After big stomach aches, I had an appendectomy on Monday. The blog’s planning have been a bit affected.

Appendicitis on Sunday night, then doctor appointment on Monday afternoon, and surgery on the same day! This was quite fast and unexpected!

We all experienced hunger during and endless meeting… or when we are taking public transportations early in the morning… or even when we cannot eat anything before 10 :00 AM.

A few days ago, on february 3rd, Japanese people were celebrating Setsubun. This celebration signals the beginning of Spring. That may be quite hard to believe while we are living the cold wave in all Europe.

Photo : Foodporn Daily

We don’t start february with a pleasant climate. Why not starting with an appetizing bento ?

Let’s have a tasty meal: shrimp marinade, rice, rocket with lemon and olive oil dressing and a little swedish carrot cake.

The new monbento website is online ! en.monbento.com is now entirely dedicated to their products.

The sun didn’t showed up for a quite long time… Let’s put some « veggies of the sun » in our bentos to compensate for it.

During the last weeks this video circumnavigated the web. It is quite out of the ordinary.

In Japan, Kawaii means something in between adorable and cute. Japanese people prononce each syllable separate and insist on the letter i.

This word is very popular, it is used to qualify people (even adults), manga characters and even clothes.

Lack of vitamines ? This couscous is with crunchy carotts and zucchini. Vegetables tend to loose their vitamines when they are cooked in water or during a long time. Grating them is a good alternative!

Goro Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill release is an oportunity for looking back to his dad’s films. Food is everywhere in Hayao Miyazaki’s films. Spirited Away is the perfect exemple with the parents becoming pigs when they are eating huge amonts of food very quickly.