Steam Veggies

Steam Vegetables are easy and smart way to intake nutrition.

The meal called "Mushi-Ken (shorten phrase of steam and healthy)" at Maehatake Harenohi restaurant created a steam vegetable boom.  

Steaming is simple and requires no added fat.

That's why it became so popular among healthy and beauty conscious young women.

Mushi-Ken costs 1,890 yen per person.   It comes with a steaming basket full of veggies and meat (also your choice of soup stocks), two dipping sauces from ten different flavors, and finishing up with noodles or rice.

If you want to eat seasonal vegetables, steaming is the best way to enjoy their rich flavors.

When cream puff meets donut

Omotesando Choux Cring is offering dount alike cream-puffs!

Vanilla (180 yen).

Other flavors:

Almond Caramel  (200 yen)

Matcha               (220 yen)

Cafe au Lait        (220 yen)

Strawberry         (240 yen)

Chocolate           (240 yen)

It looks like a Paris-Brest?

Forget about it!  They call it "Choux Cring."  The shell of Choux Cring isn't split for filling unlike Paris-Brest.

That's a point...maybe.

Everything in Vending Machines

There are so many things you can buy from vending machines in Japan.

Flowers, toys, cigarettes, hamburgers, ice cream, fresh vegetables, DVDs, cup noodles, and so on.

I found this vending machine which sells curry udon and Oden (Japanese style pot-au-feu).  At the price of 300 yen, you can enjoy hot meals.

Oden-kan (means canned Oden) were sold in vending machines at Akihabara.  Because it was displayed and sold like regular drinks (yeah it's a bit of surprising when you see it at the first time!), Oden-kan became so popular among Akihabara boys in late 1990s.  When media covered the trend, Oden-kan became a mainstream hit!  Now, Oden-kan are sold outside of Akihabara.