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Japanese food weekly vol13




My melody

Women is a young girl forever.Women likes this character.It is ‘My melody’.Both a child and an adult like her.”My melody cafe” opens in Tokyo, Shibuya only in the period of from July 18 to August 31.It is very very cute.
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Jul 4 2014

Tower records & Rilakkuma

Tower Records and Rilakkuma perform collaboration in Tokyo, Shibuya only in the period of from July 10 to August 31.Do you know Rilakkuma.Rilakkuma is the character who is popular in Japan.In Japan, the bear is called ‘kuma’.Abbreviate a relaxed bear and am Rilakkuma.
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Jul 3 2014

refer to http://tower.jp/site/campaign/rilakkuma/2013

Shaved ice

Shaved ice is a sweet often eaten in Japan in summer.Shaved ice is becoming more and more popular in Japan.1 shaved ice is $10.Such a high-quality shaved ice is sold.Though it is ice…Prices are on the rise in Japan.
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refer to http://ice.hatenablog.jp/entry/20100731/1280542539

Jul 1 2014

Japan lacquer ware




Japanese traditional tableware

It was a ware for visitors.When we have a visitor, my mother displayed the ware in the kitchen.It is Japanese lacquer ware.There was people who used them by daily life, but was usually used as tableware for visitors.It is tableware treated carefully like that.Splendor of Japan lacquer wareis the thing that I embezzle it, and becomes beautiful.The production center of Japanese famous Japan lacquer ware is Wajima-shi, Ishikawa.According to Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture became famous as a typical production area of Maru Yubeshi because peddlers of wajima-nuri lacquerware carried it as portable food and also as a calling present to customers.In addition, Kyoto and Fukui are famous as a production center, too.Japan lacquerware matches Japanese food.
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refer to http://shikki.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-13.html

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Wasabi




Food for the first time

I think that the person who ate a sea cucumber for the first time is a great man.What eat such an unpleasant creature!The person that eat it is considerably cool.There is the food which can not understand a reason that people began to eat it.
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Wasabi roots

It has been eaten in Japan for 1,300 years.It is Wasabi.We generally grate wasabi and eat.Why would grate it?Who would grate it first?It is mysterious like OOPARTS.Besides, the wasabi grows up only at a specific place.The person find it and grate it and eat.Very mysterious.
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Wasabi diet

It is said that wasabi is effective in the restoration of youth.Detoxification effects, which are now trendy, are expected with it.Eat wasabi approximately 3 g before going to bed.You get an effect with only that.I add wasabi in whiskey.It is yummy!
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Thunder tofu recipe




Thunder tofu recipe

It is one of Japanese food in the Edo period.The Edo period is the 260-year span following Tokugawa Ieyasu’s defeat of the Toyotomi Family and the establishment of a bakufu government in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1603.It is traditional Japanese food.

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Yakiniku-don Juban

It is Unapproachable Restaurant.However, in there, the Yakiniku-don is Ultra yummy.The name is ‘Yakiniku-don Juban’.It is a restaurant very popular in Kobe.You will be sorry throughout the life if you do not eat the yakiniku-don in there.No, if you go along in front of shop, you will enter the restaurant by all means.because you are tempted in the Yakiniku smell.

Click photo to see Yakiniku-don Juban page.

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Kitsune Udon Bread




Carbohydrates

Japanese likes carbohydrates.Rice is the staple food of the Japanese.Besides, they eat ramen, udon, the pasta willingly.Carbohydrates, Carbohydrates, Carbohydrates.Because the carbohydrates are obese causes, it is good to refrain from them.The bread not to mind including the thing of such a health has sold in Japan.
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Carbohydrates in carbohydrates

I hear that Japan has abundant kinds of the bread.But I eat such a bread for the first time.It is ‘Kitsune Udon Bread’.Udon is a noodle made from wheat.Kitsune is fried tofu.Why are we called ‘Kitsune’?It originates from the legend of foxes living in the forest of Shinoda, and fried tofu, which is believed to be their favorite food.
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Load to obesity

This bread does not have the fresh nutrients such as vitamins.Is it really yummy?I ate.om nom nom.!?It is yummy.Soup stock is included and it is very juicy and is easy to eat.Japanese are a real go-getter!It is cool food,cool japan.

