Soba Boro

Hi! After the hard rain yesterday, we have sunshine today. Wow! The high today is 77F (25C)!!! Though it will be cloudy and cold on the weekend...

Do you know "Soba Boro"?
It is a crispy cookie made of soba flour, sugar and egg, famous snack in Kyoto. It has unique shape (either a shape of cherry blossom or a bud). Soba Boro is Nanban-style sweets (Nanban-gashi) imported from Portugal in 1570. It's simple taste and the flavor of Kyoto appears very attractive! It's a great snack to go with Japanese tea :) Whenever I visited my deceased grandpa, he gave me this snack.

Kawamichiya is long-established wagashi (Japanese-style confection) store. Their Soba Boro is very famous and my grandpa loved it. Please try whenever you have a chance to visit Kyoto!!!

Changing my story, this morning, Marunouchi line stopped again after a long time... Last time it stopped during my commuting time was in 2007. At that time, I took a taxi and that was a bad decision! So this time I waited until it recovers, and that was right!
Whew... I had a tiring morning!

Good luck to me and you all!!!

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How Do You Keep Your Romance Alive?

The weather is getting warmer! It is nicer to run outside than at the GYM.

Every Saturday, my boyfriend and I go out to eat dinner. I cook almost everyday, so this is my treat. This weekend we've been to a restaurant with a beautiful night view! The restaurant is on the 49th floor of a high-rise building in Shinjuku. Our budget for the dinner was the same as usual, but we just changed the place we go and dressed up! Also we didn't leave home together, but we arranged to meet together in Shinjuku. It was much more romantic ;)

I am a stay-at-home person (always prefer to eat at a neighborhood restaurant, wearing jeans), but now I somewhat realized I need to be creative in entertaining ourselves to keep our romance. In the beginning of May, we have Golden Week holidays, so we reserved a hotel in Odaiba. There is a beautiful night view, too.

How do you keep your romance alive?

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Surprise

Don't you think being in LOVE makes you want to wear a dress rather than jeans?

Yesterday, I went to shop a dress in Shibuya after work because I realized I didn't have a dress to wear to go on a date with my boyfriend. I bought 2 cute spring dresses at a discounted price :)

After shopping, I met my boyfriend and had a dinner at my favorite open-air cafe in Shibuya! The weather was so nice that we had a really good time. We had avocado shrimp salad, tandoori chicken, and taco rice. All dishes came with a lot of vegetables and were delicious!!!

Then surprisingly, he gave me some cute flowers! There was nothing special on this day, so I was really amazed, but on the other hand I was really happy :)

After 6 years, we are still like lovers and I thought I want to be in love with him forever!!!

I was going to die when I thought he was cheating, but it's good to be alive!

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