Tag: Japanese culture
Taco rice is a very popular dish in Okinawa. It’s tacos with the tortilla replaced with rice. Pile spicy ground meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes on top of the rice and you’re done. Recently you can buy ready-made ground meat in a pouch for easy to make taco rice.
I tried making it myself. I didn’t have any cheese, so I tried putting a half-boiled egg on top. It was really good!
OKINAWA Hormel (japanese)
Taco rice (Wikipwdia)
Let’s have ashi (foot) mizu (water)… Mats and beautiful white stones in the stream, take off your shoes and bathe your feet!
So refreshing, having a good time. Especially in the night, feels like we’re coming to resorts in the middle of Tokyo.
Water fireworks! No fire, but beautiful “water works” with laser lights and music.
We chose exciting place to experience - near mizu hanabi.
It was so fun, wet wet wet, makes all the people happy!
You know Matcha is nice flavor for almost every sweets. In these days, we can see some Hojicha sweets.
Hojicha shaved ice is perfect for Tokyo’s muggy summer days! Not too much sweeten, slightly bitter, scent of roasted tea leaf, and chilling your tongue.
Hojicha (Wikipedia)
Shimokita Chaen Ohyama - Tabelog (Japanese)
This is the place I like the most in Kyoto! We renovated a closed school building for making this museum. Therefore, we use classrooms as manga exhibition rooms.
In this museum you can read manga freely as you want! Some read manga in a hallway. Others lie back and read manga on a tatami mat. You can also sit reading manga on the terrace or on the lawn.
This museum holds a workshop for drawing manga and painting anime figures. We also invite a manga celebrity for a talk show. Here is the place we can enjoy ourselves whenever we visit. I want to live in here if possible!
Kyoto international manga museum
Mitarashi-matsuri, a festival that is held every summer at Shimogamo-shrine in Kyoto.
Only during the festival, people are allowed to step into the pond with deity water of the shrine. Soak feet in the beautiful and cool pond, light a candle, then have the water of the shrine.
This is a festival for people to remove their sins and impurities and to wish for their health and longevity.
Shimogamo jinja
Shimogamo - jinja shrine (Welcome to Kyoto)
26th July was the grilled Unagi (eel) day in Japan. Me and my mom went to Unagi speciality shop, and enjoy sharing soft, good, and fortifying fish against muggy summer days!
And we had sea bream chazuke. It’s also good for summer day. easy & tasty historical fast food… rice with sea bream sashimi that poured Japanese tea or dashi.
Unagi (Wikipedia)
Chazuke (Wikipedia)
Doyo Ushinohi
At last, we’ve decided on where to move!
The apartment that we’ve chosen is close to the Azabu apartment and was built 38 years ago.
The room has been renovated and looks new, but the kitchen walls and the floor layout seem like relics from the past.
In our opinion, the Takanawa and Azabu apartment was more unique and charming. But we chose an environment where we can walk to go see a movie. We can see Tokyo Tower from the window.
