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Lovely Sweets from Japan!

Tales of Genji

My Japanese friends got me these lovely chopsticks stands that feature the figures from the Tales of Genji.  They go so well with higashi.

wagashi spring 2013

Beautiful ganache chocolate from La Chocolaterie.  I have passionfruit, matcha and sakura.  The fan is my own make featuring aristolochia grandiflora and other species.  The gold dust on it is real gold! 

Easter Chocolate from Germany

Thank you my friend Monika for sending me all these lovely chocolate and candies from Germany.  The Mozart Bombs are to die for.  I love the exotic taste of the beautiful little eggs in the carton.  The childhood themed candies are classic.  Everything is so beautiful and tasty!  I will share them with my co-workers at work.

celebrating Easter

Spring is here and Easter is early this year at the end of March.  I love bunnies and sweet stuff!

To celebrate Macaron Day

Here is my take to celebrate Macaron Day.  I got the beautiful bedsheet made by my Mom.  The fabric is from Japan.  You can see my family in the background!

more italian candies

These are the Pastiglie Leone candies made using sugar, gum arabic and the most beautiful essense of the world.  My favourite kinds are violet and absinthe candies.

Relax!

I spent the day in bed, relax and do a bit of work on my project and paint costume.  I am drinking a lemon drink called effervescente.  Dried broken coral lookalike of 2 table spoons to a glass of water will turn into a fuzzy carbonate drink of lemon scent.  Very elegant!
Absinth bottle is for me to make some chocolate for St. Patrick's day.  It will be called the Green Fairy.

Chocolate from Germany

My friend Stefan sent me many different kinds of chocolate from Germany.  They taste so good.  The one with real truffle from the woodland is so special and aromatic.  Thank you so much.

New Year's

This is my set up for chinese new year candy.  Thanks Monika for all the wonderful candies from Germany.

Late Winter Wagashi

Plum Branches from Genji Kou Collection of wagashi made by Toraya, it is beautiful and artistic.  I think this year, I will ask them to make a tortoise and a snake Oshimono. 

TWG tea

I have quite a few of their tea and some are better than others.  The signature 1837 black has red fruits and caramel in black tea.  I am getting tired of the caramel smell as I cook it almost everyday at work.  So I need something to remind me not about work!  Weekend in Bombay is red fruits and caramel in a Darjeeling 1st flush.  I finished it already, it was good.  I have now a beautiful White Desire Tea with taste of custard apple and star fruit, and a Passionfruit black tea.  This passionfruit is closer in taste to the fruit than what I have before with Metropolitan tea which has a vanilla base.
The tea chocolates are expensive for the size but modern and trendy with gold dusting and classy design and the ganache is of passionfruit, rose, earl gray or singapore breakfast tea infusion.

X'mas sweet things

European chocolate and candies, Green Tea Cake and Yspahan with rose and litchi and raspberry.

Merry Christmas came early

Thank you my friend Monika who sent me all the goodies from Germany.  I am so happy!  I will savory them slowly leading up to Christmas and I will share all the detail photos of each item soon.

Sweets to de-stress

Here are some goodies from French Made Baking and Chiffon Patisseries:

Lemon Meringue Pie, Pistachio Crumble, Hazelnut Tart, Chocolate Cake and Reindeer Macaron.

wagashi winter

Here is another of Toraya's beautiful creation.  The Oak Tree from Genji Monogatari Incense collection.  This is wagashi at its fineness.

Sweet things to de-stress!

These are the wonderful items from French Made Baking in Vancouver.  Raspberry Mouse with litchi, candy cane macarons, Fruit mouse with pineapple, violet macarons, and caramel eclair.

So good!

another perfume

I got this one today called Drama Nuui.  It is from Parfumerie Generale.  Bitter jasminade with a fusion of absinthe highlights.  Allegory of dawn, o floral temptation of tragic fragility.  Sensual stickiness of wood infused with spices... A spell arousing a libertine musk.

Tea Time Treats

This is the perfect eclair!  The french style.  Inside is filled with chocolate mousse and outside is not just dark chocolate but a beautifully done glossy layer of glace only french chef can do.
Then also the Italian nougets, so nice and soft and full of nuts and fruits.  I love the tin with chocolate chips cookies inside.  The design of the tin is so pretty.

more candies for halloween

I got a few design of the paper napkins for high tea.  They are printed with design of flower, seashell or peacock, with vivid colours.