A Wild Fish Chase

Domo-kun’s girlfriend(?) as a rice ball.

The Doll Festival dolls. My mother guiltied me into putting them out for the first time in my daughter’s 14-year life. Oops. Sorry mom. Also: They’re staying for good. I’m not taking them down on March 4. I hope everyone’s ok with that. Daughter is on her own with regard to this finding a nice husband thing, anyway.

The top 40 countries by the number of research papers published in 2011. Japanese institutions publish significantly fewer papers than their Asian and/or developed world counterparts when the figures are normalized by GDP.

きな粉餅なう。 Mochi dusted with soy flour and sugar.

New Year’s chicken soup with mochi. 関東風お雑煮なう。

Happy new year! The first email of 2012 was a picture of the new year’s feast from my mother.

Making New Year’s Day soup (お雑煮), starting with boiling last night’s roasted chicken with lemon.

BBQ pork and pickled daikon on toast. Yummy.

Marinating daikon radish and carrot.

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(Fast) Food Nation - Part 2 (Stories from our trip to Japan)