This video speaks volumes about animal/human behavior

Traditional way of making delicious mochi

The traditional way of making Japanese mochi is to pound the steamed rice as shown in the above video. I had the opportunity to witness the pouding and video-ed part of the process. We bought a box of the mochi and ate them. The mochi was freshly made and so tasted better than those sold in the supermarkets. The fillings is usually sweet red beans.

My e-guide helped her

Another yummy meal

The top picture is kawara soba which was prepared at home. For lunch, we visited a Chinese restaurant and had mapo tofu, mushrooms & bamboo shoots, a bowl of soup with rice.

"Lily of the Valley" by George Jones

Cooking prawn mee in Japan

We bought 9 fresh big prawns, 3 small packets of fresh noodles and about 300 gm of pork (twee bak). We deshelled the prawns and with the heads, we boiled them to make soup stock. Thin slices of pork were added to the stock. A little bit of salt was added in the soup. The veggie (daikon leaves) was from our garden. While boiling the soup stock, we simultaneously cooked the noodles.
The results are the 2 lovely bowls of "hay mee".

Hawker food in Japan

Was at the Japanese hawker center this morning for early lunch. The food is good and cheap. It is self-service and payment is made through machine.The beef rice which is very delicious cost S$3 and the ramen is S$4. The stalls are open only on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Sale of apartments in southern Japan

The above new apartments are for sale in Kitakyushu, southern Japan. The are a mere 3 minute walk to a train station. The prices range from 25 million Yen (S$312,000) to 32 million Yen (S$400,000). The exchange rate is 1,000 Yen to S$12.50. These apartments are sitting on freehold land.
The district of these apartments is equivalent to Singapore's Orchard Road area.

Brunch with miso prawn soup

We didn't want to waste yesterday's prawn heads and so used them for the miso soup. The taste is incredibly tasty and may try to cook prawn mee.

Eating prawns and sukiyaki beef at home

Food stuff is rather inexpensive in Japan. The 304 gm of thinly sliced beef is S$ 6.50. Nine pieces of big fresh prawns (fit to eat as sashimi) is $7. We cooked the beef in sukiyaki style with leek and cabbage. The prawns were dipped in hot boiling water for a few seconds. We each had the above with 2 bowls of Japanese rice.