* Busy but Fun Shopping *

These days I've started to go shopping of souvenirs for my family and friends because about an week later I will go back to Japan!

They don't expect me to get something but this is what I want to for them, so hopefully they will like it whatever I got :P
I got almost everything done now but a couple more things I will need to get at mall, so I might go to the mall this weekend with my love:)

Other than that, I'm working on my HAPPY items for my Etsy shop and also I'm teaching Japanese as well. Last night and today was pretty busy because one of my student wanted to study a little bit longer than usual since he's leaving for Vegas next weekend. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow also I will have to teach lessons so this week is going pretty fast I think. Thankfully while I will be in Japan some of my students still want to study with me through Skpe, so I'm happy about that :) Great technology we are living with...Great!!  


One more thing I would like to talk about before I go to bed today;)
These days I got these new plates almost for FREE > <
Since we moved to here, we had to leave some plates that we used to use and we have less plates here. One day I found a really great coupon from one of my friend's website and I got these my ideal plates finally(Simple White Square Plates) Yaaaayyyy!!!!!

I did good job, didn't I? :P


Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Foods that I ate currently *

Love, Love, Love...I LOVE foods > < (and of course, taking picture as well!)
These are the foods that I ate these days.

These doughnuts are come from "The Best in Town" doughnut shop in our neighborhoods.
Their Apple Fritter & Butter Milk are really good, I mean REALLY GOOD! One day my husband he was craving for doughnut(yes, I know AGAIN... lol) and we went to there to get these doughnuts. Besides these delicious doughnuts I was surprised about the most...we could drive thru!!!! America....nothing impossible....I was like Wow.....even doughnut??!!!! lol

These are not my cooking but my love's cooking. He cooked Ham&Cheese for dinner one night this week. He used "Black Forest Ham" for these sandwich and it was quite tasty!!! He's very very good at cook I guess much much better than I am :P
But I wasn't in mood for this honestly but I was and am always in mood for French Fries, so my husband got french fries for me too! How sweet he is, thank you my love. Everything was fantastic!!!

 One of my favorite foods in my life, "French Fries(Crinkle cut is the best personally > <)"

At that night, I got this tiny shot glass of Bailey's Caramel as a dessert.
I think drink dessert is also sometimes good;) Hopefully less carolie?? :p Hmmm....yum yum..

Now it's my time, these are my cooking;)
I got this Japanese Noodles from my good friend when she came visit us to the U.S.
My husband has never tried Shio Ra-men(Ra-men noodle with Salty soup) so I cooked for him, also I added some butter sauteed cauliflowers.  Seemed like he enjoyed it a lot, good good!!

This is the other night's dinner this week.
I cooked Japanese Beef Stew.
This is what I got from Asian Market the other day.
(I used to use exactly same product when I was in Japan too!) 

Pan fried meat & vegetables(you can use pretty much any kind of veges;) ).

Add water and boil it.

Add Stew Bouillon and shimmer~:) Hmm...smells sooo good > <  

I made garlic bread also.

Bon Appetit!!!

Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* My Cooking *

These are my cooking that I cooked yesterday.
Everything Japanese foods and one of my favorite cooking(because it's so easy but yummy lol)

"Buta no Kakuni"(Pork dish)
You can just throw all ingredients for slow cooker~

 2 hours later~ Right before I went to bed(not ready yet at all...)

Next morning(about 5 hours later)

Good good!!(Even though looks so greasy,this is normal, we don't need these soup at all, so)

I can't even hold this pork since it's soooo tender~~~ > <
This is what I'm talking about!!!  

Also I cooked Japanese Potate Salad!

Chirashi Zushi( one of Japanese traditional Sushi dish) 
Cooked steam rice first.

Then mix vinegar, and some seasoned vegetables together.

Then cooked Scramble eggs and spread over the rice as a decoration.

Sprinkle more color.( This pink thing is made by Tai fish)

Finally, put seaweed for finishing;)

Of course dessert as well;)
Low calorie Banana Cheesecake with coconut flakes.  

 Put the oven and wait 45mins!
Looks perfect > <

We ate with fresh Strawberry Ice cream with:)

I was glad when my husband said everything was good! Whew......
Since I cooked huge amount of these things, I guess it will be his lunch in a while for the next week!
Please don't be tired of eating these dishes for a couple days Love :P

Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Doughnut Paradice *

These days I feel like I'm eating Doughnut almost everyday lol

One day last week, I had Japanese lesson in the morning and after lesson I was extremely hungry so that I stopped by supermarket and I got one of my favorite doughnut in the states named "Butter milk doughnut ". It was really good but I wish it could be a little bit harder texture, it was quite fluffy...:(

The other day last week, when we were on the way home from shopping for my family, I was craving for something sweets then I got this another one of my favorite doughnut named "Apple Fritter". This was quite tasty, I love the texture like outside is hard but inside is kind of soggy....Hmm....yum yum....
It was very big and I couldn't eat whole but I enjoyed next morning;)

These doughnuts are from the place where we went last time, this place is famous doughnut's shop as a best in town and they have many many kinds, we love this place!
I haven't tried yet but seems like my husband is enjoying right now, he looks very happy LOL