Hocho Mushuku -Wanderer chef-




The chivalrous spirit

There is the organization called the yakuza in Japan.The yakuza is organized crime in Japan.Everybody dislikes the yakuza.On the other hand, the yakuza played by a drama and a movie is liked.The chivalrous spirit that is the essence of the yakuza won popularity very much.
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Outline of the story

This manga is not Yakuza-manga.However, the element of the yakuza is drawn.The manga name is ’Hocho Mushuku’.’Hocho Mushuku’ is wanderer chef.The chief character is ousted from the cooking world.While he wander about each place in Japan, he fight against a cooking organization of the evil.It is an outline of the story.
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Japanese food world

There were many yakuza-like people in the cooking world.In the Japanese food restaurant that I worked part-time for school days, there was such a yakuza-like person.I feared him at a glance, but he was a very good man.The people like the yakuza decreased now, too.
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Japanese food weekly vol12




Square watermelon

The shipment of the square watermelon began from Kagawa.The square watermelon is popular oversea.When a fruit is small, it be in the square acrylic box and corrects form.The activist objects to the correction of the creature such as the foie gras, but the correction of the plant does not object.I wonder about that. Well, whatever.
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Jun 25 2014

Totoro

You can meet Totoro’s cream puff if you go to ‘Shirahige cram puff workshop’.Shirahige is white beard.Patissier bake a cream puff.His characteristic is a white mustache and white hair.He bakes only Totoro’s cream puff.He is a unique.
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refer to http://www.shiro-hige.com/

Jun 26 2014

Gran calbee

Gran Calbee sells potato chips of sweet strawberry taste and Uji matcha taste from July 1.Gran Calbee is a shop specializing in high-quality potato chips.The shop is very popular now in Japan.High-quality potato chips???So, it is 3 times thick than normal potato chip, and saltiness, rich butter taste, tomato taste, cheese taste are sold.If you go to Osaka, you can visit there.If you go to Osaka, you can buy it.
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refer to Gran Calbee

Jul 1 2014

Tea ceremony set




I love Japanese food

Is it art to serve tea?I thought that it was different.I enter the small room and do seiza and drink bitter tea(Seiza:First kneel down onto the floor.Make sure the big toes are touching each other on their sides, not crossing.).It is a pain past bearing.My friends invited me to tea ceremony.I did not want to go tea ceremony.But I decided to go because I did not want to injure a friend. I participated in the tea ceremony and I was surprised.There laid a mat there at an extensive grassy plain and constructed a blind shade and was space comfortable at all.That is right. The tea ceremony is freedom.I think that it is important to enjoy without being particular about a form.I decide to buy tea ceremony set if I go home!However, the taste of the tea was bad as ever…
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refer to Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony 2014

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Tachibana

It is Japanese snacks.The first time I ate that was when I was a primary school student.It is Akashiyaki.The form resembles the takoyaki, but taste is totally different.It is taste such as the food which a noble eats.I am not a noble…Anyway, it is not allowed to go back to own country without eating Akashiyaki.Eat Akashiyaki in Tachibana without grumbling.

Click photo to see Tachibana page.

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Soysh Soymilk + Soda




Soymilk

The soymilk is good for health.It is rich in a variety of nutrients.However, the taste is not best at all.Because an appearance resembles milk, we may misunderstand when we drink soymilk.I added sugar to make it sweet like milk, but became bad.What is the best way of drinking soymilk ?
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Rich in nourishment than soymilk.

The product which added soda to soymilk is sold in Japan.The name is ‘Soysh’.People who did not like soymilk researched and developed ‘Soysh’.Therefore it is really easy to drink.Besides, by an original manufacturing method, it is rich in nourishment than soymilk.
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

‘Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd’ has produces ‘Soysh’.Otsuka Pharmaceutical has established a slogan ‘Solve global problem with a soybean.’.The slogan name is ‘Soylution'(Soy + Solution).It is ‘Soysh’ which is rich in high quality protein.May I turn into a beautiful guy if I drink it every day ? Viva, Japanese food.
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refer to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

Avocado and Natto spaghetti recipe




Avocado and the natto spaghetti recipe

It is one of the noodle recipes using avocado and natto.Avocado and natto go happily together.The avocado is the food which is famous in Mexico.The natto is the food which is famous in Japan.It is like a soccer match between Japan and Mexico.

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Avocado and the natto spaghetti recipe (1)

Extra Hot Cup chow mein ‘NISSIN Jack’




Hot food, hot coutry

Bhutan, India, Mexico, Korea, South Africa, Ethiopia, etc.There is very hot food in these countries.Why will the hot food attract people?I think that it is mysterious.A spoon faces the food again when I eat a mouthful.This is already a hot food junkie.
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Extra Hot Cup yakisoba

A Japanese likes hot food, too.In response to the expectation of the fan of such a hot food, Nissin Food begin to sell cup yakisoba mustered up all their might.Yakisoba is chow mein.In Habanero pepper, wasabi, mustard.Do you feel that is foolish?Yes, I feel that foolish.Such a food is not edible !!!
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I ate

I hate to eat it.Ahhhhhhh.I hate to eat it.My tongue will be paralyzed when I eat it.It is like Hell visually.I ate.nom nom nom.Ops ! Though it is hot, it is yummy.Ahh, after all it is hot.It will be summer in Japan soon.Sweat will not stop when you eat this on a summer hot day.Please set up a bath towel.

