Love my pie

It had been extremely cold in London. When it's cold weather, those heavy traditional British food is good to keep body warm. Pie from Square pie company.

Tomita

One of the Ramen(Chinese noodle) I received the other day. This is Tuke-men(Dip noodle) from Tomita (http://tomitarozeokaminari.web.fc2.com）

Soup with chashao. The soup is full of flavor of pork and seafood.

The Tomita's Noodle. Very thick and pleasantly chewy! Very close taste to good wheat flower noodle; Udon.

I don't remember how many times i said good or delicious during the meal. This was the best noodle for this year. You could order this noodle from their web-site, it's really worth it.

Santa come early!

I thought Santa crows come to me early this year because I received full of Fresh Ramen(Chinese noodle) today! Those are from very famous Ramen shop in Japan. You need to order in advance. It's great meal for such a cold weather. We always complain there is no good Ramen shop in London. So this make me very happy for a while.

Fish Head

Please don't say scaly. This is the part where fish has plenty of fat; back side of neck. It is very rare to find salmon head in London. I guess most of fish shops or super markets throw it away but i found it in Stock Newington where Jewish community is.

Getting very very cold, so I made Chicken hot pot with Tofu Today.

Sushi-Say

Sushi-Say; Japanese restaurant in Willesden Green (33B Walm lane, NW2 5SH) is one of my favorite Japanese restaurant in London. Authentic and high level for fair price.

Their speciality is Sushi but also they have wide range of appetizers.

12 11 10

Yesterday was a big day for me. I'm living in London for ten years and I finally got my permanent residence visa!! The day was 12 11 10; 12 Nov 2010. So my family in Essex celebrate for me with very typical English dish: Roast meat.

With Yorkshire pudding, of course!

Here is the dish!

From Pisa

Lemmoncino from pisa

***Hawaiian***

My brother's girlfriend went to Hawaii and she got those Hawaiian sweets for me. Kona coffee(Hawaii's famous vanilla taste coffee) glazed macadamias are difficult to stop eating! Very rich flavour. Feels Hawaii where I dream to be there from cold London...

Kuri youkan

Today, I opened a Japanese sweets which my friend gave it to me in Tokyo. Nice calligraphy on traditional Japanese sweets box.

Kuri-Youkan; Sweet jellied adzuki bean paste with chestnuts which is season now. Good with green tea. That's the perfect match.

Higashiya

What do you think these are? Those are Traditional Japanese sweets but presented in a very stylish way. Higashiya is such a design Japanese sweet shop. So stylish, good mixture of old and new, I totally falling in love with their presentation and concept. (http://www.higashiya.com)

My top 5 Korean food.

South Korea, Seoul. My first day, I had my favorite food here. Chicken hot pot. They call it Darkhanmari; means a whole chicken! This restaurant Jinok whahame wonjo darkhanmari (www.wonjodark.co.kr) only have this menu because it's that good!!

Korean style con gee.

Pork barbecue

Spring onion salad accompany with BBQ

Gamjatang: Pork&Potato hot pot.

What I like in Japan... randam selection

Genmai flake shake from Mos burger. My old time favorite!

Onsen; Natural spring spa

Matcha; Green tea.

Unagi; Eel

Ramen; Noodle

Onigiri; rice ball

Shinto wedding

The main reason I come back to Japan this time was to attend my friend wedding. They had their wedding ceremony in one of most prestigious shrine in Japan; Meiji Jingu. Welcome tea with cherry blossom leaf.

Bride in Shiromuku kimono

We marched in procession after groom and bride to go to ceremony.

So pretty!

Reception held within same land of Meiji Jingu. This building used to be belonged to our emperor.

A very old Japanese Architecture

People start seated for celebration.

This is equilibrate to wedding cake; almost 10Litter of Japanese sake inside of wooden box. groom and Bride need to open this.

Then we toast with this Masu.

Starter; Red is color for celebration, so they used a lot of red color.

The bride change her Kimono

Sashimi

We often eat bream for celebration because bream in Japanese is Tai and when there is any good or happy things happen we say 'Mede-tai'

Lobster

Barbie doll wearing same wedding dress with bride will wear in a evening party .

One of their friend played violin.

Gorgeous color

Groom, bride in her hand made wedding dress and friends from university.

Red bean sticky rice is food for celebration.