Let no one say that I have not lived. For I have been to Ikebukuro Gyoza Stadium!
The guidebook consistently referred to this place as a ‘food theme park’ and it was, in fact, inside a larger spookhouse-type them park. There were 23 different gyoza makers, with posters everywhere reporting their dumpling stats (“17cm wide and weighing in at 23 grams…”). A couple of the dumpling-makers gave me little cards so I feel like I was supposed to vote somewhere, about something.
Of course, I was only able to eat 3 plates, so I wouldn’t be a fair judge.
