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Our Japan trip in 10 minutes!

June 23, 2011 Blog
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Some of you may know that Derek and I went to Japan in November last year. We met wonderful people, ate delicious food, drank every night, saw amazing stuff, visited incredible places, and oh yeah, Derek proposed to me in front of the Laputa robot statue at the Ghibli Museum. It was the most unforgettable two weeks of our life. On my blog I wrote [...]

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How to make oshi-zushi (with smoked salmon)

June 19, 2011 basics
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Have you ever seen really boxy shaped sushi? I mean really boxy. Like the rice and fish is pressed together so firmly that it almost looks like it’s made out of lego bricks. Then it must be “Oshi-zushi.” Oshi-zushi, or sometimes “Oshi-sushi”, (means “pressed sushi”) is made by lining the bottom of a box with the toppings, covering them with sushi rice, and then pressing [...]

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Non-bento #28: Happy New Year bunny!

January 1, 2011 bento
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Shin-nen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! (Happy New Year! in Japanese) We could’ve gone all out and made “osechi”, a very traditional bento/meal for a new year with 16 different dishes, but it’s very time consuming and can cost a lot since I have to get many ingredients at a Japanese supermarket… and I’m lazy. So we just decided to make our favorite easy & lazy meal, [...]

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How to make temari-zushi (temari-sushi)

October 21, 2010 basics
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I’ve been meaning to do this how-to for a long time because it’s so easy, cute, and a little bit fancy.

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non-bento #26: the very hungry caterpillar

August 25, 2010 bento
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When I did the Bento Contest for EpiCute and My Food Looks Funny site, I saw some very interesting requests. And one of them was the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I thought it’d be a bit too easy to make a bento of it, so I didn’t pick it. But it turns out my boyfriend loved the book as a child, and that was enough reason [...]

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how to prepare shrimp for sushi

March 6, 2010 basics
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As I wrote in a previous post, I made sushi on Valentine’s day. I usually just use salmon and tuna for sushi, but since we were watching District 9, we decided to have shrimp (because they looks like “prawns” ) as well. Shrimp is probably easier to get than a good block of  salmon and tuna sashimi, and it is also very easy to prepare [...]

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how to make sushi rice

March 6, 2010 basics
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When I posted about our “sushi night” on my blog before, I mentioned about “Sushi-noko” which was like powdered vinegar to make sushi rice. This time I decided to make sushi rice from scratch with ingredients you can easily get at a regular supermarket. Actually, it’s really not hard to make sushi rice, but the recipe requires you to work really fast. I don’t usually [...]

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Valentine’s day, prawns, and high-tech toilet

February 20, 2010 Blog
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I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s day and President day! I realized I hadn’t blogged this week! O_O It feels like time flies even faster when you have a long weekend and a full-time job. My boyfriend and I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s day. But it was Sunday so we decided to go to IKEA (romantic, isn’t it?). We failed to get the furniture [...]

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Bento #66: Noby Noby Boy

November 11, 2009 bento
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I had a day off last Friday to get ready for a birthday party the following day. It was for an adorable 3 year-old boy of our close friends. I had a whole day to make Totoro cream puffs and chocolate covered Domo-kun marshmallows. I didn’t have to wake up early, but for some reason I got up very very early. So I decided to [...]

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non-bento #10: Battlestar Galactica themed dinner part 2

March 21, 2009 bento
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EDIT: Looking for BSG bento? See “bento#34: Battlestar Galactica bento!” My boyfriend and I made this BSG themed dinner before we watched the episode tonight. non-bento #9: Battlestar Galactica themed dinner part 2 Created and eaten on: 3/21/2009

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non-bento #6: "real" rice cake

February 28, 2009 bento
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This isn’t a bento, but I really liked how it turned out and it was easy, so I’m going to post it! Like I mentioned, my bento caught up with my blog, and I didn’t make bento for Saturday… So I was thinking about doing a dinner blog. But I got up earlier than usual for a Saturday morning and went to the city to [...]

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Sushi night!

January 11, 2009 Blog
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I have to apologize that there’s no “how-to” this week. My boyfriend and I went to see about 12 apartments between Saturday and Sunday. We’d just wait for phone calls, go see an apartment, get a phone call and go see another apartment, and repeat… I don’t know if you can imagine what it’s like to find an apartment in NY (well, maybe you can) [...]

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bento #14: Katamari Damacy

December 6, 2008 bento
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Since I started making bento most my bento have been Studio Ghibli themed, and I wanted to make something different. My boyfriend and I love video games. We each own a PS2, an Xbox 360, a Wii, and a DS lite. So I decided to make a video game themed kyaraben for a change. I looked at his video game collection and found a game we both [...]

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