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Kit Kat in Japan is now selling special collaborative items - with TBC : one of the most popular beauty salons in Japan.
The flavors of the “Kit Kat x TBC” are Aloe Yoghurt and Bitter Almond. Sounds delicious!
And, there are new flavors in Japan’s Kit Kat in addition to my previous posts Kit Kat in Japan and Kit Kat in Japan 2.
Since I was a kid, eating was one of my hobby and I could eat almost any food. The common food that kids normally dislike include green capsicums (called “pi-man” in Japanese), carrots, tomatoes… basically vegetables. Like other kids, pi-man wasn’t my favorite food either because of its bitter taste, but I started to like it since I was 10. Now it’s one of my favorite food.
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To reduce kids’ dislike food, Japan’s school including kindergarden started to take “food education” seriously and worked hard to make kids like vegetables. Most of schools in Japan (mainly public schools) serve lunch to students (called “kyuushoku”), and cooks prepare meals to students everyday. Those cooks try to make the food interesting to kids, so that kids would eat them and reduce their dislike food. They cut vegetables into shapes of stars and hearts, and create a face or some scene with those cut vegetables.
To recall my memory, I started to like lots of food as I aged. I hated natto (fermented soy bean), rakkyo (a kind of pickles), umeboshi (pickled plum), chili powder, wasabi, etc etc before, but I love most of them. (now I even love eating fresh chili and sambal) I also didn’t like beer few years ago, but now I often feel like drinking it.
There are actually three food that I still can’t eat … and I had never been able to eat them since I was a kid. They are raw eggs, yama-imo (yam potatoes) and okura (okra). I think the reason is their slimy texture… Lots of Japanese enjoy a bowl of steamed rice mixed with raw egg and soy sauce, but I hate it and watching people eating it makes me feel like vomiting.. :p
Anyway, I may be able to eat all of them eventually as I age, but I’m not sure… I can’t think about it at this point! Do you have any food that you never thought you could eat them but it happened to be your favorite food?? Aging changes people’s food preferences … I think so.
I’ve been eating bagels quite often lately. This Bagelier is an online bakery shop settled in Metropolitan Perth, which deliver freshly baked bagels and other baked sweets right to your door.
I love bagels, but I also miss Japanese style bread. I hope someone open a Japanese bakery shop in Perth! Japanese bread are different, and there are many many flavors. Is there bakeries owned by Japanese bakers within Australia?
By the way I love my Cranberry x Cream Cheese bagel at Bagelier. Green Tea flavors are also nice. After toasting they are nicely crusty and I can enjoy the hard crust as I like. Personally I love very crusty bread, or very chewy bread. The bagels from bagelier are nicely chewy and reasonably hard when you heat up. If you have a small oven toaster it makes them nicely crunchy and chewy! You can buy them in bulk and keep in the freezer, in this way you can enjoy a bagel anytime 
What do you feel like eating when you are really really hungry?? I mean, the situation where you can almost eat a horse. Would you run to KFC, or do you cook steak quickly to fill up your stomach? I, on the other hand, rush to cook rice first. When my stomach is empty I need to fill it up with steamed rice! Yes, that’s right. I am Japanese :p
I also love bread, pasta, chips, hotdog etc… but I always come back to simple steamed rice. My family owns few rice fields in Japan, so I grew up with rice everyday.
What do I eat with steamed rice? Well, steamed rice is like “main dish” in Japan. In every meal there is steamed rice, and some side dishes like grilled fish or miso soup. I can even eat one bowl of steamed rice with just few pickles. That’s what people used to eat in old era in Japan.
There are many rice dishes in Japanese cuisine, such as rice balls (Onigiri), Chirashi Zushi, Omu-Rice, Domburi, 3 Shoku Gohan etc. Some people eat noodle or Okonomiyaki as a side dish of steamed rice. It’s very easy to eat rice everyday in Japan, even you are away from home, as you can just grab Onigiri or Bento from convenience stores nearby. (they’ll heat up the food for you)
When I get hungry my character changes. I don’t know why I can’t control myself, but it’s been like that since I was a child :p So, rice is quite important food in my life, I guess. I can keep myself calm 
月曜がLabour Dayなんで今日から３連休！明日から３月、早いなあ(>_<)日本ではもう春の兆しが見え始めてる時期で、ひな祭りの歌とかあちこちで流れてそう。こっちはこれからだんだんと秋に突入して、雨の季節である冬が始るよ。…って、まだ暫くは暑い日があるかもしれないケド。
３連休で良い天気なんで、ピクニックにでも行こうとサンドイッチを作り始めました。でも冷蔵庫にはあまり材料がナイ…☆今は車が無いから買い出しし行けないし、（まあサンドイッチの材料買うだけに車運転するのも面倒だけど）だから唯一あった卵を使ってカリーエッグサンドイッチを作りました♪
カリーエッグサンドイッチ(curried egg sandwich) って日本で見た事無かったけど、コッチじゃ普通に家庭で食べられてる一般的なサンドイッチ。何もスペシャルなモノじゃ無いんだけど、前に働いてたホテルのルームサービスでこのサンドイッチのオーダーもらって、私はこのサンドイッチの存在を初めて知りました（汗）実は最初はあんまり美味しそうじゃなかったこのサンドイッチ☆でも今では時々家で作って食べてます。
作り方は簡単！作り方載せるほどじゃないかもしれないケド一応☆☆☆潰したゆで卵にカレー粉とマヨネーズを混ぜて塩こしょうするだけ。レタスも一緒にサンドしてちょびっとだけでも野菜を摂取してマス。
あ、ゆで卵をスクランブルエッグに変えるのもオススメ♪卵にミルクかクリームを混ぜてスクランブルエッグを作る時、 well done になるまで火を通さずにちょっと半熟状態でストップ。しっとり仕上がるんでパンに挟んでもポロポロ落ちずに食べ易いです。カレー粉の他にマスタードとかアボカド、マヨやチャツネ etc をサンドしてもgood☆卵大好きな私はコレだけで充分なランチです(^^)v
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