omiyage

"Omiyage" means souvenir in Japanese. When the Japanese travel they often buy LOTS of souvenirs to give away to friends, family and co-workers. Recently, the Japanese travel agencies have been selling "omiyage" to their customers before they even take off for their destinations. This is to relieve the Japanese of wondering what to buy and carrying the items around with them on their trip. The agencies also have the "omiyage" sent to the customers home, so that it arrives the day that they arrive back home!

I don't really like this idea of ordering items from a catalog. In fact, I like roaming local supermarkets to find stuff that the locals are buying. I think we were in Belgium when we roamed the aisles of a local supermarket. We found a lot of great foodie items!

Well, Satoshi is back from his business trip. He was in Sydney and the Gold Coast for the past week. Besides Tim Tams (a chocolate covered cookie made in Australia), I wasn't quite sure as to what kinds of foodie items Sydney and the Gold Coast had to offer, so my "omiyage" list was for him to buy me Australian food magazines. I surfed the internet and found an online subscription site that listed various food magazines. I wrote up a list and gave it to him before he left for Australia. I must say, he did a great job at getting most of them. (Thank you!!) He said he found most of them at Borders Books.

My list:
Donna Hay
Delicious
Australian Gourmet Traveller
Dish
Italianicious
Crema
Regional Food Australia

What Satoshi got:
Donna Hay
Delicious
Australian Gourmet Traveller
Vogue Australia Entertainment & Travel
Italianicious
Crema
Waitrose Food Illustrated

I'm so excited...now to read them all :)