もぐもぐ Bento… How can you not love these!

Bento are one of my favorite things from Japan. With a variety of food in each box and a little bit of かわいい (kawaii), how could you reject such an awesome meal! For anyone that doesn’t know what bento is, it’s a lunch box traditionally containing rice, fish or meat, and steamed or pickled vegetables. Women like to make cute bentos for their kids and boyfriend/husband. Now my goal is just to make a bento half as good as these for my fiancé.

愛 Dinner at iron chef Morimoto’s and an engagement ring!

So last night my boyfriend and I were enjoying a nice dinner at iron chef Morimoto’s restaurant. I got to order my my favorite sushi appetizer which is ume(pickled plum) , shiso(Japanese mint) and cucumber. I offered some to my boyfriend but he really didn’t want any which struck me as odd because he loves it just as much as I do. So he took one and saved it for dinner after I kept insisting.

So dinner came out and i got my duck duck duck meal as they call it. It looked so tasty! Rate when I was ready to eat my boyfriend said ‘wait, I have to do something before we eat!’. He fumbled around for what I thought was his phone to get a photo maybe but then he was down on his knee asking me to marry him! I was so excited I must of said yes a million times before he could even finish asking the question. I swear the whole back of the restaurant got quiet where we were sitting during that moment. The silence finally broke when our waiter brought us some pink sparkling wine. I thought I was going to fall out of my seat from the excitement but finally got some appetite back to eat a bite of my meal after I realized I wasn’t dreaming.

My now fiancé and I were so giddy, we couldn’t even completely eat our food for a while. We both felt like we were under water. After we finally finished our meal we both got desert with a candle for each of us. I got the peach ice cream. It was mixed with fresh peaches, not like the ones in store-bought ice cream where it’s hard as a rock. So that was my amazing night at my favorite Japanese restaurant.

This is the ring he had custom made for me.