Will Be Back Soon!

If you check my blog regularly, apology for this silence.  I haven't had enough time to sit in front of computer to write.  I will come back soon, hopefully this weekend.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  As you can imagine, lately, my food is not so interesting....some sandwich or instant noodles from convenience store.

You are what you eat....yes, truly.

My Cousin from New York

Center of the Restaurant

This is a good place to take foreign guests.  The entrance is narrow and you wouldn't expect this inside.

Nice decor is relaxing and you will forget where you are.
Can't believe that this is located in the basement of a department store.

Food was excellent, too!

Lunch @ Annual Alumni Event

BENTO BOX

This BENTO was provided to the attendees.  There were about 200 people at the party!?

The center, plum flower shaped ones are rice.
On the top, there is umeboshi-pickled plum.

The top left is broiled salmon.  The center... I forgot.  The right top is some kind of vegetable.

The middle left is fish sausage ( kamaboko ) and some meat ball.  The down left is cooked potato, carrot and some others.  The pink ball.... we wondered....the inside was sort of fish ball.  The shell was ...we were not sure.  The color is so vivid!

Then shrimp tempura.   There was also a small packet of sweets.  I sat with same class mates.... my year had about 12 people.
We kept talking and were scolded three times..... actually, we were not the only group.  The teacher making speech sighed...." Well, we had to scold you while you were in the school.  After so many years after graduation, I still have to say the same... "  lol.

Alumni Association Event

st. margaret's

The other day, I attended Alumni Association Event, which is annually scheduled around this time of year.

This is more official than other re-unions.  This any alum can attend this.  The event includes accounting report etc...

For other re-unions, we use regular restaurants, but this official one is always held at school.

Nice to see the school where I spent my young days.

Nothing gorgeous, but we had lunch time after the official meeting.
Will show you the BENTO box we had.   Please come back !  Thanks for visiting my blog.

Uncle S's Anniversary---@ Grave in Kodaira

The monk chanting sutra

Before the lunch, we visited the grave, which is our family's.  My father, grandfather, grandmother, my father's sisters & brothers and some more ancestors who I haven't even met are sleeping in here.  ( It is the law to cremate and turn deceased into ashes )  Their bones are placed in potteries and placed underneath of this grave stone.

On the surface, it says " Watanabe Famliy ".

On the left, there is a flat square stone. It has all the names of the deceased people in the family.

Uncle S's Anniversary---VI

We have many cousins and their children

This time, there were young ones, who are children of my cousins.

Then over there, you can see some of my aunts and uncles.

3 generations together.

Dessert

Uncle S's 13th Anniversary---V

Cooked Bamboo Shoot

A few more dishes.  Please bear with me.
The Bamboo shoot is our typical spring food.
Fresh smell and hard-to describe texture....

Clear soup had pretty gluten ball..

Clear Soup with Chicken Ball