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Valentine's Baking

Flourless dark chocolate mini cake.Today was Valentine's Day in Japan since we get there first. (We're a day ahead of the U.S.) Last year, I talked about how Valentine's Day is different in Japan and so did every other blogger who has ever talked about... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life

from So-Called Japanese Life on Thu, Feb 14 2008

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14 Feb 08 visit Happy Chocolate Day!  »  Life as a Gaijin Really, that's all Valentine's Day is here in Japan. Despite all the love hearts on packaging, there is far more giri-choco being passed around than declarations of love. And we won't even mention that only women give presents to men in Japan on this...
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