life @ enhasa

Fuji-shaped Chocolate

It’s kind of blurry, but this is probably the quaintest omiyage I’ve ever gotten. Look! It’s chocolate! It’s shaped like Mt. Fuji! ^_^???

I’ve suddenly found myself nearly broke, and so I’m trying to eat on a budget, more than I ever have before. This is sort of budget-y, though I bought most of the ingredients pre-budgetary crisis, so it probably doesn’t count.

Ingredients

The rice is three for 398yen, the shrimp (pre-fried, in the shell — meant as a drinking snack, I reckon) was 168yen, and the Vindaloo sauce was something like 198.

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すっぱいオレンジKitKat

Saw these at the convenience store. 298yen at Lawson.

Think of Terry’s Chocolate Orange, in Kit-Kat form, and you’ll know what this is like. It’s the best, to be honest.

In July, I got a bottle of Retsu Junmai Ginjo from MelindaJoe, for SakeSwap. However, as I was in the process of getting ready to leave, and was busy, and had a huge number of drinking parties lined up already, I didn’t get around to drinking it until now.  FINALLY! I SHALL CRACK IT OPEN!

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Fast on the heels of the Double Cheese Pringles, I came across these two half-cans at another local Lawson Station.

New York Cheese Dog and Los Angeles BBQ Chicken flavour

As always, sucker for limited edition flavours of junk food, I jumped right in.  Prior to eating, my expectation (or rather, my hope) for the Cheese Dog ones would be that there’s something to differentiate them from the Double Cheese ones — I want to taste tubesteak, dammit.  The BBQ Chicken ones have a picture of a grilled fajita/gordita/wrap on them, which doesn’t satisfy what I think of when I hear “BBQ Chicken”, but whatever.  I’m hoping for a slightly spicy, vaguely Tex-Mex flavour.

Right, so, the cheese dog ones are lacking in tubesteaktasticness.  They are, however, different from the Double Cheese ones.  There’s a BETTER cheese taste. Less salt, more cheese.  Possibly, (and this may just be me tasting what I want to taste), a slight hint of pork, but I’m not entirely certain.

The BBQ Chicken ones are, as I suspected, just a touch Mexican-y.  Like a Mexican version of the normal BBQ potato chip.  Not too heavy, not overpowering.  Not chicken-y at all, either. :/

I’m not even sure I understand the LA/BBQ Chicken connection.  The LA/Mexican food connection, sure, okay, but “BBQ Chicken”?  Someone from California enlighten me?

American Street Food Pringles are available at Lawson Station for something like 200yen or so, I would imagine. I must confess I didn’t pay attention. ._.

Ken Miyake, Junichi Okada, and Go Morita

Me? I’m a big fan of music. All music.  I’m not tied by genres or what the cool kids are listening to. I know what I like, and that’s what I listen to.

I’m a bit of a Japanese boy band junkie.  I’m not ashamed to admit it!  Johnny’s groups make me happy. I like their songs.  My favourite group is V6, for no reason I can really explain. (shrug)  As with many of the larger groups, V6 is split into two sub-groups. Today, I’d like to share the new mini-album from the younger half, Coming Century.

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While in a Lawson in Sakura City today, I noticed these new WOOO LIMITED EDITION YEAAAH Pringles.

Limited Edition Pringles; not as cheese or night starry as expected.

I’ve had cheese Pringles.  In fact, my earliest memories of Pringles, from way back in the mid-1980s, involve cheese Pringles.  So, of course, when you advertise NIGHT STAR DOUBLE CHEESE PRINGLES WOOOOO I certainly had high expectations.

They’re just normal cheese Pringles. There was nothing double about them, to be honest.  I’m not entirely sure what makes them “Night Star” either.

At any rate, their marketing hype worked, as I was suckered in.  Night Star Double Cheese Pringles were 305yen at Lawson Station.

Behold!

Though I admit I may be premature in passing this judgment… I’m gonna do it anyway: This is the greatest flash that has ever been, and that ever will be made.  Watch!  WATCH!

While perusing the local 100yen store today looking for some manner of storing my CDs and DVDs so they are accessible and visible (and failing), I came across this.

105yen at The Daiso.

Kit Kat Cookies+ it’s called. I’d never seen them before, so I figured, wayhey, why not?

I guess it’s just a thing of, in addition to the regular wafers, there’s also a cookie layer.

Crunchy Yummy in my Tummy

They tasted alright, and for 105 yen from the Daiso for 8 pieces, you can’t really go wrong.