CURRY AND RICE

Super Spicy Curry

I take Hula Dance Lesson on Tuesdays.
It starts at 7PM and ends at 8:30PM.
Although I want to eat before the lesson, I always have to run to the place from work without eating anything.
I know it is not to good to eat late at night, especially after my exercise.
However, I am always too hungry to go straight home, so I eat out with my friend every Tuesday.
Yesterday, we went to Curry House, “Indian Curry”
Their curry is sooooooooo good but really really spicy.

There is only a counter, which about 15 people can fit.
The only menu they have are curry, hayashi rice (sweet curry, sort of).
Since it is very spicy, we can order raw egg dropped on it, so it makes a little mild.
When I was a high school student, I went there with my friends with a rule that we only can drink one glass of water.
We sweat a lot and struggled, but still we loved their curry.
Each person stays there the longest 15 min to eat, and there are customers all the time, not only at lunch time or dinner time.
One order is $8 US.
I wonder how much they make a day…
I bet they can make a lot of money….

SANDWICHES

My Favorite Sandwich

This is my favorite place for sandwiches in Osaka, Japan.
I have been here since I was a little kid.
When we have Christmas party at home, we order bunch sandwiched from here besides my mom’s home cooking.
Their specialty is Deep Fried Pork Sandwiches.
Look how think the meat is!!
I always order with Banana juice.

This is the picture of the café.
It is a tiny café, not fancy or anything.
However, it is always crowded.
Whenever I go there, the old man, who works there all the time, talks to me very friendly.
He sometimes goes, “What a weird matching! You are friend with them?”
It sounds like he remembers me, but at the same time, it seems like he is just pretending like he knows me.
I feel that way because he tells that kind of thing to anybody.
When I went there after a long time, he stays friendly.
It is good customer service, but I wonder he knows me or not…

Nintendo Wii

Wii

I got Nintendo Wii at home!
There are so many kinds of games in Japan now.
This is sort of crazy that so many people try to get them.
I am not a big fan of computer games, but I have played Family Computer (I am not sure if you had in the US), Super Family Computer, and a normal Gameboy.
When we got Play station at home, I had no idea how to play, so did not play at all.
I always wonder why little kids can figure out how to play those.
When I worked at Hyatt in Denver, there was a gamers’ convention.
So many gamers come to stay at the hotel, talked about games, and played games.
It was such an interesting atmosphere.

I did not like when my boyfriends are crazy playing computer games.
Why? Cuz it is no fun for me since I had no idea how it worked.
I am interested in learning how to play those, but at the same time, I am afraid to be into games.
If I got crazy about games, I would play it 24/7, I am that kind of person…

Anyway, this Nitendo Wii is a gift for somebody, not for myself.
Now I am thinking to buy DS for my long business trip in next month.
I don’t know if I should, though…

PHONES

Too Many Phones To Carry

These are cell phones I use.
Three cell phones are too many to carry, and each phone has different charger, different way to use, and different bill.
I have three cell phones because of my work.
I have my private one, company one which my work related people call, and customer service one for my Internet business.
When I am not at desk, the calls from customer translate to this phone.
To tell the truth, I thought it was kinda cool to have so many phones with me.
But soon I realized this is an awful thing to do.

When I went for business trip, I lost my private cell.
Since I have these many cells, I did not realize that I lost one of them.
When phone rings in my bag, I always grab different one, and feel frustrated.
When I am in a train I have to turn off all the phones, and other people give me a look like I am weird person.
Well, I heard nowadays we could have one phone which has many numbers.
I wish I can get that kind of cell now…

FRENCH

At Friend's Restaurant

This is the inside of a kitchen where Dave works.
Dave is my boyfriend's good friend.
He is really into food, and he is a really good cook.
When I went to SF for researching food, he gave me lots of advice, and he can talk about food forever.
I really respect him because he loves cooking, and study about it hard, AND make money by cooking.
I think not so many people can love their own job like him.
I got surprised at knowing that he even makes vegetable at his garden and thinks about cooking and does cook on his day offs.

This is one of the dishes at a restaurant he works.
Once I went to a French restaurant where he worked in Berkley.
It was the best French I had ever had.
It was the first time for me to go to that fancy restaurant with my parents.
We had really good wine and tons of great food.
Since then, I have to go to eat at a restaurant wherever he works!
My boyfriend took me to the place when I was in SF last time.
This restaurant was much bigger than the one in Berkley where he worked before.
There were lots of people who dressed up.
He let me go into his kitchen, and it was fun to see how they worked.
It is fun to eat Dave's special food!

