Bamboo bush

I had a chance to see bamboo bush in late April.
Bamboo is called "Take" in Japanese.



These tall bamboo didn't fit my camera finder:)
It was nice to be surrounding bamboo under the sun shine.

Do you see small brown things on the bottom??

It's a young bamboo ("Takenoko" in Japanese).
Green bamboo is very hard, but young bamboo which is brown one is still soft and eatable.
Especially young bamboo growing under the ground, those are tasty one.

This brown bamboo is too late to eat, but if we go bamboo bush early April, we can find nice one. Find a very young bamboo that bamboo head is still under the ground. If you feel the bamboo head, then you dig bamboo root from the ground and peel brown skin part like artichoke to get bamboo core.

Bamboo core is going to be boiled bamboo, grilled bamboo or cook with rice etc.

Bamboo is another plant to tell of the arrival of spring in:)

Delicious eel in Japan

I went Eel (Unagi in Japanese) restaurant for lunch. We held uncle's 57th BD party over there.

Unagi doesn't look so pretty in the ocean, but taste is so good when it's cooked. Popular way of cooking is broiled Unagi and dipped in special soy sauce.

This picture is tasty Unagi bowl I had today.

Unagi was so soft and didn't have fishy flavor at all. It was delicious!!


This restaurant was well-known to have rice porridge with Unagi, so we shared that plate.
Rice porridge is here!!!

As you see pot is really hot! it's boiling on the table without fire.

Rice, egg, carrot, burdock, honewort were cooked with Japanese soup stock on the stone pot in the kitchen. It was delivered to the table so quickly.

We enjoyed good company and taste of Unagi bowl & rice porridge:))

Godzilla in Japan

Who is staring at you???



It's a world famous Godzilla!!!




I met this guy when I had a opportunity to visit Imperial hotel for event and had a lunch at Hibiya Shanter building.

It's locating in front of Hibiya Shanter building near "Hibiya" subway station. Many people take a photo.

Children's Day, May 5th

Children's day

May 5th is "Children's Day".

This national holiday was established in 1948 to promote the happiness and well-being of Japanese children.

In ancient times, many people suffered from disease during this season due to (the) high temperatures and humidity.

Around the time of the holiday, families with boys often display warrior dolls and miniature armor in their homes.

This is one of the display example.
Samurai worrier used to wear this Kabuto when they have fight in the old time.