Sunday, February 04, 2007

::minanokomi in downtown::
last sunday after church, i went downtown with hiroko and saori to buy the special seasoning to make japanese hayashi (which is a curry-and-tomato-based meat stew)! we headed to the minanokomi (which means a convenience store in japanese) along robson st, which is probably the best place to get any japanese products here:)

us in front of the minanokomi - looks like we are along one of the streets in japan eh?

spoilt for choice - now i know where to go if i wanna get jap foodstuff:) but the prices were expectedly, quite steep though:/

poor saori obviously misses jap snacks/food!! don't worry dear - u will be back in just 3+ more months' time;)

::hayashi rice with the girls::
yesterday, i met up with the girls for dinner! the cooks for the day were saori and myself:) karen could only come later coz she had a date (p.s.: hey gil, jo & hp - this appears to be the latest brewing scandal! haha), and poor hiroko was sick so she was resting first. the original plan was to have dinner at my place - but when hiroko didnt turn up, we figured that she probably overslept. we decided to surprise her by bringing dinner to her, at totem:) i was really glad to see her, and to learn that she was feeling much better! hope you recover soon dear! in the end, we all had dinner at the totem shuswap lounge!

saori & i busy cooking in my kitchen - it was the 1st time we were cooking hayashi rice, but it turned out to be pretty good:) yayy!

we have a very bad habit of munching on cookies while cooking.. haha.

our hayashi beef stew:)

japanese beef hayashi rice - with cutlery/plates courtesy of totem caf and saori:) this is my first time trying hayashi rice, which apparently is a very popular dish in japan! i wonder why i havent noticed it in the jap restaurants back home?

all of us at the totem lounge (which wasnt as noisy as i expected it to be - especially after hearing all the horror stories about it. haha) - it was great fun spending time with the girls, and chatting - over dinner, popcorn, cookies and hi-chews (brought all the way from japan) :)