My son became 4 years old in early June. 🎶 On his birthday, my family went outside for lunch together. After coming back home, he suddenly suggested me to bake his birthday cake together (Yap, it was around 17:00PM 🕔!), so we baked simple sponge cake together. Then, we coated the sponge cake with the coconut milk and maple syrup based whip cream and sprinkled banana and chocolate chips on top🎂.
He made his birthday cake by himself. What a memorable and funny birthday ! Eat well, sleep well and grow healthy…That’s what my husband and I strongly want for him. Read More
In the 5th month of pregnancy, Japanese people go to the shrine to pray for the safe delivery of the child. It is called “Dog’s Day” in Japan. My pregnancy passed 5 months as well, so I visited local shrine with my family, parents from Fukushima and my sister. (Photo : My son poses as if he is also pregnant. 😂)
After the purification ceremony, I was given the abdominal band with my name on, two kinds of harms for safe delivery and Japanese sweets. (Yap! Sweets are everywhere here in Japan.)
Happy Mother’s Day from Hawaii. I am now having a late Golden Week (long national holiday in Japan) here in Oahu island.
So happy to experience the American style Mother’s Day! (There is a special buffet at our hotel. Wow!) I feel grateful to be a mother of my son. I didn’t realize being a mother is so fun, creative and precious! (&also challenging some times…)
Actually, I have one more NEWS today!!! I will be a mother of one more child this Autumn!!! A bit nervous but more Excited!!!
For more Hawaii & Hawaii food photos, please check my private IG account (@yuca_private) ! See you there!!
Ikebukuro is one of the biggest and busiest area in Tokyo. For Ramen lovers like you, here is a good news! There are so many good ramen shops and also small china town area there. As a first step, I decided to visit the popular ramen shop called “Mutekiya”. The shop is located about 10 minutes from JR Ikebukuro station.
I visited Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and Macau 🇲🇴 with my family last week. (My husband had a business there so my son and I joined!) It’s been almost 8 years since I visited there last time. Amazed to see so many good and cozy coffee shops and vegetarian/vegan cafes in Hong Kong Island area. In Macau, we felt something new insights and learned interesting data about Chinese market. We ate a lot as you might see on my private account (@yuca_private). It was really a good research trip with my family!
Jingu-mae area is always funky and pop culture area. New trends usually are born in this area. After cupcake and pancake shops, there are so many bubble tea and sweets shops including fashionable chocolate shops (and even rolling cake stand!) are now VERY popular in this area. I personally like to visit there to check new trends and to buy delicious donuts at the good town doughnuts. On the way to the donuts shop, I found this ramen shop called the Oreryu Shio-Ramen. “Ore-ryu” means my style. Men usually use “Ore” for themselves. I always research salt ramen, so my husband and I decided to try their ramen. Read More
All early-bird places have sold out! Thank you for sending us support messages, everyone (who pledged for my first cookbook project)! We are now working on collecting your messages and editing some of them since we have limited of our space! Thank you for your understanding in advance!!! If you are still interested in getting my first cookbook, please be a supporter! https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/yjc/created
Hello, everyone! I have a news today!! Guess what? Yes! I am now creating my first cookbook!!!
It’s been a secret but one of my dreams are publishing a cookbook. Since this is my first cookbook, I wanted to try something special and fun!!!
1. Entrepreneurial stories – Many of my cooking class guests asked me how I started this cooking class business, challenges I had and what I am now. I couldn’t tell my story in detail during cooking class, but I noticed that so many people are interested in living their dreams. It was not so easy for me in the beginning. Honestly, I once thought that I should stop doing this business etc. I hope you’ll get something new and sparkling things from this book.
2. The first 50 supporters! – Here is the early-bird prize. The first 50 supporters have a chance to write support message for this project. I have been supported by many people since I started my cooking class business. This made me want to try crowd funding and make a special cookbook with my supporters!
3. Rewards – To publish this cookbook, I would like to raise funds. As a reward, I prepared various goods. Those goods are original tote bag, denim bag, Apron and Chopsticks. Of course, those products are sold at my classroom and YUCa’s Japanese Cooking online store only. Now is the time to get those goods as well. Very exclusive!!
