(Apologies for the horrible blurriness. It didn’t look as bad on my mobile screen)

- Sushi set from the traditional japanese food series, re-ment.

This is an early series re-ment shogukan. You can tell because the sushi is all stuck to the geta. I thought the seller glued all the pieces down =_=

The pieces also don’t achieve the realism of later series. I think it’s a good addition to any puchi food collection because it’s a representative piece in the developmental history of re-ment puchi food.

thanks for the set jamie!

Cute pig~~

She sent me a pop-up Christmas card of a ramen cart from Sanrio, it even has a puchi bowl of ramen chained to it! (haha, kiddingit’s a mobile phone phone strap thing that is detachable from the cardboard).

And there was also a cold udon set from Re-ment’s line of puchi toys!! If you look carefully at the bucket’s handle though, you will see a thin line of blue. The handle snapped off in transit DDX so I’ve temprarily put blue-tak there - no more super glue…the only tube I had is all dried up ._.

The udon set comes from one of their traditional Japanese food series. I love this series, I probably would have bought the whole set if I was in SG/HK/JP, or had money, or…look I just try to avoid looking at the Re-ment set for fear of falling in love with a particular set which would mean buying it off eBay and paying a premium plus postage and etcetc. I really should save my money plus I’m trying to lead a more spartan life >_<

But anyway, Eriko, THANK YOU!!!! Your gifts are fully appreciated and I am so grateful! You bought exactly the right thing for me XD

I love miniatures so much I plan to make my own miniature furniture too XD
I recently got a DIY dollhouse book on eBay. Well, more accurately, “it is a reference book for miniture accessories for a Japanese-style dollhouse. It also reproduces a typical Showa Era street and introduces 22 scenes of nostalgic (natsukashiii na~~~~~) Japanese scenery.” That’s the blurb on the eBay page. I don’t really know what I’m getting, but I really want to make that sushi bar they have on the book scan there! I hope it’s not just something that tells me how to make the sushi alone >_page gives some amusing information on it. Also, if you want to try out chabudai-gaeshi yourself, without the mess, download this (175kb, from YSI, expires in a week). After you download it, rename the extension from .zip to .exe and away you go. 2 seconds of fun.

Anyway, because I can’t obsess over making a dollhouse RIGHT NOW (got to wait till the book arrives >__

1: Just about to have a bite of dinner
Sylvanian Pig Family Mom and Pops are enjoying a nice okonomiyaki dinner out, away from the kids. After what feels like a long wait, the okonomiyaki has just been cooked and Mom is just about to start eating.

2: Something’s staring at my butt
Mom: Hmm, something’s staring at my butt.
Neko-chan: Ji~~~~~~~

3: Chabudai-gaeshi!!
Pops: What?! The waiter’s staring at your butt? GRRRRRRR!! Super power… CHABUDAI GAESHI!

4: @#%@$%$$%#^$%&@%@$%@!&&*)(&??!
Mom: You…you…. PIG! I was so looking forward to eating this! Oh, and…this is HOT!

5: Cat toss
Mom: My vintage gingham apron is ruined now! Super power…NEKO THROW!

6: WANNA DIE?!
Mom: You’re DEAD!
Pops: Oops, Ineedtogotothetoilet,BYE!
Neko-chan: My tail!
Mom: I don’t care if I squash your tail, why were you staring at my butt anyway?!

7: The Trip and Victory!
Mom: Victory! You shall now buy me WHATEVER and HOWEVER much I want to eat to compensate for the lost okonomiyaki!
Pops: Ooof! Tripped on the container of bonito flakes and aonori >_
8: Victory compensation
Mom: BUHAHAHA! First course: ikura, uni and amaebi don!
(does that dish even exist?)
Mom:…and a side serving of freshly cracked UNI!

9: Second course - zaru soba
Pops: -tummy grumbling- I’m really eyeing that last bit of soba!!
Mom: Muhahaha! None for you! Get your own!

10: Last course
Mom: Aaaaah…tai sashimi~~~ iinaa~~~ All this yummy chilled sake helps too!
Pops: Boohoo. You’re such a pig! I can only afford a fast food hamburger now >_

The next day I went back to Cityplaza and bought more stuff from Uny ~_~.
So I guess my toy expenditure total from that weekend is more like $350. I’m going to run out of money soon >_>

The Nyanko in the main photo here is also part of the Dagashi-ya series …same as Melon Nyanko Ice (bought the previous day). The one in the main picture is Orange Nyanko Gum XD

So cute~

It’s $14.90 at Uny supermarket in the basement. Slightly cheaper than at Siu Man Centre in Mongkok. Well, minisculy cheaper (10c), so I guess it doesn’t matter.

I’ll go back to Cityplaza this weekend. Apparantly, the Jusco there has a large range of san-x products. Also, I missed out on the bookstore section of Uny…
Another chance for me to eat the takoyaki at Uny!! Yippee~

Oh yes, I also bought a nyanko onsen face towel, a nyanko matsuri (festival) hand towel thing that you can hang up, and also a small nyanko lunch bag.

