Roll Cake @ le poupelin

This is something about Tuesday.

As a wedding present, I had le poupelin's roll cake (Swiss roll) at work. They use only egg, sugar and flour to bake the sponge cake and use high quality fresh cream for the filling! BTW, roll cake is a popular cake sold in Japan. Something like cheesecake or angel food cake in the US.

Simple is best!

The sponge cake was soft and the cream was silky, smooth and delicious. Perfect sweetness! Not that sweet at all!
Mmmmmmmm Yummy! I could eat a whole roll :P

I am eating a cake almost every day!!!

Need to work out!

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Louis Roederer Champagne: Brut Premier

The night before the marriage, we made a toast with Louis Roederer's premium champagne called Brut Premier!

Louis Roederer is a Champagne producer based in Reims, France. Founded in 1776, it was inherited and renamed by Louis Roeder in 1833, and is noted as the producer of the luxury champagne Cristal.

I ordered it last month from a gift catalog which I got it at work.
Innocuously, I was thinking of getting rice but my boyfriend chose this champagne since we will never get it by ourselves! It comes with two glasses and costs $100 (10,000yen) at stores.

The champagne was refreshing and gorgeous!!!
Surprisingly, we could drink a whole bottle of 750ml!!!
Sometimes okay ;)

We finally have sunshine today.
I'm wearing my down overcoat everyday since the forecast kept on saying it will be freezing, but I don't feel the cold yet!

Have a good day!!!

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Lipton - Tea Sparkling - Mixed Berry

Busy busy days!!!

Yesterday, my co-worker let me sample Lipton's new mixed berry flavored sparkling tea! I think the berry flavor (black currant, blueberry, and strawberry flavor) was stronger than the tea flavor, but it was refreshing and acceptable.

This afternoon, I am going to visit an exhibition: Digital Marketing Next 2009! I haven't written this before but I work at an IT company running two sites selling products.

Then after that, I have hula class. A week passed again! How fast time flies!!!

I gotta go now! See you tomorrow :D

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Mooncake (月餅) Thereafter...

Hi! I just had the mooncake. Inside the cake was not a yolk! It was filled up with nuts and dried fruit! Cool!!!

I'm posting this before I forget!






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Marron Glace Flavored Chocolate

Today, the weather is super nice. The high is 75F (24C)! It should be a nice day to take a walk at night.

Anyway, following rum cake flavored chocolate, I tried another newly-released LOTTE's Specialite: marron glace flavored chocolate. It was rummy and delicious, too!!! Damn! I can't stop eating... Bad for my acne X(

Anyway, I have an appointment for a flu shot this afternoon!

Then tonight, I'm going to see my friend from NY! Her boyfriend (Ted) is coming, too! They are going to see her parents for marital stuff!

Oops. I spent too much time browsing twitter "lists" stuff... I need to go back to work!!!

Happy Friday :D

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Top of the Fuji

Hi! The weather today is nice again. The high is F70(C21). I still don't need to wear a heavy overcoat!

Days ago, my co-worker gave me a souvenir from Fuji mountain called "Fuji no itadaki (top of the Fuji)". It is a chocolate crunch shaped like Fuji mountain. The white chocolate on top looks like snow. Isn't it cool?! Most of the time, souvenirs are wrapped in pretty nice packages but don't taste good. However this chocolate was good!

Tonight, I have hula class again! I am going to get another pa'u skirt shortly. I want to get one for Christmas, but couldn't find any Christmas design :( Which do you think is cute?!


Bye for now!!!

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Pepsi Azuki

This is something really weird!!! Again, Suntory (Pepsi's distributor in Japan) released a crazy seasonal Pepsi drink: Pepsi Azuki! It's a Pepsi with sweet and mild azuki bean flavor. Can you imagine the taste?! Ew! But it didn't taste like I imagined. It was simply funny soda with funny flavor. Something like cheap sweets! Of course I couldn't finish a bottle, so I shared it with my co-workers.

BTW other seasonal Pepsi flavors I tried are Pepsi Blue Hawaii and Pepsi Shiso.

