Yesterday I invited a new friend over who has lived in Japan a long time.  She spent a couple of hours answering my many questions about how to work the air conditioner, the washing machine, how to use the shower, how to deal with the humidity and mold build up.  And, of course, the never ending trash questions. Then she was so kind to take me shopping and helped me buy trash bins.  Check this out.

Six separate compartments to sort out my nice clean trash.  These are the bags we use to put our clean trash in.  You can see where we have to write our name on the bags.  The red bag is for all combustable trash like food waste.  And the green bag is for everything else but each type of trash in a separate bag.

To top off our day we went to lunch at an amazing little place near Nafco (the Home Depot of Japan).  It was called Trois Bistro.  This time it was a Japanese version of a French restaurant and I just had to share the meal with you.  I forgot to photograph my main course – a margarita pizza that was very simple and really good.

First course – salad.  A little prosciutto, a little salmon, a little asparagus aspic.

The Salad

Then the next course – A cold potato leek soup.

And the dessert – a berry sherbet, a bite of coconut pound cake and a lotus root creme brulee.

The dessert plate was decorated by the chef as part of the dessert presentation.  Pretty amazing and oh so good.