Happy Valentine’s Day!
For those in Japan, Happy Red Day!
Not sure about countries outside of japan but we celebrate 14th February as red day. This is the day when the girls give the guys gifts etc. Generally its chocolate. There is also a practice to give giri chocolate aka obligation chocolate. Ie to just male friends.
FYI guys return a gift on 14th march aka white day.

This year, it is also popular to give tomo-choco aka friend chocolate.
As with every year, i made the chocolate i give out
Valentine Red day 2011
Ingredients

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As mentioned in my post last week, i went for a weekend trip to Minakami Onsen in Gunma Prefecture. Here are some pics from it!
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FYI Minakami is approx 2.5hrs drive from Tokyo or 70mins via bullet train from Tokyo
Minakami is famous as a hotspring town [hence minakami onsen is its name] and is popular as a winter sports destination too [snowboarding etc]

Website: http://www.minakami-onsen.com/
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