Thursday, May 19, 2011

on a walk (or two)

Caught this butterfly, Nagasaki Ageha or Papilio memnon while I was walking.

Usually butterflies are way to quick, but this one was mesmerized with a candy wrapper or something, so I had a pretty good chance to get a picture of it.

In Hawaii, big black moths are not good omens, but in Japan, these black butterflies are huge, quite common and not thought to be good or bad omens.

Some doughnuts from Shichifuku.

These doughnuts were made with soy milk and were fried in menjitsuyu (cotton seed oil).

Caramel & Earl Grey.

Too bad these tasted like oil rather than doughnuts.

Momiji Bakery's chocolate danish. I liked that this was topped with a lot of chocolate chips.

More food than sights on my walks this time around...what have you been seeing on your walks?

11 comments:

June said...

i ate the soya bean doughnuts in Kyoto and my it taste so out of this world and soft plus the queue is endless :)

jalna said...

Very cool butterfly. Thanks for giving the name so that I could look it up in Wikipedia!

Kathy YL Chan said...

What a beautiful butterfly! I haven't seen anything like that in Hawai'i or anywhere else. Will have to look more carefully next time I am home :)

Japan Australia said...

Very cool butterfly and the chocolate Danish looks amazing. The chocolate chips on top would be the clincher for me.

Japan Australia

Nami | Just One Cookbook said...

Another yummy food today. The danish looks so good!

Rowena said...

I like that chocolate danish and how it has powdered sugar all over. One, two, three INHALE!

OkiHwn said...

That site is still posting all of yours!

KirkK said...

Hey Kat - That's a nice photo of the butterfly....

K and S said...

ooh I think they were the same ones I've had June, and those were really good!

you are welcome Jalna, I had to look it up too in order to post :p

no no Kathy, these butterflies aren't in Hawaii.

definitely J-A!

It was Nami :)

don't inhale Rowena, you'll choke on the powdered sugar :p

I know Nate :(

Thanks Kirk!

Take care everyone!
Kat

Deb in Hawaii said...

So cool you were able to get the butterfly shot. I had no idea the black months were a bad omen here.
;-)

K and S said...

Not to freak you out Deb in Hawaii, but if you see one on your screen door or something, it is a bad omen that someone may die or get hurt.

Take care.
Kat