Pastry: The Unboxening

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Japanese department stores usually have 1 or 2 floors on the ground floor or in the basement devoted to selling food. Not restaurants, but pastries, teas, pickled things, etc, pretty much anything you can put into a really fancy package and sell in small amounts.

Toby and I wandered around the basement of the JR Isetan department store today and ended up buying a chocolate (him) and a pastry (me) to take back to the hanare we’re staying at and consume later.

Toby, of course, ate his chocolate before I took any pictures, it was basically a 2-2.5″ dark chocolate disk with pieces of candied ginger on top of it.

I got a cream puff, and the clerk wrapped it up so nicely that I took photos of the unboxing to share with y’all.
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Bath time

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Pigeons bathing in snowmelt running off the roof of the gate to the Toji Shrine.
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Game show

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

I think pretty much everyone reading this knows that Japan is the home of some of the world’s oddest game shows. The odder ones are usually variety shows whose contestants tend to be comedians and other celebrities, advancing their careers via public humiliation.

That’s beside the point. What this post is, is asking anyone with access to a Japanese TV schedule to look at Monday night, 7PM in Kyoto–alas, we never saw a station identification that we recognized–to see if you can tell us what the game show we caught part of was all about.

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Cooking class

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Yes, we get actual certified Kobe beef in this class. Here’s the certificate.

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