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!

Hawaii Day 4 (Last day)

Bye bye Hawaii, it was a wonderful trip and i hope to come see you again! But i might think twice judging the awful trip back home was killing me. 

We took 9 hours return flight, 2 hours traffic jam from Narita to Haneda, 1 hour flight to Aomori (That was the last flight back to Aomori and the screen kept showing there's possibility that we might need to fly back to Haneda if the fog was strong, then we have to fly another hour back and stay in hotel), thank god it did not happened, then drive 2 hours back to Misawa. Back to the freezing weather and our FREEZING HOUSE, where Shota realised our pipe outside our house collapsed due to snow accumulated on top of our house came crashing down. I was standing in my house not able to doing anything as i was too cold to move.  Very fun in Hawaii but no fun back home lol!  

that was our ride to the airport. How freaking cool! It costed the same as normal cab.

inside the limo