Eat your sweets @depachika

Did you enjoy happy Valentine? I hope you did.
I visited department store, just to buy some souvenirs for my family and friends, not for Valentine. Japanese people call the corner that sells food ‘depachika’. You can guess, ‘depa’ comes from department, and what is ‘chika’? Chika means underground. Yes, there are usually food corner on the underground floor at department store. Depachika is a very attractive world, so I recommend you go there and try to eat some Japanese sweets when you visit Japan.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 80

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 80

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It was crowded so staff is standing with ‘Here is the last’ sign.

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Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/90s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 80

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/90s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

Especially I was fascinated their packaging design. They are not only traditional but also very very charming.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/90s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 100

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Sakusa-shaped pie. So Japanese!!!

Tokyo is burning!

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Tokyo is still at the peak of autumn. December has started already but it is not so cold yet. Instead, the leaves turned red & yellow and they are making fantastic scenes.
In my campus, there are so many ginko trees, and they are all burning!!!
Sky is high and clear, the weather is so lovely. People are enjoying an excursion for viewing autumnal leaves, stepping on the fallen leaves. I’ve heard that deadly hot last summer made leaves tinted more vividly.
Now I understood why Japanese people have loved ginko so much.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/500s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 100 │ 6mm

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Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 160 │ 6mm

Recently I have been to Kamakura, which is the historical city that used to be a capital of Japan during Kamakura period. It takes about an hour from Tokyo so many people visit there on holiday.
I could see the beautiful fallen leaves in Kamakura as well, and even more peaceful atmosphere than big city, Tokyo, so I wanna show some of those I took that day.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 100 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/15s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 400 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/180s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

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New Year at Tokyo

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あけましておめでとうございます。

This is a letter from Tokyo at New Year season. I wish all your happy new year!!

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There are many illumination sites in Tokyo at Christmas & New Year season.

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Samsung ST100 │ 1/20s │ f3.9 │ 11mm │ ISO 640

I’ve heard Aoyama is the most beautiful one of them this year, so I went there to take pictures the scenery. Unfortunately, it was prohibited cross the pedestrian overpass, so I couldn’t take overlooking views. It was crowded with people shopping and taking photos.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/20s │ f3.9 │ 11mm │ ISO 400

Samsung ST100 │ 1/30s │ f3.7 │ 8mm │ ISO 400

I didn’t controlled anything with my camera, I just fixed to SMART function, which was automatically well-controlled according to the lightness, distances to the subjects. It was really convenient.

New Year Day is considered by most Japanese to be one of the most important annual festivals and has been celebrated for centuries with its own unique customs.

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People decorate front door of their houses to celebrate new year and wish good luck. They call it “kadomatu”, which means pine of door. I could find many kinds of decorates in my town as well.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f3.6 │ 6mm │ ISO 200

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Do you know that this year is the year of rabbit? This year, rabbits might bring a fortune to you. Happy new year again!!

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Buy me a Spaceship and Fly

The subject of today’s class was tarte. To make a delicious pie crust, our teacher put in the same portion of cake flour and butter so I had a really tough time fitting the pie crust into the tarte mold.

The crust was so loose that I had to sprinkle huge amount of flour to prevent it from sticking to the board, and eventually the tarte ended up becoming hard. I wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble if I had added enough flour in the first place!

This chocolate tarte is the finished product after all that fuss. It’s sprinkled heavily with cocoa powder so when you bite into it, the cocoa powder gets all on your teeth but it was so sweet and delicious.

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This is a banana walnut tarte. It’s filled with banana boiled down in caramel syrup and decorated with walnuts on top. It’s so~~ good.

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I never imagined that banana and walnuts would go so well together.

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This is cream puffs pie. On the edge of the pie crust, I’ve squeezed out the choux paste, filled it with custard and topped it with whipped cream. The savoriness of the pie and the cream puffs and the sweetness of the cream make a fabulous combination and it was so delicious!

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This is the mini version of the cream puffs pie made with leftover crust. They look like spaceships, don’t you think? :) In Japan, people buy lot more of the individual pieces as to a whole cake.

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I’ve made a simple cake in a long time. It’s layered with whipped cream and chocolate cream between the sponges and then the surface is coated with caramel. It’s simple to make but totally delicious.

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Look at the layer. Isn’t it luscious?

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This is a blueberry cake with lots of blueberry jam in it.

On the bottom layer are apples boiled down in sugar so it’s refreshing and delicious.

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This is a chocolate cake made with using the same sponge as the one above but layered with different cream. It wasn’t easy to spread a thin layer of cream on each layer but definitely worth the effort.

This is ‘Tenya’, a restaurant where I work part-time.

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It specializes in tendon (shortened word for tempura donburi) and it’s absolutely delicious. It’s so good that I would recommend tendon over sushi to foreign tourists.

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Doesn’t it look delicious??

 

All of images had taken with ST10