Last wednesday, a buncha sumo wrestlers decided to come over to Waseda’s Okuma Garden to make some really good mochi for us to eat. =P Entrance to Okuma Garden And here comes the sumo wrestlerss! ^__^ So first, the sumo wrestlers squish the glutinous rice using the wooden mallets, going around in many circles… [...]
Archive for December, 2010
sumo wrestlers and mochi
Posted in fun, waseda, tagged autumn, mochi, okuma garden, sumo wrestlers, waseda on December 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
secret garden
Posted in waseda on December 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In Waseda University, the SILS students have most of our classes in a newly built Building 11, which fits snugly in between many other big buildings where the rest of the Waseda students from other faculties attend their classes. Before Building 11 was built, most SILS students have their classes in Building 19 (let’s call [...]
daigakuimo, my fav. =P
Posted in food!!!, tagged daigakuimo, dessert, japanese, sweets on December 1, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Introducing to you all my favourite Japanese dessert, tieing in 1st place together with ice-cream and chocolate, of course. =P These babies are called “daigakuimo” (dah-ee-gaku-ee-moh), which is 大学いも in Japanese Kanji. I have no idea why it is called that way, but they are chunks of deep-fried super-sweet sweet potatoes dipped in sugar coating, [...]
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