Japanese Restaurant

Japanese Restaurant In My Home Town

This is a welcome dish at a Japanese restaurant, where my family goes.
At most of Japanese restaurant where you can drink, you have to pay a cover charge.
The cover charge is for this kind of welcome dish.
Look how beautiful it is!


This is my favorite appetizer, a trepang (a sea cucumber, dictionary says).
It looks gross, but it taste really good.
I heard the news that Japanese is now complaining Japanese food which was created in the US.
They try to protect real Japanese food from the fake one.
In my opinion, I don’t get why they care.
If you start saying such a thing, there are too many fake foods all over the world.
I feel there are other stuffs we have to care.
And also, it is fun to see what kind of “Japanese Food” they have in each country, and it is so funny that they have totally different food but call it “Japanese Food”.
I actually like “Chinese Food” in the US more then “Chinese Food” in Japan.
I even don’t know which one is real.

This is crab.
Yummy, but lots of work to eat.

This is the entrance with a wife of the owner.

OUR PRODUCTS

This Is What I Sell

I sell sweets on Internet.
The name of my brand is "MARCIA&JERRY"
Most of our products are frozen.
This is the package we made.
Since Valentine's Day is coming soon, I decided this color and design.
This is all original!
We make all sweets by hand, and we use really good stuff to make our products.
They are expensive, for example, this is $35 in US dollars.


They are what I really wanted to make!
Pink and Black cheesecakes.
Each of them are quite small, but they are really rich.
The red one tastes strawberry cheesecake.
And in the middle of the cake, there is white chocolate.
The black one is a normal cheesecake colored black by coal, which you can eat.
And in the middle of the cake, there is black chocolate.

It is hard for me to think one new item every month, but I feel really happy when they make exact the same thing I imaged like this cheesecake!

IMAGE CHANGE

I Got Changed

Here we go!
As I mentioned in the last blog, I got my nail done on Saturday.
This time, the best part is purple line stones I got on my nails.
I love this basaic color, and I like the design, very simple!
I had not seen this nail artist for a while, since I had a different nail artist for a couple of months.
It was nice to chat with her and get my nails done.


Since I felt good after she left, I decided to go to hair salon as well.
I just got a haircut in the beginning of January, but I still had damaged hair, so I did.
But...
I really should not have gone to the salon!!
At the end, I saw my hair style, and did not like how it looked at all.
First of all, it is too short.
Second, it does not look good at all.
Third, still I can see the damaged part.
I told my hair artist that I did not like my hair style.
He got in a bad mood, and I could not complain anymore...
I just wish my hair would grow as soon as possible.
Ahhhhh.

ＭＹ ＮＡＩＬＳ

Tommorow Is My Nail Day

I have my nail artist come to my apt every 3 weeks.
Tomorrow is the day she is gonna come.
This is how she does at my apt.
I have met her at a salon I used to go since I was 18 years old.
She got independent and now she does nails at her own apt or go to customer's house.
I always ask her to come to my apt.
The benefit to have her at my apt is that I don't have to get dressed and go outside.
She even comes really late at night after I come back from work.
She leaves at midnight, and I can straight go to bed after she leaves.
How cool is that??
It is important for me to keep my nails beautiful, because they are parts of my body which I always can look at without mirror.
Whenever I see beautiful nails, I feel really good.

This is a picture of my nails which I got before.
Nail art was really big in Japan 7 or 8 years ago.
I did all crazy nail arts at that time.
So this is nothing for me.
I am so sad that I can't do anything crazy with my nails anymore since I am an office worker in food industry.
Japanese people are strict about this kind of stuff.

The first time I got into nails was when I was a elementary school student.
Since my Mom had a long nails and she always got her nail done really beautiful all the time, I had wanted to be like her.
One day, I found nail tips for kids at toy store in Singapore.
I got really excited and asked my Mom to buy them for me, and put them on my nails.
I really liked how they looked, and since then, I have taken good care of my nails.
And officialy, I started going to nail salon when I was 18.
Since then, nails are something I really care as a part of my body.

ＮＩＧＨＴ ＳＮＡＣＫ

I Can't Help It!

