A beautiful display of sushi - at Australian Japanese restaurant prices (very expensive)
Because it is the New Year, many different stores have "lucky bags" (Fukubukuro) - most of the time you can't see what you are getting in the bag (hence the luck part), but in the Mitsukoshi food department there is a display showing you what is in each bag. This bag is filled with dried fish.
Dried fish out of the bag....
A salmon stall - J was in fishy heaven.
A VERY expensive piece of meat - at $500 a kilo.
This is a Tea Lucky Bag - this gentleman was really helpful & spoke excellent english - then he told me he lived in Katoomba for four years! He sent me on my way with a "see you later mate" in a very Aussie accent.
Lucky bags with rice crackers in them.
Checking out the wonderful pastries and bread.
The designs on the pastries were beautiful - a lot of the work here reminds us of the work we saw at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.
You can buy everything here - including ready made meals and salads
A mountain of Kim Chi.
A lucky bag of bread - they smelt delicious.
Escargot
The strawberries have been reduced in price!! They are only $12 a tray now!
We were surprised to see the cheese lucky bag had a wheel of processed "Happy Cow" cheese.
We've never seen so many different kinds of salt.
Horse buns for the New Year.
The prawns were enormous - but at $10 each, you'd want them to be big.
The octopus were still alive (the bag was moving).
When I saw this, I thought "do I really want to eat Fugu that has been reduced in price", but then we remembered that fresh food is heavily discounted after 6pm so that it will sell (the store is open until 8).
We bought this $80 set of sashimi for $30! They even packaged it up for us with freezer bricks.
On the top floor of the Mitsukoshi store they have artists and crafts people demonstrating their work. Here is a wood carver.
A man making wells for calligraphy ink.
This gentleman was selling Inden from Yamanashi!!!
This man was making traditional dolls.
This man was making hammered metal tea pots and saucepans.
This man was hand painting ceramic bowls.
And this gentleman was handmaking brooms (there was a man a few stalls further down making brushes).
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