Bangbang chicken 棒棒鶏 Soup dumpling xiaolongbao 小籠包 Water spinach 空芯菜炒め Dinner date at this Chinese restaurant since kids were at their grand parents'. Yum!
Chocolate cake with real mint cream from coto coto. Carrot cake with ginger icing from coto coto. Cup cakes we bought at the Farmer's Market for dessert. Yum!
Dinner gathering at Teppanyaki restaurant in Hikarie, Shibuya with Uncle William and his wife Chiharu, as they're back in Japan to stay with her family over New Year.
Bánh mi Sandwich which I was looking for. Banna cake from fato. http://fato.ciao.jp/index.html Sweet potato. Ton's flue is almost over so we went to check out Farmer's Market in Aoyama. I wanted to try Vietnamese sandwich called Bánh mi, and it was awesome! We bought lots of goodies, too. Fun!
Because we have lots of prune, cooked them with chicken together with clove, cardamom, etc. in the kitchen and it came out pretty good. Though, one thing we don't like about this is it makes us to go to bathroom too often....
Mo was so "pumped up" according to his word this morning, from the sight of presents Santa left on the table. He lists up what he got here , and has a little demonstration of Hot Wheels airplane here . Thank you Santa Claus!
Photos here . Annual event of Harley and several big cars and motorcycles appearance in Azabu Juban. Mo was excited to see those rides, and had a bag full of snacks from them.
Christmas party with Hula people. Mia and Harper came, too, kids got presents from Santa Clause, buffet dinner, lots of cakes, etc. Photos here . A video of "My Tutu E" here .
This sake was a gift to President Obama from Japanese Prime Minister. Went to help taiko team member to play at Christmas party at US Embassy compound. I had lunch already so I didn't have any of those food at the table...