• Strine

    Love The Way You Lie

    Kangaeroo got a much better day than expected today, Japan’s National Foundation Day but not a holiday because it fell on a Saturday. Waking, Your Humble Narrator (to borrow a turn of phrase from Anthony Burgess) was greeted by a winter wonderland from the previous day’s snowfall. There would be no customary morning bike ride on this day. Instead, with great community spirit, Mrs. Kangaeroo suggested Kangaeroo get his morning exercise by shoveling the snow off the paths so none of our neighbors slipped and hurt themselves. So, it was out on the shovel and into the snow. And great…

  • Strine Tucker

    Ramen Cake Will Make You Do Your Noodle!

    Nationwide all-you-can-eat sweets franchise Sweets Paradise make amazing cakes decorated to look like main meals but almost indistinguishable from them until tasted. Sweets Paradise makes an assortment of foods that look like main dishes but are actually cakes, including bowls of noodles, omelets, katsudon and eel. What’s more, the prices are extremely reasonable, at around 1,200 yen, which is about half what you’d normally pay for a similarly sized cake anywhere in Japan. Sweets Paradise has outlets throughout Japan, but also sells its wares online.

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    豪キャブラリー: Pav

     オーストラリアで国家的に有名なケーキを尋ねたらpavlovaになる確率がかなり高 いだろう。(ケーキ大好きな肥満大国世界一位なので、他にもたくさんの競争相手のケーキがあるけれどね、、、)。  メレンゲ、生クリームとフルーツというゴージャスな盛り合わせpavlovaは、よくパーティやデザートで食べられている。オーストラリアでは、このケーキがオーストラリアで初めて作られたと言われているが、本当の「発明者」は、おそらく隣のニュージーランドだという事が最近分かってきた。  オージー英語の単語を短くする特徴通り、pavlovaも、よくpavと省略され、pavと言えば誰にでも通じる。 日本語でのPavlovaレシピ