Talking about food...

Last night I went to a great restaurant... well maybe not the greatest but very cool for those who can't speak Japanese because they had plastic models of the food outside. This is a fairly common feature in many restaurants, in fact in Tokyo they have a who street devoted just to selling plastic food for restaurants... and it is not cheap. And it really does look real. Check out these pictures...

I had the tempura from the first photo and yes it did look just same... and tasted great too! おおしい！ So all my ordering problems are taken care of now just as long as I choose the right restaurant. Although there is another style of restaurant that makes my life easy as well. At many ramen or noodle restaurants they have a vending machine out the front, choose your dish, you pay your money, take a ticket and then wait inside. I love it when life... or at least eating, is made so simple!

Can you work out the prices in $NZ?