They arrived a bit later than the other ones, here are the last models of cup and bowl we have added to the shop.
The tea cup Kaiun Daruma represents many kind of daruma dolls and the bowl Maneki Neko is decorated with maneki-nekos.
These are the last products we add for this year!
A new tea cup and a new ceramic bowl
2012/12/05Ordering for Christmas
2012/12/04Please note that December is the busiest time of the year for all delivery networks.
Therefore longer delivery times are expected.
It’s never too early to order your Christmas presents!
Four new cups and a new bowl
2012/11/08
Five new products have been added to the shop.
Here are four teacups including a very original one with a Daruma shape, two other that you can find in sushi restaurants here in Japan and a last one which is more classic and has a ‘sakura’ design.
Finally we also added a small rice ceramic bowl rather fun representing globe fishes called ‘fugu’.
Two new Maneki-Neko!
2012/11/02
Two new models of Maneki-Neko have just been added to the shop.
The tabby one is called Maneki Neko Tora and the white one Neko Onegai.
These two models are ceramic piggy banks made in Japan.
Both bring some originality to this category where most models come from the same manufacturer.
We also plan to add a green model following several requests but that will be a bit later.
Evolution of our website’s design
2012/11/01I got some inpiration recently so I decided to modify a little bit the design of this website. The idea was to have something classier and more ‘Japanese’ while keeping the same basic structure.
Hope you will like this little evolution 
Back!
2012/10/05So here we are back in Japan.
We only spent 12 days in France as transportation took a bit of time. It went extremely fast especially considering I haven’t been outside Japan for 6 years! I would have loved to have more time to enjoy the terraces, landscape and more especially cheeses and desserts. However we enjoyed them a lot and as a prove there are our 7kg (total for both of us) added on the scale!
So anyway we are back and we are starting right now by wrapping the orders tonight.
We want to ship them as kick as possible so the postman will come tomorrow morning at 9. Well gambarimashou ^^’
No shipping from the 18th September 2012 to the 4th October 2012
2012/09/10We will be in France for two weeks.
All orders placed during this period will be shipped upon our return.
You can contact us by email using our contact form, we will answer you quickly.
After 6 years being only in Japan it was time to go for a ride in France.
Our program: presentation of our son to his grandparents, parties with friends who are now almost all married with children, visit of the Lyon area and of South of France and more than anything else rest, yogurts, desserts, ham, cheese and other dry sausages!
Upon our return quiet a few of things should change on the site. We will search for new products that are more original to add on the shop and will try to write more often on the blog and on our Facebook pages.
One more week to go!
5 new bento boxes on the store
2012/05/10
Five new bento boxes as been added to the list. We hope you will like those new boxes.
As promised two traditional wooden models in replacement of Choukaku Nidanbento that we no longer offer. These are the Iriko Keiyaki and the Awase Koban. Both are lacquered with traditional urushi lacquer and have an exceptional finish.
Also you will find three new plastic bento boxes respectively named Hana Red, Hana Black and Temari.
All these three models all have a little handy trick: the removable part of in the middle can turn upside down and make the bento less high when the meal is finished. So it takes much less space! The better to understand the system is to go take a look at the pictures of these products.
Evolution of Bento
2012/04/16
This time I (Yumi) take a chance to talk about something I found interesting these days.
I would like to talk you about bento boxes and give you an idea about how it has evolved for the last 30 years.
Bento boxes I was using 30 years ago were made from aluminum. Most of aluminum bento boxes disappeared by early 80′s and plastic ones replaced them since then.
My bento life finished as aluminum bento boxes disappeared and started again in junior high school thanks to hermetic plastic models which solved the problem of wet dish leaking into the bag.
I remember that my favorite bento meal was some rice with nori (seaweed sheet). It was simply plain rice with nori added on the top. Other things such as octopus shaped sausages, omelet and apple rabbit completed the meal. I was very happy with this simple bento.
These days kid’s bento has changed a lot. The style which is very popular at the moment is called Charaben (character bento). Of course kids like them, but this is mothers who are really crazy about. There are many blogs featuring pictures and teaching how to make them.
I was very surprised when I heard that bento became very popular overseas.
Here is some little advices for those who are thinking to start a bento lifestyle.
- try to avoid wet dish in the box.
- use soft silicon cups in the case you put wet dish.
- enjoy your new lifestyle
Hanami 2012
2012/04/14With a few days late here are some pictures of sakura blossom taken last Monday.
We thought it would be quieter on Monday than during the weekend but there were still many people! It seems that retirees and mothers had the same idea as us.
So we went with family in a park located in Chita-shi.
This year the trees have flowered a little later than usual.
