Weekend Food

ramen

 Neapolitan pizza

 Chinese

I guess today makes it Day-1 of our diet!

Nori

Look at these laser cut seaweed sheets!

 

Awesome Blossom.

Hakata Ramen

Over the weekend, the hubs took me to a ramen place that he had found online. Hakata ramen is one of my favorite foods and is very hard to make and find in the US. There was an incredible wait time, but I was beaming the whole time!

The place was owned by a taiwanese chef, so we started out with the apple sidra.

Of course, we had to order the pan fried pork dumplings.

And the ramen!!!! I actually ordered extra noodles :) So so so good!

Chirashi to-go!

My favorite Japanese food is hakata ramen and chirashi. Although there is no hakata ramen where I live, there is a sushi place with AMAZING chirashi :)

This was for lunch so I felt like vegetable chirashi~ so so good!

My favorite is the inari (fried tofu skin) and the burdock root :)

Noodles

Yesterday we went to noodles company and ordered the Japanese pan noodles and yellow curry soup. The portion was quite small as we woke up in the middle of the night and had 2 bowls of cereal. I seriously couldn't sleep for 3 hours cause I was so hungry! This hasn't happened to me since the college days...

yaki udon - do Japanese dishes have cilantro in them?

my curry noodle

can't forget the green tea

and the all mighty Sriracha

but why is there a macaroni in my soup?

Felt Art

There was a time when my artistic side took over and tried to make "cute" things. I found this Japanese felt art book which I will share with you. It's super cute!

chirashi sushi with eggs and crab miso soup

green tea set and wasabi, ginger, cucumber...etc.

roll cake

fruits

bento

Happy Ramen!

 at the Ramen Stadium, Canal City, Fukuoka, Japan

the kitchen...where magic happens

hakata ramen! also known as tonkotsu ramen...very very very good! The goodness is measured by whether you can finish it or not..sometimes the broth gets really greasy and it gets to your stomach (yuk).

 another hakata ramen from another store at the ramen stadium. this was very good too!

Detox

Have you heard of the detox patch?

I've heard a lot of argument going on whether this really does work or not, but it feels like its working so what da heck! I'm going to use it! You put the patch on whatever body part you feel like, and after a couple of hours, the patch turns black...yuk. We usually put it on the bottom of our feet, since thats where all the pressure points for the body is.

NANA

I feel like a cheeseball writing about manga, but a couple of days ago, I started reading nana again and realized how entertaining manga is! Having learned Japanese a couple of years ago, the english translations seem very unnatural, but nevertheless it is a guilty pleasure.

These two girls with the same name, Nana, end up living together in Tokyo, and so the story goes. It has been also made into a movie starring Nakashima Mika and and Miyazaki Aoi.

Today's Dinner

I have this sudden craving for ......... (drumroll)..........sushi rolls!

will be eating this in approximately 50 minutes! yum yum yum...