Have a good weekend :)

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Chocolate with Rum

What kind of chocolate do you like the best? I know jo likes chocolate with macadamia nuts ;)

I love chocolate with rum!!!

Recently, I tried newly-released LOTTE's Specialite: rum cake flavored chocolate. It was really rummy and delicious!!! It's only 2 bucks per bar. I know it aggravates my acne, but a bite makes me happy, you know!

Tonight I have a hula class, which makes me even more happy! I want to get another pa'u skirt soon for a change.

Aloha :-)

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Hokkaido Cheese Chocolate

Hi there!

My co-worker gave me something really weird!
It's Meiji's Hokkaido Cheese Chocolate.

Processed cheese ripened and produced in Hokkaido is knead into dough! It is a new style with soft and rich tastes.

What do you think of this cheese flavored chocolate?!
To tell the truth, you can hardly realize the cheese flavor but it tastes like cheese if you know that. Funny!

Have a good one!

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Mooncake (月餅)

It was full moon last Saturday.

My dad came back from China during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiu Festival) there. For our souvenirs, he bought many mooncakes. I've got the small ones but big ones were 10 cm (4 inches) in diameter! Wow!!! I don't think I can eat huge ones since mooncakes are rich and heavy like shortbread: a thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste is surrounded by a relatively thin (2-3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs. Inside the cake were nuts and dried fruit!

Today, the weather is super fine after the typhoon! My boyfriend said he's gonna take me to a nice restaurant tonight. He-he!

Also, this coming holiday, we are going to go to a hot spring. Yay!

Have a nice weekend ;)

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Kao Healthy Cooking Oil "Econa" Referred to as Carcinogens?!

This news was shocking...

Kao Corp. has temporarily suspended sales of its "Econa" brand products (total of 59 products), including its diacylglycerol (DAG) cooking oil, salad dressings, and mayonnaise because the fatty acid glycidyl esters in them is said to be carcinogenic.

The company said in their statement that the suspension will continue "until the amounts of fatty acid glycidyl esters contained in Econa and related products can be lowered to levels found in common cooking oils."

Their annual sales of "Econa" brand products exceed 20 billion yen (200 million dollars)! Imagine how many people consumed their products X( Actually, I did used their products while they organized contests. But luckily, their products are relatively expensive, so I just used them temporarily at those times. But scary, you know!!!

Healthy food is not always healthy! I should better use long-selling products...

Take care!!!

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My Rice Ball at am/pm! (私のおにぎりがam/pmで発売されます♪)

Remember it or not, in July, my "Black Gomoku Rice Ball" won the highest award at the cereal rice recipe contest and now it is commercialized! It will be sold at am/pm (convenience stores) from 9/29!!!

On Sunday, I received a few samples of it and tasted them with my boyfriend. It was fabulicious!!! The flavor of ingredients were nicely sealed in the rice ball. It's taste made me want more! I didn't expect it to become this perfect, so I am very satisfied with it :D

This rice ball "Kurogomoku Onigiri" will be available at 128yen ($1.28) at am/pm in Kanto, Kansai and Kyushu area for a month from 9/29. I will report about it again when it went on sale!

Let me write the detail in Japanese, too ;)
商品名「黒五目おにぎり」（売価１２８円）として、関東・関西・九州のam/pmにて、９月２９日（火）から約１ヶ月発売されます。＜詳細＞

The weather is nice again today. Yesterday, I forgot to get off the train to go to the GYM, so I will definitely work out today!

See ya ;)

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Kobe Cream Cheese Cake

Last Friday, my boyfriend went to Kobe on business and bought Konditorei Kobe 's Kobe Cream Cheese Cake as a souvenir.

It's a small cheesecake, 4 inches (10 centimeters) in diameter, packed in a cute round box. It was eye-pleasing and made me happy :D

The cake was fabulicious! It uses 2 different kinds of cream cheese from Australia and France, and yogurt, which makes the cake rich but refreshing!!! There is no trace of cheese, so once you get started, you can't stop ;-P

It is raining today. I heard the typhoon #14 is approaching... I hope it changes its course because we've got long holidays next week from 9/19-9/23! I have to work on 9/19, though...

Have a good one!!!

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