Selfmade Bubble Tea

Hi there (^.^)v

don't worry, this won't become a cooking blog x3

But since I'm very busy at the moment

here is just a small entry for you about my first selfamde Bubble Tea.

As you can guess from my others post: I love Bubble Tea ♥

In my opinion it's one of the best inventions in mankind xD

I love going to our local BoboQ store with my friends,

but sadly I don't have much time for this at the moment..

So I wanted to make my own Bubble Tea ^.^

Let me show you how to do it x3

So, first of all, this is what you need:

-Tea (I choose green tea, but you can also use another one)

-flavoured syrup (I choose passion fruit flavour)

-Tapioka pearls

I used small tapioka pearls (because they were colourful and looked so cute *-*), but they original recipe takes the bigger black ones (which I will use next time x3)

Ok, then you have to make some tea.

Better do this in advance, because it needs to cool down ^.^

Next step is to cook the tapioka pearls.

For one part of pearls, take eight parts of water.

Put the water into a pot and boil it.

When it boiles put in the tapioka pearls.

But really don't do it before the water boils! I read reports

about the pearls melting when warming together with the water q.q

Turn down the stove to medium heat and cook the pearls for 15-20 minutes.

The larger pearls need to be cooked longer, for some 35 minutes,

oh and don't use too much pearls x3 

I used a half cup and you will see how much came out of it...

After cooking the tapioka pearls,

put them in a colander and pour them with cold water.

Then put them in a bowl or something similar.

I think it's five times more than before cooking O.O

After cooking the pearls might be very sticky.

To avoid this, you can make some kind of syrup to put them in.

For this just boil 240 millilitre of water with 220 millilitre of sugar

until the sugar is dissolved. Let the mixture cool down and

then pour it over the tapioka pearls.

Conserved like this you can use it for two days when put in the fridge.

With all these preaparations done you are ready to make you Bubble Tea \(^-^)/

just tea

tea with syrup

and with bubbles ^-^

Later on I tryed a version with pomegranate juice ^-^

I really liked my selfmade Bubble Tea ^.^
Feel free to try it yourself x3

Thanks for reading ^.^
and by the way, I also have twitter now x3
so feel free to add me as Ari Pancake ♥

See you next time (^.^)v

Cooking Japanese: Onigiri ♥

Hi there (^.^)v

it's a cooking post again this time ♥

Some time ago I tried to make onigiri (riceballs) for the frist time.

I think they turned out quite good,

so let me show you how to make them:

 This is what you need:

- rice (obviously)

- nori (dried sea weed sheets)

- something to fill them (I used furikake for flavour)

and optional: an onigiri mold

First, you need to cook the rice.

When it is done, the rice need to cool down to become more sticky.

Because I used furikake to give flavour to the rice,

I devided it into two and sprinkled it with furikake.

I used two different flavours:

the left is with various vegetables

and the right on with perilla (a kind of herb)

Then you are ready to shape the rice into onigiri ^.^

Usually they have a triangle form

like the onigiri mold I used

I wraped them into wrapping film to store them in fridge over night.

You can eat them right after shaping them, but I wanted

to take them with me next day for Fashion Walk in Hamburg.

So on the next day, I wrapped them into nori sheets.

(it's better to do this briefly before eating them,

because the nori soaks a lot water and becomes quite chewy then)

They people who tried them, said the were good ^-^

But I still need to improve a lot.

Next time I will try to fill them x3

Feel free to try to make them yourself ^-^

Onigiri are really delicious *-*

One of my favourite japanese food ♥

Thank you for reading and see you next time (^.^)v

☆ Harajuku Fashion Walk ☆ Hamburg ☆ ＼(^ω^＼)

Hey guys (^-^)v

I hope you are all fine ^.^

Last weekend was really amazing, because I attended the first

Harajuku Fashion Walk in Hamburg ♥ 

The event was organized by the cute Feli-chan. 
We already had some similar events in Germany, like in Düsseldorf
or Leipzig, but this was the first in the north of the country ^.^
(And the closest from my hometown, but nevertheless we 
had to travel three hours by train..)

I choose to wear a 'pastel goth' outfit for the first time ^-^

sorry, to lazy to cover my messy room this time x3

I got myself a new wig for this outfit and will probably 
do a review in one of the next posts ^-^
Tell me if you're interesseted ♥

My mom and my friend Eiri joined me again and we took 
the train at nine in the morning to be in Hamburg in time.
When we arrived at the station I luckily still had enough time
to "do" my nails (=to clip on my preglued nails x'D)

 At 1 p.m. we all met at the station and then walked our way through the city.
 But before we took the first group photo of the day ♥

by Jacky Holtermann

We walked down a well-known shopping street in Hamburg
and also visited some close by stores (like colours and claire's)
Then we took the train to visit the newly opened 'J-Store' ♥
And took another group photo (^-^)v

picture taken from the J-Store facebook-page

The store is really great ^-^
They had such a cool pair of tights, but sadly they
were to expensive for me at the moment...

And here are some more random pictures of the day x3
The first is a photo of my 'hair' I took in the train.
Wearing a bow by MeltyWish ♥

I like the wig, it feels comfortable while wearing ^-^
Next is a pic of Eiri and me:

And the perspective from outside x'D

by Jacky Holtermann

Yeah, with my cool gameboy-phone-cover x3
And a picture I took at the metro station
while waiting for the train to J-Store to arrive ^.^

Of course I also took some photos with nice and lovely people ♥
with Eiri again:

cool outfit of his isn't it?

with Ruha and Meto-Teddy:

and with Feli ♥
she also tried one of my selfmade onigiri *happy*

Eiri when I told him 'look like you're having fun' x'D

And Feli again how we saw her most of the day x3
(but I somehow really like this picture *-*)
 

The day was a lot of fun ^.^
Thanks to everyone who has been there ♥
And this time there even is a video (made by Feli)

I hope there will be more events like this in Hamburg ♥
It was a really great day ^.^

Thank you for reading (^.^)v