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My lunch today -tonkatsu-

author Posted by: kirin on date May 31st, 2010 | filed Filed under: Japanese foods

I decided to add a new type of post where I simply share what an average Japanese (=me!) eats everyday.
What kind of food do you imagine from Japanese foods? Sushi, sashimi, tempura, sukiyaki, yakiniku, unagi…? These are basically not for everyday cooking, because they are expensive. ^ ^; We also eat a lot of western foods, fast food, Chinese, Korean, and other Asian foods, too and we like to arrange them as we like! I wish I could make my cooking videos but unfortunately that’ll be too much work for a moment.

tonkatsu lunch My lunch today tonkatsu

Sometimes my foreign friends are surprised to hear that I don’t like Japanese foods so much. I need to explain this more. I like certain Japanese foods such as teriyaki flavored meat or fish, westernized Japanese foods such as hamburger steak seasoned with Japanese sauce and grated Japanese radish, and noodles such as ramen, somen, soba, and udon. But I don’t like our foods such as grilled fish, simmered vegetables, tofu as it is, miso, okonomiyaki and takoyaki very much. But I try to eat them sometimes because they are good for health and my husband likes Japanese foods. I don’t like Japanese desserts (wagashi, yokan, dango, anmitsu, anything with maccha flavor and etc.) so much either (manju and taiyaki is OK), while I like western desserts especially baked confectionery such as cookie, financier, waffle, crepe and etc.

Thus, this post will reflect my preferences but I hope you can at least get the image of day-to-day diet sample of an average Japanese. I wouldn’t say “Japanese woman”, because I believe I eat more than most of average young women. (lol) Most of them like to have very small meals and possibly some sweets inbetween meals. Well, since this experiment, I changed my breakfast from an egg, sausages, and a slice of bread with a cup of coffee to a glass of carrot and apple fresh juice and a tiny sweet bun. I make fresh juice every morning now, which I will refer to later on my blogpost. (It’s worth for a post.)

itadakimasu　before meals My lunch today tonkatsu

Menu
-Tonkatsu ã¨ã‚“ã‹ã¤ (deep fried pork) with tonkatsu sauce and mustard
-Kyabetsu no sengiri キャベツã®åƒåˆ‡ã‚Š (shredded cabbage)
-tomato and avocado
-Ingen no goma ae ã„ã‚“ã’ã‚“ã®ã”ã¾å’Œãˆ(kidney beans dressed with miso, sugar, and sesame)
-steamed rice
I could have added miso soup to this lunch, but that’ll be too much. To tell you the truth, I barely fix miso soup lately. I found an old miso pack that was best before something 2008 in a fridge the other day. haha…^ ^;


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deco trend now in Japan

author Posted by: kirin on date May 28th, 2010 | filed Filed under: What's New?

It was around 10 years ago that deco boom started. As represened by decoden, decorating on the cell phone is still popular now. In 2009, “Uni deco” or decorating Uniqlo clothing became popular, which has been familiar if you read my blog. It was introduced in Tokyo Kawaii TV, as “Uni-kakushi” and I actually saw the booth by deco-clo at Japan Hobby Show 2010 the other day. I’m planning to make a deco T-shirt, and will be sharing my experience in this blog later. icon smile deco trend now in Japan

The video focuses on the Japan Hobby Show that I also visited this year and introduces some interesting devices and goods that are invented at following companies.

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Hello Kitty stamp

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

It might be too late to blog about this when I consider these stamps were on sale about 3 weeks from now, but I found them at a post office today.

Hello Kitty stamp 80yen Hello Kitty stamp

It’s 80 yen for a letter in an envelope, 50 yen for a postcard that you need to pay for when you send it inside Japan as an ordinary post.

Hello Kitty stamp 50yen Hello Kitty stamp

It looks like they are commemorative stamps celebrating Shanghai expo.
They are cute, but I wonder if I’ll ever write letters or postcards so often. I already have a lot of old postal stamps left at home that I bought long time ago. I wish I could exchange them for real bucks now that I almost completely rely on email. (lol)

However, it’s so nice if I write a letter or a postcard once in a while with such a cute stamp on. I miss my school days when there was no emails, cell phones, even PC… we liked to exchange cute letters with cute stickers among friends. Now when I write to someone, that is more likely a message card that doesn’t need a postal stamp on because I am with it. (lol) If I try to send my friends new years cards, we usually buy the cards with postal fee including because they have lottery numbers.

Year after year I have less opportunities to use postal stamps, so why should I get more now? I talked to myself, I shouldn’t need them unless I sell them later at an auction or somewhere. (lol)

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