Mood:  a-ok

The new year has started! Hope everything will go well with me and you all.

 Over the last year and new year (what we call "toshi-koshi"), our family stayed at a hotel in Kobe. We had a very good time, chilling out with no chores... It was a very very cold toshikoshi, but we had a lot of fun.

The hotel was celebrating the new year so nicely. We participated in the celebration by closing the curtains of the room to make the letters of "2008" on the wall of the hotel.

Looks great, huh?

 A few days ago, I went out with my mom to the cafe near the station.  It served such a nice set of lunch!! It included rice (you can choose white rice or brown rice), main dish (choice of meat, fish, or tofu), one "oso-zai" you can choose from a dozens of choices in the glass case, and a cup of soup!

What's good is that it costs only 870yen, and tastes really good!

We shared a brown sugar and coffee cheesecake later (which was so-so).

I'll definitely go there again.  Around the Kotoen station, I have one more favorite restaurant, named "Isala".  It's a Thai restaurant where you can have a real tasty Thai food. I really love there.  Please try if you wanna have delicious Thai cuisine. 

As for Thai restaurant, "Chada Thai" at Hunter zaka, Kobe is really good too!

Yesterday, I went to see the movie "Inochi no tabekata". Honestly, it was a very shocking documentary. There are no lines in this movie, but only the scenes of "processing" cows, pigs, and chickens, or making vegetables are played.  I didn't know how the meat we eat is made... We really should appreciate and think more about what we eat.

It's worth seeing, as a consumer and a human being.