Nabe and Valentines
Although Japan does not celebrate Valentines like the Western world - I still bought my wife a present… although perhaps with a Japanese twist.
I bought her a nabe pot and filled it with boxes of chocolate - including a real life Wonka chocolate bar sold here in Japan (Ive never seen them in the US, are they sold there?). It was Whipple-Scrumptious!
After we cleared the pot of chocolate, we ended up using it to cook a tomato sauce nabemono dish. Very tasty with shitake mushrooms, carrots, onion, chicken, cabbage, and tofu on top. Here are some photos of the pot and nabemono =)
February 27th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Wonka bars have been sold here before, even ate one long ago. Novalty shops may have them now.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:30 am
cool, you are probably right, i should check out a novelty shop next time im in the US.