Monday, March 22, 2010

Hotel and Mos burger

From Narita Airport to out hotel, it's actually about a 2 hour commute, which kind of wasn't very fun because I had to stand the whole time, which doesn't sound that bad, but actually I had had to stand on the train to GET to the airport, so all in all I stood up for about 6 hours on trains, and needless to say I was rather tired.

But, we finally made it to the hotel, which I must admit is rather nice. Then we were a little bit hungry, so we went out for a bite after getting ourselves situation with the room and I took her to a chain called Mos burger. The name is actually short for Most Delicious Burger, which if you think about it pretty much the dumbest name for a burger chain in the world, but it works for Japanese people.

Aside: Japanese people really don't know just what the hell to name their stores 90% of the time. I think they just open up a dictionary and just flip to a page with their eyes close then choose whatever word SOUNDS cool. I mean seriously, who in their right mind, would name a store Boycott? Like hey guys, my store is SO COOL that you should BOYCOTT it!! Yeah rock on!! Loft is another chain that is super huge here in Japan, but what does Loft even mean? Don't even try to tell me it's a Japanese name because it most certainly is not. OIOI and Tokyu Hands are both stores owned by the Tokyu Group or whatever that conglomerate's name is, but like...OIOI? What does that even mean? I asked my friend Kenji and he said he had no clue.

So back to Mos burger anyway. It's basically the direct competition of McDonald's, where McD's aims for speed and efficiency, MB (Mos burger because I am lazy) goes for the quality and the artistic liberal side of the hamburger. They are both good, but I actually like McD's a lot more. Mos burger puts funky stuff on all of their burgers, or at least in Tokyo they do. The first time I went to an MB in hokkaido, I just got a normal double decker burger and some fries and stuff, and it tasted good, but was overpriced and the burger had the dimensions of a quarter. Down south here in Tokyo though, i couldn't find just a normal burger, because everything had this chilly/onion paste on it. All of the burgers had this stuff on it, no regular burgers, I was thoroughly confused to be honest.

So Kay told me what she wanted and I ordered for the two of us, and both of us being pretty dehydrated at this point, I ordered water for both of us as well, only to be told that they didn't have any water. My brain sort of came to a screeching halt at this point, having the little ancient man behind the counter tell me they didn't have any water, and he pointed to the list of drinks they we could get, but water wasn't on there. I mean like...how can you not have water? What's up with that? So Kay got Orange juice, and I just got Cola (not going to recommend generic Japanese cola btw) and we sat down and had our meal.

Right now the weather is pretty chilly at night, but the sun is super warm when it's out...just saying. And the wind is stupid cold.

1 comment:

  1. Loft isn't that bad of a name for a store. Like the Book Loft in Columbus.

    Loft: a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.

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