Day 4: Eating Healthy at Restaurant Asperges

For today's lunch, we are having it at Restaurant Asperges. A Michelin star restaurant, it prides itself with serving diners freshest produce grown from the fields of Biei. :)

The decor of the restaurant is simply clean with full glass window that allows ample natural light to flow through every corner of the establishment. This simplicity is evident in the food Restaurant Asperges serves as well, allowing us to taste the natural flavors of every ingredient.

What we do before every meal...finding every opportunity to "cling" our glasses. :D

Colorful edible works :)

This dish caused so much anticipation and excitement. The waitress brought out a huge Staub pot and was explaining to us in Japanese what it was, keeping the pot closed at all times. (note: our gasp of the language is bare minimum).It must be something really good and we were all anticipating it was some premium beef or seafood. When she opened the cover to present the star dish, we gotta hold in our laughters, not wanting to appear rude. The look on our faces...priceless.

So here we have it...the star dish... :))) Half a cherry tomato and a stalk of broccoli. 

Dessert was simple and clean too. :)

This has gotta be the lightest meal of our trip but we were stuffed from laughing. :))) An experience that inked deeply in our memory.

Details of Restaurant Asperges:
6-2-6 Omachi, Biei, Kamikawa District, Hokkaido 071-0204, Japan
T: +81 166-92-5522
W: https://biei-asperges.com/

Day 9: Last Day in Paris

Back in Paris and we are starting our day with a hearty breakfast at HolyBelly 5! :) Lin got us there really early to beat the queue. :)))

Sweet stack - "world famous pancakes" with fruits de saison, creme fouettee, noisettes et sirop  d'erable

Savory stack which they claimed to be of a bit of a legend. :) They are pancakes with fried eggs, bacon, housemade Boubon butter and maple syrup. :D

Love the breakfast at HolyBelly 5. We'll be back real soon! :D

We still have one curry mix with us which we gotta finish to clear off some baggage space. :))) This means we have to make a trip to the market to get some chicken. :D We will check out Marche des Enfant Rouges. :) 

Marche des Enfant Rouges is a much smaller market but it has everything we needed to cook a scrumptious dinner. :) 

And it has my fav gelato store, Amorino. :)))

And here's my happy buy from the bookstore at the marche. ;) A pictorial book of Parisian Marche. :D

After putting our grocery back in the apartment, we headed to Le Souffle for lunch. 

We stopped by Goyard to pick up some stuff first though. :)

Love this window display we saw along the way. :D

Le Souffle was full house when we arrived and we had to wait a little for a table even though we had a reservation. 

Every meal in Paris starts with bread/bun...

Savouring all onion soup 

Souffle at Le Souffle :)

There are different sauces to complement the souffle. :)

I much prefer steak and fries. :)))

And mommy is pleased with creme brulee :)

Apple pie

And lemon curd souffle :D

We did dinner at home, finally finished our last curry mix. :)

Goyard delivered our loots to the apartment. :)))

We took a stroll to the Eiffel Tower after dinner as it's our last nite here. See you soon Paris, in less than a month. :)

Details of HolyBelly 5:
5 Rue Lucien Sampaix, 75010 Paris, France
T:  +33 1 82 28 00 80
W: https://holybellycafe.com/

Details of Le Souffle:
36 Rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris, France
T: +33 1 42 60 27 19
W: https://www.lesouffle.fr/