Oranges in Japan

These orange trees belong to our neighbours. The oranges will be ready for harvesting in March next year. By then, they will be very sweet. Our neighbours have promised to give us some of these oranges.

During my walks the I took pictures of ......

As I walked along, I noticed the oranges are grown in the wild or perhaps belong to the occupants of a house nearby, a barren Sakura tree and a small rice field. I was told by early April, the tree would have beautiful Sakura flowers. I am waiting eagerly to photograph the Sakura flowers a month from now.

I am quite amazed to have found the post box in Fukuoka. We have done away with this many years ago.
The oranges are still trying to ripen in my in-laws' garden. They gave us some limes which are very refreshing to make drinks out of them.

Breakfast,lunch at home, dinner @ Yoshinoya

I had tang hoon (glass noodles) for breakfast. Lunch was rice, miso soup, fried bitter gourd with cherry tomatoes and eggs and a plate of home made Japanese char siew. Also had an orange after lunch.
Eating home cooked food is, in my opinion is a healthier choice. Only issue with cooking is the amount of time and work involved. Doing the dishes is also a chore. Eating out is convenient but not necessarily healthy as my blogger friend pointed out in his blog.

Dinner@ Yoshinoya (Beef Bowl)

Beef with rice or "Beef Bowl" is one of my favorite Japanese dishes. I had it for dinner at Compass One Mall. I opted for just a bowl which cost $6.50. In Japan, the same dish cost about $4 and taste even better.
I had ice kachang for dessert from Kopitiam ($2.20, picture below)

Today's meals and Mr Koh the hawker

Began the day with some sweet oranges and before that a cup of kopi O. Lunch was typical Japanese home prepared food. Dinner was a $6 plate of delectable fried Hokkien mee at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.

A note about the Hokkien mee hawker:

Let's call him Koh. He is about 60 years old, slim and tall with a head of thin grey hair. He fries the mee in a large wok and his helper is his wife. Koh's mee is really good and my guess is that he is in this business for a long time, maybe 30 years or more. His stall is at the wet market and I think he is the original tenant and pays a nominal rent of about $400 a month to the HDB. His overhead is very low and judging by the number of customers he has everyday, his profit may be in the region of $12,000. He charges $3.50 for the smallest plate and $6 to the biggest (the one I had). He is not friendly at all and hardly say a work as he fries his mee...he does not have to be friendly as long as he could satisfy his customers' taste buds. He opens his stall at 3pm and closes at 10pm daily.
In Singapore, if a hawker or cook excels in his cooking, he will make tons of money.