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| The UNBEREBUBLE (unbelievable) parfait |
We are
extremely lucky to have two national holidays in a row in September. An extra
day over the weekend is always welcome, and anyway, as one of my fellow ALTs
have suggested – “every weekend feels like a holiday here.” Being new to an
area and exploring is incredibly exciting, and there’s a festival or event
almost every week, as long as you keep your ear to the ground and eyes sharp
for information. I keep gathering up leaflets from various train stations and
asking my poor JTEs (coworkers and Japanese Teachers of English) to help me
translate. They must be fed up of me asking by now, but I find out about too
many good events to stop!
I keep
returning to Numazu since it’s the biggest city in the area, so it has all the
shops and restaurants, as well as the largest contingent of fellow ALTs
(Assistant Language Teachers). This time, I had set up a parfait challenge
after finding out a particular café called “Cats Café”. In the past, they ran a
challenge where up to ten people would have ten minutes to devour a bucketful
of ice cream. If they managed it, it was free. I was shown pictures, gaped at
the monstrously delicious sight. I knew I had to try it for myself. So many
other people were interested that we ended up with two teams (and another team
who were too excited and went the week before). They should really pay me a
commission, that café. Unfortunately, we found out when we got there that the
challenge doesn’t occur anymore, so there was no free ice cream for us, but we
could still get the UNBELIEVABLE (yes, that’s what it was called) ice cream if
we were willing to pay. It cost ¥5,500, but split between 10 people, it’s not
bad.
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| A big melting pot of sugar-over load |
So, we
went, we ate, we drank, we conquered. I say drank, as it eventually turned into
a sloppy mess. Some were brave enough to knock back the strange chocolate
slushie that it turned into; others gave up. I shamefully stopped about two
plates in; the combination of cornflakes and sugar was starting to give me a
stomachache. Still we conquered the mighty beast, and roared in triumph. Many
victory photos were taken. Many poses were, uh, posed.
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Cusine: Italian, desserts
Hours: no idea. Sorry.
Price:
Directions: Numazu North Side, Bivi building
QuIzu score: 3/5, but 5/5 fun factor. Great if you like sweet desserts, perhaps to the point of being sickening, but hey, totally worth it.
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