Dinner at the inner Mongolian restaurant

This week was a dinner at an inner Mongolian restaurant
This is the daughter of the owner
Very friendly even eating my food :-)

And of course we had to try all the clothes there!

Not bad in pink right???

This is the famous milk tea with salt, just love it

This was some fried cheese, really not Mongolian but delicious!!!!

The buuz but a bit Chinese taste but still good!

Small buuz (bangsh)

And some noodle, not really tsuivan but good!

After that some place else I took what looks like a chocolate dessert but is not
This is acai, a red berry
And the taste, my god! It was just horrible!!!!!!!
But ok the rest of the evening was great!

And because I organized everything I received some presents!

a great shopping bag and a pencil to make decoration!
Thanks!!!

An evening at the Isakaya

An Isakaya is kind of a tapas bar a la japonaise
Meaning, you have a table or a room in our case and you order a lot of small dishes to share

This was our room, very cosy

This was a tofu salad with avocado

Mentaiko (speciality from Fukuoka, spicy fish eggs)  with tofu

Fried chicken tendon, I had to try that :-)

And after a great evening there we finished with some Thai dessert in another place.
Just delicious, banana cakes, milk cakes,... and all this with coconut milk
Wouah, luckily I go back by bike otherwise ....

Lucky me

The mom of my friend always offer me so many things!

Last time they went to Kumamoto and I received some Kumamon chocolates

Kumamon is this bear, this is the symbol of Kumamoto

She made this small cute bag

And inside there is this lucky coin
This will bring me good luck

I also received some delicious cake
I am so lucky, thanks to them!!!!

So proud of myself!

How good is that one!
I am so proud of myself, but I still have to study since there is a test everyday :-)

Lantern festival

Yesterday there was a lantern festival in Fukuoka.
So in the street they put some colorful paper bags with some candles inside

This is not one of it, but kind of fit to the theme!

Sometimes some people have done some decoration in their garage too.
In this one they paint many bambous and put the candle inside

But the main places where you could see some great lights were the shrines

They have done huge decorations, like here some flowers

Or the name of the shrine I think

Some sidewalk.
I really like this one

And in another shrine the children have done their own lanterns

This is not part of the festival but this is just incredible one, look at all the details and caraters!

Here there was really a lot of lanterns, not sure what the pattern was tough...

beautiful right?

After that our group went to have some ramen

hum delicious and this is one of the speciality of Fukuoka

but since it was not enough a cake and a chocolate cream were there to finish the evening!

So cute

Today I bought this cute pendent
And look at the bag, Aznavour, grain de beaute!

He is so cute and just 2 euros!
Going to wear it soon!!!

Day trip in Yanagawa

Today is an holiday in Japan, so yesterday the school organized a day trip in Yanagawa, 50 minutes by train from Fukuoka.
First we started with a boat trip on the river with a great lunch!

So many onigiri!

This was our driver :-)
He was also singing!

a statue along the river

And this boat had some other students

These trees, Yanagi in Japanese are giving their name to this river

On the way there are some shops where you can buy some food, but we had enough!

And this is us on the way!

After that we went to a matsuri, a Japanese carnival.
Here it is me with a Geisha!

And these are the cars that the people are carrying around

On this one you had a god or daemon not so sure

But they are protecting the people

Here some other one

And since this is a shinto festival small kids are wearing shinto priest outfit

I really like these two.
They look mysterious!

Here some small temple

And this is the first time I see this kind. Inside you have some puppets, very strange...

Here you have the people pulling/carrying the car

And this is me doing the same for about 2 kilometers
But since we are a lot doing it this is really ok!
It was great fun to do it for the first time!

At the arrival the people on the char were doing some theater, I think this is kabuki, but not sure...

These are gods

And this one is really nice

And some of the cars have music, this is typical from the matsuri, I let you enjoy!

That day is also a very good day for weddings

So we had the chance to see two of them.
So romantic!!!!

After that I met some of my friend to eat some nabe.
This one is the famous one from Fukuoka, this is with tripes

I really love it and since it was a bit cold in the evening this is very good!
A typhoon was coming, today it is raining a lot!!!!

And to finish the day perfectly a hand made pudding!