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Portable chopsticks




portable chopsticks

In Japan, it is populär recently to put a stupid act photo using the equipment of the restaurant onto Twitter.I am at a loss in using the equipment of the shop even if a shop is clean.Therefore I always carries my chopsticks.But it obstructive when the chopsticks can be in the bag.Therefore I carry portable chopsticks.This is very convenient.Please use the portable chopsticks if you eat Japanese food in whereabouts.
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Super Kuishinbou




The power comic

I like eating.In particular, I eat a lot from morning at the beginning of a week.Bread, rice, Potato chip, Chocolate, etc.I eat depression at the beginning of a week and dissolve.Therefore I came to like this comic.The comic is not drawn on the stylish food called the Japanese food.It is only power to be drawn.
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Kuishinbou

This time, I introduce “Super Kuishinbou”.Kuishinbou is gluttonous.The chief character of this comic is unprecedented.He blanch noodles with a washing machine and cook fried rice with a ball.When I read this comic, I do not eat depression.
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Love eating

I love this comic.With this comic, a ridiculous recipe is drawn, but a lot of recipes with the utility are drawn, too.I read this comic and came to like eating again.
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Binchotan charcoal




Binchotan charcoal

I am thickheaded to difference in taste.I feel that it is delicious if I eat any food with mayonnaise.I and the friend tested a tasting the other day in Japanese food restaurant.It is an experiment to judge a difference between Yakitori which cooked in bincho charcoal and Yakitori which cooked in normal charcoal.I became a man who knows things in quality from others.Yakitori cooked in bincho charcoal was very delicious.Probably you may spend best time when I hold a cookout with bincho charcoal.
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Hasami ware




Hasami ware

Hasami ware’s characteristic is white and dark-blue.In Japan, it was used in a general family from the about 18th century.The bottles produced here were exported to Europe.It is called “Compura bin” in Japan.Because a design is cool, it is popular among youths.If you go to an up‐and‐coming restaurant, you may eat Japanese food with Hasami ware.
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Chazuke




About Chazuke

Do you know Chazuke.Chazuke is a food dish comprised of boiled rice and tea.It is a simple dish.That is very profound.I think it as ultimate Japanese food.Tonkatsu chazuke, Natto chazuke, Tai chazuke, etc.There are various chazuke.Yaozen, a high-class restaurant in the 17th century, served chazuke which was expensive at a price of $1000 per bowl.
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Diet food!?

What do you eat if you feel hungry at midnight? Potatochips? Snickers? Ramen? Chazuke is low-calorie.Therefore Chazuke is suitable for a meal to eat at midnight.My friend ate only Chazuke and he successfully lost five kilos in two weeks without any problems.Do you try it?
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Chazuke recipe video

I introduce Tofu chazuke recipe and Natto chazuke recipe.Kitaoji Rosanjin praises Natto chazuke highly.Kitaoji Rosanjin is a Japanese artist and is a gourmet.The food that made him regard it as delicious has proved to be delicious for many.

Natto chazuke recipe
Tofu chazuke recipe

Banco ware




Banco ware

What color do you like?I like chic colors such as black and the brown.Banco ware is chic.I like black of Banco ware.It is ceramics that produced Banco ware in Yokkaichi-shi, Mie.Heat-resistant is superior, and an earthenware pot and teapots are produced.Among their products, ‘kayaributa’ (a mosquito repellent stick holder in the shape of a pig) is well-know.Of course it is cool even if you serve Japanese food.
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Yaki-fu




Necessary ingredients for Japanese food

Yaki-fu is Japanese dry baked wheat gluten.In the 13 centry, As the Zen sect gained popularity, fu began to be used in the Buddhist cuisine and kaiseki ryori (a simple meal served before a ceremonial tea), becoming a common food item on dining tables in Japan.It is a necessary ingredients for Japanese food.
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Diet food

Yaki-fu is also used in the Buddhist cuisine and as ingredients for meat-substitute products for vegetarians in North America and Europe who do not eat meat for health or religious reasons.Yaki-fu is used in diet food for meat-substitute products, too.
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Effect of beautifying your skin

Yaki-fu is used in Karaage, burgers, tonkatsu, steak, etc.Yaki-fu is expected to have the effect of beautifying your skin.Because it is easy cooking, you can cook it immediately.Please use Yaki-fu for today’s dinner.
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Wasabi toothpaste




