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Vegan Restaurant: Kissa in Shizuoka City!

November 14, 2013 dragonlife 2 Comments

Service: A bit shy but very friendly and attentive
Facilities & Equipment: Superb cleanliness overall. Superb washroom
Prices: reasonable
Strong points: Exclusively vegan gastronomy. No wheat flour. Only mineral water used. Entirely non-smoking!

At last the second independent vegan restaurant has just opened in Shizuoka City right in the middle of the city along the Aoba Street!

The name “Kissa” means “Cafe” in Japanese and “Cat” in Finnish, the real reason for the restaurant’s name!

The menu bound to change with the seasons is clearly announced outside!

The staff are shy but very friendly and attentive!

you can choose between a seat (chair or sofa) at a table or at a small counter!

And the place is so clean!
May I remind you it is totally non-smoking!

Another kissa/cat!

This must be the healthiest restaurant in Shizuoka City as they don’t use white sugar, wheat flour, eggs, dairy products and cook only in mineral water!

This is the lunch (Japanese-style) that I ordered!

And the tea that they serve is organic and has been matured from 3 years, making it lose most of its caffeine!

The organic tea!

Steamed white rice mixed with black/violet rice.
Incidentally all the vegetables, including the rice are organic whenever possible!

Stewed Takano tofu and vegetables!

Vegetables and tofu miso soup!

Home-made pickles!

Fresh vegetables salad. The broccoli is grown by the owner in her own garden!

Persimmon and apple in tofu cream sauce!

Konnyaku!

The owner, knowing I had a special interest in her cuisine because of some of my friends who are vegan (I’m not) offered me her minestrone vegetable soup (only vegetables)! Very tasty indeed!

While I was at it I ordered a dessert not waiting for tea time!
Their anko/sweet meat is home-made!
They do not use sugar but “karanka/Siraitia grosvenorii” whose fruit is 300 times sweeter and is recommended to diabetics!

The dessert!

Beautiful and very satisfying! Incidentally the jelly is made with local agar! Did you know that Shizuoka is a major producer of natural agar in Japan?

I’ll keep you posted about the different menus!

KISSA
Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Ryougae Cho, 2-1-7 (behind Shizuoka City Hall, along Aoba Street, on the right-hand side)
Tel.: 054-253-1339
Opening hours: 11:00~14:00 (lunch), 14:00~17:00 (cafe)
Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Completely non-smoking!

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Today’s Bento/Lunch Box (12/09): Diet Bento!

February 15, 2012 dragonlife 8 Comments

On the 1st of March I will undergo my annual check up and the Missus wants me (and later too!) to be in proper health when the doctor will play with figures found in my body and blood!
You can expect the same until then, and maybe unfortunately for me, beyond!

She steamed plain rice and mix it later with chopped parsley for color and ingredient balance. She filled about half of the box with it.
She then flattened and fried chicken sasami/breast filets with cheese inside in olive oil and seasoned them with tomato sauce for a beautiful red color. It might be lighter in calories than usual but the design is as important as ever!
She added the final touch with sliced black olives and salad beans.

As for vegetables, she placed boiled broccoli seasoned with crushed peanuts and boiled carrot (she indulged in some typical bento design there!) on a bed of finely chopped vegetables (not visible on the pictures).

Very simple indeed, but beautiful and very tasty!
But I ought to be careful about such comments lest the Missus further diminish the contents!

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Diet, Diet jokes, Jokes

Diet Jokes, Comments & Sayings

December 24, 2011 dragonlife 2 Comments

Looking at the front of what passes for my body this morning as I faced the mirror out my bath I was reminded of a few jokes, comments and sayings on diets!

A gentleman knows it is finally time to go on a diet:
-When he cannot see his pride looking down from a standing position any longer even in its full glory.
-When he reads Patton’s Battle of the Bulge with the book propped up on his stomach.
-When he cannot reach his plate on the table from a sitting position.

A lady knows it is finally time to go on a diet:
-When she cannot cross her arms over her chest any longer.
-When she doesn’t know any longer where her breast finishes and where her stomach starts.
-When someone says her stockings are folding although she does not wear any.

A pot belly is :
-A Yokohama tire in Japan.
-A beer tureen in Germany.
-A shock absorbing baloon for a truck driver.
-A weapon for a sumo wrestler.

It is only a start!
Care to add a few!

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