Thursday, September 25, 2008

Sapporo

Im just gonna go ahead and be evil and say that this place is a lousy place to go sight seeing. Maybe its just me, but i only found the shopping around the train station something to get excited about. The rest is kinda blah... so kill me.

Nice slope. :)
Clock Tower. A total tourist trap. Simply grab some old building, hype up the history, restore it and make it more beautiful then charge ppl for going in to view it. Malaysia should do more of this. :D

Nijo Market place. Sells lots of crab. But beware, if you look to earnest at the crabs and start discussing in front of any stalls, you might get more then what you bargained for. Example:

J: Hey M, the crabs here are real big huh...
M: Yep, wah! Look at that one. It`s hairy la....
J: Wooo......cool. Snow crab izzit?
M: Dunno......(peers at label).....wah....price not bad worh.
J: Izzit? (looks intently at price label).....
Crabseller: Hi......*smiles* looks expectantly at M and J
M and J: Oh oh....... (how do we get out of this???)....
Crabseller: *Scuttles away*
M and J: *Looks at each other* How liaw??
Crabseller: *Punches some numbers into the calculator* .....
M and J: *looks at the numbers* Gulp.......


Due to our powers of great deception, we got of scot free and even got a free sampling of fresh raw crab. Not bad huh. :DDDDD See...... i did not cheat you one. Got lots of crab right.Huge ass crab.

Ramen street. Its smaller than what i expected.And the ramen is not that great. So much for the anticipation. :( Good thing the two strips of crab in it saved the day.

4 comments:

Jasmine Teh said...

hi.When did you go there?Your pics better than mine thousand times...wawawa..free sampling of fresh raw crab...I was only staring at those with my friends and then turn away...:(

Joyce said...

Hi Jasmine. Went there bout 2 weeks ago. The pics good? Muahahaha..... Cos camera 10.1 pixel mah.

Awww..... better luck next time wif the crab.

Anonymous said...

joyce ah, i think the clock tower stuff is what tourism's all about lah. the clock tower got masuk drama and travel mags, so it's like any other touristy buildings la

in a tourist's mind:
went this place, *check*
saw this building, *check*
ate this food.. *check*

Joyce said...

i know. but i does not mean that i have to like it.