Place I wish to go #2: Swallowtail Butler Café

Besides maid café that we can see everywhere in Japan, there is also a butler café named as Swallowtail located in Ikebukuro.

At the beginning, you will walk down a flight of stairs into the basement where the café resides. Before enter the café, a main head butler will help you with your coat and welcome you at the door while introducing another butler as the main butler to serve you.

The place is decorated with heavy wooden doors, Victorian styled furniture, lavish curtains and huge chandeliers (very Victorian styled).

On the table, there is a small bell where you need to ring the bell to ask butler to assist you with food, drinks and to the toilet.

Hmm, if I go to this café, I may feel embarrassing because they serve you like a princess and even go to the toilet, they will also escort you because this is their responsibility as a butler (>////<).  

Place I wish to go #1: Nagashi Somen in Kibune

Last time, I read it from a blog and found about this, Kibune, a place where you can dine directly over a riverbed, with refreshing clear water flowing just below and waterfalls all around you.

Inside there, diners can enjoy nagashi somen (flowing somen) that are sent flowing down through a narrow, long and clean bamboo gutter. Diners will catch the noodles with chopsticks and dip them into a cool and taste broth before eating them. The noodles that have come through the bamboo “river” are so cool that you feel comfortably revived. It is quite a special way to eat the noodles and I found it was interesting when I reading about this article.

This is how noodles are delivered through the bamboo gutter.

I am wondering if I’m sitting very far away from the beginning of the bamboo gutter, the chance to catch the noodles will become smaller because all are being caught by diners sitting near to the beginning of the bamboo gutter (>.<”).  Anyway, I think it is a good place to escape from hot weather and enjoy beautiful scenery from there (=D).