This Nutella jar can be used as a drinking glass. Our friend brought it from London about five months ago. It comes with a plastic lid, so I like to use it as a container, not as a drinking glass. It's a good size to keep red ginger, and the jar shape is actually very nice. I wanted more Nutella jars, so I asked my friend who came from London last month. Sometimes the jars have some patterns or cartoon characters on them, but I didn't know that Doraemon, a Japanese anime character, was on Italian jars! These days Nutella can be found in local supermarkets in Japan because it is imported and sold by the big Japanese company Kewpie, but I haven't seen this nice glass version yet. I hope they start to import this type, too.

I think I first had Nutella in Paris when I was 18 years old. I had Nutella in a crepe. Until then, I knew only Harajuku style crepe which is filled with whipped cream and fruit. But the crepe I ate in Paris had only Nutella inside. I was even more surprised to see my sister's crepe: it had just sugar and lemon juice! How simple they were! It was a big culture shock for us.