Japan Food Diary 4

Week 4 in Japan (25th - 29th July 2005)

Monday: My breakfast (potato wedges, egg-mayo sandwiches, grapefruit, miso soup, green tea ^^) and the normal non-vegetarian breakfast.

Monday: My dinner is curry with rice, just like any other Monday's dinner~ The dessert is like strawberry jam in ice cream in crepe... not bad ^^ Ooooh and ignore my lousy nailart on the thumb's nail. It was my first try with that silver nailart pen bought last Friday.

Tuesday: My sumptuous breakfast and the normal non-vegetarian breakfast.

Tuesday: We planned to have a dinner outing for all the Singaporean engineers here but it was cancelled in the last minute due to typhoon. Unfortunately we also cancelled our dinner in the dormitory, so I had instant food from the nearby provision shop: mini 41-gram cup noodles (took out the 2 tiny slices of fishcake... norrr~ on the chopstick cover~), caramel corn snack and my own green tea. Finally got myself ViVi magazine in Ginza last Saturday.

Wednesday: My breakfast and the non-vegetarian breakfast. I hate the tako-balls! =(

Wednesday: Eeeek! Oily dinner. Went out to a nearby (20~30 min walk?) supermarket to get some groceries. Gotta prepare some foodstuff cos I have to make my own lunch on Sunday!

Thursday: My nutritional breakfast and the main dish for the non-vegetarian breakfast.

Thursday: Boring dinner. Hahaha~ so green compared to the non-vegetarian one which is like almost totally no green. =P But got nato... so at least not so boring... more of messy! I always always make a big crazy mess eating the sticky nato (sticky slimey threads of goo all over the bowl and dish and tray and chopsticks and hanging from my mouth... haha~) but I still love it!

Friday: My breakfast (may look good but no!! I couldn't bring myself to eat much... blegh~) and the non-vegetarian breakfast, which doesn't look any more tempting as well. Except the nato... kekeke~ I dare not take from the tray cos my meal is always ready on a separate tray and I dunno if there'd be enuff to go around if I take one. My colleagues (from China and Indonesia respectively) don't like nato so one didn't take it while the other one gave his to me! =) Actually is I asked from him cos I see he not eating lah... haha~ (I'm such a glutton!)

No particular date: Just to show ya a close up pic of sticky gooey yummy nato! Kekeke~

Friday: Finally something good after 2 lousy meals. A large bowl of vermicilli with seaweed soup (non vegetarian ones had normal miso soup size, but also had grilled octopus for main dish), braised tofu and half of an avocado... Look, I finished everything!! Added lotsa chilli powder in the soup though. =P

Saturday: Breakfast in Tsukiji Fish Market area (world largest and busiest fish market?) at one of those small stores selling ramen, udon, soba or rice~ I had sansai (山菜) udon.

Saturday: Lunch at Tokyo Disney Sea! Pasta in nothing but tomato sauce and a big basil leaf for me, while my colleague had a pizza set. Unlike the very well-themed park itself, the food in Tokyo Disney Sea is really nothing to be excited about (Maybe just the cheaper ones? There are buffet onboard etc but like damn expensive lor!). Luckily there's the Meiji cheese to add flavour~ =)

Saturday: Indian food in Tokyo Disney Sea! The pic turned out badly as I did not on my camera-flash and the lighting wasn't good so please pardon me... I had curry with rice and naan, and iced coffee. My Japanese colleagues had nasi goreng set!

Sunday: I purposely bought the 41 gram cup noodles again for the disposable chopsticks. LOL! So I had that for breakfast and also made my lunch early in the morning. Gotta brought lunch out (that's where the disposable chopsticks come in handy) to Fuji-Q Highland with fellow colleagues. I heated the instant rice with red bean, bought a cake of ready-cooked egg and sliced, and then wrap up in nori seaweed. ^^

Sunday: I cooked this in the dormitory for dinner - added grilled mushrooms, nori (leftover from making those giant "sushi" above) and fresh cherry tomatoes to spice up the boring instant tomato pasta. Green tea completes the dinner set! ^^v

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Japan Food Diary 3

Week 3 in Japan (18th - 24th July 2005)

Monday: My breakfast and the normal non-vegetarian breakfast.

Monday: My dinner and Meiji Strawberry Yoghurt at night in dormitory. I name this piccy tempting miss tberry" =X LOL~

Tuesday: My healthy breakfast and the normal non-vegetarian breakfast which my colleagues complained that it's too oily.

Tuesday: My dinner of veggie-stew and cold tofu with rice; and a normal dinner's dish (instead of cold tofu) on the cafeteria counter.

Wednesday: My breakfast and the normal non-vegetarian breakfast on a sunny morning.

Also Wednesday: My dinner with tasty cold tofu again, brinjal and >.< green chillis! All deep fried in a batter~ *fattening* For the normal non-vegetarian dinner there's deep fried octopus instead of deep fried brinjal and green chillis. The dessert is very goooooood! Although also filling... it's a glutinous riceball covered in a layer of sweet redbean paste. Yummy!

Thursday: My breakfast is all salad (veggies and mayo) and fresh fruits yoghurt! So healthy~ Unlike the normal non-vegetarian breakfast which is kinda oily. =P

Also Thursday: It's sumptuous dinner for me!!! Egg mayo, fresh greens, cheese, fried shredded veggies in dough, radish, grapefruit, miso soup, rice, green tea and a cracker (not in pic) which is given to me only after the meal. ^^ Well the normal meal looks good too, as usual. Got fish got meat got salad.

Friday: It's rare that I have such unhealthy breakfast... it's so oily! Although my colleague actually thought it looks real good. Haha~ The grilled brinjal and green chillis are like... soaked in oil! And the brinjals are really salty too.

Also Friday: Dinner is a lot and yummy! Too bad I didn't get to take the pic of any non-vegetarian dinner. It's good too! Instead of yoghurt and salad there's a plate of something like smoked meat on top of real mapo tofu instead of my tofu in spicy sauce. After dinner I went out to get magazines but couldn't find magazines at the convenient stores so ended up buying all these fattening stuff (and a silver nailart pen)... Hahaha~ But the macademia nuts were really good!

Saturday: Instant vegetarian bakuteh noodles again for breakfast! This time with fresh mushrooms... yummy!

Saturday: Lunch at Shinjuku, mine and my colleague's.

Saturday: Stuck in Ginza cos train system down in Tokyo due to earthquake... but all thanks to this earthquake we get to eat some authentic Japanese desserts! =P

Saturday again: Shared the pizza (can you tell it's Jonathan's again?) with my colleague who also had pasta + sausage salad, while I had the fattening ice cream on coffee jelly for myself. ^^ My Japanese colleague had Indian style chicken with rice.

Sunday: Same instant noodles for breakfast again! But this time with cherry tomatoes and a mug of instant coffee~ =) Didn't managed to take picture of my cheese fries (lunch on the go: fries in one hand and camera in another taking pics of sceneries instead of fries. LOL!) but here's my dinner in Hon Atsugi... Yasai tendon! I finished every single rice in the bowl leh~ Lihai mah?!

More observation in the dormitory cafeteria:

On Monday I saw this Japanese guy heaped the rice till 3 times the height of the bowl for curry rice... ermmmmm curry rice is using a shallower but wider dish... as you can tell from the picture. Wah seh~ they can eat so much rice in one single meal?!?!?!?! Really impressed sia...

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