Nattō (納豆) is a traditional Japanese food made from soybeans. And you can find it everywhere in Japan. Nattō has powerful smell but has good strong flavor and sticky consistency. In Japan nattō is most popular in the eastern Kanto region. Natto is favorate food and I had Natto and Kimuchi with bowl of rice. ^^
Takoyaki たこ焼き (literally fried or baked octopus) is a popular Japanese dumping made of batter, diced octopus, tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, konnyaku, and green onion, topped with okonomiyaki sauce, green laver (aonori), mayonnaise, and katsuobushi (fish shavings), originated in Osaka. But Takoyaki si also easily made at home. It is easy to buy special frying pan made of cast iron at supermarket ^^ I also have one.
But this Takoyaki was from store near my house. They had really goooood Takoyaki. We eat Takoyaki as a snack food. When we are bit hungry, or want to eat something late at night. But also you can make it as dinner dish. Not only itself, but it is really fun to make it with you family and your friends. Originally, you put octopus, but you can put anything you want to. You can put Kimuchi^^, corn, cheese, your vatorate vegetables.... and it is really fun to make your original thing.... ^^
Chanpon is a Japanese word meaning a mixture of disparate things. One common usage is in Nagasaki Chanpon, which is a noodle dish developed in the international port city of Nagasaki, where a mixture of ingredients such as fish, vegetable, and meat are tossed together as a topping.
And I am eating Kimuchi almost everyday. I got kind of crazy about spicy stuff. Kimchi, also known as gimchi or kimchee is a traditional Korean dish of fremented chili peppers and vegetables, usually made from Chinese cabbage. I eat kimuchi almost every meal, and I always have spicy and hot stuff to my food. Kimuchi makes me want to go to Korea. My good freind was studing in Korea, and I should have visited her where she was there, but, one time, she brough me back 3~4 kinds of Kimuchi. OH, they were sooo good. They fremented chilli peppers to all kinds of stuff. Chinese cabbage, fish, cattlefish, etc.. ^^ and these days, Tabasco is not that hot anymore... ^^; what happen to my sence of taste.
This is the only thing I can make for breakfast?? Ahaha. No, but this submarine sandwich is really easy to make, and goooood. Anyway,
I had it with my pumpkin soup. My husband is not feeling well all last week, so I have not cook the dish type of cooking. So, no cooking pictures.
This is one of Japanese orange. I love this orange.
I always cook 3~4 dishes every dinner. Tonight, I had 5, but I forgot to take other one dish... ^^; anyway... they were good ^^ I had fired egg mixed with canned crab and chivee, stir-fried vegetables, cooked (boiled) lotus root+yam + onion soysause flavor, and sauteed leek and liver .^^ Liver is good for you, and I love to eat when I get tired. We also eat row caw liver, but we need to got to special restaurant for that. We need to eat them really really fresh. You cannot buy caw liver at supermarket. But you can buy pork and chiken liver at any local supermarket. ^^
Yeah, but not crazy about it.. ^^. As you might know, I've got Nintendo Wii, and went to my cousin to play with. My cousin is crazy about Jiaozi. He said he could eat Jiaozi as a breakfast. He loves Jaiozi, so I made a bunch as present. ^^. My cousin and his wife join a volunteer work on every weekend for kids [children] with special needs. They take them to swim for their rehab. Anyway, we visited their home with a bunch of Jiaozi and cake.
We played Wii a lot and had fun, and my cousin and his wife loved our Jiaozi... We made about more than 100, but we ate them all. ^^
We had late dinner the other night, so I made Japanese style rice noodle. We eat this thin rice noodle in summer time, but it is nice to have it with hot soup.
And for the other night, I made tomato past vegetable soup. It was cold night... ^^ If you want to eat vegetable, it is good to make vegetable soup. You can eat so many kinds of vegetable at once. ^^ This soup has Chinese cabbage, egg plants, carrot, celery, potato, tomato, chiken, and onion. (you can put beans and gram ..etc.) Really yumy
We ate out last night to Sushi bar. Sushi is the most famous Japanese dish. Do you know we have expensive sushi restaurant. The best part of visiting sushi restaurant is you sit at the sushi bar caunter table. You can talk to the master of the sushi chef, and you will see all the fresh sushi items.
←cuttlefish almon caviar→
My mother went to NZ last month, and she brought me back some goodies. 
As she knows about me who loves tea, she brought me back all kinds of tea from NZ. I try each tea everyday. They are good. One more interesting goods she have brought me back was ‘Tea Infuser’. I can’t find these in store in Japan. I thought was interesting.
Every year, our prefecture have invited technical 
trainee from China, Korea, and Indonesia. Here they are, 5 technical trainees from China studying Japanese technology. ^^ One day, they kindly invited us to Jiaozi party to thankful to our hard work to take care of their personal care. (our prefecture invite them, and we take care of their housing and daily life style advice and etc, etc. )
Some spices are from China, and it got me interested in. And I had one 
tea from Taiwan. The lady said its really expensive one. It cost about 3000yen/100g. Means 30$/3.5oz. Wow!! ←
I do not have time to take a pictures on week days, so here is the only weekend breakfast. submarinesandwich and vegetable creme stew. 
when I make stew or soup, I like a lot of ingredients in my stew. So my stew is not like you enjoy your soup, but all kinds of vegetables.
←Tomato sauce spaghetti with chili sausage.
Pollack ovum and long green onion fried rice (can you see the little tiny fish eggs??) →
←This dish called Nabe. Nabe dishes or hot pot dishes are prepared in a hot pot at the table. Ingredients are vegetables such as negi (Japanese leek) and hakusai (Chinese cabbage), various mushrooms, seafood and/or meat. There are many regional and personal varieties, and they are especially popular in the cold winter months. (quote from Japanguide.com)
I wanted to upload more picture of each dishe, but no space.. ^^ I might will someday. but enjoy for now.
