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Takunomi。

Bar, Pub, Club

Would you like to drink tonight?Where do you drink?Bar? Pub,?Club?I’m not a strong drinker.Therefore there is absolutely no way that I would go on the bar, pub, club alone.When I drink, I drink at home.It is supreme bliss at time to drink at home while eating Japanese food.




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Umeshu(plum wine) cocktail recipe

Love ume

Do you know the plum tree?The fruit of the plum matures early in June.When you walk in front of ume tree at the time, you are wrapped in a good fragrance.You should go to Wakayama in June if you want to be wrapped in the good fragrance.




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Sake lees drink

Sake lees

The sake lees(sakekasu) is the solid white substance that remains after pressing the main fermenting mash used to make Japanese sake (rice wine).Since the sake lees is a by-product of manufacturing refined sake, it sometimes contains the rice germ.The sake lees is ingredients on behalf of Japan.




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Japanese food weekly vol59




Restaurants with streambeds

Restaurants with streambeds(Kawadoko) are opening in Kyoto.Noryo-yuka (Noryo-doko) or the riverbed (in general, for the Kamo-gawa River (Yodo-gawa River water system), it is pronounced as ‘kawayuka;’ for Kifune or Takao in Kyoto, it is pronounced as ‘kawadoko’) is one of the poetic sceneries of the Kyoto summer.The Japanese food to eat in there is delicious.
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May 30 2015

Beer garden

Beer gardens are opening in Japan.Do you know a beer garden?The funny thing about the Japanese ‘beer gardens’ is that they are not gardens at all.In Japan, the beer garden opens in the roof of the department store.Therefore, whether or not beer-gardens get a lot of customers depends on the weather.
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May 30 2015

Sho-chiku-bai pocket pouch

Do you think that it is what?Sho-chiku-bai pocket pouch…It is sake.That is convenient to carry.When I watched it, I thought that it was nourishment jelly.Please be careful not to drink to much.
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refer to Sho-chiku-bai pocket pouch

May 30 2015

Masu




Masu

Masu is a measured quantity.Masu arrived in Japan via China.Sake and the rice are still used as a unit to measure.And sake is used as a container to take.”Give me liquor 1 sho(masu)”.By the Japanese food culture, it is cool to drink sake from Masu.Because 1 masu is many, the Japanese drinks liquor from Ichigo Masu in much one.1 sho equals to 1 liter, so 1 go is 100 milliliters.
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Kameda crisps and Cream cheese Pincho recipe




My best favorite snack

I love Kameda crisps.Plane, hot, cheese, a pickled plum, wasabi.Even if I eat that every day I don’t get sick of it.I am looking forward to that being registered as a World Heritage Site as Japanese food.I want to enter the hot spring of Kameda crisps.
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Kameda crisps and Cream cheese Pincho recipe

But I sometimes get tired.Therefore I cooked using Kameda crisps.It is Kameda crisps and Cream cheese Pincho.It very very yummy.
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Ingredients

  • 45 g kameda crips(plane)
  • 100 g cream cheese
  • 1 tsp(5 ml) soy sauce
  • 1 tsp(5 ml) wasabi

Kameda crisps and Cream cheese Pincho recipe (1)

  1. Crash the kameda crips.
  2. Put the cram cheese and soy sauce, wasabi in a bowl and mix.
  3. Wrap the mixed cream cheese with cling film, then form into 1 inch stick.Leave for 30 minutes into a refrigerator.
  4. Sprinkle the crashed kameda crisps.Cut it into bite-size.

It go with wine or beer or sake.

Tsugaru vidro




Tsugaru vidro

I like Tsugaru Region in winter.Snow is driven by the wind, and I feel that all comes to nothing.I want you to go to Tsugaru by all means if you get a chance to come to Japan.In Tsugaru, various industrial art objects are famous.One is Tsugaru vidro.The vidro is glass.Tsugaru vidro feels warmth in a cold atmosphere.As for it, Tsugaru is special.It is cool if I can eat Japanese food in Tsugaru vidro.
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Japanese food weekly vol53




Monster pub

Monster pub is called “Kaiju Sakaba” in Japan.Ultraman is a legendary program.Ultraman of the chief character is attractive, too, but the monster of the villain is attractive, too.There is the pub which can meet those monster.You can eat the delicious Japanese food in the pub.You can go from Tokyo in approximately 30 minutes in there.
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refer to Kaiju Sakaba in Kawwasaki

