Ken@Japan

The Royal Palace was full of antique furnitures and arts. Like the museum I visited on Day 2, I spent several hours to observe the exhibitions; I needed to stay in queune for some rooms/decorations in restricted areas due to some safety reasons (they are used by the Royal familiy when they have some national guests and it should be kept safe).  The result: I really enjoyed the palace but starved when I left. The lunch time came. Traditional pancake It’s quite new knowledge for me to learn that a pancake originates in the Netherlands. Technically, the pancake-like food has been popular in Europe since the ancient Roman time, but the Dutch elevated it to its traditional cuisine called “pannenkoek”. Immigrants brought the pannenkoek on their way to America, and it was shaped to the one we see as an American pancake at present. If I hear the word “pancake”, I would rather think it is a sweat American one; it’s too sugary and sweetened. I’d visited a Hawaiian pancake café in Japan and h...