How to cook a chocolate cake

I barely cook because I live with my family. My mother always cooks for me. However, I like cooking. So, sometimes I learn cooking from my mother. It is the first time to learn how to cook a chocolate cake. It is really easy to cook because we use an IH cooking heater made from Amway. It is really convenient. I need butter, flour, chocolate syrup, and eggs for cooking a chocolate cake. First, I warm a frying pan on the IH cooking heater. Then, I put a little butter on the frying pan. After the butter melts, I turn off the IH cooking heater. Next, I add eggs and flour to the frying pan and mix them up. After mixing them up, I add chocolate syrup. Just mix them again. After that, I need to hit the frying pan in order to draw the air from all the flour. Finally, set the IH cooking heater to “Cake.” Just wait for a while. That’s it! Sometimes I bring the chocolate cake that I make to my friends' birthday party. My friends look like happy. I also become happy.

My Favorite Restaurant

My favorite restaurant is Goemon. The restaurant offers various spaghettis. We usually use a fork when we eat spaghetti in Japan. However, we eat spaghetti while using chopsticks only there. I do not know why they offer chopsticks. I would order “Ladies’ combo”. I always order this combo. I get spaghetti, a cup of a soup, and a dessert by ordering this set. And I can choose spaghetti, a drink, and the dessert. I will order a cream spaghetti with Hokkaido potato and many various vegetables for the spaghetti, an ice lemon tea for a drink, and a chocolate cake with banana ice cream for the dessert. I feel satisfied every time because everything is very delicious and cheap, and then there is too much for me. I especially love the dessert, a chocolate cake with banana ice cream. The cake is very hot and thick, and the ice cream is very cold. When I eat both of them together, the chocolate cake and the ice cream melt at the same time. It is really delicious.

Interesting Place

An interesting place to buy food is at candy stores in Japan for me. It is a kind of traditional store in Japan. We can buy some kinds of traditional cheap snacks and candies which we cannot buy at supermarkets or department stores. Old people run most of the stores. They are almost everywhere around residential areas or at near public schools. The shop owners are very kind but sometimes strict concerning manners. They always welcome children with smiling, and they seem to like talking with children. They sometimes tell us about old stories such as about WWⅡ, town history, their personal love story and so on. They look like our grandparents. Many children gather after school with a little money. When I was in elementary school, I went to such a candy store with my friends almost every day. However, I rarely went to the store after graduating from elementary school. My junior high school was also near from the store but I did not go there. I think I became too busy. However, I sometimes visited to the store. So, the same old owner welcomed to me with smiling as usual. I sometimes want to visit to the store to see the old owner or to get the snacks or candies which we cannot at supermarkets and department stores. I have a lot of memories of at that store.

Fast Food in America and in Japan

Fast food companies such as McDonalds, KFC, and Subway are famous in my country, Japan, too. Fast food in Japan is healthier than it is in America because they try to reduce the calories of foods. Japanese people care about the calories a lot, so they need to calculate their calories and show them on the menu. I was surprised by some facts when I went to McDonalds here. I expected too much of fast food here. I thought the foods in McDonalds would be more delicious and cheaper in America than in Japan. In fact, the foods are more delicious and cheaper in Japan. Also, we have more various foods on the menu such as Teriyaki Burger, Tsukimi Burger, Gratin-Croquette Sandwich, Bacon-Lettuce Burger, and so on. Teriyaki Burger is the most famous on the menu in McDonalds. Then, the service in McDonalds is very good in Japan. They are always smiling to the customers. I sometimes go to fast food restaurants when I do not have enough time to eat, when I have time to wait for my friends, or when I do not want to cook something in my home. I think that fast food restaurants are convenient and comfortable to kill time although it is not good for health.