This is a menu of a restaurant I went the other day.
This is a noodle place.
I take Hula Dance lesson once a week after work.
Since I don't have time to eat before the lesson, I get hungry by the time the lesson is over.
I am trying to go on a diet, so I am not supposed to eat no later than 8 o'clock.
More than that, I really should not this fatty stuff late at night.

But look! It looks good, huh?
I can't help stopping by at noodle place after Hula lesson.
I am not sure why I always choose noodle place to eat after Hula lesson, because I am not a big fun of noodle.
However, late at night, I usually feel like eating this kind of noodles so bad.
In Japan, most of us want to eat noodle when we are drunk.
You should try it when you are drunk!
So lots of noodle place in Japan opens will one or two in the morning.
Some opens even till 5 in the morning!!
How come night snack is so tasty!?
Anyway, I gotta this bad habit...

HOT COCO

Hot Cocoa in Winter

This is my favorite cafe in my town Osaka.
It is cold “Red Bird”, specialized coco.
I go there sometime when I go shopping in down town.
I got to know this café from my dad.
He went there when he was a college student.


This is the inside of the café.
According to my dad, it has not changed at all since he was a college student.
They decorate so many kinds of packages of coco and chocolate on the wall.
It is kinda cool to see all kinds of chocolate all over the world.


The fun part of this café is their menu.
For example, they have “Medusa”, which you have to cover your eyes till the chocolate got hard on ice cream when the server brings it. (I hope you can understand my description…)
This is what I ordered, chocolate sundae.
They covered vanilla ice cream with chocolate, and topped with a marshmallow cover with chocolate.
Soon I had a bite, I regretted why I did not order hot coco.
It is getting so cold in Japan lately.
I love drinking hot coco with marshmallows at night.
I used to drink often when I was in Denver and in SF.
Now I am too lazy to make, since it is hard to wash the pot which was used to heat coco.

Maybe I should make hot coco and watch movie or something at night this weekend!

Guacamole

Yummy Guacamole

This is a bowl of avocados in my boyfriend’s kitchen.
He lives in San Francisco, so we don’t get to see each other that often.
However, it is kinda fun that I can find something new about him each time I see him.
When I was in San Francisco, I saw him cooking and I was quite impressed.
He made tuna salad and guacamole.
They were both really good.
It is hard to get avocados in Japan, actually they are expensive.
So whenever I am in the US, it is like a paradise that I can eat as many avocados as I want.
Guacamole is my favorite Mexican, and the only Mexican food I eat.
Well, I eat hard tacos too, actually…
I hate those soft beans, because it is too different from beans which I used to eat.
We don’t have many Mexican food restaurants, so I don’t know much about Mexcian, but I just get disappointed easily whenever my friends suggest going to Mexican restaurant.


This is his Cooking Bible.
Whenever he cooks, he looks this cooking book.
I always wondering why English cooking books are so big and heavy.
My major was Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, when I was a college.
So I had so many textbooks, which were really think and heavy.
When I had a cooking class and nutrition class on the same day, my bag was too heavy to carry with.
In Japan, we have many kinds of cooking books, and most of them are pretty thin.
It does not take much space, and it is easy to find one recipe.
The only problem about Japanese cooking book is that you sometimes cannot find one you are looking for.
In Enlish cooking book, it is convenient that there are all recipes in one book, but I am not sure if it has to be that big and thick…
I don't know why Americans don't feel weird to look up that think cooking book...
Well, do they?

Fun Spot, Mac Store

Had a Good Time at Mac Store!

I went to Mac Store in Osaka yesterday.
Since I don’t have any knowledge about computer stuff, it has been the last place for me to go.
However, one of my friend wanted to show me how good Mac computers are, so I decided to go.
Actually, I am thinking to get a new computer now.
But not sure which one I should get.
I thought it would be cool to have Mac desktop computer and use the screen as my TV and everything at my apt.
The only concern I have is if I can figure out how to use Mac computer.


I finally realized what a fun place Mac store is.
I never been to Mac store when I was in SF, but now I understand why they go there often when they are bored.
My friend explained how to use Mac computer, and showed all cool tools they have on the second floor showing in a pic above.
It was fun how much we can play with there computer at the store.
We took pictures, we checked e-mails, etc etc…
Also it was kinda interesting that there are so many foreigners at Mac store.
It was like a foreign country.