I can't wait to try some tomorrow morning! (I'm not hungry now so I will enjoy tomorrow~!)
Can't wait > <

"No Sweets No Life"

Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Hair cut *

Not me, but my dog named Kai ;)
He's hairy dog and looked like he's hot especially we are living in desert, so one day last week I gave him hair cut and he got smaller LOL I hope he feels much better & cooler now :p

 Do I look cute??? > <

His brother named Tai he's like "I'm glad I'm not hairy dog....." lol

They are such a cuties:)
I will miss you guys when I will be in Japan! Be good with your daddy, ok?;)


Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Coming Home *

Yaaayyy!!!I'm going home home home!!!!!
It's been 2 years since I went back to Japan, and finally I will go home next month!!!
I've gotten tickets already and I'm so ready to go home > <
This time I will be in Japan about 2 months! I guess it's long enough for me;)
My husband will also come visit my family the end of Sep until the first week of Oct, so hopefully we will be able to come back to the States together.

I'm just so excited to see my family and friends, but the most I'm soooo excited to eat, eat and eat!!!!LOL
I will eat a lot of Japanese foods that I couldn't in here and I'm pretty sure I will gain weigh when I will be back to the states 2 months later~ :p Anyways, I can't wait!!!

So these days I started to go shopping to get some souvenirs for my family&friends.
I'm trying to get something light since it's quite strict for the weigh of suitcase at the airport:(  
These are some of their gifts.

My sister LOVES candies so I got my favorite candy besides GODIVA chocolates.

I met this Dark Orange Chocolate on Christmas day and I fell in love with this > <
I hope she will like it too!!
I got some seasonings, cup noodle(as a joke:P) and some clothes for my nice&nephew as well.
I will need to go to the mall for getting more clothes for my brother in law this weekend too.

Shopping is fun but quite hard work especially it's not for me...> <


Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Things what I've cooked *

These are something that I've cooked these days:)

My brunch for one day afternoon. 
Mango Smoothie! (Mango is my favorite fruit!)

Chicken & Breakfast style Quesadilla

I have a quesadilla maker but I was really lazy and I made these by pan :P
It was easier and faster but quite delicious!!

I guess I did good job this time(hopefully...)
This is Breakfast style

This is Chicken quesadilla

This is one day's my husband Breakfast
Not soft taco shell but Jimmy John's sandwich bread,so I'm not sure what I can call for this meal lol

But according to my husband it was very good :p

Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Treasury Lists *

It's been in a while since I posted my blog last time.
How time flies!!!
Meanwhile, I got new treasury lists at my Etsy shop:D
(Thank you so much for whoever featured my HAPPY items > <)

This is my featured item-->
Eggs&Toasts is from my shop
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTU0NzIyOTF8NDcwNTYwNTg2/toast-me?ref=pr_treasury

This is another my featured item-->
Small Cream Puffs is also from my shop
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTUyMjEwMTR8NDg2OTM1OTYw/dessert-first

Yay!! These mean to me a lot!!! thank you so much. I hope more people get to see my items through these treasury lists;)


Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery

* Japanese Day *

Yesterday was totally Japanese day for me:)

WHY???


On Saturday morning, I had a Japanese lesson for these little cute students at the library. They are my new students and they are 5 yrs old & 7 yrs old sisters. I was quite nervous to teach them first since almost all of my students are usually adults. I had some experienced teaching for kids before but not this much young and 2 of them together at the same time.

But such a cutie and wonderful sisters they were, all of us had really fun lesson:)
I can't wait to see them next time!

After that me and my love went to Japanese grocery store where we'd never been before.
When I stepped inside of the store, my eyes were caught this tall guy suddenly.
I wasn't sure if he was THAT GUY that I usually get to see from one of my blog friend's pictures who is her husband but seemed like it was him! then I saw HER(We'd never met before!) so finally I was sure it was my blog friend :D

We talked in a while at the store and we became from blog friends to Real friends!
What a small world, such a great coincident!!! It made me super happy yesterday:)

These are what I got from the store yesterday.
Yomogi manju,Macha Yokan and Hi-Chew.
These are totally my childhood's foods and I LOVE it so very much!!!

Also I got this Macha Mousse from the Japanese Bakery Shop. 
Of course it's dessert thing again LOL I guess it's gonna be my afternoon tea's treat today? maybe??
Can't wait to try it!

After we left the store, we stopped by Hawaiian Restaurant.
OMG....this place fed us huge huge amount of foods. I knew Hawaiian foods are very famous for a lot of amount of foods but I didn't expect this much LOL

We stayed there in a while but since this hot weather I got some cold desserts from J bakery and my love got a his lap-top in the car, we decided to go home when we reached half meals..
(Anyways, it was good time for us because we couldn't finish it up all of these dishes!!)

My husband got Beef,Short Ribs, B.B.Q Chicken Combo.
(comes with steamed vegi,2 scoop of rice&1 scoop of macaroni salad)
These pics were taken after already half of amount of the meals were gone! 

I got a Korean B.B.Q Pork Short Rib combo.
Pork is my favorite meat > < It was soooo tasty!!!

For the dessert, my husband made me this Bailey's Frozen Drink:D
Such a sweet guy he is, thank you so much love!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Saturday too!!

Thank you for stopping by!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRealFakeBakery