Kitchen frustrations

What is with the complete lack of ovens in this town? The way that cities with dense populations, in apartment housing, having community gardens, I believe there should be community ovens.

I want so badly to cook meals and desserts for the people here. I would love to make them enchiladas, or something they could never find here. I wish I could bake them cookies. There is a complete lack of cookies in this country. I wish I could do something special for them.

All of there desserts LOOK soooo delicious but they all taste bland and the same. I do enjoy the red-bean boba drinks or green tea ice creams back home but to have those types of flavors be the norm here is not ideal. Let's have a cookie stuffed with beans! Let's have cream-filled pastry that tastes like... nothing. Blah. Where is some fried ice cream when you want it?! Where is an oven for me to make my own? I was trying to think of ways to make them something that didn't involve baking and remembered the Nutella no-bake cookies... and then that I have never seen Nutella in any of the grocery stores I have visited.

I acquired the ingredients to make a delicious shrimp dish and looked for a large bag of frozen shrimp. I cannot find anything like it around. I have, however, seen packages of four whole shrimp. I'm really bad about tearing the heads off of animals. I would prefer to have things arrive no longer looking like the original being.

I have had some delicious seafood here, and at such great prices. I have had some delicious chicken here also. I have, however, not had one delicious desert here. Actually, that isn't true, I had a 1x2" piece of cake at orientation that was delicious. They served it ONE night. B' went back for 4 more and left it so that many did not get any. I have* found a chocolate-covered grahmn cracker item for only 90yen ($1.17) in the convenience store. I have purchased 3 O:-) K' said I have a sweet-tooth. Really, all I keep is Nutella to spread on fruit at my home in the US. I do enjoy a good desert but not of the sugary sort, more of the creamy sort, and I do not have them often. It is the perpetual quest to satisfy the desire that makes me seem like I have a sweet-tooth here. Why must they all LOOK so delicious? It is all about presentation here and looks can be deceiving.

I think I will try to make mochi for them. I can fill it with whatever I wish. I wish this country had some chocolate :-p For information on what this desert is like, see the Wiki page. Rice-deserts?... See what I am dealing with here?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi