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Archive for February, 2010

Chubby Kawaii

author Posted by: kirin on date Feb 28th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Fashion, Tokyo Kawaii TV

★Chubby Kawaii★
7/NOV/2009 on air

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I’m back from Osaka! (sequel)

author Posted by: kirin on date Feb 26th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Daily Life, Rambling

Continued from a previous post, I’d like to share more about my short trip to Osaka. :)
Here’s “Mizukake Jizo” filled with moss or alga because it’s watered every time we pray.

Mizukake Jizou4

As we entered the gate…there was a line of people who came to pray.

Mizukake Jizou1

Can you see some green statues? I kinda refrained from taking photos from front of Jizo, as that attitude may look fool against God. It’s only Jizo statue but as a Japanese I somehow feel like showing some respect to it.

Mizukake Jizou2

Nice small alley that connects this small shrine and commercial area filled with drinking places.

Mizukake Jizou3

Speaking of Osaka, it’s also famous for “Owarai geinin” or comedians especially who are good at Manzai style of comedy. Many professional comedians are from Yoshimoto group in Osaka and it’s natural we can find Yoshimoto shop to purchase some popular comedians goods.

Yoshimoto shop

Osaka Takoyaki charm was kinda cute! My friend just said, “That’s because you’re from somewhere else. The locals are already bored.” She never enters Yoshimoto souvenir shop, which is just the same as I never visit Tokyo Tower since my childhood. ^ ^;

Osaka Takoyaki charm

Tsuutenkaku tower is a symbol of Osaka. It’s located in Shinsekai, which is a place for men again. There are many many Kushikatsu bars and Japanese chess or “igo” game or several analog types of game places. All these atmosphere just made me feel as if we were back 30-50? years ago. I’m afraid young women wouldn’t like this place. Most of the people were middle-old aged men and tourists.

Shinsekai game center

A fake Billiken-san statue. The genuine one is inside Tsuutenkaku tower, according to what I heard. But we didn’t go inside the tower then.

Biriken san at Shinsekai

Again this area looks…what to say…”vulgar” to be honest. The scenery is messed up with too many individual signs but that even looked delightful to a tourist like me. :)

way to Tsuutenkaku

There was no way we didn’t try the most famous Kushikatsu at the most famous Kushikatsu bar “Daruma“!! As you can see, so many celebs have visited this bar and left autographs that are kept all over the wall above menu.

Daruma Kushikatsu bar

Original Kushikatsu for 105yen. I have no idea why they don’t open a branch bar at…such place like Shimbashi in Tokyo. Shimbashi is also a place for mid-old aged men to hang out for drink.

Original Kushikatsu

“Do not soak the Kushikatsu twice into the sauce!” This is repeatedly warned and is a basic rule that we have to follow. That means, we should not soak the Kushikatsu after we had some bites because the sauce container is to be shared with others. Cabbages were free. Kushikatsu was fine, but I found myself not very fond of this type of place. I’d prefer Tapas or Bar. To be honest, I like western foods and wine more than Japanese foods and sake. :p

1 time sauce

I like Osaka and I wonder how it’d be like if I move to live in there. People are funnier and things are cheaper. The city is very small compared with Tokyo, and so everything is so close and convenient. I could visit grandma more often. But I know I’ll miss Tokyo a lot more! The main purpose of this trip was to see my grandma, but in this public place I just share my Osaka tour with my Osaka friend who kindly spent time with me from 10am to 9pm.

I’ve visited Osaka (only my grandma’s house) so many times since my childhood because it’s a hometown to my father. But it was my first time trip to look around the city like this, thanks to my friend from Osaka. She always says that I am as funny as Osaka people. It sounded so interesting when she said that my skin (outside) is the one from Tokyo but my mind (inside) is totally the one from Osaka! Yeah, that’s possible. :D I found compatibility in Osaka, while many Tokyo people don’t like it. (Basically there’s a cultural difference between Tokyo and Osaka, and each people do not like others very much.)

