Mexican Food....in Japan

Saturday night we had reservations to eat at a Mexican food restaurant with some of the people that Mike works with. Seeing as how I have little contact with people that speak English, I was excited to go, but not so excited to eat at a Mexican food place. Yes, I fully admit, I am a snob when it comes to Mexican food, but that is my mom's fault since she made things from scratch. Plus, mexican food in Japan just doesn't make sense. So we went to "Junk-a-delic," the great name someone choose for the restaurant. It's a chain here, there are 2 or 3 other ones around.

So the decor, was at least trying to make it like a Mexican restaurant. As you can see from above, they put up Christmas lights and they leave them on all year long, just like Mexicans! Inside, they had one of those hanging things that has triangles coming down from it, most often they have corona pictures on them. Well, this one was just different colored triangles and not really colors you would see in a typical Mexican restaurant. They were also playing Mexican music and in true fashion, they had a stature of the Virgin Mary....(enough said). However, the cooks were a guy who looks Jamaican and 2 Japanese ladies. In true Amanda fashion, I looked for the only 3 things I will order at a Mexican restaurant, tacos, flautas, or fajitas. I picked the tacos and they were good, I ate them all. There wasn't enough meat or cheese, but whatever. I also had 2 margaritas, so things were good.

After dinner we went to a great bar that has the best prices we have found yet, in Japan for drinks. All drinks were 500 yen = $5, and the happy hour price is 300 yen. Everywhere else hh is 500 yen and regular is like 800-1000 yen. Good place. It's name is "Joe" literally and it's a standing only bar except for the few seats and tables upstairs. So we stayed and had more drinks... I ordered some sake and it was good. I don't think this place buys my 500 yen green bottle of potion. They served it hot and it went down smoothly. It was good night and we even made some new friends! Here is a group shot and then a shot of Mike and I because it came out really good.


We left shortly after this picture and came home. We proceeded to play some video games where Mike kept picking up my guy and throwing him off a cliff. It was time for bed at that point.