Tofu ya Ukai

I had the dinner with my co-workers and my generous boss. My boss took us to the very famous resturant " Tofu ya Ukai" at Shiba, Tokyo. I have seen this resturants on TV and manazine many times, but it was the first time to have a meal there. I don't think I can afford it by myself.

 All the buildings are so impressive, and the garden is so pretty.

Okubo

I was in the mood for Korean food last Friday, so I asked my friend to go to Okubo for eating some Korean foods on Saturday. Okubo is in Shinjuku ward and is the most famous Korean town in Tokyo. It was raining all day long on Staurday, but we saw so many people when we got in Okubo. One of the Korean supermarket we stopped by was so packed... I gave up for shopping there and moved to another supermarket. 

Another one was not packed, so I shopped some Korean foods there. The four items in the front of the pic, I never had them before. I'll see how they taste like. Noodles in the black bag is my favorite. I reraly go to Okubo, and I buy this one everytime I go there.

DAE JANGGEUM(大長今）

My frined and I had early dinner at Dae Janggeum restaurant. I brought few pages of magazine clippings as ideas where we should eat. We picked this restaurant without knowing we have had dinner couple years ago together. We were planning to go to a restaurant we haven't been to...Anyway, we liked this restaurant and enjoyed some light meals.

MOOMIN

Once a year, the department store "Mitsukoshi" in Ginza has the Moomin event in March. They sells many different kind of Moomin items for a week. Some are made in Japan, and some comes from Finnland, Sweden and etc. Moomin family is very popular among us, because the cortoon was aired on TV in Japan and it was rerun again and again. One of my friend loves " Nuuskamuikkunen" and she collects a lots of Moomin goods. Perhaps because of her, I also like Moomin family. My favorite charactor is Minnie Myy and Stinky. Since I came back from my first trip to Finnland last October, I became to more like Moomin family. 


Today I asked my co-worker to go to the department store to see the Moomin event after work. We found Moomin house near the entrance of the event.

My co-worker was taking a photo without knowing I was taking her photo :)

Hey Minako, did you take a nice one? ☺

My favorite Minnie Myy is in the attic room.Cute!

Ri-Ri and Shin Shin

I went to UENO zoo to see Ri-Ri and Shin-Shin . They came to Ueno last Feburary, and it was so popular when they debuted in public. People were waiting to see them in a long line for few hours. It was said that even your turn to came, you could not stay in front of pandas. You needed to move even you were not be able to see their faces.  I waited to see them until yesterday. I was right, I could see them as long as I wanted. 

Shin-Shin was sleeping while I was in the Zoo. Do you know where her head is? Her head is down to the ground and sleeping.

Still Sleeping...

Now I could see her face...but still sleeping.

Sticky Toffee Pudding

It's from Stephanie(my co-worker). I never had the date before, so I have no idea how it tastes like.She explained what it is, and I checked it on the Net...but I still could not know the tastes until I eat it.

She recommended me to eat it with ice cream, so I did not eat it at my office and brought it back to my home. Oh, I stopped by the shop for getting an ice cream on the way back to my home.She said it is very sweet. Top of the cake looks like chocolate, but it is not. It's made by cane sugur. (I don't know how to explain it...I only know she used cane suger for it) Now, I am ready to eat!

Yammy! Now I understand it is nice to have an ice cream. I like it a lot, but it is very sweet as she said :) I'll keep half of them for tomorrow. Thanks Stephanie! Need to know the recipe :)