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!