Oct 30, 2012

Australia experience /オーストラリアに触れる

Hi there.  Did you have a good weekend?  Hope you did. :)  I had a fun weekend at an amateur Australian football game where my friend played.  It was my first time to see Australian football!  It took me a while to understand what was going on at the field because I didn't know any of the rules, but I enjoyed cheering for my friend's team. :)

At the game, I had Australian beers for the first time and loved them!  It was pretty cold outside, so we were drinking while shaking though. lol  One was called “Victoria Bitter” and the other was called “Crown Lager”.  Crown Lager tasted like our beer in Japan whereas Victoria Bitter had bitter taste as it says in its name.  I enjoyed them both. :)  And one Australian lady brought some Australian sweets called “lamington”, and she was kind and let me try them.  They were so delicious! :D  She explained how to make it, so maybe I should try making it sometime. :)  This is Victoria Bitter and lamington (chocolates and coconuts) in the picture.
My little Australia experience was so much fun! :)  By the way, what's your favorite sweets?  Anything typical in your country?

皆様、週末はいかがお過ごしでしたでしょうか?私は、オーストラリア人の友達に連れられて、オーストラリアフットボールの試合を見に行きました。初めてでルールが分からず、最初なかなか試合展開付いて行かれなかった部分もありましたが、とても楽しかったです。会場ではオーストラリアのビールが売られていたので、友人がお勧めする2本を飲んでみました。初めてのオーストラリアビールです。美味しかった!「ビクトリアビター」と「クラウンラガー」で、ビクトリアビターはその名の通り苦味が強い感じのビール。一方のクラウンラガーは日本のビールに近い味でした。どちらもおいしかったです。また、会場にいた女性がオーストラリアでは定番の「ラミントン」というお菓子を持ってきていて、分けてくれました。チョコレート味とココナッツ味で、とっても美味しかったです(*^^*)オーストラリアを体験して、楽しい週末を過ごしました。友人に感謝です☆

↓いつもありがとうございます。押していただけると励みになります☆

4 comments:

  1. I love everything with chocolate. Lately, this is my favorite chocolate http://www.alpella.com/img/gallery/big/17.jpg

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    1. Woo, the chocolate on the link looks SO delicious! I love nuts, so I'm sure I'd love that! I will look for it at a shop where imported sweets are sold. Thanks for sharing it with me! :D

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  2. I think I can always be happy with milk chocolate, I can get it everywhere. But I always miss grape candy that is not available here. The grapes in Germany don't have that intense taste compared to Japanese blue grapes and they aren't easy to peel ^.^ I also fell in love with Japanese salt candy. I didn't want to try first, because salt and candy just sounded weird to me, but later I ate it up pretty quickly ^.^

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    1. You sound that you were in Japan. Have you been here? Haha, it was same with me. I didn't want to try salt candy, but I've heard that it's good for your body in summer when we sweat a lot and lose lots of salt from our system so tried that. They are actually good. :)

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