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By Little-Akiko, February 19, 2010 1:30 pm

I created some new hand carved rubber stamps.
Each stamp is designed and hand-carved by me (little-akiko).

Hand-carved stamps at TinyShiny.com
Visit Site: http://www.tinyshiny.com/Stamp.php

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By Little-Akiko, January 27, 2010 3:15 pm

I created some new hand carved rubber stamps for Valentine’s day.

Each stamp is designed and hand-carved by me (little-akiko).

Heart and Rose stamps.

Visit Site: http://www.tinyshiny.com/Stamp.php

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By Little-Akiko, January 23, 2010 6:19 pm

I made a Japanese style roasted pork which we usually use as a Ramen topping in Japan.
So I decided to make a homemade ramen soup dish.
Yakibuta (chachu)

I made two kinds of ramen.
- One is Tonkotsu Ramen : Pork broth soup which made from boiling pork bones.
- the other is Miso Ramen : I used pork broth soup and added miso to it.

　Tonkotsu Ramen　

　Miso Ramen

I made fresh Ramen noodles with flour, salt, egg and water. Easy to make noddles with a pasta maker.
I also made thousand year old egg with Yakibuta (Japanese style roasted pork) sauce I made.

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By Little-Akiko, January 10, 2010 11:29 am

On January 2nd, we went to Mitstuwa Marketplace in New Jersey.
We arrived at the market, but we had a hard time finding a parking spot.
It looks like the underground of a Japanese Department store.

There were so many people in the place, many Japanese, but more than half were other Asians.

I expected that the food to be served in individual restaurants, but there was just Food Court. You order food and you have to find a place to sit. Again, it was hard time to find a table.
We ordered some Ramen at Santoka.
We waited quite a while to get to our orders.

I was little disappointed. the soup and toppings were good, but the noddles were too hard. If they were cooked a little bit longer, it would be better.

I have wanted to eat a Japanese style Strawberry short cake for so long. I got a cake at Italian Tomato which is a chain restaurant in Japan. I used to go eat cakes there when I was a teenager in Japan.

The cake was good: the sponge was soft and the taste was same as I remembered, but the strawberries were too big.

We had a great drink. I don’t know what it was called, something with almond milk and tapioca at Tokyo Hanten.This drink was so good!

It is better go visit this place on a not so busy day. You can sit, relax and look at the view of the Hudson River and Manhattan from the food court.

Mitsuwa Marketplace
595 River Road
Edgewater, NJ 07020
TEL: (201) 941-9113

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By Little-Akiko, January 9, 2010 6:52 pm

There are many Japanese restaurants in New York.  Even too many, it is hard to know which restaurant to choose. I did check some reviews on the web before I left.

New years is not the best time to go to Japanese restaurants in New York ,  as many of the ones I wanted to go to, were closed.

I found a very good Unadon at a Japanese Restaurant called Gajyumaru.

Unadon is one of  many popular Japanese rice bowl dishes. The dish is made with Grilled eel on top of rice with sweet sauce.

Unadon takes its name from the Japanese words Unagi no Kabayaki “grilled eel coated with a sweet sauce” and donburi “for rice bowl dish“.

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