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Nov. 3rd, 2018 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_raven A little less than three days to go until we fly home. Today was supposed to be easy, but we ended up walking first up to Kappabashi Dori, then to Cat Street (not the one in Shibuya where the cosplayers hang out, but one north of Ueno where there are a lot of actual felines), and then down to Ueno near the train station to the shopping streets there to eat and go to Hard Off and Mode Off. Yeah, I bought myself some used clothes! ROFL ... one top is a black blouse with with Indian-style embroidery, and the other is a ... well, just a green t-shirt that says "record" in big letters. It seemed random and I liked it. They're in the laundry right now with my other stuff. I needed to do one more load of washing to get home on.
It's about six pm locally, and I doubt we'll go do much of anything else today. We ate okonomiyaki while we were in Ueno so I am not even remotely hungry. I also had cat tail donuts earlier, they were warm and terrific - I got a chocolate with white chocolate chips and one chestnut paste. Fox got matcha paste and sugar cane. I am glad we can get chestnuts a little easier in the US now. I believe they found a species of chestnut that resists blight. Anyway, when we're home and I see chestnuts at Publix I'll probably load up on them and make chestnut jam.
In the kitchenwares district I found a little bamboo brush for getting shit out of a microplane grater. WHY DON'T WE HAVE THESE IN AMERICA. I've even tried the trick of wrapping parchment around the grater, and that doesn't work. I'm always stuck with a bunch of food in the tiny holes of the grater, no way to get it out, and I feel like I wasted money, time, and food. Since I'm probably going to be making vegetable stir-fries when we get home I can try it out with grated ginger. We're both really missing our home-style eating habits. Especially the fiber, if you catch my drift. Personally I'm looking forward to a huge pot of coffee and an acai bowl. The "large" coffee here is laughable. I feel like I should get three or four of them just to get rolling. Oh yeah, I'll have to make granola if I want that for breakfast ... I guess I should make myself some to-do and shopping lists for home.
I also didn't buy as much bento stuff as I thought I would. I did buy a rice-ball case - it holds two onigiri and protects them from being squashed. I also got these neat condiment dispensers that will work way better than the plastic bottles I have been using. A lot of this stuff is cute, but I can get it cheaper on Amazon, TBH.
I am still enjoying myself but I'm getting pretty homesick. Tomorrow we may go to Yokohama, and I still need to find the neko shrine but otherwise I've managed to cross off a lot of the things I really wanted to do while I was here. And since my laundry is probably dry now I'll wrap this up and go get my shit!
It's about six pm locally, and I doubt we'll go do much of anything else today. We ate okonomiyaki while we were in Ueno so I am not even remotely hungry. I also had cat tail donuts earlier, they were warm and terrific - I got a chocolate with white chocolate chips and one chestnut paste. Fox got matcha paste and sugar cane. I am glad we can get chestnuts a little easier in the US now. I believe they found a species of chestnut that resists blight. Anyway, when we're home and I see chestnuts at Publix I'll probably load up on them and make chestnut jam.
In the kitchenwares district I found a little bamboo brush for getting shit out of a microplane grater. WHY DON'T WE HAVE THESE IN AMERICA. I've even tried the trick of wrapping parchment around the grater, and that doesn't work. I'm always stuck with a bunch of food in the tiny holes of the grater, no way to get it out, and I feel like I wasted money, time, and food. Since I'm probably going to be making vegetable stir-fries when we get home I can try it out with grated ginger. We're both really missing our home-style eating habits. Especially the fiber, if you catch my drift. Personally I'm looking forward to a huge pot of coffee and an acai bowl. The "large" coffee here is laughable. I feel like I should get three or four of them just to get rolling. Oh yeah, I'll have to make granola if I want that for breakfast ... I guess I should make myself some to-do and shopping lists for home.
I also didn't buy as much bento stuff as I thought I would. I did buy a rice-ball case - it holds two onigiri and protects them from being squashed. I also got these neat condiment dispensers that will work way better than the plastic bottles I have been using. A lot of this stuff is cute, but I can get it cheaper on Amazon, TBH.
I am still enjoying myself but I'm getting pretty homesick. Tomorrow we may go to Yokohama, and I still need to find the neko shrine but otherwise I've managed to cross off a lot of the things I really wanted to do while I was here. And since my laundry is probably dry now I'll wrap this up and go get my shit!
