Washism

The leaves on maple trees in Japan have all been turning red since last few weeks.
Before they all fall off, we went to Heirinji temple graden to admire the beautiful blend of colours this afternoon.

It may look warm, but temperatures are falling every week, so we have been having quite a lot of different kinds of hot pots for dinners...

This is one of our all time favourite style, thick ramen hot pot.

This was todays lunch at a handmade udon restaurant. Udon hot pot with red miso stew.

Dinner wasnt hot pot, but teriyaki chicken with a side cabbage and mushroom soup to warm us up.

Oh by the way, did u know the gingko tree has female and male leaves?
We picked this up at the garden. On the right is the female leave.

So apart from hot pots, we were having fun with different kimchi dishes last week.

With the big lot of kimchi i bought from Osaka, i made

Kimchi soup with salmon soup stock

Bibimbap style kimchi fried rice

kimchi udon with korean style BBQed pork

Burdock kimchi salad with BBQed garlic pork

This is a picture i took while shopping last week.

Didnt know there was such a brand!