Lunch at Noriko's house

Had lunch at Noriko-san's house. She's a middle-aged Japanese lady who invited all 6 of us ALTs in the area through Kathryn in Shiozawa. She prepared loads of food. Avocado cream soup, broccoli salad, tomato salad, sushi rolls, baked salmon and shrimp (very yummy!), a wonderful stew of various vegetables, and roast pork. There were loads of vegetables cos a surprising number of ang mohs (3 out of 5!) do not eat fish (?!) or are allergic to shellfish. Dessert was grapefruit jelly served in grapefruit skin and fresh cherries (the fruit of the season).

Her house was beautiful. It's more than a hundred years old and has only recently been re-modelled. She showed us the beam in her living room which was the original beam of what used to be the entrance of the old house. Had rather Chinese-looking dragon-like carvings on it. Actually, I thought it looked rather obiang and clashed with the modern interior of the living room! ;P