Apr 18 2015

nokanro

Broil, Toast, Fry, boil, Smoke.It is a gem used for a professional drinker traditionally in Japan.The name is “nokanro”.If there is even this, the kitchen is unnecessary.Probably this is popular in Japan in 2015.
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Apr 18 2015

McDonald’s Depression

McDonald’s Co. Japan, Ltd. is made to take a difficult situation.This term’s consolidated results is deficits of $320,000,000.And they close 130 stores in Japan.I love McDonald’s.They revive by all means.
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Apr 18 2015

Japanese food weekly vol49




Umeboshi stand

The Umeboshi shop will open in Tokyo, Omotesando Hills.We stand and can eat an Umwboshi there.We are apt to think that an Umeboshi is sour, but there is various taste.We can taste an Umeboshi of various taste there.The shop will open period extending from Apr. 28 to May. 6.Please taste an Umeboshi which is the representative of the Japanese food.
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refer to cinema cafe net

Apr 28 – May 6 2015

Sato Sake Festival for women in Ginza

On May 9, 2015, “Sato Sake Festival for women” is held in Ginza.In late years sake attracts attention in Japan.A middle-aged man drank sake before, but a young woman drinks sake now.It is the festival for such women.
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refer to Sato Sake Festival for women in Ginza

May 9 2015

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf,now launched in Japan.I like coffee very much.When I go by a cafe, I smell fragrant.When I go by The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, will the fragrant incense do it?I would really like to go there.
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refer to macaroni

Mar 14 2015

Eggplant in bonito broth recipe




Eggplant in bonito broth recipe

Does Japanese food goes very well with wine?Yes, however, Japanese food goes very well with sake.I introduce Japanese food recipe that sake go with.It is Eggplant in bonito broth recipe.Please eat this while listening to an enka ballad.You have the illusion that you are in Japan.

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Japanese food weekly vol45




Bonsai cafe

“Bonsai cafe” which featured the theme of a bonsai in a Tokyu Hands Shibuya shop opens in February 16 – April 5.We can eat parfait modelled on “Bonsai” during a period.I feel mind of “Wabi Sabi” in Bonsai like Japanese food.Please go if you visit Tokyo during this period.
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refer to Hands cafe

Feb 16 – Apr 5 2015

Mousou Ne-san no Osushi-yasan

Mousou is fantasy.Ne-san is miss.Osushi-yasan is Sushi restaurant.Mousou Ne-san no Osushi-yasan is Miss Fantasy’s Sushi restaurant.I think that the production technology of the figures made in Japan is high.Sushi met the figures.
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refer to Takawa Tommy

Feb 14 2015

Kura biraki

Amongst many sake brewers February is seen as the best time to open for business each yea in Hyogo, Nishinomiya.In Japan, it is called “Kura biraki”.We can drink the sake of each brewery. It is fun and is a lucky event.
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refer to Kurabiraki

Feb 7 – Mar 14 2015

Amasake




Very very yummy

Amasake is like Red bull.It is the energy drink of the Japanese food.It is a sweet alcoholic drink made from fermented rice.Many temples and shrines either sell amazake or provide it free of charge to worshippers on New Year’s Day, and sell it for visitors to bring home.It is a traditional drink.It is very very sweet and very very yummy.
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Anti-Aging drink

Amazake is a health food digestable well.Amasakes is rich in protein, dietary fiber, vitamins and so on.In macrobiotics it is frequently used as a sweetener in place of sugar, so the demand is increasing abroad.y the way, there is the effect of the anti-aging, too.
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Canned Amasake

There is an Amasake junkies in Japan.I am one of those people.I does not drink Amasake every day.I sometimes want to drink it.When I do not drink it, I do not calm down.There is canned Amsake for such a case.Canned Amasake is cool.
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refer to MORINAGA

Wakako-sake




Dear alone

Do you eat a meal with somebody?The meal that we eat while talking with everyone in very delicious.Have you wanted to eat a meal alone?Go to the favorite restaurant alone and order the favorite food alone and eat as much as desired alone.Turkish food, Japanese food, Chinese food.It is no border.What the cool!
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The food go with sake.

