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Minna san GOMENASAIIIIIIIII!!!!!!! (translation: Im sorry everyone). I keep apologising for not being able to post! WAHHHH but anyway Im here to make it up to you for the nth time so…. Prepare yourself for a MAJOR update!! WARNING: This post will be photo heavy. Good luck!
So it was the mid- autumn festival and yes I ate a sh*tload of mooncakes which are like a gazzilion calories every bite. And yes I ate a lot during the holidays but thankfully I dont eat meat (vegetarian) so I didn’t gain too much weight back. i gained about 1.5lbs. I think that is reasonable for the amount of mooncakes I devoured. Hahahah! Im not too bothered by it at all. I can lose it in a week. So yeah.
Anyway here is what I have been upto the past few days. I invited over our (not blood-related) brother Carlos Dengel over for a day of everything Japanese. So here are some photos.
Here I am cooking some Japanese curry for our lunch and dinner. I had to cook with a lot of chicken because Carlos and my sister Dana are meat eaters.
Yours truely posing for the camera. Looking haggard as ever. While cooking a delicious Japanese Chicken curry for the meat eaters. 
Since I can’t eat meat I had to fry myself some tofu as my source of protien. Its easy and you can mix it in almost any type of sauce. As for me, I mixed my tofu in with the curry, so instead of the chicken curry I had tofu curry.
So here I was putting in the tofu into the pan when it suddenly catches on fire!! I was so surprised so I hollered to my sister to hurry and photograph the fiery tofu.
When I finished cooking Carlos arrived and my sister decided to dress in my mother Aikido Gi and pretened to be Zushi from Hunter x Hunter and presented Carlos with his favourite Nun-chucks complete with the exclamation of “OSU!!!”
(forgive the HXH lingo)
So after presenting the nun-chucks to Carlos they bowed to each other. (those two are ridiculous funny)
So right after that little fun moment. I proceeded with the Japanese filled day and taught my two siblings how to cook my style of tamagoyaki (eggrolls?) It was a fairly simple dish.
Carlos was really concentrating on getting the rolls right. I know that is not the way you really make tamagoyaki but this way is faster for me and I like it more.
And voila our tamagoyakis are done!
Can you guess which roll is mine?
After cooking eggrolls we went right ahead and made onigiri (rice balls) . We used bonito flakes and umeboshi (pickled plums) as filling. My sister preffered plain onigiri. The different shaped onigiri are my sister’s. The huge ones are Carlos and the even and “perfect shaped ones are mins but you can barely see it here.
I even made an Avatar Aang onigiri head. LOL!!
These are my onigiri. They’re not so bad.
Can you see Avatar Aang?
So after all the cooking we ate and then watched a couple of anime. Finished Hunter x Hunter G.I. and showed Carlos other anime shows just for kicks. Then we watched some funny youtube videos of Japanese Pranks. And finally we started learning Japanese HIRAGANA together. We all learned the first 3 rows. It was really fun! I didnt get a chance to take photos because we were just pre occupied and I know I dont have a lot of photos of myself during the Japanese Day because well.. I was busy prepping and the likes and my sister forgot to take photos as well. So yeah.
Anyway after all the activites at home it was time to pack up and leave. Carlos had to go home and my sister and I had to go to our father’s house to visit (because it mid-autumn festival).
Well here is a photo of me… kinda. We were in the subway waiting for the train to arrive.
Carlos and Dana waiting at the Subway station forgive my blurry photographs Im not a photographer.
Well that about wraps up the Japanese Filled-Day with Dana and Carlos. But this update does not end here… nope I still have about 2 more updates I think. I’m thinking on whether I should post the next one on a different post or here as well. But its going to be waaaay Photo heavy so I guess I’ll do the next update on the next post. Just to give you guys a break from it. I’ll schedule it sometime in a few hours.
So I hope you had fun looking through my ugly and blurry photographs. I already posted these photos on facebook but I know not everyone are my friends/contacts on facebook.
So thats about it. I will see you in the next few posts again.
xoxo
Lara Novales
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