Weekly Food Update

Time for the weekly food update!

Some tasty ramen soup with meat:

Some meat on rice:

Balanced meal:

Spicy udon soup:

And finally a tasty beef ramen soup I had at this restaurant near my place:

Changing Seasons

So, it seems that Fall is finally upon us here and the trees are rapidly losing their leaves.  It is also getting a bit colder - about 16C during the day and 8C at night.  Some of the trees have very nice fall colours.  Here is one in front of my building:

The ground under the tree also looks nice!

Stores and shopping malls have started their Christmas decorations.  Here is a large Christmas tree in the large mall near me:

Weekly Food Update

This post is a bit late since Picasa had some problems on Sunday!  Here is the weekly food update!

Some choices from the school cafeterias.  Some kind of ramen:

A nice soup hot in a metal bowl cooked/heated over fire.  Was quite tasty.

Kimchi beef!

Another ramen:

Balanced lunch of some veggies in pasta sauce and some chicken I think:

Another balanced lunch of some chicken or port (hehe, I forget already):

On Sunday, I bought a few things at the store and cooked some rice at home and had a very tasty meal.

The whole scallops on stick were delicious!

Heavy Rotation...

Puccho ...

... in the style of the Puccho PV

Sunset over Nagoya

Here is a picture of the sunset as roughly seen form my window next to which I sit at school (I had to stick my hand/camera out the window a bit to get the angle right).  It's with the iPhone so it could be a better picture with a real camera :P.

Computer Arrives

So, my computer finally arrived.  It is very nice!  I like the case and the inside is really well organized with a lot of room.  I installed Windows 7 on it (had an unused licence from Canada) which is great since otherwise I would have had to get the Ultimate edition to get the English language pack installed - very pricey.  The box looks like this.  The front fans have neons so it looks nice in the dark.

Today I went to the store and got some cables: SATA connector for a HD i brought over and eSATA bracket since there isn't any on the case.  This is how computer parts are sold in Japan ;P:

It works quite well.  It is an i5-760 system with 4GB RAM and a nice GeForce GTX-460 video card.

Weekly Food Update

November is already upon us.  And here is another weekly food update for those of you who love to see Japanese foods :P.

First up, some sushi and raw type stuffs.  The sushi is from a conveyer belt place in OASIS21 in Sakae.

 I have no idea what that was...but it was sooo gooood!

 I find these non-nigiri sushi quite tasty at these places.

 Some good old maguro (tuna)... I actually asked for it at the bar since there was none on the belt (and got understood so..hehe).  At these restaurants, you often hear people (most of whom are sitting at the bar) yell out "sumimasen, <name> <quantity> onegaishimasu" where sumimasen is similar to excuse me to get the shop keepers attention and onegaishimasu is basically please.  The quantity is typically expressed in old Japanese counters (which I was just learning in my course) which are much different than the standard (Chinese derived) way of counting in Japanese.  I took the picture after eating one :P - was quite thick.

 And this interesting raw stuff on rice dish at a place in the mall near me.  The raw shrimp was quite tasty.  It included: large fish roe, cooked salmon, tuna sashimi, raw scallops, small raw shrimp, and the big shrimp (you can see the tail at the bottom right).  The wasabi was tasty!

Next up some pickings from the school cafeterias.  Every few weeks some new dishes (usually seasonal) are introduced so there is quite a selection.
First up, a pork cutlet don (don = rice bowl) with freshly grated radish on top.

 A nice puffy pastry.

 A hamburger in miso sauce with some potatoes on top and some greens and mushrooms.

 Niku (meaning meat) udon - very tasty; basically, broth, udon noodles, fried bacon and onions.

 Tasty fried fish don with egg.

On Tuesday our whole lab together with another lab went out to drink.  We took up this entire restaurant (about 40-50 people).  This is the way the tables were set before the people showed up.

 It was an all you can drink thing with various foods.  Here is the entrance to the restaurant but the sign doesn't show - the iphone camera isn't good for night shots.

One day I ate at home so I got some nice freshly cooked squid (calamari) at the grocery store.  It was so good!

Lastly, here is a good example of Japanese English signs on items.  The dude drinking this oolong tea is called uuchan (ウーちゃん - written from top to bottom).  The English slogan says "made with tender loving care". :)