mokudekiru

Actually, several things out here reminds me of Japan… hiking through mountains, walking to work with my lunch in hand, generally nice weather… and now, CURRY RICE AND MOCHI. Yessss. We made a trip to Asiana Market, which sells mostly Korean stuff but some Japanese stuff. It’s probably a good thing they don’t have more Japanese food or I would have bought it all. But we came out of there with some good Japanese junk food, noodles, ice cream, nori, furikake, and most importantly, daifuku and mochi. I’m really glad that Ford seems to be such a big fan of Japanese food. David, also a fan of the mochi. We were so excited about our purchases that after we bought our food we just chilled in the parking lot, snacking, debating whether to go in for a second run…

Last night, I was watching an episode of Last Friends and two of the characters were eating curry rice. Ford noticed this too and the cravings begun. So, it was clear we would be doing culinary explorations in Japanese curry:

The carrots and sautéed onions were a necessity — celery, for added fun. And I have some nice bright yellow takuan to finish off the meal. Pocky and green tea/red bean ice cream are also in the freezer.

The curry was extremely easy to make (step 1, buy curry), and tasted exactly like the カレーライス in Japan — just the right flavor, and absolutely no spiciness. Maybe curry udon (or soba!) is next up on the list of things to make… or I’ll venture to do some om-rice… yummyyy.

Another great discovery — yesterday Ford and I went downtown (following Summer and Rhonda, who were going to shop there) — we bought some Wigwam and Smartwool socks, then essentially ran out of money and decided not to continue on to Manitou Springs. Instead, we were walking along this street when Ford says, “I’m thirsty…” and directly to our left I saw a sign that said, “Bubble Tea”!! Yessss… we had some nice green tea and taro bubble tea before heading home (and getting lost several times, due to vague instruction from the navigational assistant… its definition of “turn left” is really suspect).