Mrs. GREEN APPLE x mister Donut

This one was only ok. It was an average donut with chocolate icing and custard inside.

Delicious donut with custard filling. And then! Jam with actual apple pieces inside the custard! What a surprise!

The top two were new limited edition flavors and delicious.  The bottom ones were not new, but still very good!

Lapin Kulta

The premium lager beer was brewed under the north star.  It was only fitting that I used a Viking mug to drink from.  I know one is Finnish and one is Norwegian, but I don’t have another mug so they’re close enough.

Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea is one of my favorite dessert shops.  One of my MANY favorite dessert shops.  They change menu constantly.  Nothing is overtly sweet, but everything is presented ever so nicely.

Sweet Fruit Tea (delicious!)

Chestnut Shortcake:  autumn 2026 collaboration with renaissance artists from the Louvre.  This one was Leonardo Da Vinci's Portrait of a Lady.  I don't know if Afternoon Tea needed to pay licensing fee to the Louvre, but I had a delicious cake and some education.  Win-win for me!  That red flower was actually a raspberry shaped like a flower.  The attention to details was amazing!

Chestnut Shortcake

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

The reviews were good; the box office was good. I had high hopes going into the movie. Then I was disappointed. Was it because I didn’t watch any Marvel shows?

It didn’t look like he had school or job. How did Peter pay rent?

How did Peter Parker know Yelena? They talked as if they knew each other for a while.

Peter made a high tech thing in his dingy apartment after talking to Bruce for five minutes. Peter got the high tech equipment from Iron Man, but it’s been at least four years. How did he get more supplies or upgrades? Again, he didn’t have a job.

Then all the plots didn’t go anywhere. Jean Grey and the bad government villain were not punished for their crimes. MJ and Ned still weren’t Peter’s friends. Bruce went to hospital and we never heard from him again.

Nothing happened in this movie. Unless this was a setup for Doomsday, otherwise this Spider-Man movie was the worst of four movies.

Disney Winnie the Pooh mochi from 7-11

Of course I bought them because they were cute.  Not bad.  I wouldn't buy them again because there were too many other better mochi in 7-11.

One Drop Cafe ワン ドロップ カフェ

one drop cafe is not easy to find. It's tucked in an alleyway above a Korean restaurant.  That alleyway looks abandoned and scary.  It actually took us two tries; first time we got lost and thought we had wandered into forbidden district.

The menu consisted of only three items:  vegan, vegetarian, and pork.  We ordered vegetarian and pork.  The pork dish was more like chicken cordon bleu, but with pork, and I didn't like cheese inside pork.

The vegetarian dish was not bad.  Next time we will try the vegan dish.

Vegetarian

Pork

Restaurant hours

Hoppers (2026)

Am I getting old?  I used to love every PIXAR movie.  This one felt ... dumb.  Everyone was dumb in the story, including the adults.  I couldn't wait for the protagonist to fail spectacularly, then I would be happy.

I am a miserable person 😢

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Simple, easy spy movie.  Exact same formula from director Guy Ritchie with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).  We know who the good guys were and who the bad guys were.  There was a tiny twist at the end, but nothing serious.  An enjoyable movie without too much at stake.

Let Me In!

A bird outside my bank.  It was there before we arrived; it was there after we left.  About twenty minutes.  Hopefully it got whatever it wanted.

LET ME IN!!!