March 5, 2010
Tabehoudai means all-you-can-eat. Yes, all you can eat strawberry – and for free! Well, it must be not free. But, it includes in 3000 yen of ski trip fee that I’ve ever mentioned in my other post. Really big thank to UEC International Office 
After two days playing ski, on the second day and also the last day of the ski trip, we went to strawberry glass house to eat as much strawberry as we could. But actually, we went there after having lunch of a big pot of nabe (one of Japanese cuisine which you can put anything you like inside a boiling pan/pot). So, we’ve already felt half full (or full for some others) when it came the time to eat those strawberries!
The strawberry tabehoudai is only for 30 minutes. We could walk on the aisle between lines of strawberry plant. We took the strawberry ourselves and ate directly or put into a sweet-condensed-milk first to give additional taste. The strawberries’ taste in Japan is a bit different with I’ve ever ate in Indonesia. In Indonesia, strawberry is always related to sour and sweet taste combined together. But here, what I tasted is only sweet.
I was a little bit surprised when I have my first strawberry in Japan. I expected sourer taste than what I ate. Since I like sweet, I was falling in love with the taste of these strawberries. But, it’s so expensive. At minimum, you need to pay 250 yen (if you are lucky) to get a small package of strawberry in Seiyu (a big supermarket in Japan; and we have one that is very close to UEC).
In this tabehoudai, I ate a lot of strawberries (of course :p). But I finished earlier than the times they allowed us to eat. I think I ate too much already. I felt so full with strawberries. Actually, I was in the first group of people who enter the glass house, so I bet I’ve already tasted the best ones they had until there only no-tasted-strawberry left. And that time, I decided to stop eating. :p
But, I think doing something (or eating something) too much is not so good. After all-crazy-eating-time, I think I had enough eating strawberry here. I don’t want it anymore. Maybe, I missed the taste of little-bit-sour-strawberry in Indonesia. Or maybe it’s just because I’ve overeaten. 
Don’t worry, if you want to give me strawberry, I will receive it with pleasure. I can make a great dessert with it. And I can share it with you if you give me the materials I need. :p
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