Anyway, now I am seriously considering to buy their computer.
It would be fun…

Best Sushi Ever

Japanese Real Sushi

Japan is famaous for Sushi.
However, I wonder how many people have eaten real Sushi in their life.
What is real? Well, something really fresh and with small good taste sushi rice, looks beautiful etc, etc...
Definately rolls or 100 yen sushi can't be called "real sushi", although I love them.
This (picture above) is the best real sushi that I ever had.
They serve 5 pieces of Sushi on a plate each time.
And each time, there are different kinds.
They are beautiful and soooooooo good.


This is a sushi place in a fish market in Osaka.
Since it is in a big fish market, their sushi is really fresh.
My friend sometimes takes me to this place for lunch.
He is a good friend of my father's, and he is like my 2nd Dad.
Whenever I got lost in my life, he is always there and listens to me.
He once told me, " I want you to get married eventually. To learn how to share your life with somebody is really important. It does not matter if you would get divorced or not. You just should experience married life in your life, and it will help you to be more mature".
He is an engineer and usually a quiet person who does not talk this kind of thing.
We were just having dinner at other place after work six months ago, and suddenly he told me that story.
I still remember what he said, and I felt really happy to have this kind of person who gives me lessons about life near me.


This is California Rolls from Safeway in the US.
It was nasty... I gotta say.
But I only had this picture of California Roll.
As I said, I love California Rolls, which we rarely can find in Japan.
I think they are fun, and taste good.
My favorite is Philadelphia Roll, which has salmon and cream cheese in it.
I used to work at Sushi restaurant in Denver for a short time.
I learned a little bit about techniques of how to make Sushi.
So maybe I shuld have Calidornia Roll Party at my apt in Japan.
Humn, it might be a really good idea.

Anyway, there are so many kinds of Sushi in the world, and I wanna try all those!!
Sushi is not my favorite Japanese food, but I have to admit that it is a Japanese food that we should be proud of.

My Beauty Salon

Got a Hair Cut Done!

This is a waiting room at my beauty salon.
I have been to this beauty salon for more than 18 years!
Of course this salon has been renewed since then.
I eel so comfortable getting my hair done here, since I know all people who work there, and they know me.
Last weekend, I came here to get my haircut done.
I was trying to keep my hair long, but since I got strong perm twice, my hair had been totally damaged.
Everyone at the salon told me that I should re-start to make my hair long, so I did!

This is a shampoo machine, which I hate the most.
I think it is ridiculous for them to leave me there with putting my head inside of this machine.
I was too scared, so once when I tried it, I kept someone standing next to me so that they can stop it anytime I wanted.
And they had to stop it, because I hated it.
Now they shampoo my hair by hand.
I love when somebody wash my hair, which makes me fall a sleep.

These are “KERASTASE” hair products I use.
These are really good, and help to keep my hair strong and fresh.
I used to date with a hair artist who works here.
At that time, he was under training so he did my hair for free sometime.
My hair had never got long, since he cut my hair once in three weeks.
I experienced hair artist things, like shampooing sombody, cutting someone's hair, and putting make-up for someone.
It was rare experience which not so many people can do.


The longest time I did not go to any beauty salon for haircut was one year when I lived in Denver.
I have to say, beauty salon in Denver is the worst as far as I know.
I had to wait till I go back to Japan for vacation, or till I go to New York…
Well, going to this salon whenever I want might be one of the benefits for me to live in Japan...

Hula Dance Night

I Love Hula Dance!!

We had Hula concert last Sunday at Ritz Carlton Hotel.
It was an event for frequent customers of some kind of Jewelry Company.
The Jewelry Company held this party whose theme was “a world cruise”.
They set all the tables up like a luxury boat.
They pretended like they took all the guests to a world cruise.
So when the guests drink French wine, they pretended like they landed France, and French musician show their performance in front of them.
Those guests eat food from all over the world each time.
I thought it was such a neat concept.
As you can see, we did our performance when they landed Hawaii.

Hawaii was their final destination.
They got off from the boat, and went to desert room.
We welcomed them by saying, “Aloha~~”, although all of us are Japanese!
It was fun, though.
There are bunch of coconut trees in the room, and so many kinds of sweets.
It was a desert buffet.
We danced in front of them for thirty minutes or so on a big stage.

