Beer Garden

 

I went to a beer garden where we can eat and drink as much as we like. I drank glasses of black beer. In addition to foods and drinks, there were some dance performances, such as street dance and hula dance.

Crab Eat Pumpkin

 

When I went to a food store, I found river crabs were displayed. The name of them is "Japanese mitten crab". They looked eating pumpkins in the box. It is a popular way to make the crabs sweeter.

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Udon Soup Attacked Keyboard

 

When I was eating udon on my table, I spilled udon soup on my favorite gaming keyboard. I quickly detached some pieces of key buttoms and cleaned the board under the keys. I hope this trouble do not ruin my key boards.

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Grape Picking and Eating

I went to Misaka Nouen Grape House in Yamanashi Prefecture to do grape picking.



A bus driver of the grape house take me to their grape farm. There are some grape trees. I was surprised by the fact that many grapes grows from only one tree. You can see that from the following picture.



If you pay 1,200 yen, you can eat grapes as much as you like with no time restriction. Grapes you can eat are like this.



I was fully satisfied with three buntch of grapes.

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Pumpkin Curry Rice

My father grows pumpkins in the garden. He gave me a pumpkin. In order to eat the pumpkin, I cooked curry rice.

I named the curry "hamburger butter chicken pumpkin curry multigrain rice". I cooked very much, so I have to eat it three straight days.

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Cook Yakitori at Home

I love yakitori. I wish I could eat thousands skewers of yakitori.

When I was at a do-it-yourself store, I found a fantastic utensil.

The utensil that has an electric heater enables me to cook yakitori at home.

The picture above was taken when I cooked yakitori at home before.

In addition to cooking yakitori, I could cook sea foods skewers, too.

I enjoyed watching TV while cooking and eating these nice foods.

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Cook Roast Beef with Rice Cooker

I went to a supermarket yesterday, and found inexpensive Australian beef. I bought it and cooked roast beef using a rice cooker. It was a simple cooking but very delicious.

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Simmering Alfonsin

Today I went to a supermarket near my house, and bought alfonsin. Alfonsin is called "Kin-me-dai" in Japanese that means a fish with gold eyes. After coming back home, I am simmering it. I am going to eat it later. It will be good with Japanese sake.



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Cook Dumpling

I cooked dumpling, or "gyoza" in Japanese, a few days ago.

Japanese people like dumpling very much. We know it tastes great with beer.

However, on the day, I ate the dumpling with Japanese sake. Japanese sake also tasted great with dumpling.




It looks nice, doesn't it?



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Cook Takoyaki

I cooked takoyaki at home a few days ago. It took much time to prepare for cooking takoyaki because cabbage, ginger and octopus needed to be chopped. However, it was worth while. It tasted great.



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Enjoy Ekiben

 

I rode on a bullet train, or shinkansen, bound for Sendai at Tokyo station this morning. Before I left there, I bought "ekiben" at an ekiben store. Ekiben means foods put in a box (bento) and sold at a station (eki). I enjoyed it on the bullet train. It tasted great.

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Difficult to Read Kanji of Japanese Sake Name

Are you good at reading Kanji?

Even Japanese people sometimes feel difficult to read kanji names of Japanese sake. Japanese sake names often have difficult kanji.

Here is examples of it. This picture is a restaurant menu that I took last weekend.

I think most Japanese people cannot read the two sake names.

Here is the answer. The first one is "Kariho Rokusyu". The second one is "Jurakudai".

If you want to order a sake at a restaurant which you cannot read names like the examples above, you just have to point the menu and say "Please, this." to a restaurant staff.

I could not read both of them but could ordered with the method. Of course, both of them tasted good!

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Puffer Fish Sushi

I went to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant for dinner with my parents tonight.

Almost of all dishes were 95 yen per dish. It is reasonable.

I often go to such kinds of sushi restaurant. However, today I found a rare kind of sushi. It was a puffer fish sushi. I tried it and liked it.

Eat Grilled Eel

Tonight I ate grilled eel for dinner.

This is a Japanese culture. Japanese people eat eel in summer to build up our stamina. The day we eat it is called "Do-yo-no-ushi-no-hi."

I do not know the exact meaning of the culture, I like the day because I love grilled eel.

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Sweet Cake Catcher

Last Sunday, I went out to a shopping mall in Yokohama city.

At the mall, I found interesting crane games, which can catch sweet foods.

I tried some times and got two nice cakes.



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