Wasabi

Wasabi is a seasonings.It is very hard.Not “hot”, it is “hard” daringly.Wasabi is the seasoning which is indispensable to Japanese food.Wasabi is the plant of Brassicaceae Wasabia.To cultivate wasabi using clean spring water.Therefore the genuine wasabi is rare.
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Wasabi toothpaste

With such a rare wasabi, a playful product was released.It is Wasabi toothpaste.Advertising slogan is “You can cry.”.Tube-type wasabi is sold in Japan.Wasabi toothpaste is similar very much in comparison with it.If they are put to the washstand, I use it by mistake.I will be frightened by fear.
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Wasabi toothpaste video

I always use the toothpaste of the mint taste.I have used the toothpaste of melon taste and the strawberry taste at the age of a child.After toothbrushing, I feel fine.What will happen when I use this wasabi toothpaste?I am going to go on a trip now.

Osaka Tin device




Osaka Tin device

I was brought up in Osaka.However, I did not know that such a splendid thing was made in Osaka.It is Osaka Tin device.It is called Osaka Suzu-ki in Japan.I shuddered just watching that.It is very very cool.In Japan, tin is used from about six or seven centuries.Osaka Tin decvice has the largest market share in Japan.It is used as a God tool, Buddhist altar fittings, a bottle and cup, a tea set, a cake bowl, a vase.In the restaurant, they may serve Japanese food.
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Satsuma ware




Satsuma ware

Satsuma province was Taikoku (major province) located in the area corresponding to the western part of present Kagoshima prefecture.People from Satsuma played an active part for the modernization of Japan.Of course they played an aggressive role in Japanese food culture.The ceramics made in such Satsuma are cool.There are two kinds of black Satsuma and white Satsuma for Satsuma ware.Black Satsuma is used by daily life, and white Satsuma is high-quality.Please buy them as souvenir from Japan.
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Yes-man meal -Iinari Gohan-




Japan restaurant guide book

There are various restaurant guide books in Japan.BRUTUS, Pia, Michelin, Meets, etc.A good restaurants are placed in all books.The restaurant guide book written by the words that I do not understand is unnecessary when I go for overseas travel.However, mostly, the good restaurant is written by local words.You come to Japan, and how should you find delicious Japanese food?
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Manga restaurant guide book

Recently, A restaurant guide book is drawn with a comic in Japan.The one is Yes-man meal -Iinari Gohan-.There are opinions on the pros and cons of this comic.However, all the restaurants placed in this comic are good.
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Local restaurant

The trips to go to the local restaurant is the powerful charm.You can be understood it if drawn about local restaurants by a comic.You should look for a guide book at the comics corner of the bookstore if you come to Japan and want to go to the good restaurant.
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Rice with raw egg




The greatest feast

Rice with raw egg is a rice food prepared by mixing a raw hen’s egg and rice and seasoning it with a small amount of soy sauce.It is the greatest feast.It is ultimate Japanese food.I think that the UNESCO examiner eats rice with raw egg and they decided to register Japanese food as World Heritage sites.
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The recipe

The recipe is simple.At first, please prepare a fresh egg.Use a fresh egg with no crack on it.Please fresh eggs which had just come from the farm.And prepare for big rice and soy sauce.Make the hollow into the center of the rice.Break an egg there.Add the soy sauce and mix, mix, mix.Let’s eat ! ! !
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Rice with raw egg recipe video

Yuzu daikon recipe




Yuzu daikon recipe

Yuzu is Japanese citron.Yuzu daikon is pickled vegetables.Have you been to the Japanese restaurant?You are served Yuzu daikon if you go to the Japanese restaurant in winter.The yuzu(Japanese citron) is ingredients necessary for Japanese food.This recipe is good smell, good taste.

