Mochi machine
Mochi are Japanese sweets made from pounded sticky rice and normally filled with sweet red bean paste. You have probably read me talking about them before, or heard me writing about...
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Sugar-tastic
I entered a competition on the Nagoya International Centre website to win tickets to the Nagoya Sweets exhibition. Having forgotten about it, I was surprised to open my mail box and...
Read moreShinden staff party
Here are a few snaps of the end-of-term party forShinden. We went to a restaurant and had a beautiful multi-course meal with all-you-can-drink beer and sake for 90 minutes. As you...
Read moreFriends and chicken wings
Last Saturday we had something of a goodbye party for Tyler, who left yesterday to go back to the States. We started off in the Oxo, a “British pub” in Kanayama...
Read more(A bit more than) The week in one post
When I left you a few weeks ago, I signed off with “…I’m meeting Tyler, a friend who I have known since we were at Narita, for lunch. This evening it’s...
Read moreHiking from Tsumago to Magome
Last weekend, in an effort to fulfill goal number 3 (being more sociable), I arranged a trip to go hiking in the hills outside Nagoya with a couple of friends. In...
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