man. After that we went to the ice cream wonderland that served every single concievable presentation, and flavour of ice cream including snake, and fried octupus. We tried the fried octopus ice cream, and wretched. Leaving, we walked through a haunted house, ended up in a forest, and walked out of a train station. We left having seen something entirely different, and Tokyo proved that it still has something to show me.

Oh I'm sorry. Let me clarify what gyoza is. In North America they are know as potstickers. It is a type of chinese dumpling that is popular throughout asia. They consist of meat and vegatables wrapped in dough, which is crimped closed and fried. They are delicious with vinegar and soya sauce.