🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My son became 1 year old.🎉

As for his first birthday, I baked two cakes. Those are the cheese cake and the chiffon cake. 🎂 I am pretty sure that he wonders why I baked two cakes suddenly.

After tasting the cake, my family did traditional fortune game with him. We put several items on the floor and my son chose the calculator at first and then telephone! Choosing calculator means you will be good at business. But I couldn’t find what choosing telephone means. Any guess?

Next to the Jindaiji Temple (that I introduced in the previous post) , there is a Jindai Botanical Park!

When I visited this exhibition, I could see various roses from abroad and couldn’t see all of them. Because the exhibition area was huge and so many roses!
*Until the 29th of May, you can enjoy the World Rose Exhibition in the park.

People were trying to take their best photos with using the big and professional cameras!

Foodies like you, I recommend you to try the ‘Rose soft cream’. The color of the ice cream is pink white and it really tastes the scent of rose! Fun & yummy~~♪

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We are having the Golden week now in Japan. People go back to their hometown to see family and relatives, go to the domestic resorts, go outside of Japan or even rest at home to enjoy the long holidays. And my family’s case…we visited my hometown and we are spending a lot of time in Tokyo to discover other areas and meeting some friends. 🙂 Good days!

Today, we visited the Jindaiji Temple, which is located near my neighborhood, the west of Tokyo.

In Jindaiji, we ate the Dango (for snack), Soba (you should never miss!) and Soba manju (to check its flavor). And I bought some things that I’ve wanted to get for a long time. *I will show you them soon!!

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In Japan, we see many bamboo shoots at the supermarket and also on TV.

You’ll see many fresh bamboo shoots piled up at the supermarket. And, you also see the small bags with rice bran besides them. (It’s cute and of course, it’s FREE!) The rice bran can absorb the astringent taste when boiling the bamboo shoots. That’s why they usually are displayed together at the store.
You can also buy the precooked bamboo shoots to save cooking time.

In my hometown Fukushima, my father and relatives still enjoy getting the bamboo shoots from the bamboo forest. When I was a child, I also enjoyed getting them with families. What a good memory!

Since I like to cook and eat the seasonal vegetables, I bought the boiled bamboo shoot and cooked several appetizers! I still have the rest of it, so I am thinking to make Japanese style pasta and mixed rice with using several other vegetables.

Let’s enjoy the seasonal vegetables!

Bamboo shoot salad topped with bonito flakes

Cooked bamboo shoot topped with dried shrimp and sansho pepper sauce