tokiko-san enjoy your retirement

My mother celebrated her 65th birthday last month, and a week later retired. Together with a friend of my mothers, we threw a surprise retirement party. My mother is hard person to fool, but she was happily surprised, and enjoyed a delicious meal together with her friends.

This is such a cute sign made by the 81 year old husband of the surprise party planner.

These delicious snacks went great with our drinks. Japanese rice cracker bites, large fried rice crackers with sesame and shrimp flavour, and steamed salted fava beans.

The meal was delicious and was essentially part 2 of the Japanese/Korean bbq I hosted a little while back.  We dined on kalbi short ribs and an assortment of other delicious home cooked Japanese dishes.