Hokkaido yummies

Dad brought along more goodies this morning. I guess he needed to sort out the stuff he bought from Hokkaido, and he had come on Friday right after arriving on Thursday night, so was too rushed to properly sort out his luggage. Hehe. Anyway, he brought us lots of goodies today and princess had a field day in the car munching on goodies. The two little green packs in the front of picture were very delicious but we only got a handful of each. He also won a cow soft toy from some bingo game at the onsen. He said when he was carrying the soft toy around, some Japanese men were pulling at the nose string n the tail, how funny. They probably found it cute.

This was cocoa-covered tiramisu chocolate with almonds. Delicious!

And these triangular packets actually hold pistachios within. We usually get them with peanuts over here. Very lovely too and fragrant.

I love the packaging of these biscuits which come in three flavours - chocolate, seaweed, and plain butter. Isn't it cute, the tudor-style shop?

This is a famous brand from Hokkaido, if I'm not wrong, and I believe Peony has ever blogged about it. In fact, all the goodies pictured came from the same brand. What a nice touch with the flowers on the box which they got from the shop. He gave a second box which he bought from the wholesaler which does not come with the floral bouquet.

There's another box of strawberry chocolate biscuits which he got for his darling granddaughter.

Bento #58 & 59

Sorry IM, I know you are very excited to see the bentos, but was caught up yesterday and couldn't update blog. Apologies. Well, anyway, had to make sure I do it this morning without fail. :P This bento below is for my girl comprising rice with furikake in the middle, so as not to spoil Cinnamoroll's face. I cut out two carrot flowers for the hairpiece, and attached them with vermicelli. In the boxes, I included sugar beans, kamaboko, fish sausage, sweet potato, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, rabbit apples and persimmon. As my girl's bento is smaller, I put her fruits in a separate container. She finished everything in her Cinnamoroll bento and I thought wow, that's great, she ate the sweet potato too, and the sugar beans. But this morning she told me the sweet potato was yucky and she threw out the sugar beans. Lol. She doesn't like mashed potatoes or mushy food of any kind. Hmm... I wanted to try it out anyway, since she recently started liking lotus paste buns. Cinnamoroll's eyes and mouth are cut from crabsticks. It was really tough cutting out the mouth and one is uglier. Hehe. But princess was really sweet and said that it's ok, she'd have the ugly mouth, and to give the nicer one to J. :) To round off the meal, a marshmallow for each girl.

This second box was for princess' classmate as she is a great Cinnamoroll fan. Both girls had exactly the same food, but J's came back only half eaten. Was asking my girl if J doesn't like cherry tomatoes and her reply was that J said she's never eaten them before. Haha. In any case, am glad that J enjoyed her bento, but I guess it was too much food for her to finish in a short time. :)

Fruits for the princess.

Grandpa is back from Hokkaido and brought this for princess just before school yesterday. Apparently it's only available in Hokkaido, as the box says?

Have a great weekend!