Suzy's Zoo at KFC!

The lil one is into waking up every 2 hours for feeds at night now. It started a week ago and is absolutely exacerbating my nagging back pain from nursing in a rather hunched back pose and from picking him out of the cot frequently.

Unlike the usual me, interestingly, i am not suffering from sleep deprivation.

Yes it is a VERY disturbed sleep every night, but i am fine in the day. Though when night falls, i get cranky because my brain forecasts i will not have straight rest. And with a hubby that has numbed ears when in lalaland, i get very depressed.

Yesterday, i received a food voucher in the mail! From some lucky draw i entered. And since it could be used at any food outlet, i decided to lift my spirits a bit and head to KFC to get myself another Suzy's Zoo plate set!

KFC is having a limited period promotion with Suzy's Zoo,

so with a box of chicken and fries, comes a box of tablewear too!

The girl in me screams weeheeeee~ whenever i see Suzy's Zoo!

When i opened the box last week, yesh i was so so set on getting another one.

We had this same promotion last year around the same time too, but with a Peter Rabbit set.

And it was my first time having KFC in Japan. The reason why i wanted KFC was because of the soup i wanted to make after watching someone did it on tv.

Debone the chicken, and use the bones to make nice soup.

We had it with ramen last year.

This time,

Vegetable and oats soup, which was so tasty with just a tiny bit of salt and pepper.

We chomped away on the chicken and fries in no time too.

OK, so with the second set of Suzy's zoo set in hand and a happy head, i headed out of the store to find the old lady we met on the way, sitting at the overhead bridge with her bags of clothes. Another homeless old old lady?

No, this was not just another one, i felt i was supposed to be able to do something!

Because when we walked pass her to walk to KFC, she was staring at the poster outside Yoshinoya. And at that time, i held back giving her some money to buy a bowl because i wasn't sure if she was a homeless folk though the smell told me so.

When we walked out of KFC and i saw her again, I felt the urge to pass her the box of chicken and fries, but held back again because it is so unsincere to offer an old lady fried chicken isn't it?

As i was about to get out some cash for her, i am reminded of what J once told me about the homeless in Japan. Their pride, and how they are cared for somehow, i skipped embarrassing myself.

And the whole day i was thinking about what i just did. Hey the voucher wasn't really meant for me, it was meant for somebody wasn't it! So when J came back from work, i poured out my story and my broken heart (yes, i was very disspointed with myself). Once again, he explains that the homeless here don't stretch out their hands, and they are really cared for. By convenience stores and restaurants who work with organisations to help these people. But if i wanted to offer help, i could ask "Are you hungry?"so that i don't offend her with help without reason.

Some nerves calmed there.

Dinner last night was oden.

And finally, we had some really good daikon from the farmers mart.

It had been unyummingly fibrous the last few months.

Our style, with lots of root vegetables simmered in the hotpot

daikon leaves salad, homemade miso dip, and a tiny rice ball, so we can stomach more hotpot stuff (hehe, yeah the diet gets thrown out of the window whenever it is oden).

The man flu has also taken a step back, so curries are dancing on our dinner table once again.

With winter's yummy cauliflower starring this time =)

Ice cream made a comeback too!
Something interesting we had last week was this caramel ice cream topped with caramelised potato bits. As usual, this Hokkaido milk farm never fails to satisfy! I never thought potatoes could go with ice cream. Oh yes, i'm sold.

More please!