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Koishiware ware




Koishiware ware

It is the perfection of use beauty.Koishiwara ware is very practical and sturdy.The characteristic of the Koishiwara ware is a geometric pattern.When I looked Koishiwara ware for the first time, I thought that it was plain.The More I use Koishiwara ware, the more charm it has,therefore I am interested in it.It is like Tim Roth.Please add Koishiwara ware to your list if you are interested in a ware.And please serve Japanese food.
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Bizen ware




Bizen ware

Is brown tacky?I didn’t like brown.I were not able to like that dark color.As I get older, I understood brown being a cool.Particularly, I love brown after having known this ware.It is Bizen ware.Bizen ware is ceramics produced in Bizen-shi, Okayama.It is a classical ceramics.The characteristic of Bizen ware is to become cool so as to use it if we use it.Brown increases black and becomes very cool.
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Chii’s Menu – Chii-chan no Oshinagaki-




Small restaurant

I like small restaurants.I talk with a Madam over a counter, and she cook an original dish for me.I love the tweedy atmosphere.The restaurant placed in the Michelin Guide is very good, but the small restaurant which I found by oneself is delicious, too.I recommend a small restaurant if you eat Japanese food in Japan.
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Chii’s Menu

The manga that I introduce this time “are Chii’s Menu”.The daily life of the small restaurant is drawn in the manga.The chief character is a girl of the primary schoolchild.Her name is Chinatsu Arisaka, popular name Chii.She is a chef.This is a mannga that illustrates the human relationships.
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Four-panel comic

This manga is Four-panel comic.It is drawn with Japanese, but is easy to read very much.I am hard to speak English, but studies English in Four-panel comic.I recommend this manga if you are interested in Japanese and Japanese food.
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Kutani ware




Kutani ware

I have a quiet impression to Japan.It is a quiet color if I compare it with a color.However, this ceramic ware overturns an impression of Japan.It is Kutani ware.It is made in Japan, Ishikawa.Ishikawa is scenic.I suggest that you go in winter if you go to Ishikawa.You will be fascinated with the exquisite scenery.The Kutani chinaware made in such a beautiful town is wonderful.It starts wearing fresh colors.I recommend the Kutani ware if you buy ceramics in Japan.
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Japanese food weekly vol30




USB lunch box

It gradually becomes popular now in Japan.It is USB lunch Box.The conventional lunch box is cold.The lunch box called the thermal lunchpail was born.However, it is big and is hard to carry it.Therefore Japanese improved it, and a USB lunch box was born.I am surprised at their passion for food.
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Oct 27 2014

Pie Face

Store specializing in pie and coffee “Pie Face” born in Australia opened a store for the first time in Japan.Pie Face cooperated with the company which build a Mr. doughnut in Japan.This company is superior in arranging it in Japanese style.The company is Duskin Co., Ltd.
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Oct 10 2014

noma

“noma” is a world No.1 restaurant.It is time-limited, and the restaurant opens in Tokyo.”noma” open only in 3 weeks in January, 2015.They will serve the original dish using the best ingredients in Japan.
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Nov 1 2014

Sobamon -Japanese noodles man-




Not Ramen, Yes, Soba

Speaking of Japanese noodles, it is Ramen.However, the noodles handed down to Japan for a long time are Soba.The ramen is made from wheat, but the soba is made from a crop of buckwheat berries.Soba is made from buckwheat flour, binding agent and water.It is gluten free Japanese food.
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Soba geek

The author of this manga is a soba geek.This manga name is Sobamon.If you read this comic, you can know history of the soba, manners of the soba, how to make soba.I think that soba is food like Japan most.I love Soba.
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Fukushima

Sobamon is covered by the media at one time.The reason is because it was drawn about Fukushima’s food.It is drawn with Sobamon in this way.”We should not make Fukushima product a scapegoat.We check those data and should choose the action to understand.”.I agree to this claim.
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Slime curry




Japanese food? Indian food?

Is the curry Japanese food?No. Curry is an Indian food.Japanese eat curry an average of 84 times in a year.Curry accounts for approximately 10% of meal in a year.Japanese loves curry very much.100 years later, the UNESCO will recognize curry as Japanese food.And, as for the meal of the summit to be carried out in Japan, curry will be provided.
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Slime

The curry of the topic is sold now in such Japan.It is “Slime curry”.Do you know “Slime”.The slime is a character of “Dragon Quest”.”Dragon Quest” is game.It is curry with “Slime” as a model.Why would they produced the curry into the model as “Slime”?I do not understand it, but will eat at once.
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Blue, blue, blue

