Long Way to Become an Adult !

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On this day, we had a wine class.

I’ve had fruit wine a couple of times but it was the first time for me to drink the real stuff so I was excited from the morning.

And for our class, we had professor Mitake - a master sommelier.

We briefly learned the history and the basic manners of wine and went on to sampling.

My friends drank the wine pretty excitedly saying that they feel like grown-ups, but once they took a sip, they all looked as if they were about to throw up. So did I. I guess I still have a long way to go before becoming an adult.

Red wine, white wine and champagne, they were all bitter for me. Tears.. tears..

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This is a mousse cake called Orangerie Printemps.

It’s a sweet and sour cake with orange jelly in between lemon mousse full of cream cheese. You have no idea how many times I had to repeat the work in order to create a beautiful surface.

When I had to decorate the ring shape at the end, I almost had cramps in my hands!

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This is a mousse cake that the teacher has made using different decoration.

Aren’t those tiny bees and the flowers adorable?

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This is a pie called Rhabarbers trudel.

It’s a pie made with rhubarb and pineapple filling rolled in a really thin sheet of pastry.

It was the first time for me to see this vegetable called rhubarb. I chewed the raw rhubarb and it was so sour that I almost had tears in my eyes.

The teacher told us to put in as much sugar as we liked before baking it. Our group decided to add just a little bit of sugar because we were concerned about the calories, but the pie turned out too sour that we had to pick out all the pieces of rhubarb before eating.

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This is lemongrass and lychee jelly.

The white part on the bottom is lychee mousse and the light green part is the lemongrass jelly. When I was infusing the lemongrass leaf and stalk to make the lemongrass jelly, the smell was so strong that I didn’t think it was going to be good, but the jelly turned out more refreshing and tastier than I thought.

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This is valencia orange tarte.

Inside is a home-made bottom layer of orange jam topped with pistachio dacquoise. Then it’s sprinkled with generous amount of sugar powder and decorated with chopped pistachios.

It was good but too sweet so I only had one slice.

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And this is my favorite~ Sushi!

I do sometimes go to the restaurant to eat sushi, but as a student I can’t go that often since it’s too pricy. But yet, when I really crave for sushi, I go to a local supermarket around closing time and buy a sushi with half off price sticker and eat it at home. In Japan, even sushi sold in supermarkets is fantastic! If you come to Japan and want to eat sushi, but you are tight budgeted, go to a supermarket just before closing. You can find delicious sushi at a cheap price!

 

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