Long weekend day one

A long weekend has began! After a lazy morning, we took a bike trip across town to Fire Museum on Spring and Varick. It's a low-key touristy joint, but the little place had some beautiful old fire engines and artifacts. The museum was pretty quiet and empty, and Taiyo enjoyed running around for a while. There was no activities he could participate in, but being a big fan of fire trucks, I think he kind of liked the place.

We stopped for lunch at Hiroko's Place on Thompson between Spring and Broome. It's like a cafe that every Japanese town has, with non-traditional Japanese food. Menu had pictures on it, so of course Taiyo picked "Anpan-Man Omu Rice" which had his favorite Anpan-Man drawn with ketchup, a Japanese red-bean bun superhero. The young waitress brought him little kids utencils and small cup of water with hello kitty on them. Taiyo of course loved them. We were first served a little bowl of salad with carrot dressing, which he pretended to eat but didn't. He's not a salad kind of a guy (yet). While waiting for his main dish, his chair tripped backward because he was standing against the back. Then he started banging on the glass table top and we were moved to next table with no glass top. Taiyo's Omu Rice, omlette covered ketchup flavored rice arrived just as pictured. Being a ketchup lover, he first scooped up all the ketchup and then start digging into the rice. He didn't like potato salad or omlette covering, but ate all the rice inside, carefully eliminating chicken, onion, and green pepper pieces. My seafood doria, rice casserole covered with creamy sauce and cheese, was not bad, but a bit too heavy. The place is fairy kid-friendly, with the cute and anime-themed decore, but there's no high chair. Service was very Japanese and friendly, but they did one funny thing- each table had a basket of napkins, but ours was taken away before food arrived. A small diner always need extra napkins, and their napkins were tiny and thin to begin with. So I let extra mess around the table as Taiyo shook his spoon to spread the food. And the price was also Soho price for what it was. Not terribly recommended.