English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2007/05/31 Common supper
• 2007/05/30 nostalgia
• 2007/05/28 Hometown
• 2007/05/24 Chinese tea and snacks
• 2007/05/22 shopping
• 2007/05/21 Hi-rin
• 2007/05/20 Sudati
• 2007/05/19 On a holyday
• 2007/05/17 satisfaction
• 2007/05/16 flood of foods
• 2007/05/15 Deep-fried chicken
• 2007/05/14 Pjamas
• 2007/05/13 Peony (Botan)
• 2007/05/12 Pickled vegetables with red pepper
• 2007/05/11 Mabo Dofu
• 2007/05/10 foothold
• 2007/05/09 I weeded again
• 2007/05/08 Lifelike Images Of Soldiers And Horses
• 2007/05/07 scattered
• 2007/05/06 paotzu
• 2007/05/05 weeding
• 2007/05/04 The third
• 2007/05/02 dinner

 Tamagotoji of dried bean curd.
 Vinegared food of the cabbage.
 The fry-up of eggplant and green pepper.
 Sashimi of some sweet lobsters.
 Japanese radish being pickled in rice bran.

 Is it poor food layout ?  Please do not mind it about clumsy to serve.

 This is supper to eat with my family who has begun to devote self to wine.

 When I went to a supermarket, I bought two wine, but I don't know which wine is delicious. I tried to drink both.

 I didn't understand taste well, but I was slightly glad of what was able to swallow up both wine.

The nostalgic train which I found in the country. It seemed to stop at a platform in long time, and nobody was yet.

 By the way, do you know "Yusuranme"?  I ate it in childhood in my grandma's house. It is a fruit of size of a pachinko ball. It is sweet, and is delicious; It was very good old taste.

  I went to my hometown after an interval of four years. The mountain, it was my garden, when I was a child,  used to go up there for adventure.

 By the way, I do not know a lie or the truth, but according to the story told from childhood, our families seem to be Heike families.

 Because it is written to the local history book so, I think that reliability is high.

  However, the princess of Heike　( * ^)oo(^ *) hahaha;   wore pumps  in the morning, I had to wear black pumps on that day.

 In fact, these pumps were beautiful in the early morning, but it became bad, it crumbled.

 And a little strange, pants of cotton and black pumps.

 We found a Chinese tea and snacks shop which we were not able to find last time in Xi'an.

 This is hors d'oeuvres. I do not know how many dishes will come out as usual.

 Chinese tea and snacks came out. I am interested whether several kinds come out. 

 This is Sui-gyoza.  In Japan, there are many baked gyozas, my mother made steamed gyoza. So I like that style.

 Slipperily taste is delicious.

 I went to Uniqlo.  It was the first time to get there by myself.

 I am tall but not fat. I am not a Japanese figure. For me, the clothes of the ready-made was really short, and to be a bit big.

 I bought 2 shirts at Uniqlo, the shirts just fitted my body, length is longer and the side is shaped thin. I liked them very much.

 I should change my mind to go to the shops for middle-ages expensive clothes from now on.

 On the fourth day in Xi'an, we went to sight-seeing by ourselves, and walked  around many places.

 I noticed that I left my hat in the taxi we used the day before. As saying so to my husband, he bought a hat for me.

 I passed through the gate of Hi-rin, and found a souvenir shop. That was strange, when we were choosing a hat, a lot of people entered the shop and have begun to choose a hat together.

 I noticed incidentally. A salesclerk of a souvenir shop was pulling on my hair. When I came to China last time, I was washing my hair by a Chinese shampoo, and it became dry and rough.  In this time, I used Japanese shampoo. Of course my hair was soft and smooth then. Therefore I think that the salesclerk pulled on it.

 I wanted a white hat, but there was not the thing which matched of size. 　I gave it up and bought a black hat. 

 I am not pretty, not cute, not..............  

  On a holyday I wanted to eat sashimi, and I went for shopping.   I found fresh scallop and cuttlefish.

 When i fixed the dinner, I made greens pickled overnight of vegetables too.

 This is not edible immediately. I look forward it to become delicious.

 One day, I ate supper at a restaurant of the Xi'an's hotel.  It was Chinese food of relief at a clean restaurant. The staff could understand English. It was comfortable.

 I asked my husband to order noodles.

 We must not take up bowl in China.

 I sipped noodles from a bowl directly according to Chinese manners.

 It was not vulgarity at all.

 I was pleased that both noodles and beer were delicious very much.

 After we went to Kenryo[乾陵], had lunch.

 At the restaurant where our guide took us, we could not know how much plates came out from then on.

 My husband seemed to have been troublesome to order one by one, and he seemed to have ordered a course.

