Lips Candy (Mixed Fruit)

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Altoids got nothin’ on you, Kitty

Nothin’ on you, Kitty

Will I ever stop not-so-secretly loving Hello Kitty things and singing along to catchingly annoying songs on the radio? Let’s hope not for the former. I’d say for the latter, too, but I think passengers in my car would disagree.

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Filipino Restaurant

High school is synonymous with many first-time experiences. White-knuckled freeway driving with a driver’s ed instructor who could simultaneously calm and frighten. Getting hair and make-up done at a salon for a formal dance, then having these two rites of teenage-girl passage immortalized with photos because Lord knows we want to see them 20 years later.  And…buying Lumpia in the hallway outside the cafeteria for a fundraiser.

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That’s right, Lumpia, the Filipino egg rolls. Because my high school days are long over, I had to order these ones filled with ground pork, celery, carrots, and onions marinated in spices at a sit-down restaurant.

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Chicken Kamameshi

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Sooo…I kinda, sorta, am well-acquainted with Lean Cuisine, Stouffer’s, and Marie Callender’s frozen foods. Ajinomoto ones, however, not so much.

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Japanese Supermarket Hot Foods

I was walking along a personally well-traveled path in the Japanese supermarket the other day when I noticed something out of the ordinary…the hot-foods station was unwomanned. As in, no photo-prohibitor lady with a glare in sight! With such an unexpected break, I knew what I had to do…

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Over the glass case my digital camera-holding hands flew, and *click*. Black Cod for $18.99 a pound.

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