Parents & Children

In Japan, there are many chain outlets selling fast food that is much healthier than the American burger chains. One of the examples is this Maguro-Ichiba. Its outlets sprawled around the crowded areas of Tokyo.

For group diners, there are tables for four set in the small dining hall.

For single or couple diners, this is a bar table just in front of the kitchen.

One type of common food in this kind of chain restaurants is called the "Parents & Children" set meal. Literally, it is a set meal with chicken and egg, or fish with roe. It is not a set meal for the family as I first thought it was.

This is a bowl of "Parents & Children" don I had at Maguro-Ichiba, one of my very first Japanese meals in downtown Tokyo. It was rice topped with salmon sashimi and roe. Oishi desu!

Ascending the Round Tower of Český Krumlov Castle

It was a Monday, 6th June 2011. I wanted to tour the Český Krumlov Castle but only to find out that it is closed on every Monday, except for the Round Tower.

I was a bit disappointed, but without any hesitation, I paid for the fee to enter the Round Tower.

The climb was easy as the Round Tower isn't that tall. It was equivalent to climbing five to six storeys in a modern building.

The medieval mood is maintained at several parts of the staircases, making the climb even more interesting.

As I ascended higher and looked through the windows along the way up, I already knew that the scenery offered at the observatory deck should be rewarding.

However, as I got out onto the observatory deck, it wasn't the scenery that first caught my eyes. It was this interesting trapdoor that swivels upward at the end of the last flight of staircases.

Only after that the beautiful scenery of Český Krumlov was presented in font of my eyes. I went a few rounds round the Round Tower. It is really a Round Tower as it made me went round and round.