TOKYO - Koala's March Cake only in Nakano, Tokyo

"The only place in the world that sells Koala's March cake!"

On my way to the famous Nakano Broadway, I passed by a Lotteria shop in the Nakano Sun Mall Arcade and saw this sign.

Koala's March is an all time favorite koala shaped biscuits with cocolate cream filling marketed by LOTTE.

Koala's March Yaki (cake) is inspired by this bite size snack...a koala shaped cake filled with rich chocolate cream.

Comes in three basic filling flavors:

GHANA chocolate cream (made from LOTTE's famous GHANA chocolate)
Custard
Azuki (sweet red bean paste)

It seems like they offer seasonal flavors, which this time was Choco Banana, or chocolate cream + banana flavored custard cream.

From September 12, 2017 to November 2017, they are offering autumn flavored filling: Hokkaido Kabocha (pumpkin).

I think I will have to go back and try it out!

BBQ on a typical Japanese kitchen stove top

My Brazilian husband's favorite word is Churrasco, which is Portuguese for BBQ.

He is super passionate when it comes to Churrasco.

He is always thinking and talking about it, sometimes family decisions are made around it, and he most likely dreams about it too.

His dream is to own a house with a big yard so he can have Churrasco parties every weekend, if not every day.

We have lots of BBQ gadgets including grills in different sizes, I lost count of what we actually own.

Usually we enjoy outdoor BBQ on a sunny day, but one day, he decided to bring the BBQ grill inside the house.

He set our small grill with charcoal on our stove top and started grilling vegetables sausages, meat, fish and meat.

Beef and sausages

Tilapia loins and Eringi mushrooms

Our kitchen and living room had a nice BBQ charcoal smell that lasted a couple of days, but it was worth it 😆

Japanese vending machines

It is no news that vending machines are popular in Japan.

This one here is probably too famous:

Hot Menu: fried rice, hamburgers, fries, Takoyaki, etc.

But this one here was new to me:

Vending machine at Inokashira Park in Tokyo

Canned insects and canned bread vending machine!! 😲

Top row from the left: Hachinoko (canned bee larvae), Inago (canned sweetened crickets), canned bread...strawberry and chocolate cream.

Bottom row: cat coin case in different variations.

The bee babies and cricket cans up close:

Yes, that's 2,300 yen for bee larvae!