It’s actually pretty cheap at Uny. The two towels and the bag only costs about HKD25.

Anyway, the rest of the photos are here. The slideshow is here.

Last Friday I went on a toy spree T_T
I spent about $320 on toys - nyanko products and shogukan (toys in boxes with candy).

I went to Taikoo Shing City Plaza Two’s UNY - a Japanese department store. By the way, they have THE BEST takoyaki there. Kind of pricey though - $30 for a box of 8. But worth every penny.

I got two Nyanko keychains/mobile dangley thing there (mouseover for descriptions):

UNY is a pretty cool jap department store. They had a reasonable selection of Japanese tableware ( sooooo cute…I inherited my mother’s love of tableware I think, lol). They had soba sets on sale…the soba serving dish with mat, and matching soba cups…..AHHH so cute~!~!! CHI SIN! Disgustingly cute!! But I can’t buy because I already have too much to bring back T_T. Maybe I’ll get some from Takashimaya in Singapore next time when I have a chance…At least it’s easier to bring stuff back to Australia from Singapore…

Then after that I had Shanghai noodles at a family friend’s noodle shop.
Laden with red bean pancakes and Szechuan soup, I toddled over to Mongkok.

My aim was to purchase the new series from Re-ment:

It’s another puchi food shogukan series~~ and it is cho kawaii! (Unfortunately, it’s not out in Hong Kong yet).

My second aim was to get two particular sets from Re-ment’s ‘Room’ series:

Well, my first stop was Vision Shop in the Chic building on Soy Street in Mongkok. It’s my favourite shogukan shop - the prices are good, they carry Re-ment products, and best of all, all the boxes are opened so you can choose exactly what you want.

(Normally, the boxes are all sealed and you don’t know what particular toy in the series you are getting; people normally get duplicates or the one they don’t want, so they have to buy more, and it’s very annoying.)

Anyway, I found out that it had closed down!! I was so PISSED!! CHI SIN!

I went to Sino Centre in the hope of finding a shogukan shop. Well, it mostly sells pirated anime/dramas/games and manga. I thought shogukan, being Japanese, was related and might have a showing there…you never know…perhaps Vision Shop moved there (fat hope)

Well…as expected there were no shogukan shops carrying Re-ment. -_-
Mostly, if they sold toys, they only sold anime figurines. But I did find this shop on the ground floor with a closing down sale…

I was so pissed that I couldn’t spend any money on shogukan that night I went to buy one whole carton of Machikado Album (?Street Corner Album). I’d seen the series in the past, and it was reasonably cute. A whole carton of 10 was going for $150, which was reasonable for Megahouse brand I guess (for Re-ment, one carton is typically ~$230 - better quality):

Anyway, 1 carton has 6 different sets, so you’d get 4 duplicates. The duplicates are in alternate colours though. Still, when I got back home and opened them up, I found that the ‘alternate colours’ just meant the cats were in different colours -_-. I didn’t like the series *that* much anyway. So I managed to sell 3 out of 4 of the duplicates to a floormate who loves cats. Yeah! $45 makes a big difference!! Let’s see if I can sell off the last one too. The last one is the one of the dog sleeping while listening to the radio. It’s pretty cute so it shouldn’t be too hard I guess…

I randomly asked that store whether they knew of any stores that sold puchi food (an ardously difficult task - had to speak in my very un-fluent canto…had to describe what puchi food was in canto…XDD “sai sai go …fan?”). Miraculously, the store people understood me and they referred me to this building nearby.

It turned out to be a whole building devoted to toys!! Wow! You can never tell by the outsides of these small shopping buildings in Hongkong -_-

There was Gashapon (those toy capsules) and shogukan (and various other toys and figurines - but not interested XD).

I was able to purchase the Re-ment Japanese room pre-opened, yeah!

Unfortunately, the shopkeeper refused to sell me the retro room, for some funny reason (she was speaking in canto, not worth it trying to understand because it was very clear that she meant ‘No’). Oh well. At least I got the jap room ($40), neh?

There were other shops selling the room series too, but unopened. Because the other sets in the series besides the ones I like are really duds, and each box costs more than an average shogukan…well I didn’t want to risk it -_-.

I also spotted the Nyanko Dagashi (?cornershop) series biscuit + toy thing! I didn’t know it existed but whee! It pays to be observant! It’s not exactly normal shogukan because the ‘candy’ is actually substantial and not just a token gesture. Normally you just get one Ramune flavoured tablet. This was like… quite a few chocolate-filled biscuits. Yum. Also, they actually tell you what keychain is inside. Eliminates the guessing element, yay. I also spotted a complete set from the nyanko burger series. But they were selling for $200+ -_- What a rip-off, especially as each box is relatively cheap - $15.

I got this one:

Other photos from that day are here: slideshow and normal view