Authentic Chinese resturant 台湾料理 四季紅 十和田店

I am so happy to find an authentic and affordable Chinese restaurant in Towada! Misawa Chinese restaurant is pretty expensive so we only visited once during my 9 months stay here. All the staffs are either chinese or taiwanese, finally i can get to speak Chinese. They gave generous amount of food, even the 2 big boys surrendered and said they were full. The lovely chinese staff gave us free coke us and said that the boss is expanding the business and looking at store in Misawa. Yea!   

salad

fried chicken

mayo fried prawn

black pepper beef, there's alot more but was busy eating to continue taking photos

so thats how popcorn originally looks like

sakura is blooming

Below is the link
http://tabelog.com/aomori/A0203/A020304/2007403/

Spring is coming!

After enduring 5 months of winter, spring has arrived! Flowers are blooming all around! 

on top of hill view

vegetable soup

scallops!

yoghurt ice cream 

sakura blossoming soon !

Ebi Ramen

It is quite rare to see prawn ramen shop as usually most ramen are meat based soup. I saw this in the Japanese magazine and was pestering him to bring me along. Turned out the prawn wasn't the prawn i expected when we eat prawn noodle in Singapore. Its the tiny shrimps that's usually meant to add flavour in the soup or u grind it into powder. Still delicious though although i was hoping the soup to be like Singapore prawn soup. After we left, he asked me if i know what ingredients the ramen contained and the soup. I replied the prawn soup was delicious. He said that was actually pork soup based not prawn then they added the baby shrimps for flavour. I was ...............

I was never a food expert and most of friends will agreed i have quite low standard in evaluating food taste lol. The food expert or the "picky" one in my family is my brother. Anyway, he said Japanese are quite picky for the soup based, if the ramen shop will be served only prawn based soup, it will be niche market as majority are used to meat based soup and so its better only to add shrimps in the soup to have the mild ebi taste instead. 

Pho Party!

The Hoang invited us to their house for dinner and they were going to make vietamese Pho. Of course.... We agreed! You will have to be kidding urself if you reject their request. Bao's COOKING and Kristi's BAKING is the best! ermmm..... Don't worry, Shota remains my number 1. Although Pho looks simple, it need many ingredients actually. Thanks for inviting us!

weird onion in his hand

all waiting hungrily 

so spicy!! 

ox tail soup

Thanks Zack! now he know not to bully me so often!

Delicious banana cream pie! Baked by another guest.

Dragoncafe @ Aomori

Early in the dawn, i woke up at 5.45am to get ready as we need reach Aomori for him to go for interview. Nope he's not changing job but joining reserve army under JGSDF (Japan Ground Self Defense Force). In the event of huge scale disaster like tsunami, they will be called to help out etc. In Japan, the military service is not compulsory and alot people are very willing to enlist. Even Japanese girls will viewed this as one of ideal job for their husband because the military job belong under government worker. It is not easy to get in as well. There are 50 interviewees waiting and thats only in Aomori, They were recruiting 30 people for the whole Tohoku area, so u can imagine that other regions have around same number and competing for the same slots.

So while he was in the interview, i stayed in Okaasan house then. Ashamed to say, due to me being awake so early and the drowsy allergy medicine i consumed, i became sleepy and slept for 3 hours lol! I have to confess whenever i took long car/bus/train ride, i have a tendency to become drowsy and need to take a nap. Sachiko and grace if u recalled the 1st time we went to stay in ur house, while both of u were driving and navigating with the map, me and fengzhen would be sleeping like dead at the back ALMOST ALL THE TIME. Now back to present, 'he' hates it and will stop me as he needs some1 to talk to ensure he stays awake. I know how he feels BUT i cannot control it. So.... usually i will turn my face slightly towards my left and mumble in agreement. Opps!    

waiting at the cafe 

im wearing my father in law fire-fighter uniform when he's wearing shota's fire-fighter set,. Japanese is alot lighter than American and that's because they do and cannot enter the fire premises. Japanese houses are typically make of wood hence the fire spread easily. American houses are make of concrete, hence if fire is in 1 room, concrete will contain the fire in the room, allowing fire-fighters to go in and search for people. 

one day i will be able to prepare and copy my mother in law recipe.

late celebration for okaasan belated bday.

Dinner @

This sushi restaurant is located along the main street of Misawa Sky Plaza. We originally intended to go another place but it was closed. We chose 1600 yen dinner set and it was delicious! Usually it is quite rare to taste terrible food in Japan anyway. They really set high standard for me that i became quite picky now.

sushi chef busy preparing his orders

radish and fish

baby squid

fried squid. side order

so good!

prawn base soup

ended with ice cream

Dinner @ Tex-Mex Restaurant

Since i moved to Misawa and tasted Taco Bells on the base, i began to love eating tacos and Mexican food. In fact, Taco Bells have become my no.1 fave fast food outlet. Back when Taco Bell still existed in Singapore, i never want to eat it. But i bet the taste was different anyway. Shota commented that he did not know i have become a tacos person, i used to make a face when i heard that we were going to eat tacos. Now im so happy when we are going to mexican food lol!

popcorn shrimp

we shared the tacos set since we are heading home for dinner

Lunch @ Acc

I love eating lunch at different type of cafes! They usually offer best deal during lunch time and came with soup,dessert and drink!

Ice cream @ Namiki Gelato

The weather has turned warmer! We went to Shiroi Mori to have lunch and cake and i asked him if we could to have ice cream. I was eyeing someone's post on facebook that they went there for ice cream and off we went!

chocolate and pistachio mousse 

my fav pita lunch at shiroi mori

pony at Namiki farm

they extended a new building for restaurant! I want to try it next time!