Food and fellowship pt.1 (espresso, doughnuts and Burgers in Harajuku)

We (Beautiful Aussie dancer, two male dancers from LA and me all from different casts and noone knowing each other except me) are enticed out of our apartments at 10am on our day off by the promise of breakfast and what we New Zealanders call 'proper' coffee.  Yes I'm somewhat of a coffee snob even though I actually don't drink if very often since I am insanely sensitive to caffeine.  

Harajuku calls us as I've heard great things about this place called 'eggs n things' http://www.eggsnthingsjapan.com/ by the time we find it we are extremely hungry and are thoroughly frustrated when finding that there is a 'Golden Week' sized wait time of 3 hours... yea right 

The mission continues with the promise I make them of actual espresso and doughnuts at Streamer Coffee Company http://streamercoffee.com/ (having been there only once before we get lost in the rain/I get them lost in the rain and end up at their other store)  At least we are there. It's totally worth it when we each order a doughnut with green tea flavored camo icing and our individual drinks.  One of the LA boys doesn't drink coffee?  He has a hot chocolate that comes out with pretty latte art, the Aussie dancer, LA dancer and I order their Streamer Latte Special (picture bellow)  I try my best not to have a tourettes moment when the LA boy pours the 'popular in Japan' sugar syrup in to his beautiful latte.  (you can take the kid away from starbucks but you can take the starbucks out of the kid)

Fuelled on caffeine and the promise of more food we explore the wonderful creative streets of Harajuku and find our way to the burger joint the LA boy promised us. Findin 'The Great Burger' http://www.the-great-burger.com/news/2011/03/31/  we end up sitting next to a documentary maker and magazine editor from LA and have a really entertaining lunch.  The Aussie dancer and I share a gorgonzola burger and chili cheese fries.  I couldn't possibly eat any more (and lucky that since we create a feast for dinner later on)

I love how conversation over food always leads to conversation about food.  On this note we invite the Aussie dancer and the LA dancer to dinner at my Rugby friends place and the eating continues...