Time with family

My family came visiting. They came bearing food from home!!!

This is sambal petai. It is the most awesome beans with a strong smell, earning its unofficial name : stinky beans. I just absolutely luuuuurve them, stinky or not. They are crunchy and with the spicy sambal, it is the perfect dish!

My sweet mom also bought bihun to cook for me here. 

Talking about spoiling your own children! 

My last trip back home was one and half year ago so I am kinda missing food from home. And my mom is the best mom in the world!!! 

Chilled desserts for summer

I love eating desserts but I don't like it showing on my waistline. Fortunately, we have plenty of low calorie dessets in Japan. One of them is the warabi mochi.

It is made with starch (warabi flour or the baby bracken fern) and serve with kinako (toasted soy bean flour) and black sugar syrup. I love to eat them chilled. Slightly sweet and with the right consistency of chewiness ❤

Hot, hot ice cream

I love the ice cream in Japan. They are sweet but not sickeningly sweet. Even Haagen Dazs and Starbucks here tone down on their sweetness. I felt that the ice cream here has just the right amount of sweetness that makes you feel, sweet :) These are my favourites!!!

Green tea ice cream! 

Wafer ice cream, both chocolate and milk! Yummy!

Summer edition of caramel and macadamia nuts Haagen Dazs ❤

Burger and Japan

I don't usually eat burger but when I do, itis usually  gourmet burger that I go for. Well, I used to go to this place in Parco Ikebukuro because they serve this really delicious chilli burger with Death sauce. Unfortunately, this cafe is also known to be very stingy. The serving of the fres is usually smaller than McD's small pack of fries and lately, perhaps due to the yen depreciation, they have gone from small to ridiculously tiny portion of fries (half of my fist and I am a small sized lady!). And they always give only ONE paper napkin and ONE small wet towel! If you accidentally drops your paper towel or used up your wet towel before you could finish your meal, well good luck in getting them to give you another new one.I usually bring my own tissues but it is ridiculous for the cafe to behave this way.

Since then, I have moved on and found another cafe, JS Burger in Lumine Ikebukuro to satisfy my burger cravings whenever I have one. This is a picture of that stingy cafe's burger after I decided that I will not dining at their cafe anymore.