The chief character of this manga is a 26-year-old woman.She has a tongue of God of the sake.Therefore she goes to the pub alone to give sake to God.The food which she orders is cool in there.Cured mackerel, fried the skin of salmon, the liver of the angler.Anything go with sake.
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Life of pleasure

Sake is the best of all medicines.If we quarrel, we drink sake and can be reconciled.Jackie Chan drank sake and acquired Drunken boxing.Drink a lot of sake, and eat delicious food a lot!It is a life of pleasure.
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Japanese food and Japanese sake in winter

It’s winter in Japan right now.It is very very cold.On such a day, I want to drink warming Japanese sake.It is a Japanese symbol to drink warming Japanese sake while eating the Japanese food.However, in late years demand for sake decreases in Japan.The Japanese sake is yummy, but this is because there is an impression to have a hangover.
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Beautiful skin by Japanese sake

From old days, it is said that a daughter of the Japanese sake brewery is beautiful.Their skin is very beautiful.It is white and seems to be transparent.The reason is because a fair skin ingredient is included in rice bran and sake lees made with a manufacturing process.
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Japanese sake reform

The generations who grew up in the postwar period without having a relation with conventional sake did not have a sense of nostalgia in the taste against the sake before zosanshu.Therefore demand for sake decreased.However, in late years, Japanese sake merit is reviewed, and a young people that becomes a chief brewer has increased.
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It functions as a notice that new sake is finished when a green sugitama is hung from the eaves of a sake brewery.

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Iccyora

You can eat cooking that uses fresh caught conger-eel here.Another characteristic is that a broiled conger eel, a specialty of Setouchi, is often used.The restaurant name is Iccyora.I suggest that you do sightseeing Himeji Castle and you eat here.

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Sake steamed Clams recipe




Sake steamed Clams recipe

I like to listen to Enka while drinking Japanese sake.Sake is yummy.And it is a dish using the sake.Sake steamed Clams recipe and it is called Asari no Sake-mushi in Japan.I eat it while drinking sake.It is to prevent you from suffering from alcohol poisoning that you should be careful(*^-^)ノ.

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Japanese food weekly vol25




Drift ice curry

It is the curry which expressed white drift ice floating and blue of the Sea of Okhotsk.It is a specialty of Hokkaido.Drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk is one of Hokkaido’s winter attractions.Please buy this curry even in the summer if you want to see drift ice in Hokkaido.
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refer to MY NAVI NEWS

Sep 27 2014

KYOTO SAKE SUMMIT 2014

SAKE SUMMIT Held in Kyoto(Nov 29 2014).Sake brewer in Japan gather in Kyoto on that day.The stand that Sake go with Japanese food opens, too, and the drinkers gather from all over Japan, too.Please go to Kyoto on Nov 29, 2014 if you are interested in Sake culture and Japanese food culture.
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refer to KYOTO SAKE SUMMIT 2014

Nov 29 2014

Kiro Bento

It is a bento popular in Okinawa now.The bento is ‘Kiro Bento’.Weight of ‘Kiro Bento’ is 1 kilogram.1 kilogram is 2.2 pound.What you should be surprised at is a price of this bento.It is $4.5.If I eat this, I think not to eat anything for the next three days.
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refer to Okinawa kuchikomi

Sep 27 2014

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Cocoromi

It is said that people drinking Japanese sake decreased.More young people have been appreciating the sake culture and people drinking Japanese sake increased since the 1980s.It is this restaurant if you drink Japanese sake in Himeji.’Cocoromi’.Various Japanese sake is served in a shot glass.

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Japanese food weekly vol15




Harry Potter

Harry Potter Area opened in USJ of Japan, Osaka.They built a splendid system.Even if it does not wait for a long time, it is to be able to enter it.With the opening of this area, the restaurant which featured the theme of Harry Potter opened.The restaurant name is ‘Three brooms’.Please go if you come to Japan.
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refer to http://www.usj.co.jp/

Jul 15 2014

Japanese sake

In wine convention ’IWC 2014’ of the world’s largest scale , liquor of Gifu was chosen as ‘champion salmon’.Hirata shuzoujo brews the sake.The name is ‘Hida no Hana Suiou’It is the sake which has been stored for 10 year.
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Jul 16 2014

Matcha Condensed milk shaved ice

The Japanese convenience stores has evolved.Seven-Eleven Japan sells a splendid product.’Matcha Condensed milk shaved ice’.It is a color such as the blood of the alien, but it is very yummy.It will sell out right away.
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refer to http://getnews.jp/archives/622468

Jul 17 2014

Japanese food weekly vol 5

Sake go with Italian food

Japanese sake go with Japanese food.This is obvious.Does Japanese sake go with Italian food?The SAKE SERVICE INSTITUTE recently held a sake contest to go with Italian food in Japan.The sake going with Italian food most is DAISHICHI.
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refer to 2014 spring sake award

