Eating in a box

We're in Japan taking a much needed vacation there's so much to see and so much great food it's hard to know where to start. One of my "must visits" on this trip was the Tsukiji Fish Market. You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to get in and watch the fish auction. I am not such an eager early bird, so we woke up and walked around the Tsukiji area to visit the various vendors and of course get a lot of good food.  Neither of us know much Japanese, but everyone we met here was super friendly and went out of their way to help give us directions or get us where we were trying to go. I highly recommend checking this place out if you're in the area. Of course there's lots of fish. They do sell to normal people here. The auctions are usually for the restaurants that buy giant whole tuna. They are in the process of moving the Auction market away from the consumer markets, so if you're planning on coming here for the big morning auction mak...

So for the next two weeks (Oct 8th - 25th) the Night Noodle Market is on at the north end of Hyde Park just a stone's throw away from our apartment. It's part of the Good Food Month put on by the Sydney Herald. It's quiet an attraction there's lots of different food stalls and a ton of people. Not quite at the scale of the night markets I visited in Taiwan but it's certainly a lively event. Lots of food and beer/wine/cider to be had There were various stages for sitting and eating, as well as DJs and dancing. Lots of "Lucky Cats" decorating the place, this is the one that greets you at the south entrance, there's a wall of them at the north entrance all "red carpet style" where you can pose with a mike. There was even a lion dance. We happened to visit the Sky Tower in the Westfield and caught this great dusk aerial view of the night market, below is the reverse view of the tower. One of the Filipino restaurants ...