December 10, 2004
X-mas in Tokyo
I love the lights decorating the trees and buildings all over Tokyo during December. But in the daytime it looks kind of ugly, with green plastic trees, bright purple balls and lots of cords. What I miss though is the smell of fresh spruce twigs that are decorating shop windows all over my home city in December.
The Christmas cake I see in bakeries all over Tokyo looks like a typical birthday cake for children with cream and strawberries. I’ve never had such a thing for Christmas in Sweden. But a common Swedish Christmas dessert is actually cooked rice pudding with fruit syrup.
My boyfriend will come visit me for Christmas and together with some friends we’ll have a Christmas dinner with Swedish/Japanese food. Can’t wait to have sushi and glögg! ;)
