Month: January 2010
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What were you thinking, Suntory?
Chocolate milk flavoured sparkling water. Think: smells like chocolate milk, tastes like chocolate milk mixed with lemonade. Benno liked it, but Lara thought the combination was just wrong.
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Give me “Fe”
I was feeling a little iron deficient today, so I decided that for dinner we would have a ‘Give me iron curry” like this one. I used 4 large potatoes, 1 cup of uncooked red lentils, 100g of cooked spinach, an onion, some carrot and some curry cube mix and pre-mixed curry powder. Served with…
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Tokyo FAIL
After work on Saturday we both headed into Tokyo on the express bus. Benno bought a new toy, a metallic blue Nintendo DS with a kanji learning game, a dictionary and Zelda. We ate some vegan soymilk doughnuts from NY Doughnut Plant near Akihabara station. Benno at a Yuzu orange flavour and Lara ate a…
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Vegan Snacks in the Supermarket
How to survive in Japan as a vegan: 1. Eat in vegan restaurants or vegan friendly (e.g. macrobiotic) restaurants. Other restaurants may not be so understanding and you may end up with fish stock (dashi) based dishes. 2. Cook yourself using raw ingredients. It’s easy to buy fruit and vegetables. 3. Eat snacks that have…
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January Grand Sumo Tournament
On Sunday we went to the sumo again. In the morning we had no luck finding doughnuts at Tokyo eki (they rotate the flavours and there were no vegan soymilk doughnuts that day) or soy icecream at a Seiyu supermarket. Feeling a little dejected we bought some yatsuhashi wrappers and ate red bean mochi on…
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Kisarazu at sunset
Mt Fuji at sunset. That day we even experienced some rare snow flurries falling at around 3.30pm. The large flakes were gone as soon as they came. I was researching about Japan’s energy sources today for class. 30% of its energy comes from its 55 nuclear reactions scattered around the country. 60% of its energy…
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Matsumoto-jo
On our epic local train journey home from Hakuba to Kisarazu we stopped off at Matsumoto to visit the famous Matsumoto-jo. While I was disappointed that it wasn’t covered in snow like every building was in Hakuba, we were still able to enjoy the pigeon-mountain on top of the castle.
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Nagano-ken Snow Monkeys
After the first day of skiing we went to a local onsen to soothe our muscles. But after 2 days of beginners skiing it was time for a break from sore knees, shoulders, ankles, cold toes and fingers. We caught a couple of local buses from Hakuba to Nagano and beyond to the Jigokudani Monkey…
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Skiing in Hakuba
As the train ride went higher north and into the Japanese Alps we started seeing snow covering the houses and rice fields. By the time we reached Hakuba it was heavily snowing, everything covered in a couple metres of snow and several degrees below zero. It was totally magical to see snow (and in such…
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