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I’m back from Osaka!

author Posted by: kirin on date Feb 24th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Daily Life, Rambling

I’ve been away to Osaka to see my grandma for a couple of days and I came back last night. My father is originally from Osaka, although no Osaka culture or Osaka dialect were shared with me who was brought up in Tokyo area. It’s always fun to hang around non-familiar places whether it’s inside or outside Japan. Again I find I like travelling!!

1st day -with local friend-

Osaka subway

Osaka subway~. If you’ve ever come to Osaka, you remember this. Compared with Tokyo subway, it’s very small and less complicated with less people. But I always felt that the ceilings, because they are not very high, somewhat gave me the feeling of pressure, nevertheless I am very short. I don’t think there should be much difference between the ones in Tokyo. I have no idea where that feeling came from.

Kani Dohraku

Kanidouraku! One of the most popular Doutonbori photo~.

Kuidaore doll

Kuidaore doll was there, even though the Kuidaore restaurant has been closed for a while.

 Im back from Osaka!

These are all familiar symbols in Dotonbori. Especially the Kuidaore doll character with red and white bordered outfit is still popular even after Kuidaore restaurant was closed some time ago. I understand that. Osaka people would not want the restaurant go. People still love Kuidaore, and that’s why they keep the character left.

 Im back from Osaka!

My friend took me to the Ootako Takoyaki stand that is famous for its big lump of octopus inside Takoyaki.

Ootako 6 pcs for 300 yen

You don’t know Takoyaki? Here it is. A light snack with small pieces of octopus inside the dumplings with sauce and dried bonito flakes over them. I don’t eat Takoyaki usually because I don’t know what else I should eat it with. Only Takoyaki for meal is too little but with rice or noodle, it looks like too much carbohydrate…

Anyhow this day we had another carbohydrate after Takoyaki, that was Ramen at Kinryu. It was not too oily, not too heavy, and was good with some kimchi.

Kinryu Ramen

The atmosphere of the restaurant was…what to say? It was designed for men. What I miss in Osaka is nice cafe or restaurant with good atmosphere. The ramen is only 600 yen with a couple of Chinese-style barbecued pork, free kimchi and steamed rice as much as we want. No wonder men like it!

Interior was a bit odd but fun to explore. :)

Kinryu Ramen inside store

…to be continued to the next post. Stay tuned!

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Most popular singers in Japan now (Feb. 2010)

author Posted by: kirin on date Feb 21st, 2010 | filed Filed under: What's New?

As per the request from Leasy, one of my blog reader, let me sum up the most popular singers in Japan these days. This kind of ranking always changes, and this may differ next month.

No.1 KAT-TUN
“Love Yourself -君が嫌いな君が好き- (kimi ga kirai na kimi ga suki)”

No.2 Nana Mizuki
“Silent Bible”

No.3 Pornograffitti
“瞳の奥をのぞかせて(hitomi no oku wo nozokasete)”

Information source is ORICON. I skip a fad song on purpose. I’ve gotta go now…I’m leaving for Osaka to see my grandma! I’ll share with you my trip to Osaka when I’m back. Your comments or emails maybe read after that. (^ ^)/~~

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kawaii items from 100 yen shop

author Posted by: kirin on date Feb 19th, 2010 | filed Filed under: My Kawaii

While ago I wrote a post about 100 yen shop, where I was supposed to share these photos but I was forgetting. :p

Cute sponge x 3 set for washing dishes.

cute sponge

Cute picks for bento (lunch box)
These cute animal picks will make your bento look colorful, yummy and cute!

cute picks

Cute sauce containers for bento. If you combine these with above picks…that’ll be cuter! XD

mini container

Hello Kitty clips for big and small plastic bags.
If you are fan of Hello Kitty, you’d love them for only 100yen!

kitty clip

Cute stamps at work?
I don’t know when we will have a chance to use things like this, but 3 kinds of stamp come together for 100yen.

 kawaii items from 100 yen shop

Colorful inks at the bottom also look nice!

 kawaii items from 100 yen shop

These kawaii items are available at DAISO in Japan, and they are for 100yen, of course! (^w^)

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