Happy new year's eve :)

Sandwiches have so much potential. It's all about the effort you put in to making them. I personally think more is more when it comes to sandwiches, I honestly just put in all the stuff I love and if they stay intact between the slices of bread, then it's good to go. Considering that though, the one thing that I need in a sandwich for it to be awesome: avocado. This one had lettuce, avocado, tomato, boiled egg, with hummus, mayo and pesto (all home made, aw yeah). The bread is from an awesome sesame loaf :)

all you can eat with relatives

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i didn't stop to take nice enough photos. There was meat, veggies, tofu, a clear broth and a spicy broth, ponzu dipping sauce and sesame dipping sauce. Use your imagination

and then it was time for the desserts. Creme caramel (which had real vanilla. I could see the little seeds, it was comforting), chocolate mousse, mini cream puff

pumpkin youkan, chocolate cake, caramel mousse. I also had another creme caramel and chocolate mousse, it was so good.

my mom liked the cream puffs. I had cheesecake and coffee jelly to finish off this delicious meal :)

食べ放題

刺身大好き

Japanese-y pasta for lunch. And a strawberry cheesecake for dessert!

And delicious gyoza for dinns.

Melon-panna chan

Melon-pan!

With chocolate chips. Fancy.

 Went to the grocery store just in time for some discounts

 Twas pretty gooooood.

Some crazy colour in these kiwis. They are less hairy that regular ones too, which is pleasant. Actually, I'm a little sensitive to kiwis, they make my skin feel all itchy and tingly, but these ones cause much less of a reaction.

And for dinner we had these fish. I haven't had them since I was a kid!

12.12.12 on my milk carton, thought that was kinda cool.

This was the special of the day. Mmmmm

And after dinner I had a cheesecake daifuku.

Chocolate daifuku mmmmm

Bento taimu

Bento from the farmer's market woooo So exciting. I picked one of the more extravagant ones... Mmmmm

The donut place was having a sale a while back, but I resisted the temptation. They had a sale again and this time... I gave in. 

For the longest time, I thought the korroke my grandma served me as a kid were homemade by her. Turns out they were store bought. It sounds sad, but that means I can get the same 'homemade' taste from buying korroke from the store!

Fried stuff is awesome.

I love potatoes

So today was kind of action packed. Before having dinner at this restaurant, I fell into a 3ft deep gutter. Utter shock and horrible bruises. I won't go into the details but it was quite traumatic to say the least. It definitely could have been worse though.

I love Japanese food. I'm familiar with a lot of ingredients and dishes, and I'd say I have pretty 'Japanese' taste. One thing I've never heard of though, until I saw it on どっちの料理ショー, was monjayaki. It's probably the weirdest Japanese dish I've heard of. Luckily, I watched several youtube videos about this dish before finally trying it, because I would not have known how to cook it, or if this was how it was supposed to look.

So this it. It's still being cooked. It's like okonomiyaki is a sense that you can make it yourself on a hot plate and you can choose what to put in it (we chose squid). Hmmm... it doesn't seem as structurally sound as okonomiyaki though.

And here is it complete! It kind looks like lava. The molten quality is what made me want to try this thing. You eat it right off the hot plate because it's too globby of a glob to bother putting on a plate.

And you eat it with this little guy! How cute. Hmm so what's my final verdict? While I'm glad I got the chance to try this weirdo thing out, the taste was meh. It was yummy, but not good enough for me to go for again. It took us a while to find a place that served monjayaki, so I think I was way too excited when we finally got to eat it. I was imagining okonomiyaki flavoured mochi, I guess? This was fishy and chewy.

We also ordered a hiroshima okonomiyaki, another dish I've always wanted to try. It was pretty good, cause how can something that's filled with yakisoba not be good? Maybe I was expecting a lot out of this too, cause for me it just seemed like yakisoba with a few extra bits. I guess I have to go to Hiroshima?

These were cheap so we ate them.