The Cube

カステラ巻 or Kasutera roll - that's the kasutera cake that tour guide bought for his glutton tour customer :P We got this Bunmeido kasutera roll, instead of the traditional kasutera Food sold in Japan are wrapped up and packaged nicely (and stop staring at the hato sabure cookie behind :P) Unwrapping the wrapping...

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A couple of months ago, it seems like all the food blogs I read posted up recipe for this particular cake - カステラ (Kasutera/Castella). Very, very tempting. Unfortunately, from memory the recipe requires 8 eggs. So no attempt on trying to bake the cake and I thought I could probably get it off...

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Our last stop was at Asakusa - to visit the Sensoji Temple, also tour guide said that there's a market place that sells souvenirs. We still need to get a couple of quite a few things to bring home. The Sensoji Temple is not far from the Asakusa train station. Opposite the Kaminari-mon...

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Taken through the window from the hotel room, with the lights off. :) Side note: New year resolutions? Ummm ...

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There is no spelling mistake on the title. I think in a way it is to potray Maid Dreaming as well as to read as "my dreaming". Don't ask me why I didnt take any pictures of the girls dressing up in maid costume giving away leaflet on the streets, but we did...

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After finished terrorizing roaming the Takeshita Dori and to avoid the growing crowd in Harajuku, we decide to hop over to the electric town. Taking the Akihabara Electric Town exit You can find loads of electrical goodies in Akihara, figurines of anime, little toys in capsule or anime costume. To encourage people to...

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