OH ! MY KONBU(seaweed)




apanese snacks

It is said that the kind of the Japanese snacks is rich.A colorful snacks is exhibited when I go to the supermarket.That almost seems like a work of art.By the way, candy, chocolate, a caramel, the gum are included in the Japanese snacks.
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refer to http://girlschannel.net/topics/136561/

Little Kitchen

It is the recipe manga that used such Japanese snacks.The name is ‘OH ! MY KONBU’.KONBU is seaweed food.By this manga, the chief character cooks the snacks and fruits near oneself.It is popular comics in primary schoolchildren and beyond the common sense of the dish.The day that the Japanese cook of the new sense is born from the children is probably close.
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Recipes

The recipes is a fried egg on the chocolate, sushi in the noodles, potato chip across the pie(Angel pie in Japan), etc.The original of manga was written by Mr.Yasushi Akimoto.He has produced ‘AKB48’.Do you know ‘AKB48’? ‘AKB48’ is a idol group intoxicating a Japanese.Everything is cute.
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refer to KYORAKU PACHINKO AKB48

Japanese food weekly vol11




Customer satisfaction

The customer satisfaction ranking of the Japanese convenience store was announced.It is ‘Seicomart’ to be selected as number one of convenience store.’Seicomart’ is a very minor convenience store.The most of the store has opened in Hokkaido.It is a reason getting the support of the customer that sold unique food.Please stop by if you may go to Hokkaido.
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refer to Seicomart

Jun 20 2014

Raan Kaithong Pratunam

Thai food ’Hainanese chicken rice’ specialty store opens in Shibuya.The name is ‘Kaithong Tokyo’.This restaurant is the Japanese first shop of ‘Raan Kaithong Pratunam’ where is popular in Thailand.Hainanese chicken rice is very yummy.
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refer to Kaithong Tokyo

Jul 11 2014

Pudding Laboratory

Pudding Laboratory has opened.I didn’t know it.I who am a pudding prince am ashamed.The researcher pursues a delicious pudding at this laboratory.Therefore the price does not make a problem.The matcha pudding of 50 dollars is sold.When a salary is paid, I must eat this.However, I admire deep attachment for the Japanese food.
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Jun 21 2014

refer to Pudding Laboratory

Teapot




The tea culture

The tea culture worldwide in distribution and it is the culture of the upper class.My family does not have the tea culture.However, I drink the tea every day.May I belong to an upper class?The tea is good for our health.Tea, green tea, oolong tea, etc.Those are very good for our health.But we must be careful about excessive drinking of the tea.When we drink tea, excessive drinking is prevented by using the teapot.We must drink a lot when we drink with a kettle.Japanese have a habit of drinking tea after a meal.The tea time after having eaten Japanese food is the best.We misunderstand belonging to an upper class.
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Shirataki




Viva! Noodle

I love noodle.Ramen, Pasta, Chow mein, Rice noodle, etc.ZuruZuruZuru,Slurping Noises.It is yummy even if I eat any noodle.However, they are carbohydrates.I gain weight when I eat them.When I eat noodles, I have a sense of guilt.I don’t Want to !
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Miracle noodle

It is Japanese miracle food sold in Amazon US.The name is ‘Shirataki’.Seemingly it is ordinary noodles.Shirataki is konjac.konjac in thread-like form is called ito konjac (konjac noodles), and the one formed more thinly than ito konjac is known as shirataki.
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Shirataki diet

The etymology of Shirataki is waterfalls that resemble white thread.’waterfalls that resemble white thread’ is called ‘SHIROITO NO TAKI’ in Japan.I eat Shirataki in substitution for noodles.My diet will succeed by Shirataki!
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Squid Rice recipe




Squid Rice recipe

Squid Rice recipe is a dish made by boiling squid stuffed with rice. It is called ‘Ika-meshi’ in Japan.It is soul food in Hokkaido.It became famous now in Japan, but was the rare food that we was not able to eat if we had not go to Hokkaido.I introduce one of the Japanese food recipes.

