Okonomiyaki pancake お好み焼き おこのみやき

お好み焼き　おこのみやき　okonomiyaki
(a fried something-you-like pancake)

With gratitude Akiko-san

Kazuyuki Yamamoto Master of the coffeeshop

喫茶店の名人
きっさてんのめいじん
kissaten no meijin

The Master of the coffee-shop: 
Kazuyuki Yamamoto
山本カズユキ

きりん

ねこ　と　きんぎょ

くま

うさぎ

はくちょう

アルバートアインシュタイン

となりのトトロ

となりのトトロ

まんが

The master at work

しずかに

ピノキオ

ピンクパンザー

やすみのひ

グーフィー

へローキティー

ねこ

いろいろ

とけい

うさぎ

いろいろ

いぬ

  
おとこのひと

スヌーピー

くま

まんが

まねきねこ

ゆきだるま

はち　と　ひまわり

あくま

まんが

ミッキーマウス

モンスターズインク

いろいろなまんが

ハリーポッター

さる

スヌーピー

モナリサ

となりのトトロ

(photos from internet)

What do Japanese youngsters like to do?

But is it?

Well for the “Happy Few” it is, but most have to work – 

long hours and cheap wages: アルバイト arubaito.

800 – 1000 yen an hour

 

Delicious-looking food おいしそうなたべもの

和食　わしょく　日本食　にほんしょく

washoku or nihonshoku

Japanese food

おいしそうな　昼ご飯　ひるごはん

oishisōna hirugohan

a delicious–looking lunch

みそしる

misoshiru

miso soup

おいしそうな　ひるごはん

oishisōna hirugohan

a delicious-looking lunch

おいしそうな　さしみ

oishisōna sashimi

a delicious-looking sashimi (raw fish)

おいしそうな　てりやき　サモン

oishisōna teriyaki samon

a delicious-looking teriyaki salmon

おいしそうな　カレースープ

oishisōna kareesūpu

a delicious-looking curry soup

おいしそうな　てんぷら

oishisōna tempura

a delicious-looking tempura

おいしそうな　サラダ

oishisōna sarada

a delicious-looking salad

べんりそうな　おはし

benrisōna ohashi

practical-looking chopsticks

おいしそうな　ごはん

oishisōna gohan

delicious-looking cooked rice

いただきます

itadakimasu

For what we are about to receive,

(may we be thankful to the Lord)

pattern

おいしそうな　ごはん

oishisōna gohan

delicious-looking cooked rice

Rice fields たんぼ tambo, tanbo

田んぼ　たんぼ

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

rice fields   たんぼ     tambo

Eel Lunchbox かばやきべんとう Kabayaki Bento

Limousine holiday outing; a real hen-party!

Today is a special day! It doesn’t matter if it rains.

Let’s go for lunch and dinner and stay in Arima!

And let’s go in a limousine! Just for fun!

Let the Hen Party begin!

The restaurant – hotel is so expensive that the crockery is matched to the guests’ outfit! And each and every dish is different crockery!

 It doesn’t matter if it rains today.

Today is fun and exquisite and civilised.

Nothing a limousine can’t attend to.

  

Oh, what fun!

Bamboo Dishes in Kyoto

A famous restaurant in Kyoto which specialises in bamboo as a dish. 

Just down the road from Yasaka Jinja.

Here the bamboo is being cooked over a slow fire.

Prepared just for you.

Rice pilaf.

Not only the food is exquisite, but the setting too.

Unusual and very expensive.

A light tempura lunch in the Ginza

Lunch in the Ginza requires some finance, but is it worth it?!  Yes!

Modern Tableware bowl ちゃわん chawan dish さら sara

This is what a (better) Japanese lunch looks like. 

Each and every dish is separated in its presentation and contents. 

If the food is to go into the stomach, it first has to pass two eyes…

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

A typical Japanese dinner in a more formal (and expensive) restaurant.

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

Lunch sets

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

Breakfast sets

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

Here are some photos of good quality tableware that would be pleasing to the eye of any guest. Different styles are represented.

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

A more expensive dinner set box.

Most Japanese families would have stacks of this kind of stylish pottery, just in case visitors call in, and all this pottery would have to be hand-washed after the meal.

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

pottery style

modern ceramics

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

This dish would be valuable because of its exquisite glace.

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara

bowl   ちゃわん  chawan

dish 　さら 　sara