Oh, it is Blue…Uhhhh, grotesque…I do not feel like eating.But I eat.no..m…The jaws does not move.But, nom nom nom.”!!!”.It is yummy unexpectedly.Sweetness of the coconut and a sharp taste of the spice are very yummy.If you get a chance to come to Japan, please eat.
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Japanese food weekly vol24




Matsutake

In Japan, Matsutake are now in the height of the season.It is a kind of mushroom called ‘matsutake’,The Japanese enjoy a fragrance of the matsutake than enjoy taste.Particularly, the Tanba matsutake is famous.You can eat a matsutake now when you order Japanese food in a restaurant.
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Sep 20 2014

Matsutek restaurant

  1. I recommend here if you eat a matsutake in Japan.Inn or restaurant Yamatoya Honten:Osaka , Osaka Prefecture.You can eat the fresh matsutake which is high in a fragrance.
  2. http://www.yamatoyahonten.co.jp/

  3. Arima hot spring Kinzan:Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.You get into the hot spring and can eat a matsutake.
  4. http://www.kinzan.co.jp/plan/plan13_02.html

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Sep 20 2014

Scallop ice cream

The matsutake is in season, too, but is the season of the scallop.In Aomori, scallop fishing is prosperous.Scallop ice cream is sold in Aomori.Scallop extract is blended with milk.It seems to be yummy unexpectedly.Please go to Aomori if you come to Japan.
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Sep 20 2014

Japanese beer 『和膳』 -The beer go with Japanese food-

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Japanese food is recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.Almost Japanese people is pleased.At the same time, almost Japanese people cannot answer exactly, when they are asked that ‘What is Japanese food?’.The definition of the Japanese food is difficult.
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It doesn’t matter

It is the words that gained much popularity in 2007 at Japan.It doesn’t matter.’Yes, it is. The definition of the Japanese food does not have matter.We can eat a delicious food in Japan.It is important.And beer is necessary for a meal.Beer in accord with Japanese food is sold in Japan.The name is 『和膳(Wazen).
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Compare by drinking

It is 9:00 a.m. now.I compared Budweiser with 『和膳』Wazen.Color of 『和膳』Wazen is deep.Both are yummy.I make following comments if I am an epicure.Budweiser is light taste.It is really easy to drink.『和膳』Wazen is rich taste.It is tasteful.There is little to choose between the two.

Japanese Snack bowl

Symbol of the abundance

Did you ever see “Less Than Zero”?It is a movie released in 1987.It is the movie that the world where youths of the polite society of Los Angeles spend all its time party with cocaine and sexual intercourse was made a subject.When a chief character returned to the parents’ house, there is the scene where he eats the jelly beans on the dining table.The container that jelly beans were served is Snack bowl.I seen it, and I thought that snack bowl is symbol of the abundance.There is the snack bowl in Japan.Japanese food is served by a snack bowl in some cases.It is very cool.
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Small Charcoal Grill

Convenient

That was in Japanese home in old days.It is Small Charcoal Grill.Japanese name is Shichirin.There was a Small Charcoal Grill in every home.It is an endangered species now.I cannot find it in most Japanese home.Possibly I may find it if I go to the upmarket restaurant of the Japanese food.It is rare than you think.Small Charcoal Grill is convenient.You can cook food easily.For example, I drink wine while searing a salmon in it.It is a time of the supreme bliss.I like food to cook by Small Charcoal Grill.I had thought to make the food recipe using the Japanese brazier.But I gave it up because a Japanese brazier was an endangered species.
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Cook of the ambassador’s residence

The embassy is mysterious.

I do not know what ambassadors are always doing.However, a crime sometimes happens, and there is a diplomatic immunity and hears the story that is not judged at a trial.For me, the embassy is mysterious.A mystery embassy is drawn on this manga.
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Japan’s Diplomacy

The author was a cook of the ambassador’s residence.Therefore the description is very detailed.The real diplomacy, political news is described in this manga, too.I thought that the meal was unrelated at a glance to diplomacy, but I read this manga, and they knew that there were strong ties.
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Love embassy

This manga is the high evaluation in Japan.In 2002, it received Excellence Award of Arts Festival by Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
I misunderstood about an embassy.I read this manga, and the bad impression of the embassy disappeared.
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