Poseidon’s Projects

I have a small little write up of the fried pork restaurant Tonchinkan in my local Choufu. It is a pretty awesome restaurant and very much deserves a trip. Definitely try and check it out.
Read the review here.

Tonchinkan – Tonkatsu in Choufu

No. Not berry or fruit cake. WEDDING cake.

That’s right. This weekend Kana and I finally had our wedding party. Friends, colleagues, and some family were called to celebrate. We ate at the illustrious Ristorante Ozawa. Fine Italian dining. For the dessert we elected to have a variety of delights in buffet form. However, since it was a wedding gathering and all, we also decided to have a small cake to cut. Unfortunately it wasn’t a wedding cake like an American would think of a wedding cake. It was more like a shortcake. Here’s what it looked like.

So here Kana and I are getting down to it.

Instead of cutting pieces we were told to just stick our spoons into the cake and pull out a whole bunch.

Well, having never cut a wedding cake before I think we both over did it a little. Both of us pulled up a ridiculous amount of cake. I’m literally surprised the both of us were able to get our spoons into each other’s mouth.

The cake looked awesome. It WAS awesome. It was really good. When they first told me it was going to be like a short cake (really what all cakes are in Japan) I was disappointed. But man it tasted amazing. It was a small cake, so afterward they cut it up and put it on the buffet table. First come first serve. Unfortunately when everyone was going to get dessert, I had to hand out spoons to the guests and do the whole meet and greet type stuff. So I was even able to pick out my own dessert at my own wedding party. Fortunately the owner/manager of the restaurant brought us over some plates of all the desserts. Unfortunately, the plate didn’t include that awesome wedding cake. After all we already had our mouthful. Soooooo unfair.

So these pictures were taken by Brendon. I’m pretty sure the photographer had a better angle on us and we can expect more pictures in about a week. I’ll write more about what it is like getting married from the Japanese perspective in a bit. So long for now.

How do you like my hair mom?

Yesterday evening it snowed pretty hard. I was really surprised because it never snows in Japan. So it was fun being able to see snow again. In fact I was so excited that I busted out the camera and I hoped to get some cool pictures. Unfortunately I wasn’t really able to get that many cool pictures. But here are some.

This was taken from the balcony of our condo. I wish I had a faster lens so that I could freeze the movement of the snow. Oh well.

It was snowing so hard and looked so fun outside that I asked Kana if she wanted to take a walk. So we walked around the neighbourhood for a little bit and there was a corner that had some good light, so I took this shot. I thought it came out rather well.

Then we went over to the local temple. It had only been snowing for 2 hours and already everything was pretty much covered in snow. I was really surprised. But the temple looked really nice covered in snow, so I’m glad that Kana and I braved the cold.

Unfortunately Kana wasn’t really wearing weather appropriate clothing so she was starting to get soaked. So we high tailed it back home and went to sleep.