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~
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| view from our room~ you can see former Sears tower all the way in the back in the center :) |
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| Our hotel gave us warm walnuts chocolate chip cookies whenever they greeted us! It was really good and a nice treat~ |
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| sweet~ very comfortable bed |
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| pleasant surprise to see their toiletry was Crabtree & Evelyn! paraben free! |
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| first place we ate was at Sushi station a kaiten sushi place*conveyor belt sushi |
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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 |
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| here is what I ate: saba nigiri, negi toro nigiri |
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| Ume cucumber roll, tempura imitation crab nigiri~ sooo GOOD! |
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| had a tiramisu as my dessert :) |
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| was very pleased with this kaiten sushi place~ there are two location located in Chicago area! |
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| sightseeing~ with a camera man aka zach in the corner lol |
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| visited Chicago's #1 tourist destination: Chicago Navy Pier |
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| I had to eat at Gyu-Kaku cause I love this place and also Zach has never been so it was a nice treat~ |
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| spicy tuna volcano? |
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| drools.... wish they had this here where I live too T__T |
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| we also tried Peach chu-hi its is a shochu mixed drink~ quite good and its PINK! |
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| random outfit |
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| very rare FOTD~ lol sorry to be lacking on doing one nowdays D; |
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| the famous The Bean at Millennium Park |
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| It wars quite breath taking~ very unique! |
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| Hippo Japanese bakery at Mitsuwa~ LOVE this place! |
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| aww they had Kiki and Jiji my one of my favorite Ghibli movie~ |
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| Doraemon pan! so cute! |
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| Anpanman! grew up watching both Doraemon and Anpanman~ ^__^ |
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| tried to stay warm cause Chicago was for real THE Windy City!! |
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| I manage to find super authentic Japanese eats called Kurumaya~ they had some menu written only in Japanese 0__o thats super authentic lol |
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| haha had onigiri... I know I can make it at home but something about eating onigiri at places tastes better~ |
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| 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 |
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| 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
