VIDEO: JAPANESE COOKIES

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VIDEO: JAPANESE ICE CREAM

VIDEO: JAPANESE SNACKS

MY MOTHERS SHOP

Did you know that my mother has an interior design shop? 

Well, she does and it's lovely!

I just adore her logo btw!

It even has her two chihuahuas in it. 

♥

Recently, she opened an online shop as well. 

I thought I'd share a few of my favorite things from the online shop with you.

For long baths!

I have this one and I can't live without it :)

Polka dots for the kitchen.

Champagne coupes.

Salut!

Gorgeous English tea.

Because BiB is so convenient, but, so unchic.

TARAKO!

Hi!

We're back in Japan after a visit to Sweden.

Today, Per and I are going to a "family restaurant" chain called Saizeriya to eat Tarako Spaghetti.

Tarako is salted cod or alaska pollock roe.

Tarako spaghetti is spagetthi with a creamy sauce made from tarako, cream and topped with nori ① .

I've only had it once before and I LOVED IT!

When surfing the web ②, I found these commercials for instant Tarako sauce.

They made me love Tarako even more!

① Roasted seaweed

② As the cool kids call it

UPDATE!

I had two bites of the Saizeriya Tarako spaghetti. 

I did not enjoy it. The one I had before was way better.

#disappointment 

Yes! This really is a post about a train station.

Did I ever think I'd do a post about a train station? Umm... Probably not. But the thing is, I really like my train station.
I call it mine because we live next door to it and I go there almost every day - not only for transportation, but also for shopping, eating or just to browse the shops inside this huge place.

The thing is though; Ikebukuro is relatively unknown for most expats in Tokyo.
I find that so strange because Ikebukuro station is the second largest train station IN THE WORLD for Petes sake!!!
In 2007 it had 2,71 million passengers going through it every single day.
I mean, how cool is that?

So there you have it. I love Ikebukuro Station.

Ps. I hope I won't blog about train stations ever again.

HELLO KITTY CAFÉ IN SEOUL

My husband and I went on a mini break in Seoul two weeks ago and we ended up at the Hello Kitty café.

Per is buying a souvenir mug.

 Everything is Kitty shaped and pink. EVERYTHING!

Caffe lattes and matcha lattes with Kitty.

 This is what we had: Hello Kitty strawberry mousse cake, latte and a cappuccino.

I didn't get Kitty on my cappuccino :(

 Sorry about the lighting in these last two pics, but everything was just so darn pink upstairs it was difficult to take any decent photos.