At the end, my Hula Dance teacher gave the guests a lecture, and we all danced together.
Young and old, men and women enjoyed dancing Hula for the first time.
After this stage, we got to eat their leftover sweets.
They left a lot, and we shared everything!
Yummy….

Hula is one of my hobbies, which I have learned for one year.
Very good excersice, and very good way to relax.
Moreover, it is so much fun to get to know many people through Hula Dance.

Sing A Song

My Singing Lesson Room

This is the place where I take a singing lesson after work.
There are two keyboards in this room, and my teacher, who used to be a professional pianist, plays any music for practice.
First, I took Gospel Lesson in a group at this school.
Since everybody in the group only speak Japanese, but not English, they sing all Gospel song without know what they are saying.
I felt sometime wired about it, so I decided to take private voice training, instead.
I mainly sing R&B.
I never listened much English music before, so I didn’t know many singers in the US.
So it was hard for me to turn in songs for practice to my teacher, which we have to do pretty often.
But now I downloaded so many English songs to my ipod, and have many songs I wanna try singing!
The song I am practicing right now is “Tell Him” by Lauryn Hill.
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind….”
This is a song, which my friend liked, so he suggested me to practice this song, so I did.
Good song!
Her song is really difficult, but very fun to try.

This is how I learn singing at this school.
My teacher has made money by playing the piano since he was 14 years old.
He has worked with an American voice trainer for Britney Spears.
He is so talented, but really strict.
There are many students who want to be a professional singer.
I am not one of them.
I started taking this class, because I always like to sing a song.
I used to be a pretty good singer, when I was a vocalist in a band when I was 17.
However, I realized my singing skill is getting worse and worse by getting old.
So I started to go to this school after work to keep up my English pronunciation and singing skill.
It is good way to get rid of my stress from work!

My Weekend Lunch

Today is Coming-of-Age Day!

Today, January 8^th Monday was Japanese national holiday.
This national holiday is called “Coming-of-Age Day”.
All young kids who just become the age 20 attend the ceremony on this day to celebrate this day.
When we become 20 years old, we can drink and smoke in Japan legally.
More than that, from age 20, Japanese kids are considered as “adult” and start having all responsibilities.

I went to University of Rochester for summer when I was 20.
Someone took me to the bar, but I got big X marks on both of my hands.
Although I was over aged in Japan, I could not drink in the US…
I was shocked that they used a big black pen to write them on my hand, more than I could not drink on that day.
I thought it was ridiculous that I could not wash off those marks on my hands for a couple of days!!

Anyway, because of this, I got a day off from work today.
This is the menu I had yesterday, Sunday.
Noodle!!
This is instant noodle, but by adding cooked stuff separately makes this instant noodle taste much better.
I added cooked beef and cabbage, boiled egg, seaweed, a tube shaped fish paste cake, and sweet mushroom.
Sprinkle some sesame on the top at the end.
This is not too hard to make, but taster really good.


This is the other menu I had today for lunch with watching TV.
This is called Yakisoba.
This is really easy to make, so I sometimes cooked for Americans when I lived there
They liked it!!
It is lots of fun to make these easy recipes for lunch on weekend.
In Japan, we make lots of dishes for dinner, and it is a lot of work.
However, lunch is more casual, so this is such good time for me to cook one favorite dish by myself.
Since I am working till late at night and go out very often, I don’t cook much more.
Moreover I don’t like to eat by myself.
Still I like cooking, so I sometimes invite my friends for dinner to eat together.
I should get used to eat by myself, so that I can cook more, improve my cooking skill and save money!!
Anyway, I had such relaxing weekends this week!

Holiday is over

Back to a real world

Today, Jan 5th, was my first day of work after holidays.

I got confused what time I supposed to be at office in this morning.
I just remembered that I had to be there much earlier than usual.
I took a cub from the station instead of taking a bus since I thoug ht I was about to be late.
However, I ended up to get to my office too early...

My company makes margarine mainly.
Other than that, we are pioneer of making frozen pancake, pie cruse, and sweets in Japan.
We sell our products to hotel, restaurant, and cafe all over Japan.
I have started Internet business since last June.
I coordinate what to sell, how to advertise, how to wrap, and everything.
I made HP too.
www.robinf.co.jp (all in Japanese, though)

This is where my office is located.
Ahhhh, I got so tired today at work.
But from tomorrow, I will have three days off straight again!
It is good to be away from work like this, but kinda hard to go back to work after a long vacation.


