iPhone Diary: Chicago trip 2011

Hello!

Going backwards on the post again ^^;; 

In this post I wanted to share my mini trip to Chicago that we went a little bit before Xmas for our much needed r&r~ 

All photos are taken in iPhone 4s 

*sorry I have been truly lazy with using the DSLR... D;

We mainly wanted to go for all the good FOOD i.e. Japanese/asian food lol was there for 3 days total and stay over downtown over on Streeterville at Doubletree by Hilton which was a pleasant stay at a good value :)  Didn't do much of the sightseeing as we were just there to mostly relax/eat but here are some of the pics I manage to take~ 

view from our room~ you can see former Sears tower all the way in the back in the center :)

Our hotel gave us warm walnuts chocolate chip cookies whenever they greeted us! It was really good and a nice treat~

sweet~ very comfortable bed

pleasant surprise to see their toiletry was Crabtree & Evelyn! paraben free!

first place we ate was at Sushi station a kaiten sushi place*conveyor belt sushi

basically the sushi are on a convayor belt all you have to do is grab a sushi or you can also order from your server~
each colored plates represents price range of the sushi

here is what I ate: saba nigiri, negi toro nigiri

Ume cucumber roll, tempura imitation crab nigiri~ sooo GOOD!

had a tiramisu as my dessert :)

was very pleased with this kaiten sushi place~ there are two location located in Chicago area!

sightseeing~ with a camera man aka zach in the corner lol

visited Chicago's #1 tourist destination: Chicago Navy Pier

I had to eat at Gyu-Kaku cause I love this place and also Zach has never been so it was a nice treat~

spicy tuna volcano?

drools.... wish they had this here where I live too T__T

we also tried Peach chu-hi its is a shochu mixed drink~ quite good and its PINK!

random outfit

very rare FOTD~ lol sorry to be lacking on doing one nowdays D;

the famous The Bean at Millennium Park

It wars quite breath taking~ very unique!

Hippo Japanese bakery at Mitsuwa~ LOVE this place!

aww they had Kiki and Jiji my one of my favorite Ghibli movie~

Doraemon pan! so cute!

Anpanman! grew up watching both Doraemon and Anpanman~ ^__^

tried to stay warm cause Chicago was for real THE Windy City!!

I manage to find super authentic Japanese eats called Kurumaya~ they had some menu written only in Japanese 0__o thats super authentic lol

haha had onigiri... I know I can make it at home but something about eating onigiri at places tastes better~

I had to get shishamo *smelt fish* cause I haven't had it in ages! you eat the whole fish~ :D~ I know it kinda looks gross but so good and so healthy! lol

lastly had a asari sakemushi~ *Clams steam broiled with sake garlic :D

well that was it for this post! If you like to visit a nice huge city with all the ethnic eats and lots of places to sightsee you will enjoy this city~ :) plus they shot Batman and Transformer movies in this city! lol

Next up:

Thank you giveaway

Dolly Wink Otona eyebrow series review

Hope you are all having a wonderful New year so far~ I have been trying to keep up with my New Years Resolution~ so far doing well but its only been 6 days in so far lol

XOXO

eki