Washism

It will be Chrismas in 2 days!

But the atmosphere is just so focused on the new year celebrations that i dont feel much of the christmasy mood. Illumination deco on the streets are generally up to light up the dark winter nights and brighten up eveyyones mood.

we dont have a christmas tree at home (id like to have a big big one!), so i got busy with making a little christmas ring.

to remind us christmas is indeed here~

We had some time out together yday since it was Js last day at work for the year.

And when we visited the bakery so i could get something chocolatey for breakfast.

(these days i crave chocolate in the mornings too!)

Jun had to have his curry pan fix

satisfied my chocolate craze with this

chocolate berry roll! =) yummy@@

Lunch together was at this interesting ramen place that serves up ramen made with soba flour!

so, just like ramen, it is curly and had a chewy testure, but it was not yellow. looks exactly like soba and tastes like soba too!

so it is like chewing on ramen, but with the taste of soba in your mouth.

with wakame and roast pork slice

i ordered a half portion since i always struggle to finish the noodles.

not to my delight, the soup was half portion too!

we asked the chef to add a lil more before i tucked in, but he said, well you ordered a half portion, so soup is half too. the soup is expensive. >.<

ok, so anyway, we tucked in, and surprisingly i finished the bowl in a few slurps, and wished there was more noodles in there.

while jun had the regular, he said, well this was slightly less than the normal ramen portion.

the noodles was good, the soup was interesting, being fish & pork based.

but the soup was not hot enough, and for hungry people, definitely not enough.

one place checked. will we return for more? hmm, really really difficult to decide.

Dinner was beef and potatoes!

Nikujaga with shirataki

with a bowl of freshly polished white rice.

the rice shop near our place will only strip the husks off the rice grains when you buy them.

so the rice is especially fresh, sweet & fragrant on the day you buy it.

some people have this machine at home to do it. japanese love their rice so much, i think the machine is a good investment. there are small ones meant for home use, and i think it is just so satisfying to have a fragrant bowl of rice after a long day.

we have so many rice shops near our place so we dont need such a machine at this time. plus, i have my rice unpolished(brown rice) quite often too.

broccolli hitashi

=) satisfied with our new batch of Fukushima Koshihikari rice! sweet and chewy.