A day out in Antwerp

Last Saturday I went to Antwerp. To start with, we went to see an exhibition of Flemish paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts.
After that we were pretty hungry and went to a fantastic Japanese place nearby, Izumi.

Edamame, boiled fresh soy beans, is something that I learned to eat with my sister at her favourite Japanese restaurant in London.

I was curious about this spinach with sesame seed and it was delicious!

Of course we had miso soup.

We also tried fried chicken

and fried tofu.

Never had this before: gyoza, a kind of dumpling, first steamed I guess and then fried...just gorgeous!

And we also had some sushi.


After this terrific meal we took a little digestive stroll and came across a few beautiful buildings.




Nearby we discovered a cook's walhalla: a bookshop only with cookbooks!! We couldn't believe our eyes. The selection was incredible, we just didn't know where to look. Because we still wanted to do some shopping and we didn't want to carry heavy books, we took the wise decision to come back later.
Then we did some serious clothes shopping, after which we needed a rest, so we went to the bar of the Fashion Museum.

We continued our shopping until the stores closed and then we needed a drink.

We ordered negroni's. They didn't quite look like the ones we had in the north of Italy, but they tasted good!