La vida de mingc: Eat in Japan

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I miss Beppu (別府)

Watching a TV program few days ago, introduced about Beppu, which makes me miss Beppu more!

Beppu is famous for their hot spring, there are many hot springs in Beppu, you could easily see steam coming out from here and there in the Beppu.

I miss the sand bath! The experience was great.

The body was being buried up to the neck in the thermally heated sand. Feeling something heavy putting on top of my body at first and then could feel the heat slowly creeped into the core of the body.

One of best thing is that this sand bath is facing the sea,close your eyes, relaxed and listen to the sound of sea.

The fee is 1000 yen, provided with yukata,

the sand bath took about 15 minutes, then you can take a bath in the public bath.

Beside from onsen tamago ( The hot spring boiled egg ), Tori ten (Chicken Tempura)is another famous food in Beppu. They usually come with set, Tori ten with rice, pickle and miso soup.

The Tori ten is good. The coating is crispy, the meat is juicy and soft inside.

I had my Tori ten set here in Yanagi ya, a family restaurant, recommended by a travelling book.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Pa~su~ta ta ta ta

I've recently become fond of pasta, but before this I didn't even give it a look in the menu. I don't hate it but I prefer rice! So, if there is risotto written in the menu, that would be my choice.

Since the lack of time and in need of a quick meal, pasta became my choice instead of instant noodle coz pasta is definitely healthier, I think, giving that the pasta is not with the creamy sauce base. Japan did very well in developing their own Japanese version of pasta sauce, not in creamy way but lighter and taste good too. I just bought the tuna with soy sauce flavor ,tarako flavor,meitaiko flavor...etc

This is the salted tarako I just bought from the market. I usually serve it with rice or stuff it inside the rice ball ( the onigiri ).

This is my dinner today - pasta with tarako sauce base, topping with salted tarako and seaweed. Yummy!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

New Year Mode part 2

3 Jan 2011 : The first day of Parco sale, I've never seen so many people

in Parco before!

One of the reason of why so many people squeezing into the shopping mall is to grap the lucky bag ( 福袋 ). You don't know what is inside the lucky bag, the price of the goods inside is always 3-5 times cheaper than the price you pay when you buy them respectively, like this one (taken from the internet).

Speaking of lucky bag doesn't necessarily mean that it's only clothes, different stores released different types of lucky bag, some are shoes, electrical appliance, snacks, necklace, hair ornament...

Three of us shopped from morning until 3:30pm, we completely forgot to eat and drink! Until then, our body alarming us and we finally we regained some conciousness to EAT! haha... I thought we're lost in the sales. As we arrived the newly opened restaturant, the waiter told us we had to wait for another 90 minutes to be seated. okay, we just needed some time ro rest before eating.

Paying around 1400 yen and then you can eat-all-you -can , just looking at the photos you could see there are varieties of cakes and desserts, which are the "leading role" in this restaurant. Of course to satisfy your appetite, pasta, rice, udon and sandwich ...etc also available.

What a fattening winter break... -_-''

Thursday, January 20, 2011

New Year Mode

Happy New Year everyone!! I know it's a bit late to say that hahaha... Anyway, happy 2011!! I didn't travel during the winter break since there were many things to do but I did have some fun moments with friends. The winter break was all about eating and shopping, I haven't been so relaxed for a long time! 2011 would be a tougher year for me I think, about the resolution, I haven't given it too much thought. Just hope that there is no more procrastination , no wasting time, and I wish I have more energy to move myself forward >>before getting energy we have to eat!

25 Dec 2010:Christmas Party Set

We had our new year countdown party at home, eating sushi, boozing and watching 紅白歌合戦 and TVBS countdown programe. These are the tv prgrammes that I watched even when I was in Malaysia, but this was my first countdown in Japan.

We have 五月天 and 阿妹 this time !!

According to the tradition in Japan, they usually go to the shrine to pray for having an auspicious and properous year. So, me and my friends also went to the shrine and draw an "omikuji" to see our fortune for this year. hahaha... I finally got the 中吉！You know what, I'd been receiving 大凶 for the last two times at Kaminarimon. Whew....

There was a long queue before going into the shrine >.<

At night, we had our dinner at a yakiniku restaurant ( 焼肉屋）

to celebrate the new year again!

This wasn't the end of the day, after that we spent 11 hours in the karaoke until the next morning! Haaah, it's really like a new year party marathon.