I'd feel guilty playing around with Tetsu working so hard on a holiday so I decided to wax some of my floors. It is a nice sunny day. It is still hot. The floors haven't been waxed for a year (because in spring when I usually do them we were pulling ourselves together after the earthquake and later I wasn't able to crawl around on the floor.) I am able to crawl around on the floor again so I have moved furniture from the entrance and the dining room and given the floors a first waxing. I'll let them sit awhile before doing the second coat... I have a feeling I won't get to the living room floor today. Too much furniture! Too much crawling around!
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Yesterday afternoon, Tetsu and I attended a Gyoza Matsuri... Pot stickers Festival! The neighboring city is famous for its Chinese pot stickers and whenever we go out to eat Chinese ramen noodles we always order gyoza. I'm pretty good at making my own though it takes a lot of time. And I have a favorite place where I can buy handmade frozen gyoza, so you can see we eat a lot of gyoza! But yesterday we surpassed our usual consumption.
There must have been 10 or 15 gyoza booths at the festival, all famous brand names in our part of Japan and each booth was selling 4 gyoza for 200 yen... about $2.50. Yum! Delicious! Each shop has its own specialty, its own special sauce, its own way of making gyoza.
Some wrappers were sticky, some transparent, some were stuffed with more vegetables than meat, some used a lot of garlic. Though vinegar and soy sauce are the most common sauce for gyoza, some sauces used red peppers, some used miso.
We tried so many! Do I dare admit that I ate 24 gyoza yesterday?! Yes, I did! Stuffed!!!
There was no need to eat dinner last night, that's for sure!********
Back to waxing the floors! I need to work off some of yesterday's gyoza!
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Our neighborhood association delivers yummy red rice to us old folks. (I wonder what will happen as the neighborhood gets older and older)I don't think the city folk are much into respect for the aged but tend to look at old folks as a bother and an expense (and a danger on the road ... although the statistics include elderly victims of younger drivers). I admonished a boy of around 9 for rushing past old folks on the train to grab a "silver seat" and all the old folks around me smiled and began to talk.(not common among strangers on the train)
My SIL made the best gyoza from scratch but those sound yummy. 24 of them would be three meals for me!
I think we need a holiday like that everywhere - especially since I'm getting older myself, lol. That festival looks SO YUMMY! I hope you got all your floors waxed, Tanya!
I really don't understand what pot stickers are, but it sounds as if you had a good time and had plenty of different ones to try. Waxing floors sounds like very hard work, I hope you didn't wear yourself out too much.
Tanya, I love pot stickers. I'm afraid I'd have eaten 24 just like you! There is one frozen brand I like and only one place in town to get good ones cooked (and my hubby doesn't eat garlic or onions) so I don't get there often.
Love pot stickers. Developed the love for them when I was living in Taiwan!
As a young thang, my best friends boyfriend was white Russian who'd been born in Tianjin. He ferreted out the only northern Chinese restaurant in the DC area, and introduced us to jiazi.
Which remained my favorite until I lived in Tianjin, and discovered Go Bu Li Baozi.
Only time I've made either at home is at jiozi/boazi parties, and we always make plenty extra to freeze!
24? Heaven!!
wow those looked soooo yummy!
Julie said she gets RED rice
what is that?
The gyoza looks delicious.
My son & I love Gyoza!
Those look so yummy!
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