Ted Tastes Francesca Feasts

Ohayo again, fellow food adventurers! 👋
It’s Ted and Francesca, your favourite junior jet-setters and snack-attack specialists, back with Day 2 in Tokyo — and what a day it was! We’re talking glowing art, curry dreams, thunderstorm drama, and a karaoke performance that Tokyo may never recover from.

Here’s the full delicious download:

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🥐 Breakfast: Pastrami, Pastries & A Dash of Metro Mayhem

We had a bit of a slow start this morning (this blog doesn’t write itself!), so we grabbed breakfast on-the-go from a cute little bakery tucked into the Metro station.

• The pastrami croissants were buttery and salty in the best way, and the brioche was fluffy like a carb-shaped cloud.
• No time for sitting down — we were on a mission to reach teamLab: Borderless, Tokyo’s super famous light-art extravaganza. And spoiler: it was worth every Metro stop.

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💡 Lunch: Glorious Soup Curry

After spending hours wandering through glowing flowers, bouncing light balls, and infinity mirror rooms at teamLab: Borderless, our brains were dazzled… and our tummies were rumbling.

Luckily, Tokyo provided again. 🙌
We stumbled into a cozy little Soup Curry restaurant nearby — no idea what it was called, but we’ll call it Curry Heaven.

• We shared a few different bowls including katsu curry (crispy perfection) and brothy veggie options that tasted like warm hugs in a bowl.
• Mum and Dad picked up fancy iced coffees next door (we’re starting to think they need cold brew to function).
  Then it was off to Shibuya Crossing — where we crossed paths with about 1,000 other people at once. It was like playing real-life Frogger. 🐸🚦

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🌧️ Dinner: Curry, Chaos & Karaoke Rain Escape

We ended the day with a bang… well, a sing, actually.

• After a legendary karaoke session at Rainbow Karaoke (our playlist included everything from Queen to Benson Boon), we stepped outside and BAM — torrential rain and booming thunder!
• So we dashed for the nearest shelter — which turned out to be an Indian vegetarian restaurant, aka our new favourite place to get soaked and stuffed.

We feasted on:

• Giant naan breads the size of our heads
• Dahl so comforting it deserved a blanket
• A rainbow of vegetable curries that made us forget we were drenched

By the end, we were full, dry-ish, and ready to call it a day. 🌧️🍛❤️

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🎤 Bonus Bops:

• Ted sang with the enthusiasm of a rock star.
• Francesca hit high notes only dogs could hear.
• Dad did a surprisingly emotional version of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” No regrets.
• And Lucia, our 2.5-year-old whirlwind, was absolutely unstoppable — singing, dancing, and even stripping off mid-performance like she was headlining Baby Glastonbury. 👶🎤💃
• Mum was the rainbow at rainbow karaoke singing her heart out 🌈

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💡Bonus Lights:

teamLab: Borderless is top of most people’s must do Tokyo list, so we booked this one weeks ago and were excited to see if it lived up to the hype. It’s an immersive experience of lights and illusions with no map or set way around, so every room is different and the artworks move around. There’s secret doorways and suprises in every corner. It was two hours of absolute wonder. We all loved it ❤️.

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So, to sum up Day 2: pastries, pixels, puddles and perfect curry. Tokyo keeps surprising us — and feeding us ridiculously well.

Next up: temples, treats and possibly… sumo-sized snacks. Stay tuned!

Sayonara for now,
– Ted & Francesca 🥐🎨🍜

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P.S. The secret to surviving a Tokyo thunderstorm? Naan. Lots and lots of naan.