Posts Tagged ‘food’
Pocky and Calbee
I’m not an avid consumer of Pocky, as hard as that might be to believe. I’m not a pocky fan or one of those people that create a shrine for Pocky. I look at it realistically and think…
“well, it’s a biscuit stick dipped in frosting”
I think the last time I had Pocky was mm….5 years ago? Anyway, I finally decided to buy a box and relive the Pocky moment. This was a special blueberry pocky. Tsubu Tsubu Blueberry. What’s tsubu tsubu? I’m going to guess frothy.
Of course it comes in a nice box with a specific way to open it. I love it when my box tells me how to open him. It leaves nothing to the imagination!
There were originally…four…packets…but uh…three of them mysteriously decided to disappear.
The plastic wrap was semi translucent with cute blueberries around it. When you open the wrapping, you can reeeeeally smell the blueberry. It was reeeeally good. They need to make pocky in huge buckets or something. Each stick is gobbled up in about .5 a second. I suppose this really teaches me to savor everything. I have a feeling I’m going to lose a lot of weight if I go to Japan.
I picked this up because it was on sale and it’s ume flavored! Plum….mmmm.
Little specs of the ume. This chip was…weird to taste. It was like…salty…sour…if it didn’t look like a chip I would think it was barf. But because it was a chip, it was acceptable? I know that sounds really weird.
Fish and Cats
I went to Kitayama lunch one day. This is what happens when you’re bored.
Ebi tails for the eyebrows.
I scooped out the pulp of the lemon and replaced it with wasabi.
Then you spread the wasabi around and peel apart the ginger so it is completely flat (no wrinkles!), and lay it around. A work of art.
Then I went to see my uncle who has had his new cat, Tigger, for about a year now. I used to live at his house while he was on vacation to take care of Tigger. I haven’t seen him in almost a year now, and he doesn’t seem to really remember me. He run up to the loft and I couldn’t find him, only to finally spot him behind the computer desk.
He used to seem more brown to me but he’s gray now. Kind of panther like!
California Pizza Kitchen
My brother recently posted about CPK and how my mom made rare visits to there with us when we were little. It is still a rare treat and today my mom decided to go! I think it’s been about…4 years since I’ve been there with her.
We used to get 2 soups in one bowl: Potato Leek and Chicken Tortilla. But, they don’t have Potato Leek anymore since a long time ago when I realized this so I just got the Chicken Tortilla. I did take a picture of it, but it kind of looks like barf so I’m not going to post it.
Here is the spectacular view of the parking lot I told my brother about. Hah…too bad.
And we got the Mango Tandoori Chicken: Grilled Tandoori chicken, mango, mild onions, red peppers and Mozzarella cheese on a SPICY golden curry sauce. Topped with fresh cilantro and a sweet mango-chili sauce.
It sounds really interesting, and it is really interesting. The flavors…mm…didn’t really work…I think. The sweet mango, the spicy curry…the cilantro……Gordon Ramsay would be like “what the f* is this?! There’s just too much going on there, yeah?!…..yeah?!” Regardless, we finished it all and I was able to say “yeah I’ve tried that before”.
Yummy Tuna Bowl
Last week, I tried this bowl out and it was soooooooooooooooo yummy. And only like….$5 something! There was another one topped with crab meat, but…..sometimes that kind of crab meat just tastes salty, you know? So I got the tuna, and it was sooooooooooooooo good. Sooooooooooooooooo good. In the next few days, I was dreaming about eating it again. So I did…and it was soooooooooooooooooo good. I mean…it tastes just like the sushi, but….eating it like this, in a bowl, is kind of different! There is something amazing about wolfing down a bowl instead of picking up pieces one by one and eating them.
This week, I went to Mitsuwa again to eat this…and they didn’t have it anymore. Was it a limited edition? What was so special about last week? Will I never be able to experience the yummy goodness that is this bowl? /cry At least I got to eat it two times…