Sunday, May 17, 2009

Omiyage

Last week was Golden Week, so a lot of staff and students went on vacation. Accordingly, in the last week, there has been an ever-increasing pile of omiyage (souvenir gifts) in our office, courtesy of many generous people. ^_^

So this week, we had the following, record-breaking stack of boxes in our tea room:

  • chili chocolates from South Korea
  • wafers from Nagoya
  • coconut cookies from the Maldives
  • chocolate macadamias from the Maldives (different person)
  • chocolate macadamia Merlions from Singapore
  • coconut chocolate from the Maldives
  • chocolate coins from the Maldives
  • assorted chocolates from Brazil
  • sesame chocolate from somewhere
  • fish-shaped sable cookies from somewhere
  • chocolate mochi from Osaka
  • dango from Mie prefecture
  • 1 comment:

    Jessica said...

    I'm pretty sure a lot of that foreign 'omiyage' is packaged and produced for the Japanese market! I saw a catalogue in the bus station for different kinds of 'hong kong omiyage' you could buy.