Food Update

I'm a bit overdue for a food update and of course food has been eaten and pics have been taken so... here it is...

First off.. Nagoya University cafeteria foods.
Some balanced lunch with a katsu of some kind (chicken maybe):

 A chicken don:

 A (quite rare) spicy ramen:

 Shrimp and veggie kakiage (kind of tempura):

 Balanced lunch - some beef/veggie stir fry with some potato cutlet, cabbage salad and tofu:

 A meal set with some gyoza, cabbage, and mabo tofu:

 Tasty chicken and beef combination with cabbage:

 Chicken tempura and some fried seasoned chicken and cabbage:

 Balanced lunch - hamburger with cabbage and some nice egg drop soup:

Next onto some restaurant choices.
First off, another pic of that spicy ramen I like at this Chinese restaurant near campus:

 At another Chinese restaurant, some veggie and seafood on crispy noodles:

 A nice bento from Bentoman (near campus) - very tasty meat and egg:

 Fried chicken set at Hisaya (Japanese restaurant near campus):

 A yakiniku (grilled beef) with onions set at Hisaya:

 A snack angel-like cake slide from Family Mart:

 A matcha (green tea) bun from a bakery near my apartment (mostly eaten - sorry!):

 Another pastry from that bakery:

 A pizza like chicken pastry from another bakery in Sakae:

 A sakura bun filled with bean paste.  That leaf is actually from the sakura tree:

 One day I was biking to school another way and found this awesome store of Japanese sweets:

 I went in and got offered tea and a sampler - very elegant place (also quite high priced).  So I bought something small/cheap packaged in a bag like this (name of the place):

 And it was this sakura dessert:

 In the bag was this ice pouch to keep it cool:

I bought this miso paste (I already talked about it earlier) and it turned out to have some dashi in it so you can basically use it directly to make miso soup:

 Last weekend, I decided to cook some things at home so I bought all these things.  Onions, ginger, cabbage, green peppers, eggplant, shiitake mushrooms:

 And some nice American pork on special:

 Cut everything up.. marinated the meat with some soya sauce, mirin, sake, ginger, and garlic:

 After cooking.  It was tasty but the meat could have used some kind of sauce:

 Next day's leftovers with udon noodles were better:

 Today, I decided to buy some already made things for dinner.  I bought some fresh egg noodles, some mix of veggies and chicken, a squid, some tofu stuff, and some dessert:

 And some small tomatoes:

 Results was this.  I don't have a microwave so had to heat it all up on a frying pan which made the squid a bit tougher than it should be but was tasty.  The beer on the other hand was a total disappointment - well, it was not a beer, just an alcoholic beverage with no alcohol that is supposed to taste like beer but it didn't - hehe.  But it had sakura on it.

Also, one day, I got invited to a sushi party at somebody's home.  It was a lot of fun.  Here was the table setup:

So, we rolled our hand rolls and ate them!  I was really not very good at it but it tasted good!

 Some desserts:

Today's blog post music has been brought by Kikkawa You's debut single (in PV form).  The release date has been pushed into May due to the earthquake.  I heard Kikka sing live and she is pretty good!