This morning, before the sun rises high, I ran outside instead of going to the gym! It is nice to run outside once in a while.
Time flies. April is almost over... Before I forget, I will list the rest of my accomplishments.
On 4/1, my Tomato Salt Cake won the silver prize at
Yukishio salt (snow powder salt) contest. The salt is made in Okinawa, Miyakojima and won the prize of gold medal of Monde-Selection for third straight year since 2006. The salt contains a world record of mineral element varieties and it has been registered in the Guinness Book of Records. As its naming suggests, it is fine powder, and is the best match for eating tempura with and preparing the cooking with. It can enhance the flavor of the ingredients from the cooking. Furthermore, these days it attains much attention as applied for massage salt and bath salt.
On 4/6, my Chinese Style Pork And Shimeji Steamed Rice won the grand prize at the
Lee Kum Kee's oyster sauce recipe contest held by Cookpad. Lee Kum Kee is the world renowned leader of oyster flavored sauce which is the basic ingredient for countless Chinese dishes. They asked for recipes that brings out the rich flavor of oyster sauce. My recipe will be used for their flyers, too.
On 4/12, my Curry Simmered Whole Onion won the gold award at
Inoue spice contest. They sell curry products and spices over the Internet so they asked for recipes using those.
On 4/13, my Soymilk Stir Fried Juicy Freeze-Dried Bean Curd won the outstanding performance award at
soymilk contest.
On 4/15, I again won the Outstanding Performance Award at Asahi Food & Healthcare's diet recipe contest. I submitted my "Avocado Milk Yogurt Drink". Instead of using sugar, I used Calpis (lactic acid beverage) for health.
On 4/23, my
Bonito and Edamame Rice Bowl was featured as "today's choice" at
recipe-blog (the recipe site I'm registered). I had a lot of visitors to my Japanese recipe blog on that day!
On 4/25, I won a prize at
Yodoran (iodine-enriched egg)'s contest. The theme was Tamagokakegohan (rice bowl with raw egg). I submitted Salmon Avocado Italian Egg Rice Bowl. Actually, I don't like to eat raw eggs, but it is a popular way of eating eggs. Most people just pour soy sauce over the rice and egg, and mix. What do you think of it?! I found
a video of it... wow...
Then as usual, I won some sample products, again. Smart cheese, healthy salt, bling-bling pen, flavored seaweed, hand towels, soft drink, cereal rice, and deodorant mist.
Golden Week holidays are from 5/2-6 according to the calendar. But some people are off from today since today is a holiday. I had to work on the 30th and the 1st. Boo!!!
Anyway, my boyfriend and I have a plan to stay a night at a hotel in Odaiba (Tokyo). We aren't going that far since everything is expensive during the holidays. It is wise to stay local ;) Maybe I will go to work during the holidays and take days off later. That might be a good idea ;)
Now I am leaving to have some coffee at a cafe, repair eyelash extensions, and have a dinner date with my boyfriend. I hope everything is fine with me...
Oh, be careful of the swine flu! WHO raised pandemic alert to phase 4... How scary... We don't know what will happen the next...
Let's take care!
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After work, we had an early dinner and enjoyed the SPA at SPAZEN TOKYO. What is good about this SPA is both men and women can enjoy the SPA. There is an outdoor jacuzzi with a lovely night view of Odaiba. Of course, swim suit is mandatory ;) Luckily there wasn't any people there, so we had the space all to ourselves! After the jacuzzi, I had thalassotherapy and my boyfriend had head spa for about an hour! What a spendthrift! He-he!!!
We stayed a night at Hotel Nikko Tokyo where the SPA is located.
The weather was really nice, so we stayed in Odaiba until dinner time. There was an Italian restaurant called Trattoria Marumo in the Seaside Mall where you can eat out on the deck. The night view was fantastic! Their bouillabaisse was great, too! They make you a risotto after the bouillabaisse and that was really delicious ;) There was a young couples aged about 18... How advanced for their age!
