Chapter 12 - Wednesday 25th June 2008
Today we went to a café close to our place which looks like a whole forest has been chopped down to build it! No, seriously! All the tables are big and I mean big slabs of wood. The round tables are whole trees and seat 10 people (at least). The walls are all lined with wood and the beams are huge trunks. So of course all the food is BIG. We ordered an iced coffee each and a coffee jelly to share, lucky as when they arrived we just laughed in disbelief. The coffees came in 1 pint tankards like German beer and the coffee jelly was in a bowl the size of a salad bowl covered in cream with maple syrup on the side!!! The people next to us had the same situation. Her ‘fruit smoothie’ was served in a bowl like a gold fish bowl and as big and he had a lemon drink that came in a long tall jug rather than a glass as well as an ice-cream sundae that was over a foot tall with an ice-cream clown on top with a cone for a hat and cherries for eyes.
We were all laughing and wondered at how we were going to put all this stuff inside of us! (We couldn’t finish our food.) but the price was really really good and we saw that if you order a drink you get breakfast free!!! Toast and jam with an egg!!! We will try that next time. They were lovely people and were both primary school teachers and their English was passable they helped Brian with his ‘Kanji’ (One of the three Japanese alphabets that he is learning) it is also the hardest. Trust Brian to take on not just one but three!
Brian has been doing a lot of editing on the ‘Listen’ album and it is sounding wonderful. It is getting closer and closer and will be produced over here and all you wonderfully patience people in Aussie land will get them first and signed as promised! Thanks for hanging in there. By the way- you can hear a sample of 'My Heart Listen's', on the website - just click the link at the bottom of the homepage (just above the blog link!) Happy listening. Well done to Brian (of course) Lea (backing vocals) Rick Halstead(sax)Brett Young (guitar).You guys rock!!!
I went shopping at the supermarket today. There are so many different things on the shelves that I walk down the aisles with my eyes bugging out.
Most of the stuff I can maybe guess what it is but a lot of stuff I just have no idea. Baby eels in slime, tiny dried fish, dried fungus and other wonderful things. So I buy what I can recognise and then I buy some stuff that I don’t, got to experiment! I found a little display on one of the shelves with the most adorable miniature miniature food and cutlery and plates and stuff. You buy the sets in little boxes and on the back is what might be inside (it’s a lucky dip.) I was standing there ohing and awing with this little 3 year old boy. We were both in awe. (I bought 5 boxes!) Couldn’t wait to get home and open up my ‘special surprises’. (you get a piece of chewy too! Bonus!) I got an Italian meal (it has a little bottle of beer and tiny knife and fork and even a tiny receipt in a holder!) see photo sorry its a bit blurry. I scored in one of the boxes ‘A day at the fair’ with pop corn and toffee apple (so tiny made for fairies). I’m such a big kid. I have set them up on a counter near the kitchen so I can look at them all the time. I am hopeing that the fairies will come to our place to have a meal. Well there is Italian, Japanese and desert!! I may share them with the nieces and nephews if they are lucky but its going to be really hard to part with them!
Tonight is 'Cooking at home' night and I am experimenting with some of the interesting "I’m not sure what it is?" Ingredients, more lucky dip? I am blessed with a husband who will eat just about anything and in lightning fast time so if I’m lucky he won’t notice the octopus testicles! (Do they have balls?) Well you never know what you are going to get in “Noelines Japanese Kitchen!”
Cheers and stayed tuned for another ripping episode of “Martinnnnnnnnnnnns Innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Japannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!”
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