Kai has moved rapidly past the basics, and is comfortable experimenting with the finer side of Japanese cuisine at Berlin’s best restaurants.  He happily devoured every dish until exhaustion came over him (he had been out since 1pm and now it was past 7pm) and I brought him back home.

A brisk and cold weekend in Berlin, but we still adventured out into the city multiple times on Saturday.  We started with Kai’s multi-course breakfast around 5:30am (note, 2 additional fruit courses not pictured here.)  The first place was Barcomi’s Deli — with some solid bagels and a creative version of the reuben (Yukie really enjoyed it — a unique taste not offered by many sandwiches).  And later in the evening Chika and I went to Kimchi Princess, which was excellent Korean food almost rivaling New York.

Sunday was a bit too cold, so we ate in with french toast in the morning and pasta (with a mushroom cream sauce) in the evening. We gave Kai just plain pasta.  I don’t know how much he thinks of the taste, but it is definitely a fun food to eat.  In any case, it’s time for the rest of us to start dieting.

It seemed longer, but Yukie’s 2 week departure was a new family adventure of mama, papa, and Kai all day everyday (with some babysitter help).  A wonderful experience, but we are glad to have mom back.  To celebrate, we went to an upscale Chinese buffet at Ming Dynastie across the way from the Chinese Embassy.  It was quite satisfying, and Kai ate it up.  Literally.