ココ壱番屋！/Coco Ichibanya!

金曜日私が仕事から帰るなりミツワへ買い物/夕ご飯を目的に行ったんだけど、残念ながら着いた時間にはもうレストランの最後の注文受付が終わっていたので買い物もしたかったんだけど夕ご飯が先と結構前に何度か通りがかる度に行かなきゃと思っていたココ壱番屋へカレーを食べに行きました...メニューも日本にあるのとそっくりかな？ちゃんとマディソン用のお子様メニューもあって、私とデイブは大感激：）待ち時間もほとんど無く、やっぱりこっちのレストラントは違う、特に
1．ちゃんと子供用のフォークとスプーンが出て来る！
2．子供用メニューはとってもかわいいし栄養のバランスがとれてる。
3．最後に貰えるおまけのおもちゃが最高！
4．ボタンを押すと、誰かすぐに来てくれる。
日本に帰った時に一回みんなでココ壱行ったんだけど、今日はマディソンのカレー初体験、とっても気に入ったみたい：）
On Friday night, as soon as I got home from work, we took off for some Mitsuwa shopping/dinner in Torrance, but by the time we got to the store the food court part stopped taking orders and the store was about to close in half an hour so although I had some shopping to do there we left for Coco Ichibanya!(Curry house we found a while back but kept forgetting to go...) Dave was sooo happy the Mitsuwa restaurants closed on us! And you are about to see what I'm missing in kid's menus in the States! We waited for a few minutes for our seats and then ordering is super easy! All they have is Curry you just have to think of what kind of topping you want... and the food came pretty quick which was nice and Madison friendly:-) What I do not like about restaurants here are these...
1. They do not have kids size utensils! Which does not make sense at all! They have kid's menus.
2. Super cute kid's meals that are balanced(I wish they didn't put french fries here but can't have everything right?) and fun to see! I'm always disgusted with their options of chicken fingers, mac & cheese, and grilled cheese! Yuck:-(
3. A surprise gift with kid's meal:-)
4. A buzzer at the table that brings the waitress right when you need her, or even when you don't when Madison pushes it.

When we visited Japan(pre Madison) we all went out for a near by Coco Ichibanya so we knew what we were getting into and as we waited we found out this is the very first US location and actually opened in February of this year... Wish we would have tried sooner!
Anyhow Madison LOVED her first curry rice and the total bill to feed a family of three a dinner was under $25:-) Nearing McDonald levels these days!

写真を撮るからって食べるの待たさせてるのであんまり嬉しそうにしてない...

She is not happy I'm making her wait to take a picture... Hungry girl.

まず最初にフライドポテトを食べたんだけど...
Of course went for the fry first but...

私がほとんど食べました...ポテトを優先して食べなかったのは此れが初めてでした...凄いな、カレーの力：）
I ate most of the fries... This may have been the first time Madison chose something over her fries so we were very happy...:-)

ご飯の後、おもちゃ引換券でこのおもちゃを貰いました...写真を撮るの忘れちゃったんだけど、エリーに似た黒猫のケータイに付けるおもちゃ！
And AFTER her meal she got to pick a toy from a bag and she picked this... I forgot to take a picture of what she got but she got a black kitty key chain that looks like Ellie so that was cool!

土曜日はデイブが仕事があったので私とマディソンはアパートでのんびりお掃除しました。そして、お昼はオムライス！卵ぐちゃぐちゃになっちゃったけど味は懐かしいケチャップライスの味...
On Saturday Dave had to go to a Special Olympics Floor Hockey event so Madison and I spent a relaxing day inside the apartment... I got a lot of cleaning done for our sleep over with the Melton's next weekend(you will find out why in a week:-) For lunch I made us my Omelet Ketchup Rice which tastes so much better than it sounds but a staple menu option for kids in Japan...