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Kit Kat Pizza




World cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup finally opened on June 12 in Brazil.FIFA World Cup is a festival of the soccer.The players have bet the prestige for the country.It is like the proxy war.However, it is not only a player to fight.It is the same for the delivery pizza shop too.
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Revive the dead

There is a custom that pray to Kit Kat in Japan, too.It is because ‘Kit Kat’ means that we win by all means.The Japanese pizza shop have begun to sale a pizza that prayed with our heat.It is ‘Kit Kat Pizza’.Just the thing is junk food in the junk food.
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refer to Neapolitan kiln

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet

Sweetness of Kit Kat, the acidity of the mango, saltiness of Gorgonzola.They fuse and are very sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.I finish eating this in order that The Japanese team wins.The Kit Kat boom in Japan shows a slight overheat recently.I am glad that world’s first Kit Kat shop opened, but receive a feeling overdoing a little about others thing.

Splendid dining table




World’s first

It is world’s first brilliant feat.Such manga may be less likely to be published in future.The manga name is ‘Splendid dining table’.It is called ‘Kareinaru Shokutaku’ in Japan.I expected that very splendid life was described.Okay, when I read it…
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Splendid,karei,Curry

I was surprised to read it.A totally splendid thing is not drawn.’Splendid dining table’ is Curry story.’Splendid’ is called ‘Karei’ in Japan.’Karei’ is ‘Curry’.That’s a joke…I was fooled by the manga.I read it because I have begun to read with much effort.It is very interesting.
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Curry manga

It is the world’s first curry manga.Knowledge about curry and the curry is described in richness.Japanese likes curry very much.I recommend it if you want to know the Japanese curry culture.But, please do not let a child read it.The cause is unclear, but nude is often drawn.
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Japanese food weekly vol10




$3500 Watermelon

The watermelon is a Japanese summer tradition.In the year’s first auction, high quality watermelon sold for $3500.It is a sale price to celebrate first auction, called ‘festive quotation’.We can usually buy it for around $50.
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refer to http://www.sen-sai.net/product/3000yen-over/2735.html

Jun 10 2014

The convenience store which evolves

You should eat this by all means if you come to Japan.It is ‘Genkotsu croquette’ and ‘Genkotsu mince cutlet’ in Lawson(Lawson is Convenience store in Japan.).I ate it yesterday.It was surprise as my brain tremble.That a convenience store serve so yummy food!The convenience stores evolve.
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refer to Lawson

Jun 3 2014

MOENA CAFE

‘MOENA CAFE’ with the head office in Hawaii opens in Harajuku, Tokyo.It is the restaurant which got “TOP WRITE-IN VOTE” with a Hawaiian magazine.Harajuku is referred to as a bread patisserie battleground in Japan.
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refer to http://blog.livedoor.jp/awamamire2011/tag/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%A8%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7

Jun 23 2014

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Nagata Tank Suji

If you come to Kobe, you should eat it by all means.It is Soba-meshi.Soba-meshi is sauce flavor fried rice that fried chow mein and rice on an iron plate.The restaurant which is known in Soba-meshi is ‘Nagata Tank Suji’.

Click photo to see Nagata Tank Suji page.

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The ice shaving machine




Traditional Japanese sweets

Most Japanese common people were poor in old days.But they lived a good life even if they were poor.The keyword to live a good life is “Invention”.It is not innovative invention.It is small invention.The ice shaving machine is one of the small invention.It is small invention to survive hot summer.The ice shaving is called ‘Kaki-kori’.It is the food which sharpened ice.But it is the food only for it.Such a food is a longtime seller in Japan.Almost every home has one ice shaving machine.It tickles the heart of the child using the character of the animated cartoon.We must pay attention in the toy section and the kitchen section of the department store.
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Katsudon Yoshibei

I line up by all means if I go to this restaurant.It is a very popular restaurant.The name is Yoshibei.It is a restaurant serving only katsudon.Katsudon is one of the Japanese rice bowl dishes, in which a bowl of rice is topped with a seasoned pork cutlet.

Click photo to see Katsudon Yoshibei page.

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Black Oolong Tea




Are you careful of your health?

Your life is only once.How do you want to spend your life ?I want to spend my life drinking yummy beer, and eating yummy junk food.It is disgusting to care about my health.I appreciate overeating and overdrinking.This result is as follows.
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Healthy tea

In Japan, healthy tea has been highlighted as well because of a fitness boom.The drink maker sells healthy tea in competition with other companies.The health tea which I recommend in that is black oolong tea.It is easy to drink than any product and go with Japanese food.
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Fat people

It is said that there are few fat people in Japan.It was so in old days.However, in the present age, the eating habits change, and fat people increase.The black oolong tea controls absorption of the fat.Now, it is selling explosively in Japan.
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