May 2 2014

Hígh‐cláss KIT KAT store

World’s First KIT KAT store opened in Tokyo in January, 2014.It is high-Class store.Many new products are sold in the store.On May 8, 2014, premium soft serve ice cream with KIT KAT has been sold.I hear that there is a line of people.
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Kitkat
refer to http://getnews.jp/archives/573263

May 8 2014

Cafe specialized in a plum

A Japanese likes cherry trees.They like the plum, too.They enjoy a plum in February and enjoy a cherry tree in March.The cafe specialized in a plum opened in Oarai-machi, Ibaraki to be able to go from Tokyo for approximately 2 hours.It seems to be very yummy.
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refer to ume cafe waon

May 8 2014

Narrow road to Japanese sake

Japanese food comics

Not Narrow road to the interior

Narrow road to the interior is an account of a trip which is famous in Japan.Basho Matsuo who was a haiku poet wrote it.”Narrow road to Japanese sake” is written in order to pay homage to “Narrow road to the interior”.This manga is the best to understand the Japanese bar.
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Story line

A chief character is company employee.His name is Sotatsu Iwama.His pleasure is sake to drink for finished work.He have a profound knowledge of sake, and love sake deeply.Therefore he adheres to sake and snacks.
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Happo Nihon-shu (sparkling Japanese sake)

The consumptions of the sake decrease year by year in Japan.However, in late years a taste of the sake is reviewed.The representative is Happo Nihon-shu (sparkling Japanese sake).It is sparkling, that is, carbon-dioxide-containing Japanese sake which has attracted attention in recent years.It is like good-quality champagne.I like sake of the brands called Dassai.Rice is polished to the maximum, and it is brewed.It is easy to drink very much and is delicious.
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Large sake cup

Manly symbol

I do not like the expression called “be masculine” and “be feminine”.However, Large sake cup is masculine.The Japanese pours sake into the large sake cup and drinks.It is more delicious for some reason.I do not understand the reason.But it is sure that it is delicious.What does the snack of the sake have good?After all Japanese food matches sake.Large sake cup is Japanese and is called taking a swig at a bottle.Gui-nomi.The etymology is because we drink for a feeling called “gui” with this cup.
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Sake lees

The sake lees is good for beauty !?

Sakekasu (sake lees) is the solid white substance that remains after pressing the main fermenting mash used to make Japanese sake (rice wine).That is very good for beauty. The wife’s skin of a sake brewery is very beautiful.The reason is yeast.The sake lees contains yeast.Because there are many opportunities when they touch the yeast, they will be beautiful.The sake lees resembles Italian grappa.However, it does not brew liquor again.It is used for a dish and is used for a different drink.
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The sweet sweet drink that made in sake lees.

The representative drink is sweet alcoholic drink made from sake lees(Amazake).Amazake is a traditional Japanese sweet beverage, which is a cloudy liquid similar to doburoku (unrefined sake).Many temples and shrines either sell amazake or provide it free of charge to worshippers on New Year’s Day, and sell it for visitors to bring home.It takes time to cook full-scale Amazake.There is how to cook simple Amazake.The necessary ingredients are sake lees 25g, sugar 25g, boiling water 100cc.
1,Put sake lees and sugar in a heat-resistant container.
2,Heat it with a microwave oven for 10 seconds.
3,Mix it until smooth.
4,Pour boiling water and am the completion.
Is it easy! ? It is sweet and is delicious.
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Cool package !!!

I hear that countries brewing sake increase.You will probably be able to buy the sake lees at a neighborhood supermarket.
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Sake lees soup recipe

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Soup recipes

This is recipes of sake lees soup.Sakekasu (sake lees) is the solid white substance that remains after pressing the main fermenting mash used to make Japanese sake (rice wine).The sake lees smells very good.A Japanese representative dish using this sake lees is sake lees soup.It will warm you to the core.It is a winter constant seller dish.

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Tokkuri Japanese sake

A taste doubles if you drink liquor with Tokkuri

Tokkuri is a Japanese decanter.When I pour it, Tokkuri plays a sound called “TokuToku”.The sound is said to be the origin of the words of Tokkuri.Tokkuri often appears in Rakugo (traditional Japanese comic storytelling); some of the programs have names like ‘tokkuri’ such as “Bizen dokkuri” or “Omiki dokkuri”.The kind of Tokkuri is abundant.A particularly rare Tokkuri is it which was made in the dried cuttlefish.You drink liquor and can eat Tokkuri.In Japan, tokkuri is a symbol of the heavy drinkers.Tokkuri always is near the heavy drinker.
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