A one-day belated post. Yurina reached Shanghai a day ago! =))))) And she got us souvenirs wheyyyy!
Each of us got a packet of Momotaro’s mochi! =DDDDD
The super cute package! =DDD
Just in case you dunno who’s Momotaro! There is actually a Japanese folklore about it. To keep you guys interested, I even found some pics to go with my story! =DDD I’m going to keep the story really simple coz I’m pretty tired right now. XD
Once upon a time, there was an old woman washing the clothes by the river. Suddenly she saw a large peach flowing down the river. She took the peach home and decided to eat it with her husband when they discovered a kid inside the peach!
So the kid was named Momotaro. (Momo in Japanese = Peach) Years later, Momotarō left his parents to fight a band of marauding oni (demons or ogres) on a distant island. En route, Momotarō met and befriended a talking dog, monkey, and pheasant, who agreed to help him in his quest.
They sailed together to fight the oni!
At the island, Momotarō and his animal friends penetrated the demons' fort and beat the band of demons into surrendering.
Momotarō and his new friends returned home with the demons' plundered treasure and the demon chief as a captive. Momotarō and his family lived comfortably from then on.
Okay so the story ended! Now let’s get back to the mochi again! =))) There are 6 different characters in the package! I don’t really recognise the face with blue and yellow colour though. You guys try to guess the rest! XDDD
This is the bad guy! XDD DEMON!
The good guys! Pheasant, dog, Momotaro and Monkey! (except the blue and yellow face thingy I don’t really know what’s that.)
Inside is a really yummy Mochi! =DDDDD Miki told me that mochi is the food where Momotaro fed his animal friends so they will have the energy to fight the demons! LOL! I wonder if that’s true! XDDD
Haha.. A random selfsnap with miki at the back! XD
TOTALLY EXHAUSTED. X.X NIGHT!!
