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White Day at KotoKoto

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In all that has happened I almost forgot that it was White Day today. In Japan it is a bit backwards on Valentine’s Day compared to many other parts of the world. On Valentine’s Day girls give chocolate to the guys.

White Day (today) is the day when they guys have to pay back 🙂

So I bought chocolate and gave to all the assistants that help me in the daily work at Sony Ericssson. Then I took Chie for dinner at KotoKoto.

It was wonderful. The food was great as usual. And we had a great talk with Fujiwara-san, a guy sitting at a table next to us. We laughed a lot while covering a lot of different subjects from the earthquake to Sweden to 9/11 to food and back to the earthquake.

And it was really nice feeling to not “having” to watch the news broadcasting for once in a few days. And the night was still quite warm when walking back home. A perfect White Day.

Valentine’s Day Dinner

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Today Chie and I went to KotoKoto for a Valentine’s Day dinner. The observant reader may notice that the date of the post is actually the 15th, a day late. Yes, we had Valentine’s Day dinner a day late! Yesterday I had a meeting until 7:30 pm 🙁



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I had asked my boss the week before if we had the meeting as planned because I was considering Monday night for a private appointment. His answer was that “yes, we have the meeting”. Totally oblivious to the significance of my question in relation to what day it was 😉

Enough about job and more about the dinner. It was great. Chie is my favorite girl all time and KotoKoto is one of our favorite restaurants. Period.

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Christmas Eve started around 7 am this morning. With me going to the office to work, while Chie stayed home to rest. Though she did not rest so much as she was cleaning the kitchen from top to floor. Actually, from medium height to floor. The top is a little bit out of reach for her so I’ll do that tomorrow.

I left the office at lunch time when I had finished all the work for the day. The rest depended on other people and they were all on vacation.

At 6 pm Chie and I went to KotoKoto for dinner. We had a delicious Christmas Eve dinner, though there were (fortunately) nothing traditional Swedish about it. Instead it was fresh and light and probably not so bad for our health as a traditional Swedish Christmas dinner.



First dish was “myogo to kyuri no umeae” or myoga and cucumber in umeboshi dressing. The second dish was “kureson to eringi no sarada” watercress and eringi salad.



We also had “gobo karage” or fried greater burdock, and “satoimo to maitake no guratan” or sweet potato and maitake gratin.



We continued with “renkon to hitashimame no aemono” or lotus and soy beans with dressing, and “aonori to tofu no misoshiru” seaweed and tofu miso soup. As delicious as the previous dishes.



Together with the miso soup we also got “umeboshi no onigiri” or umeboshi rice ball. Rice in some kind is usually how a Japanese dinner is ended. However, I had a pear tart for dessert. YUMMY!!!



It was a great Christmas dinner. And it could not be spoiled with Coke so I had Perrier and Chie had some white wine.