Eating a mouse

As Japan continues to celebrate the new year, there is still signs of it all over the place.   Since a person does not decorate for New Years or even tell people to have a great new year until after the stroke of midnight on January 1st, it makes sense that the celebration would go on for a while after the actual holiday.

For the first two weeks of the year, restaurants and bakeries often offer fun homages to the new year in the form of fun treats shaped like the animal of the year.  While I enjoyed the fun foods decorated like boars (or pigs) last year, I'm a little less enthusiastic about the rat shaped foods (with one exception - Mickey Mouse shaped foods!).

It doesn't matter whether or not I think these are cute, my son ate them all.  He reports that they all tasted great.