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Hinamatsuri…

Photos from today- Hinamatsuri or Dolls Festival, March 3rd.

Hinamatsuri cake

Hinamatsuri sembei

Haruka and me on Hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri, also known as Doll Festival or Girls Day, is celebrated on the third day of the third month every year. People with daughters often display elaborately designed dolls on red, stair like furniture and depending on where in Japan you are from then the way in which the dolls are displayed is different! I ate Hinamatsuri cake at my private students house today after the lesson! And was given doll rice crackers! Cute huh?

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Tokyo fruits and other stuff…

Today was another day pretty much free for me. I decided that while i have been eating mikan(mandarins), grapes and plums occasionly for my fruit intake i needed a bit more…so i went to the supermaket to buy ingredients for tonights dinner (tandoori chicken salad with a yogurt and mint dressing!!!) i also picked up some stuff to make fruit salad. Not having a lot of space in the apartment (Ie…any bench space) i was forced to cut it all up on a little table while in the bedroom…

It looked like this…

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And while cutting food up in the living/sleeping area sounds a little strange it is often quite normal for those living in one bedroom apartments. And the end result was so good that i didn’t really mind much…

Trust me it tasted better than it looks….

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Dinner was also a success….nice and refreshing to have salad and fruit for dinner cos it was so hot today!

Mind you, today shopping, for the fruit, salad ingredients + some tuna, bread and a kit kat (my three must haves after mandarins) it came to about $70 aussie dollars (6000yen)…So definitely not something i can do every week!

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Peru restaurant run….

Last night Shumpei, James, Catherine and I ventured all the way out to Hachioji to go to a Peruvian restaurant! It was so good……i think i may have actually dreamt about the food last night, and will probably do so again tonight!! James and i had actually been before a couple years ago and it was nice to visit again and know it was exactley the same (the owner even remembered me!). It is a shame that the other Cat couldn’t join us…as she is the reason we went the first time in 2004….Can’t wait for you to come back to Japan babe, even if it is just for a visit!! Congratulations also on graduating from Uni!!!

I totally forgot to take photos last night, but here are a couple from the night out…Can’t wait to go back!

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