My Blog Posts

  • My 3 reminders to make life easier overseas

    Morning food stand. There are steamed buns in the taller pots. It has been 10 years since I started living overseas. Also my family has grown from the two of us to now a family of four. Besides Japan, I have been to India, North Wales in UK, Spain, the US, the Philippines, and Thailand, Read more

  • Sweets that we have tried in China.

    Today, I would like to share some sweets that we have tried in China. It has been 3 months since we moved to Shenyang. We have tried sweets that look interesting little by little. Please understand that all the sweets that we tried are not traditional Chinese sweets. Some of them are a new style Read more

  • Taking a bullet train from Shenyang to Dalian.

    Before writing about a bullet train I took to Dalian… A few days ago, I made Kinako mochi, which is Kinako (sweet roasted soy bean flour) sprinkled over small balls of mochi. I couldn’t find a type of glutinous rice flour called “Shiratamako” that I like to use for making this mochi, so I instead Read more

  • Family Trip to Dalian -Finding Good Seafood-

    We took a short trip to Dalian city last week during a 3-day weekend. I’ve heard that Dalian has good seafood because the city is surrounded by sea. Dalian is a modern port city on the Liaodong Peninsula, at the southern tip of China’s Liaoning Province. Our main reasons to visit Dalian were 1) To eat Read more

  • Lawson in Shenyang

    Hi！ I was so happy to see that many people read my previous blog post. Thank you! If you haven’t, you can read it here. So today I would like to write about a Japanese convenience store, Lawson. Luckily, there are many Lawsons in Shenyang. I have really dry skin and I had been wanting Read more

  • Selling Traditional Japanese Sweets at a Fall Festival

    Usually, I post on my blog every Saturday, but I will write more like today, when I have spare time. ☺ Last week, my daughter’s school hosted a fall festival. I participated in the event as a volunteer staff to help sell food. I also donated some traditional Japanese sweets, Wagashi. The money raised during Read more