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Just on a side note on Japan goodies.
Hokkaido believes in the no preservatives route, so their stuff has really rather short shelf life, canned food excluded.
My aunt enjoyed the cherry blossom mochis I got for her (since I know she isn’t really that much of a cookie person so I didn’t get her the shiroi koibito cookies.
My nephew liked the musical box I bought for him, and their family ended up with a box of Shiroi Koibito cookies – since they had asked me to get them that before I went. I’d pack more, but seriously I was…badly encumbered at the end of the trip.
Note to self: Next time I wear that tourist hat, I will do like aunties do and bring along those foldable carrier bags that you can unfold into big bags to carry more stuff.
We ate up the squid(my mom threw it in soup to flavour the soup – oh yes, that works too), and I sort of miss their squid stuffed with cheese. Again cheese in SG climate…might not keep that long, so maybe it’s for the best that that one was eaten up in Japan.
We popped open the can of deer curry. It was quite strongly flavoured, and I ate it with potatoes. Curry + potatoes works pretty well. The deer meat was more gamey then beef and very lean.
We ate up the sweet potato mochis, as well as the bean paste pastries. My mom liked the bean paste pastries, but their expiry date was bloody short (27th May anyone?)
Usually when I visit a place I prefer to buy stuff you can only get in that region then buy things you can buy in other parts of the country.

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Also, the fibre optic installation on the TV didn’t work out that well. Apparently the data point was more then 2 m from the TV. I mean well you ask a cat over the phone where the data point is (which it was in the living room), then ask over the phone since I don’t have measuring tape to measure…well I figure if it’s in the living room, 2 m isn’t that far is it?
Again estimation of distances isn’t my strongsuit. Hopefully there won’t be additional charges incurred for the data point ><

The Game Hamster |

My friend's wife was a lawyer. She put it very well.
"Right or wrong has nothing to do with it. My job is to take the law as written and interpret it in the most favorable possible way for my client."
The term "rules lawyer" is not far off at all...
So NE isn't to far off either, as they won't break the rules, just bend them good and hard?

The Game Hamster |

Deer meat is very gamey. You often have to soak in salt water to reduce the gamey taste. You also have to add other fats if you want to make burgers out of it. Deer meat has about half the fat of beef.
deer pairs well with fruity flavors because of this flavor. I particularly like it with avocados.

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Usually we do it like this.
The deer is always tender though. I'm guessing some sodium bicarbonate added as tenderizer.

Vidmaster7 |

When I say that makes sense I mean that makes sense for them. I personally am a man of his convictions and If i'm going to eat an animal I won't hide from it. I'll slaughter that cow if need be.
Also if you think about what pigs eats...
The food chain is weird. Also its weird that humans can pretty well eat anything.