award and meme

The lovely Deb at Kahakai Kitchen was so nice to give me a Kreativ blogger award. There are options of passing on the award, doing a meme, doing a scenario or all of the above.

Since it is too hard to choose 7 bloggers, I will just do the meme.

7 things I did before:
1. drink only LION coffee
2. drive a car
3. work at the airport and do coffee demos at supermarkets
4. come home to meals cooked by mom
5. go to brunch on sundays
6. eat milk chocolate
7. buy lots of clothes/bags/shoes (things) with every paycheck

7 things I do now:
1. drink more tea and go to Starbucks
2. ride trains or walk
3. work at "home" (housewife)
4. cook my own meals (or buy them pre-made), try making things from scratch
5. blog and photograph everything I eat
6. eat dark chocolate, rarely milk chocolate and never white
7. buy books on food, including cookbooks...I also like to linger in tableware and gadget shops

7 things I want to do:
1. revisit Europe (mainly France)
2. learn more foreign languages (like Chinese, Korean, German & Italian)
3. move to a bigger apartment or house, maybe have a garden/yard
4. cook more recipes from my cookbooks
5. be able to read Japanese more fluently
6. have children
7. lose weight though I would probably have to stop blogging or being a foodie...

7 things that attracted me to Satoshi:
1. smile
2. love to travel
3. interest in living abroad
4. looks good in a suit
5. says funny things and eats whatever I cook no matter how bad it is
6. let's me go home every year
7. thinks I am stubborn (which I am) but is actually more stubborn than me

7 favorite foods:
1. dark chocolate
2. earl grey tea
3. macaron
4. pineapple shrimp
5. anything tex-mex
6. bread pudding
7. ice cream with "stuff" in it

7 things I say most often:
1. "Satoshi get up"
2. "Let's go"
3. "Did you take a bath yet?"
4. "Ki o tsukete" (be careful)
5. "Sumimasen" (excuse me)
6. "Onegai shimasu" (please)
7. "Arigatoo" (thank you)

If you would like to do the meme, just link back to this post!

I'd like to leave this post on a foodie note: about a year ago, I visited Fromage de Hikita, well, since I was in the area, I picked up a slice of satsuma imo (sweet potato) cheesecake...367 yen (about US$3.67) This cheesecake was dense, not too sweet. The crust could have been more flaky, the roasted sesame seeds on the top added to the subtle sweet potato flavor. This went nicely with some darjeeling tea and a splash of milk.

Thanks again Deb for the award and thought provoking meme!