Quick dinner

Take: three green pepper, one package of conbini cheese and salami. Hollow out the green peppers, and stuff them with the meat and cheese. Wrap in tinfoil and pop into the toaster oven for about 8 minutes. Remove and enjoy dinner.

FRESH NUTS

Joyful talking is a go!

Restaurant!

Excellent Chinese restaurant near Yagoto Nisseki station. They provide a list of allergens in each dish right on the menu, the food is excellent and varied, and I would definitely go there again.

Bamboo-shoot sushi: a sure sign of spring!

Gluten-free lemon blueberry bread

This stuff is most excellent. Tangy, sweet, and not too dry... try not to eat it all at once! Of course, it doesn't keep very well, so that may be excuse enough to eat half the loaf right out of the cooker ;)

Sweets Circus

There's a store in the bottom of one of the department stores near where I work, and it's a giant, pink cafeteria called "Sweets Circus". It's made up of all different little stores selling all kinds of delicious, dessert-y things. They have two chocolate fountains near the cashiers. Needless to say, I do so like to spend time there.

Behold, deliciousness! Gluten-free, too.

Hoarding in Nagoya

Rumours of widespread panic and exodus are definitely overstated, but one rumour isn't: hoarding. Even in Nagoya, hundreds of kilometers from Tokyo, hundreds more from Fukushima, and even further from the epicentre of Friday's quake, people are hoarding like crazy.

Here are some pics:

Canned food and pasta is nearly gone. A few sticks of soba and the more expensive canned fish is left.
Canned fruit is all gone except pineapple (no one likes pineapple?) and the giant cans you need a can-opener for (this is pretty rare in Japan). There are also some plastic packs of aloe. No mikan! And that's what I wanted to eat tonight. D:

This was flashlights and batteries. 
You're set for batteries if you need small ones, but all D batteries are gone.

Rice. Wow. Now, for context, there are hundreds of kilos of rice behind me and to my right - so many that when I was walking into Jusco, I thought "whatever, there's loads of rice left, people are so exaggerating". Then I saw this shelf. I've never seen it this empty.
It's mostly the mid-sized 1-5kg bags that are going. Loads of 10kg bags left.

Instant noodle aisle. It's normally a little thin at night with all the university students grabbing cheap meals, but usually at most there will be one row out. This is really crazy - I stopped dead for a second when I saw it.
Dunno why people are stockpiling these though - they take up a lot of space in your kit, have very few calories, and are high in sodium. Three no-nos for a survival kit. Plus you have to cook them.