White Christmas ??

I sprinkled cocoa powder, then it looked better than before.

I have many Christmas ornaments, but I decorated  only this 100 yen shop's cheap bear light.LOL

Toji 2012.Dec. 21st.

We eat Zenzai, or Aruki beans sweet soup on Toji every year.

We take  Yuzuyu, or a citrus bath on that day, but I forgot to buy fresh citrus this year. Therefore, we took this yuzu flavored bath salt.

I made these azuki pancake with the leftover zenzai. It was super easy to make them, but they tasted good.

Agekamaboko,or deep fried fish cakes

Money Ball, Hair Spray

Second snow

We had first snow yesterday. We usually have first snow in the middle of October, so it was a little latter than usual. The fist snow melt soon yesterday, but it started to snow this morning little by little.

These are carrot leaves in snow.

I already had my snow tires changed in early Nov., so I am not scared to drive now.

Rice ball mold

These are rice ball molds and vegetable cutters which I bought in last May, but I have never used them yet.

To collect fallen leaves

 We live near elementary school which used to have lots of trees. An alley along the school ground has been constructed to become wider. I don't know why, but most of the trees cut last summer. My mother used to collect fallen leaves near our house, but she can't do here. Therefore, we went to a park to pick up fallen leaves. We collected them a lot. I love autumn's color, but I hate that it is getting colder each day and night. We will have frost soon!

加油

Momiji

愛玉子

 I wanted to try 愛玉子(I don't know this dessert's English name.)in Taipei, but I didn't try it. It's because I was full. The other day I bought this dessert's ingredient.It had a recipe, so I made it with the recipe.

! It turned out so GOOD!

Bubble tea and EVA airline's Hello Kitty aircraft and some other Hello Kitty utilities

I really wanted to drink real bubble tea, and drank it for a couple of times. It was good.

Every Hello Kitty item was pink.

If my memory is correct the upper picture is a room for changing diapers.

Although I am not a big fan of Hello Kitty, I wanted to board a Hello Kitty painted aircraft.

Taipei 101

I wanted to try some, but....

I was full, so I couldn't try these in Taipei.

At Shilin Night market

Since I had watched Shilin night market on TV, I have been wanting to go there. I took a JTB's optional tour for a Shilin night market. Before we went there, we ate Taiwanese dim sum for a dinner. That day, I took another optional tour for traveling Taipei city. I ate Taiwanese dim sum for a lunch. I was already stuffed, before I went to Shilin. There were lots of tons of stalls and shops at Shilin night market. I really wanted to try lots of foods, but I tried only a few ones. First, I tried this candy coated cherry tomatoes with sweetened plums. They were unexpectedly good.I took only this picture there....! I didn't bring a transformer with me, so I tried not to take lots of pictures.