I had so many things to do at work today, and felt it was such a short day.
I am just so sleepy, gotta go to bed now. ..
Good Night.

Tofu Restaurant

Tofu Lunch

Today I went to see one of my good friends for lunch.
Since I ate too much on holidays, I picked a restaurant which serves really healthy stuff.
It was $30 lunch course.
This picture is the main dish for the course, and we had more stuff before this.
Even though they say this is all healthy stuff, still it was a lot...

Check this English version of their web site.
This explains a bit about what they serve.
http://www.umenohana.co.jp/e/ume/menu.html

This is steam glutinous rice, clear soup, and Japanese pickles.
By the time I got to this dish, I was so full, but ate all.

I was at this restaurant with a girl whom I have known since I was an elementary school student.
We went to the same college and worked at the same place.
Those were such coincidences.
She went to Germany to study, and now she works for BMW dealer.
It is so much fun for me to talk with someone who is ambitious like her.

This is the last of the course, desert.
Soy Ice cream, black bean favor.
I bet it sounds really bad, but this is actually really good.
Sweet ice cream, but not too sweet, and healthy!!

Tofu is one of great Japanese food we are proud of.
Some say that it does not taste much, but as you can see there are many ways to enjoy Tofu.
And they all taste really good.
Anyway, we had such a luxury lunch time!

New Habit

I started!!

This is my new accounting note which I just got for 2007.
I tried so many kinds of accounting book, but never last long.
I like Snoopy, and this seems like easy, so I hope I will keep tracking my money this year.


This is the inside.
I have already started, and I do well so far.
I will save my money, and wanna go to Las Vegas with my friend.
If I got enough money to spend for gamble, that would be so much fun!
It is my little dream.


I also started going for one-hour walking from today.
Since I have eaten so much lately, I need adjustments...
Maybe walking is not enough...

Anyway, today was such a slow relaxing day.
I needed it!!

My Customs on New Year's Day

New Year in Kyoto

On January 2nd, I spend the day in Kyoto every year.
Kyoto is the place my grandparents live, and the place where I was born.
In Japan, we celebrate New Year for 3 days.
So we celebrate New Year with my parents in Osaka on 1st of Jan, we go to see my grandparents in Kyoto on 2nd, and we get relax on 3rd.

On 2nd of Jan, what I do every year is going to shrine, "Hirano Jinjya" to wish a good year in 2007.
Two bows, crap your hands twice, pray and one bow.
I always forget how to pray at shrine.
It is different from what you have to do at temple.

This is another my custom on 2nd of Jan.
This is called "Omikuji", which is a written oracle in English.
It costs just one buck, and tells me what my luck is like.
I don't trust what it says that much, but still this is what I have to do on this day.
And, of course, I am happy when it says good thing about my luck.
This year, I got "Kichi", the second highest luck.

Other than going to shrine, my sister and I do several same things every year.
We go shopping, we go to Karaoke, we play cards, and we go to a bookstore.
We just repeat the same thing every year, but only once a year.
I love spending New Year's Day in Japan.
New Year's Day in Japan is such a special day.
It is such a hard work to remember all of Japanese traditional things for New Year.
The more you know about Japanese culture, the more you will like Japan!!

A Happy New Year!!

A Happy New Year!!

Year 2007 has started.

Year 2006 was just so great for me, I challenged lots of new things, such as; Hula dance, Gospel Class, and new Internet Business.
In Japan, New Year's Day is such a big deal.
I celebrated New Year with my family this year.
I always make my own goal for each year.
Year 2006, I achieved my goal.
My Goal for year 2007 is about health and money.

Health:

• I will quit smoking
• I will go for an hour walking almost everyday
  
• I will wash my face before I go to bed every night
• I will make my teeth white
  

Money:

• I will keep track of all money I use
• I won't waste my money
  

This is my family's traditional New Year dishes.

This year, we could not have as much food as last year, but still everything was so tasty.
Since we can eat these dishes only once a year, it is so precious for me.
All contents of these dishes have meanings.
My sister and I decided to learn how to cook those for our own family in the future.


New Year's day is like Thanks Giving's Day in the US.
It is all about eating, getting all family together and sleeping.


I wish all my family and friends will have a great year in 2007!!