 So many dishes came out in sequence. I counted the chair. One desk and ten chairs were set. Probably I thought these dishes are for ten people.

 But I was surprised at nothing anymore. Of course I ate only the thing which I wanted to eat.

 I made Deep-fried chicken. 　Because I ran out of commercial fried chicken powder, I seasoned it by myseif.

 How to make is simple. I dipped chicken into soy sauce and sweet sake for a while and covered it with dogtooth violet starch and fried it in oil.

 It is very delicious than I use the commercial thing. The outside is crispy, and the inside is juicy. Because I dipped it, taste is on well to the inside.

 When I made this, I used a nutmeg. Taste seems to have become Kentucky Fried Chicken.

 Oops!   I forgot to put ginger.

 I am sometimes mistaken for a Chinese.

 I do not need to use Japanese when I go to a foreign country. I speak English that is the only foreign language which I can use.

 However, some Chinese ask me "Are you a Chinese?"  why?

 Because I liked silk pajamas given by my husband last year,  wanted to be given one more.  When I bought it at a shop of Xi'an's hotel, I asked  for a clerk to give me discount of it.

 But I couldn't get discount with one piece of pajamas easily, so I asked for it about two piece of pajamas.  "If you buy five piece of pajamas, I give you one more."  the salesclerk said.  I asked her again, because I don't need so many,  "how about three?". 

 At last I had discount of 10% . The salesclerk asked me afterwards. "Are you a Chinese?"    why?????

 Some peonies were blooming in each place of Xi'an. At last the peony of my home bloomed too. It's so beautiful.

 I cleaned a park nearby from this morning. Cleaning work of about 1 hour makes me tired, but it is one of the pleasures to talk with the neighboring person.

 While I cleaned the park, neighboring somebody swept dead leaves in front of my house kindly. I was thankful for.

 This is a Chinese style vinegared food which I made with an onion and a cucumber. I made it bland.

 It is two years since having made a fry last really. I covered  some horse mackeres with wheat flour and fried it in low oil.

 And I steeped it into the vinegar with soy sauce/sugar/kombu and a red pepper. I put it for twenty-four hours, and ate it on the next night.

 I did not eat this for supper of this day.  I made the cooking that I used oil for after a long absence, so I made deep-fried sand lance at the same time to make this and ate.

 The fried food which I ate was very delicious after a long absence.

 I went to a town to eat supper, because I came back from sightseeing early in the evening.

 However, my husband and I were not able to find a restaurant which wanted to go,　and lost our way

 The street where we walked was wide and there were the shops which sold spit-roasting of mutton or spit-roasting of a scorpion then

 I wanted to eat bean-curd soup seasoned with red pepper. Because I was made to hear that Sichuan dish was delicious.

 I found a restaurant what a tablecloth seemed to be used and ate delicious supper.

 The bean-curd soup seasoned, and the hot fry-up of a Chinese cabbage with green pepper were delicious.

 The fried river lobster was sweet, peskily taste....... that is like my wordy English. 

 Four stars Hotel, we made this hotel a foothold and went to sightseeing for a few days.

 It was a wonderful hotel. The building was new, but making it seemed to be the royal palace.

 It had the staff, can speak Japanese. Even a foreigner looks like Japanese who can speak Japanese, mysterious.

 When I got up in the morning,  was it the staff of the hotel?  a man was doing Chinese shadow boxing with a peacock, hahaha.

 One day, I finished breakfast in morning and happened to pass, I saw some Mister Charlie asked him how to do Tai-Kyoku-Ken; Chinese shadow boxing .

 However, Chinese movement to make Chinese shadow boxing was beautiful, and it of Mister Charlie was not so. I thought that they should have done it after they reduced the weight a little more and they'd better thin a stomach more.......hahaha  

 I came back to the hotel from sightseeing and had tea at the lobby. My face is covered. The stomach swells out, you must not look steadily ......ehehehe. 

 I found a mushroom in a backyard of my house ........... I thought.  Because a mushroom such as horse droppings mushroom sometimes grows. But this was not a mushroom when I saw it carefully.

 Anyway, I weeded again. snd  found this. It hid with dead leaves.

 WoW!  In the backyard, Korean houttuynia grows. I pull them up with removing underground stems.

 I can pull them up one after another if successful. But a bud new again appears from the root that I cut if I make a bad job.

 Though my garden is small, there are beautiful azaleas blossom in a park in front of my house.

 I'm sure that is a part of my garden,  because I must clean there on this weekend. I will be tired.

 I went to see "Lifelike Images Of Soldiers And Horses" at last.  I was glad!

 I have seen a few part of them in a Japanese art museum, b