At the grocery store, you can buy little packets of seeds and beans to mix in with cooking rice. It makes the rice a tad purple, but it tastes pretty good, and who can say no to beans and rice? It even reheats pretty well, I think.
And I cobbled together a better-than-expected salad of sorts - half a tomato that wasn't going to keep much longer in the fridge, a long-and-skinny cucumber, a couple shakes of basil, and a packet of soup seasoning consisting of freeze-dried onions and/or chives (not sure exactly what they are, but they had just enough taste to make this modest salad delightful). Lemon juice might have rounded it out, but I settled for a splash of lemon pepper marinade. Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm usually pretty boring with the food I make at home because I don't usually have an assortment of fresh ingredients on hand and because I don't really know what I'm doing in the kitchen.
Rounding it out with a bottle of something I've never heard of before, Rose Hip Water. Quite good.
I will now profess my love for the hyakuiin (100-yen store). Not only did I get the soup seasoning there, but I found the Japanese version of Smarties. Grape, lemon, strawberry, and melon, in their own single-serving packets.
Bonus curiosity: wine in a can. Nothing particularly special about either the red or the white in terms of flavor, but it was novel that it was in a can and slightly carbonated.
Hey, this is kind of random but I have had that candy before a while back and loved it. I didn't know what it was called though and have been googling so many things and this is the only picture I could find of them. Do you happen to know the name of it or what I could look up online?
ReplyDeleteThe brand is Ramune, but I don't know of a term for this particular type of candy. They're like Smarties, but chalkier.
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