Nagoya Thai Festival

Every year Nagoya holds an excellent Thai Festival. Lots of good food , music , Thai beer , and friendly people . Lots of small shops in tents, too, that have clothing, spices, and various other things from Thailand. We spent yesterday walking around, eating, and shopping. What a great day it was!

Please notice the color of my head . I am nursing a sunburn today. A good memory of the Nagoya Thai Festival .

Robert

十八番

I love cooking. It is one of the things I do to relax. Or something I do to reward myself, e.g. upon finishing up a book project, like the one I just submitted to Kenkyusha last week.

One of my best dishes, maybe my best, is spaghetti and meatballs. I was particularly pleased with how nicely these meatballs turned out.

Actually, when I think about my last blog post about the health meter and losing weight, it seems as if this post is a bit contradictory, doesn't it? I mean, the concepts of losing Papapanda's "front porch" and making meatballs seem mutually exclusive. But, my new policy is to eat what I want, but just to eat less of it.

Surprisingly, I came back from 5 days in Singapore, one of the world's food capitals, having lost weight. My health meter was proud of me.

Robert