みつけた！

These are edamame, which are whole soy beans. I didn't think I would be able to find any here in New Zealand, but luckily I was wrong.

Lost and Found

I just found this picture on one of my clip drives. It is a photo I had intended to blog months ago, but I never got around to it. I took this picture at the Kamagadai culture festival. This is the lunch we ate, made out of the products of the Mochi-making Competition. At the bottom right is mochi (rice cake) covered in bean powder. The bottom-left plate contains mochi in sweet bean stew. The soup at the top is chicken and vegetable soup with mochi in it. This is the lunch that gave me a terribly sore stomach.