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鮭ちらし寿司 Salmon Chirashi rice
米なすの鶏みそあんかけ eggplant with miso meat sauce
茶碗蒸し chawanmushi steamed egg
わらび餅 warabimochi

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The Lock-Up at Shinjuku

20150915 halfway through dinner, Renma called and we decided to meet for dinner (again?!!) at Shinjuku. I was so full but I was happy to meet Renma again. He is really different in Tokyo than in Yamanashi. The feeling is different, more grown up. Anyway he brought me to this crazy interesting place called The Lock Up, basically it’s a prison-themed restaurant.

At the entrance there is a red button and you press that to go in.. The policewoman will come and arrest you and bring you to your cell! Halfway through your dining experience, red sirens will sound and there will be some events where the staff do scary stuff.. I think it’s interesting to celebrate my birthday there but too bad I will not be there anymore :( the drinks menu is interesting also, eyeballs, mummy and stuff …

we video called Boss Kazu and it was very nice to see him again :) poor boss, still working at night… So many emails to clear… 

All in all a good meet up and I am very excited about our Kusatsu onsen road trip!!!

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Golden Gai (Pony)

20150916 met up with Yeh and Hiroki for dinner. Had okonomiyaki at Shinjuku before heading to our main destination, Golden Gai!!!! wanted to come here but it’s difficult to come without a Japanese …

We went to a shop named Pony (after that we asked why Pony? And the owner mama san said because she didn’t have money to make a new signboard so she re-used the signboard left by the previous owner. When she wanted to change it people already was familiar with the name so she didn’t change it LOL.. And we thought there was a big reason behind it…)

It’s a pretty place and Hiroki’s dad is a regular so we drank on his tab :P his dad has a whisky bottle in the store so we drank from there haha. Spoke to some nice people and listened to many stories. Mama san showed us the old music player and it was lovely :)

Thanks Hiroki and also Yeh san for the night! Hiroki says he is coming to Singapore in March!

A little bit of SG in Japan #3

20150915 met Dan at Shibuya for late lunch, wanted to eat okonomiyaki but ended up eating Yarou ramen cos I was curious as I saw it on TV. Not bad !! A lot of beansprouts (bird will Love it LOL) and the soup base was thick tonkotsu. Went to Game Center and Dan spent 6000 on that pair of moomins! Every one was watching him… Moomin is very popular in Japan right now. and he helped me with my rascal pouch.. Happy~~~~

Then we went to Shiroichi for milk ice and whale meat restaurant with his friend -_- I don’t quite like it… Anyway the history is that post-war they had no food so they started to eat whales …

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Making seals in Calligraphy class!

20150914 I love calligraphy classes :) I made my own seal… Craving was so painful……. We had to design and crave our names on the rubber blocks.. Turned out nice I think ! The kanji one took longer so I have yet to finish it, gonna complete on Friday :)

Nakagomi Orchard Day 3/7

Today our task was to remove the silver sheets from the grounds of the peach trees. 

Do you know why there are silver sheets? Because the sheets can reflect sunlight to the bottom of the fruits!!! Ingenious;)

Unfortunately the weather was not too good and it rained all the way. It wasn't too heavy so we continued the work. We still had fun anyway!

When the sky finally cleared it was such a clear blue sky and we were so grateful!!!! (it's typhoon alert in other parts of Japan, so Tokyo was very rainy, and rain in Tokyo means rain whole day).

Enjoying the sun!

We ate lunch and because we didn't have enough hot water for instant noodles after refilling the tea pot I playfully added green tea into Renma's noodles. Not like he noticed any difference! Haha!

We also tried dried persimmons (btw I haven't had dried persimmons like that before, sweet and nice!)

We hung our clothes to dry and by the time we finished lunch the clothes were almost dry! The weather was really really good!

Favourite shots :)

We went back to the peach grounds and continued our work. Kind of miss the rain because it's a little warm.. LOL

All the fruits in the world to eat :)

Took the lorry back to the volunteer house. Breezy ride with Renma and Joji shouting away. 最高の夏だ～！

The day ended with Onsen again. Not complaining! :P

Renma and Joji had to return to Tokyo this evening. I will miss them very very much ;'(

Nakagomi Orchard Day 2/7

20150908 rainy day !! We should have cycled to Yoko san’s house but it was raining so we had to set off early as the walk takes about 20 mins…

We did weeding today and boy, was it tiring …..

Lunch was curry rice, chicken karaage and potato coquette..

Tea break and story-telling time :)

Work and more work until we were rewarded with this crazy sumptuous dinner!!!!! Kimchi fried rice and Oden! *tears of joy*

The Nakagomi Family!

After dinner we played with the two princesses of the Nakagomi Orchard..

And finally to end the night, onsen hot spring! it's not a big one with many pools, just one, but it's said to be filled with minerals. And milk after onsen, is SHIAWASE :)

Went back and had some info session with Renma and Joji on Japan. Lovely people :)

We went for a late night cycle too!!

I am really bad with darkness and they made me cycle across this stretch of sakura trees T.T on the way back.. 

But it was fun :D