This happy feeling

Yesterday was Friday, today is Saturday, and both days have been very much enjoyable for me. On Friday, after my Japanese orthography class in the late afternoon, I met Zenia near the station exit and we sought out matcha powder (Klins and I wanted to try making matcha ricecooker pancakes) before joining Ryan, Nam and Klins at the Nepalese restaurant. The dinner was planned as a first meetup with the Keio students who are coming to SMU for exchange the next semester. It was all very fun, the night was spent mostly teaching the Japanese students various Singlish phrases that would aid them well on their time in Singapore. Besides that, the highlight was the food. Of course, I mean, what else did you expect me to blog about?

Here is the Set B which I chose: two types of curry (I picked veggie and sagg chicken), a huge piece of Naan, some rice, and a delicious cup of mango lassi

And guess what, it was only 990yen before tax. It was very appetizing.
 Today, I went to Kagurazaka with Klins, Barbs and Jeron. Before Klins arrived, we were having sweets in a small cafe that sold taiyaki and kakigori (shaved ice). I got a sweet potato aka imo filled taiyaki at Barb's recommendation, and I was sold. The skin was crispy, the inside fluffy, the imo warm and natural, and even Klins who doesn't eat much sweet foods said it was not bad. Now that I have tempted you enough, here's what it looked like:

Later, we scouted the main street for our lunch. What I had in mind after reading up on Kagurazaka was a nice, wholesome Japanese-style teishoku at a very affordable lunchtime pricing. And true enough, Barbs managed to find one restaurant whose main dish was tori udon, or so I believe. Barbs got a cold tori udon dish, Jeron had tori-suki (hotpot), Klins ordered tori don, while I got the teishoku of the day -- salmon shioyaki. The restaurant had a very relaxing, traditional atmosphere with dimmed lighting and the servers donned yukatas. We were not let down by the food either. Everything was exquisitely delicious. Each order also came with a homemade dessert of the day. Ours was a lightly flavoured grape youkan, a thick jellied dessert. Mine was only 1000yen with tax included.

Just gaze upon the plentiful spread of side dishes

The day I am able to make my salmon this perfectly will be the day I accomplish one of my life goals

Some niku-man shop we came across selling huge buns