Food!

Recently i always have craving for Chinese food, i guess i miss Singapore food and my mum's cooking too much. Especially my mum's curry chicken, soups, fried rice!!! So even though Japan chinese resturant's food varieties are quite different but when i tasted fried rice i feel happier haha! My parents and uncle are coming to visit me next week, can't wait to show them around!

cost around 1000 yen 

hus cooking fried karaage

beef stew!

thanks to hub cooking!

home cook food by my parents in law

My parents in law have a garden around their house and my father in law will grow all sorts of plants. He's the expert in farming, recently they sent us 4 plants of asparagus grown by him for us since we are not successful in ours.  When we went to their house, he showed me the plant that he took from the mountain, it supposed to grow only in mountain area. Since the winter is over, we started planting seeds in our garden, we shall see which are successful. 

the plant my father in law took back from the mountain lol! the 1 covered in blue plastic is tomato.

if you can see asparagus underneath are grown by them

super tasty! cold dish by okasan

the white long rectangular in the small bowl is actually the plant shown in picture above. 

P-chan 10 years old (120 yrs old in human life) 

Okaasan made those siew mai and let us took in back home to eat. Delicious!

the younger version of the plant. still not fully grown.

Flowers around my house

Been enjoying the small surprises in my life recently. Everyday i will check on different flowers blooming in my area or other people house. Past few day i was looking with envy at tulips blossoming at other houses and yesterday i saw a red tulip at my garden! Since the house is rented from Shota's boss, we had alot plants and trees but we have no idea what they are. Even now its decorating our life with pretty colours, we still have no clue at else will continue to bloom. I like this surprise!  

one day we came back and discovered this pleasant surprise 

neighbour house

outside my house

food tasting at supermarket! of coz the lady will cut into small pieces

sorry pal! u r wanted for dinner

crab dinner!

Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival 2014

Here we are! Heading to one of the famous spot of Cherry Blossom sightseeing in Tohoku region. From Misawa, we drove to Aomori and took train to Hirosaki. The train was packed with visitors all the way from Yokohama or Tokyo, wanting to view the scenery as well. We met 2 lovely old ladies from Yokohama on the train, they were so impressed with our talking speed in English, told us they had learnt English but they could barely understand us since we are talking way too fast. When we went back to Aomori, we saw them again taking the same train back! 

Sad to say, the castle will be rebuilding after this festival and it will take 10 years for it to finish reconstruction. So this is the last year to see the famous scenery. 

Hirosaki JR station. 

View from city hall buliding, during the festival they will open it to visitors to see from top of their building

what a lovely weather, you can see the mountain from far!

sakura falling onto the lake. imagine this in ur bathtub

the hard work of every nice photo lol

We did not queue, too long and nothing to see actually. Been there, done it

Kristi fav pink sakura

their ghost house

people everywhere

you can rent a boat. alot of families and couples doing that and only the guys were doing all the work haha

trying their luck. This is back at Aomori where they have a park with sakura trees as well.

800 yen full of crab meat!

200 yen crab soup so sweet!

at aomori, scale was alot smaller, more for the locals

bbq meat for dinner!

we got fined 1000 yen for bbq our own food +p we wanted to heat up the scallops that we brought outside and we didn't ask 

only Bao can capture that without all those ppl appearing in the photo!

hehe