An yo ha se yo!

Cooked a Korean dish tonight. Japanese name is ぶたとたまごのKANKOKUふいため。Well that's how I wrote it down the other night at colleague's house. It was a great night with Wii Supermario Brothers. Keiko, Namura's wife, has a nifty little cook book by some girl called Shiori who, when not writing cute books, spends her time turning tables. Some people are just too cool. Wish I could read the bloody books though- so many yummy looking dishes to whip up.

Nonetheless, with Keiko's help I jotted down aforementioned dish and was quite pleased with the results:



Recipe is as follows...

ぶたバラにく　５００ｇ
たまご　ｘ４
ニラ
しおとこしょう
サラダあぶら　大さじｘ２
さけ　大さじｘ２
さとう　だいさじｘ３
すりおろし　ニンニク
コチュジャン　大さじｘ２
トウバンジャン　大さじｘ２

First scramble the egg and move to a bowl.
Cut up the chives (ニラ).
Dice the garlic and crush up.
Make sauce with all yummy ingredients mentioned above.
Cook pork.
Add sauce.
Add egg.
Add chives.

Voila!

Tres easy and tres yum yum. Serve with rice and a smile:)

Also managed to finish TOKYO VICE yesterday. Damn good read. Even found Jake Adelstein on twitter and popped him a few questions which he responded to. Got real goosebumps flicking through the pages. Japan is a totally different place for me now.
Kept thinking while was reading, that was actually living in Tokyo/Saitama during some events. Even had a friend working as a hostess around the time Jake would have been investigating his was around Kabukicho and Roppongi. You could become disillusioned with Japan post-read, but as I learnt when I first came here in 2003 no two people will ever have the same experiences of Japan for it is a wonderland of extremes and fluctuating degrees of warmth and coldness, both in a literal and metaphorical sense.

I still love you Tokes.

In other news, grabbed some lovely earthy coloured bath towels form MUUJI the other day. Love that I'll be towelling myself down in plushness tonight.

Stay tuned...

まんぞく！！

It's been a while but but we all marched down to the local yakinikuya tonight and man am I a satisfied little meat fiend. Even popped a few horumon in to round off the treat. Personally me fancies a nice lemon sorbet post meat attack but had to do with the complimentary stick on gum and now some パイの実. Swishing it all down with a TOP VALUE chu hai- on sale at the mo so SLUT has taken a day off.

Blogging with my man in the room, a nice treat. After this am going to curl up with one of two books I ordered off AMAZON. Truly chuffed with AMAZON. Joined up to the Japanese AMAZON website which has an English option, and two days later with the choice of cash on delivery have myself L.A Candy and Tokyo Vice. Like a pig in mud I am.

Also popped into JUNKUDO in Himeji the other day and grabbed a book called The Japanese Mind. Tis a collection of essays which looks at different aspects of the Japanese mind. Very good reading, in the comfort of a Mister Donut. Finished the first essay on あいまい or ambiguity. Has answered a lot of my questions, that chapter alone. Can't believe bloody Japanese consider it a virtue. Fancy the writer though, who said Japanese people should look to forgoing this supposed virtue in this increasingly international world if they want to avoid being considered, in short, pains in the asses(?).

Baking me a cheesecake tomorrow. Off to a colleagues new pad tomorrow night. Very excited. Hope half Philly cream cheese and half TOP VALUE's version will play nicely in the mix. Was too lazy to go hunting for another Philly after forgot to buy two. Also, if all goes planned, will be popping into マリンピア tomorrow and hopefully making use of a discount card I was given.

Gonna buy a spray bottle from 100yen heaven tomorrow. Decided to be all posh with my flora and swan about room spraying delicately from cute little bottle, perhaps all the while doing curtseys in new apron I picked up the other day too! Ha!

Stay tuned...

雨 in the inaka...

Well it's a slow day here in the countryside.

Have resorted to John Grisham novels for my reading kicks. It ain't that bad. Had a passion to become a lawyer when I was young and watched A TIME TO KILL. Think it had more to do with the sexy lead than anything else.

Got some 漢字 practice in this afternoon too. Have decided to learn all the kanji for the prefectures. Why? Why not?

Picked myself up some Corona's at the local KALDI and am feeling spritely with my choice. Also grabbed some Hokkaido camembert from JUSCO. Just waiting for it to warm up and get all gooey on me.

What to do, what to do...

100 yen heaven might be on the cards later, and UNIQLO because, why not?

Need to review how to be calm and cool again. Maybe should get into some meditation...

What a useless post:)

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Tell me what's your flavour?

Well I had my second Kansai Scene article published today. They changed my heading to Type B or not Type B? I get it, bahaha, but me favoured this post's title more. It must be said with an R-n-B inflection though to take full effect. Not totally happy with the accompanying graphic either but happy to be published again and paid!

This spring weather is also putting a spring in my step. Love finishing work before the sun has clocked out and love wearing a lighter load. Have a little feeling we haven't seen the last of winter though. Chances are a cold rush will sweep through before we can really start to swan about in floral prints and throw down some tarp underneath the shade of a cherry blossom tree.

Visited Sanda Premium Outlet mall on Saturday. Twas the second time. First time barely saw a third of the sprawl but this time did the big loop. Big fan of the Bathing Ape Pirate store. Monkey's dressed as pirates- brillant. Picked up a hoodie and some cotton pyjama bottoms from GAP as well as some Hershey chocolate at the PLAZA store. My gosh I've really taken to white chocolate these days. Can't get enough of the stuff. MEIJI's white stuff and the Hershey's cookies and cream miniatures are making imprints all over my bloody thighs. Well thank Kami sama for this spring weather because going for a walk is the new black I say.

May just walk on down to the 100yen heaven soon for a little sumfin.

Stay tuned...