Like a canvas!!

After busy day at work I was walking back to home and looked up sky...
Today's sky was interesting:)

Julie Powell

Today I went to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe for the event of Julie Powell who wrote "Julie and Julia".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozRK7VXQl-k
I liked that book so it was really interesting to see herself.
It was the event of promoting her book "Cleaving".
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2009/11/review_cleaving.php
This book about her experience of her 6 months training at butcher in NY.... ummmm really interesting.
And in this event she read a few parts of this book for us.
Her way of  expression was so direct and detail especially when she was working in the butcher.
So I won't recommend to read this book if you are vegan or vegetarian who really can't touch animal products but if not I think it's good to know about what we are eating. Even you are vegan or vegetarian it's good to know what your friends are eating.
And there is not only the story in the butcher but also about the travel to other country that she did after butcher training.

So I haven't read this book yet but it must be interesting to read this.

The impression of Julie Powell was a little bit different from the book but I could tell how she is strong, she has her own thoughts and opinions and especially how she loves food!!

Let's go outdoors!!

I found this!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqF7yD10Bo&feature=related
And this song reminds me this boy... lol
Last winter we were so into this boy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMWX--UJZ4
Also this is just for fun... no reason but just I like Jake♥... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOYU4JUyr4&NR=1

Now it's getting cold but when I go out, I always find something new and interesting.
Winter has come but let's go outdoors!! Like Jason was singing!!

What I found recently are.... (They are so random... sorry:( )

He was good!!

Cute!! 

I like blue sky in winter...

My favorite chocolate shop opened in Chelsea!!

Ahhh, I need kotatsu to eat Tangerines!!

(Kotatsu is...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu)

Lol, turkey flavored coffee?? 

Cool samurai!!

This burger was sooooo good!! Sand with Chapata!!

OMG!! Huge!!

Ahhh, winter, winter, winter...:)

Mexican!!

Yesterday my Mexican friend who is coworker took us to her favorite place to eat Mexican food.
It was first time to go upper than 125th street for me.
Subway is running on the ground so it was nice to see sight from the window and it was really nice weather!!

And food was soooooo good!!

We tried tacos and enchiladas. Also we tried Mexican drink which is cinnamon flavor milk. It was sweet but it was good with spicy food.

They had enchilada with green, yellow and red source. I tried green one. It wasn't that much spicy but had nice balance of flavor. 

I think it was the best enchiladas in my life!! ummmmm, yum:)

enchilada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchilada

  

Wow!!!

favorite cafes

I found my favorite cafes in Soho and Tribecca!!
It's good to have favorite place to have some coffee or some light meal because now it's freezing cold. So we need place where we can escape this cold!!

Ruby's
http://www.rubyscafe.us/
It's very small cafe and only one guy is cooking and one lady is serving.... It was interesting to see how they manage it. I like this kind of small place!!

Kaffe 1668

http://www.kaffe1668.com/

Here, they have many kinds of coffee and tea. And atmosphere is really nice!!

I love to have coffee and read books there. The cup is big enough and taste so good!!

UNIQLO=ユニクロ

Now we can find Meisa Kato and Ryuhei Matsuda in Broadway Lafayette station in Soho. They are  advertisements of "heat tech" from uniqlo.

When I was talking about "heat tech" with American friends I needed to explain about Japanese English first. I told them just "They have good heat tech clothes." and "..." "What is heat tech?" 

That's true... "heat tech"wasn't English... lol It's "Heat technology" (Am I right?) 

And now in NY "heat tech" is getting popular!!

Today I went to uniqlo in Soho. There is one shop in Soho and there are many other shops like H&M, ZARA and so on but I saw uniqlo paper bags the most today and the second was MUJI(無印良品）in Soho. Isn't it funny? But I'm happy to find them in NY. Because I can feel how much Japanese products are good:) 

And what interesting is ... in Japan Uniqlo's sign is "UNIQLO". But here in NY, the sign is "ユニクロ".  And MUJI is 無印良品. It means "unbranded or unmarked and good product" but actually now MUJI is one of popular brand though. 

They know which is attractive for American and Japanese.

I was avoiding Uniqlo because I always buy uniqlo clothes in Japan so I didn't want to go there in NY. But now winter has come and I really needed "heat tech" products. Still I have many uniqlo's clothes that I got in Japan but this year I may get a few more new "heat tech"!! But I missed every weekend big sale in Uniqlo. Here they don't have that... but still it's worth trying!! Why don't you try some heat tech, they will really warm up your body in this winter!! lol 

*I'm not the staff of Uniqlo!!