I love dumplings. Love them. So when I read in Lonely Planet that there was a gyoza stadium/funpark in Ikebukuro I was enthused.
The journey to the fun park was difficult but everything worth it is difficult so I remained enormously optimistic.
When we hit an area that looked a little bit like Chadstone if it had been teleported to Tokyo, sure, I started to get a little concerned. Alex remarked, "It's shit and thankfully, it's also really out of the way and hard to find." I laughed glibly, and said, yes baby but it's going to be great.
When we got into the (not aptly named) Sunshine Park shopping centre, we were completely unable to find the Namjatown funpark but were able to find a lot more crazy ladies fashion. We did see a sign which said the funpark was on level 2 but when we got to a lift two and three were both unavailable. The buttons just didn't work. Perhaps it was a sign from food loving gods.
We decided to give up but at the last minute, I spied an escalator which potentially led to gyoza heaven. Or did it. Here is a video that someone else took that looks quite nice.
It was not like that.
It was like the Crapness Fairy had visited and touched her little Crappiness wand to everything.
We had some gyoza. They were only ok.
I would not recommend this experience unless you like eating average gyoza amongst very loud noises and lots of statues of cats that you don't really understand.
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