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Besides visiting the attractions in Tokyo , I like to make day-trips to Yokohama. After all, the train journey to Yokohama station is less than 45 minutes from Shinjuku. We visited Yokohama Zoorasia last December. This zoo opened in 1999 and is one of the biggest zoo in Japan. The entrance ticket to the zoo is unbelievably cheap at only 800Yen per adult and 200Yen for children above 7 years old! The journey to Zoorasia may not be very straight forward but it wasn't difficult to figure out too. We took the train to Yokohama station, walked to South exit for Sotetsu Line (walk through the shopping lane where Takashimaya is), take the train to Tsurugamine station. After exiting the gantry at Tsurugamine station, there'll be a Zoorasia signboard. Follow the directions to the bus station for a 15 minutes bus ride. It costs 220Yen/adult and 110Yen/child for a single trip. Couldn't resist getting an ekiben even though we were not taking Shinkansen! Get yours at Tsur...

Hey there! We brought the boys on another Japan trip during the year end school holidays last month (or should I say last year, that's 2017!) We were in Tokyo again and made 2 separate day trips to Yokohama. A few of our friends were surprised that we did a Tokyo-Yokohama trip again barely 1 year after the previous one in 2016. However as you know, Tokyo itself is really big...one can never cover all the attractions on 1 trip! In fact we already excluded places like Tokyo tower, Sky tree (we were there but did not go up), Akihabara, gyoens (gardens) which were not much of interest to our kids, and yet there are still many more places we have not covered over these 2 Tokyo vacations! I'm sharing our Winter Tokyo 2017 Itinerary here and will update the details and information to each individual attraction along the way. (highlighted yellow) Let me share some Tokyo travel tips first: 1)We rented a pocket wifi from Changi Recommends  for our trip. We also received a ...

I'm excited that my first bake of year 2018 turned out successful and tasted nicer than I expected! For someone like me who don't bake often enough and only has 2hrs+ to spare in the mornings, each successful attempt at baking something that my boys can enjoy eating is so precious to me! You'll need Morinaga Hotcake Premix and a paw print baking tray for this Morinaga Paw Print Cake recipe, you may use baking tray in other designs too. （╹◡╹）♡ If you tried any recipes on my humble blog and would like to share on your blog or any other social media platforms, please copy and include the URL so it'll link back to me. Kindly do not claim recipe as your own. Thank you! Ingredients: (Makes 16-18 mini cakes of 5cm size) 150gm Morinaga Hotcake Premix (Note 1) 2 whole eggs (60g each) 70gm unsalted Butter (melted) 60gm Castor Sugar 30ml Morinaga Pancake syrup 15ml Fresh Milk 2-3 tsp Cocoa Powder Method: •Preheat oven at 180 degC. •Add egg, sugar, pancake s...