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!!!