Thursday, October 27, 2011

Malasada

Do you know "malasada"?
This is like a fried-doughnut.
Malasasa is one of my favorite sweets:)


What's Malasada?

Malasada used to be one of the home cooking sweets in Portugal. "Malasada" means "sketchy" "awkward" in potuguese.
Long time ago, The Portuguese laborers immigrated to Hawaii to work for plantation and they brought their traditional food cultures to the place where they worked in Hawaii. They were Catholic and they had to use up lard or suger before Lent. Then they made "malasada" using lard or suger and served them for other laborers from different races. This is the way "malasada" spread out in Hawaii. Now, "malasada" is one of the standard Hawaiian sweets.



Today, I introduce a Hawaiian cafe where you can eat "malasada" in Tokyo.

Hawaiian cafe naninani


This cafe is located in Toyosu, near Lalaport Toyosu.
In this cafe, you can take out some Malasada, coffee, Spam-musubi or you can eat there listening to Hawaiian music.

Menu: Malasada Donuts (suger, cinnamon, soybean flour)
Malasada Ice Sand (caramel, chocolate)
Spam-musubi
some coffee and juice

I strongly reccomend this Malasada Ice sand!!!!!

cold ice in hot malasada:p

If you taste Malasada once, you would be addicted to Malasada!

For your infomation: Hawaiian cafe naninani [http://naninani.jp/index.html]

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Autumn fair

I went to Lalaport Tokyo-bay with a friend of mine for shopping, having delicious lunch and something sweet on the last weekend. The shopping mall features autumnal clothes or tastes as the so-called “Autumn Fair.” 

The restaurant that we chose is……."shirokuzityu" in Japanese. We can eat here "Ohitsu-gohan" with salmon, salmon roe, broiled chicken, broiled eel and so on.
I wanted to explain "Japanese Ohitsu" in English but I can say "Ohitsu" is something like a bowl made of wood, we put rice in it and serve rice that we want to in a rice bowl with a rice paddle.

What we ate there was...this!(Please look at the picture on the righ side.)
"Aki no irodori gozen"
This menu is sold only during autumn. The phrase, "sold only during autumnal fair" really attracted us, so we chose it.
In "Ohitsu", two kinds of salmons, salmon roe, finely cut Japanese omlet are on the rice. And we had a Japanese-style salad, some boiled beef and matsutake (like sukiyaki), a deep-fried oyester with tartar sauce and small rice cake with sweet bean paste. This was really Japanese-style dish and it was very delicious!!!!!


After shopping, we got hungry...... needed something sweet! So, we headed to "La maison" to have some cakes. I love this cafe because they have lots of kinds of cakes and I could be happy even if I just gazed with lovely cakes!!

I ate this cake; "Naruto-Kintoki and Matcha Tart," sold only in autumn. "Naruto-Kintoki" which is a kind of sweet potatoes is used with this cake. Matcha creem cheese souffle is on the tart paste, "Kuromitsu and soybean flour" cream and sweet potatoes cream are on it.
If you love matcha or sweet potatoes, you should check this out :) Also I ordered the pumpkin maple milk tea! The flavor of pumpkin made me feel "autumn"!!


My friend ordered the dessert plate of October: "Pumpkin pudding, sweet potatoes and apple mille-feuille with vanilla ice cream." This was also autumnal dessert and so delocious!!
She and me enjoyed "autumnal taste" very much.




By the way, I wondered why the phrase, "for the limited time only, " makes us feel that we should taste it. It seems to be "law of scarcity". According to this law, the less the figure that we have is, the more valuable we think about it. That is why we felt attracted to the phrase. That's is interesting!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

my food history

Hi everyone. I'm Hitomi. I love eating, sweets in particular. My mon and sister also love something sweet, so we often talk about sweets when we get together or hang out somewhere. Now my sister lives in Kanagawa and she often goes out to find tasty dessert by herself. When she goes back to our home, she tells us "the parfait of that restaurant is really delicious!" and takes me there sometimes.
Why do we really like sweets so much?- because of my mom defenitely. My mom loves sweets and she likes baking cookies, cakes and so on. She often cooked homemade cakes of vegetables so that I could eat them because I really hated vegetables when I was little child. At that time I watched her cooking beside her at home, so I really like making sweets now. If we have time or when we get together to celebrate the birthday, we usually bake cake together. The most delicious cake made by my mom is "Apple cake." I love it. I want to make the same one someday and give it to her as a present.