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Seishun! LOVE LUNCH

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Kar
on April 27, 2008
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So something I like to do on a regular is make sushi. I last made it on Thursday, so I decided to take a few pictures of how it went and came out as.

First of all, I had to wash the rice. It’s a boring process, but at least my rice is clean when I eat it? XD

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Midway through the washing process. The water is so cloudy.

Next, I make the seasoning with 2 parts rice vinegar, one part mirin and a little sugar. I forgot to burn the alcohol out of the mirin so my sushi tasted a bit like beer.

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Yeah, we have a lot of bottles. We have two more cupboards full of various sauces. On the right-hand side of the picture, you can see my most favourite sauce in the world, tonkatsu sauce. It’s a bit like Worchestershire sauce, except it’s thick and sweet. It’s mainly used for topping on the dish tonkatsu, which is a breaded Japanese dish. I make that too. ^^

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AS FOR ONE DAY

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Kar
on March 17, 2008
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As you may have noticed, my layout has changed, and so has the inner working of this blog.  I loved the old theme, but with all the AJAX and stuff on it, it used to take so long to load, and it wouldn’t even load on some computers. XD Still, change is a good thing. Although, this new theme can be quite hard to navigate. Oh well, form over function. = D

I’ve been going out a lot lately. Last week I went to the Science Museum and then went to have Japanese food. It was fun. The Science Museum is good. I like the Launch Pad. There’s usually so many people there, and they’re all queuing to go to the IMAX Cinema. I love the Space gallery. I used to be obsessed with space when I was a child, and being there brought back some good memories. Then we went to into Central London and I had a tonkatsu bento. I love Japanese food. ^^

Today, I went into London again. We went to see the St Patrick’s Day parade, and went to see some of the stuff they were holding, like the Irish food market at Covent Gardens and Irish Cultural Village at Leicester Square. We were doing to go to Trafalgar Square and go to the concert, but we heard that there were loads of people there, so we didn’t go in the end. After that, we wondered around London and I ended up buying myself a new pair of chopsticks and a bento box.

Calpis. Not cow piss

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Kar
on August 18, 2007
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Today was my mum’s birthday, so what better way to celebrate than buying me a new mattress! It’s really comfortable and have these really pretty diamond lumps coming out of it. Who knew buying mattresses could be so expensive though? After that, we went to have Japanese food. I had a bento box which had like, tempura and sushi in it. I also had this ice drink in the biggest cup ever. When it arrived, all the contents were basically spilling from the rim of the cup. It had like, all these fruits in it, so it was really refreshing. I also had some miso soup, which was nice (and not as salty as I usually have it, which was a nice change). I was going to take pictures of what I ate but I completely forgot about it until they had cleared the table.

We also went to the Asian supermarket. My friend raves about this drink called “Calpis”, so I bought the soda version. I haven’t tried it yet. I also bought some miso (from Hokkaidō!) and some Mountain Dew (from Singapore!) because I’ve never tried it before.

After that, we went into Chinatown and bought some food stuff from the bakery. There was this comic book store that used to be there that me and one of my friends used to frequent, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Well, unless we were both thinking of the same store.

My mum told me about this café she always passed by and liked the look of, so we decided to go. It reminded me of Hong Kong. I had a mango and sago pudding. It was really good. It had shaved ice in the middle, so it cooled me down a lot (it was fairly hot today). After that, I felt positively stuffed. I saw green tea mousse in the display, but I really couldn’t eat anything more without wanting to vomit.

Tomorrow, we’re going to have Korean food as a family. It’s my first time but like, my parents and sister 23857 time. Should be fun.

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