Holiday!

Today is a National holiday here in Japan so Tigerpapa has a long weekend. Lucky for TP, we (more likely, I) decided to hang out around the house and clean up a bit. :) We have 2 bedrooms in our apartment and one of them is full of stuff and not very livable. I really want to make it into the kids playroom and get all the toys out of our living room so we went to the Home Centre and got some plastic bins to help organize the closet (to make room for the stuff!). Woohoo, we know how to have a good time here at the Tiger household! Anyhoo, after all of that hard work we (more likely, TP) decided to go out for lunch. We tend to frequent the same restaurants and it`s getting a bit boring so today we tried something new....a Tonkatsu restaurant! Ton means pork and katsu means fried so, you guessed it, we had fried pork. It was quite an experience. See below for a pictoral guide to the local Tonkatsu restaurant.

Here, TP is grinding the sesame seeds to prepare them to go on the pork:



Next, take some sauce with the fancy dipper:



Then pour your sauce over your fried pork along with the crushed sesame seeds:



Eat and enjoy! It was really good and you get as much rice, miso soup, and cabbage as you want!

Here`s what the kids shared:



(Miso soup, hamburger, fried shrimp, chicken nugget, rice with furikake, potato salad, "octopus" hotdog, tamago yaki, french fries, and juice.)

All in all, it was a good day. We are about to put the kids to bed and watch the movie "Sayuri" (Memoirs of a Geisha) with some nachos and beer. Like I said, we know how to party!!

Ja ne!