Food

Setsubun (February 3)




About Setsubun

The setsubun means the division of seasons.Famous for Setsubun, February 2-4.On this day, in a custom called mame-maki, people throw and scatter roasted soy beans inside and outside their houses while saying, “Get goblins out of the house! Invite happiness into the home!”.It is a day such as the Halloween.
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Setsubun dinner

After throwing beans, each person eats the scattered beans equal to his or her age (the traditional Japanese system with everyone adding one year to their age at New Year’s).And, People eat Ehoumaki.Ehoumaki is Japanese food sushi roll.It refers to the sushi roll eating which on the day of Setsubun is considered to bring good luck, or the custom centered around the Kinki region of eating the ehomaki.According to the custom, one looks in the lucky direction of the year with closed eyes, and silently bites into a thick ehoumaki while thinking of his or her wish.
Setsubun set.
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Ehoumaki.
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Oni.
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Bitch.
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Matcha beer




About Matcha

Matcha is a kind of green tea.It is is made by grinding this tencha in a stone mill.It is believed that this new way to prepare powdered green tea to drink came into being during the 10th century.Matcha is considered to have come to Japan in 12th century.Most Japanese modern people do not drink much matcha.Because it is troublesome to make matcha and, matcha do not go with Japanese food.
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Matcha came into the spotlight.

Taking advantage of Japanese food having been registered with a world heritage, the merit of matcha is reviewed.Most Japanese ice cream manufacturers deal in matcha ice cream, and foreign ice cream manufacturers who have joined in the Japanese market such as Haagen-Dazs also produce matcha ice cream exclusively for Japan.At last, Matcha had my chance.And the drink using matcha came up newly in Japan.It is Matcha beer.
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Matcha beer recipe video

If there is matcha powder, you can easily make the matcha beer at home.It is a color such as the blood of the alien, but is very yummy.Please try it at home.

Turkish ice cream




Turkey

I have never been to Turkey so I want to try to go once.Hagia Sophia Museum, Topkapi Sarayi, Cappadocia, etc.And, in Turkey, there’s a lot of delicious food.Turkish food is sometimes referred to as one of the three great cuisines in the world, along with the cuisines of China and France.
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Natto and Vanilla ice cream

Japanese food is no less delicious than Turkish.And Japanese food-based Turkish food begin to be popular now in Japan.It is Turkish ice cream in Japan.A characteristic of the Turkish ice cream is stickiness.Because Japanese are a fool, they added the adhesiveness of the natto to vanilla ice cream.And, they developed Turkish ice cream.
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Turkish ice cream in Japan recipe video

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.

U.F.O Cup Yakisoba




The Cup Yakisoba is Japanese food.

Cup Yakisoba is a topic now in Japan.It is bad topic.There was a contaminant mixed in Cup yakisoba.However, the demand for Cup Yakisoba is still high.It is July, 1974 that Cup Yakisoba was sold for the first time.For about 40 years, it is loved by a Japanese.The Cup Yakisoba is Japanese food.
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NISSIN U.F.O Cup Yakisoba

Japan stretches from the east to west.The Cup Yakisoba culture are divided into two parties, East and West.East is Peyoung Cup Yakisoba, west is NISSIN U.F.O Cup Yakisoba.NISSIN U.F.O Cup Yakisoba has various taste.It is Normal, Sweet sauce, Yakiniku taste, Seasoned cod roe and Mayonnaise.I love Seasoned cod roe and Mayonnaise taste in that.Thick sauce and mayonnaise and seasoned cod roe are cool.
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U.F.O Cup Yakisoba Seasoned cod roe and Mayonnaise taste video

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

Roast chicken bun for Christmas in Japan




Lazy Japanese

I think that a Japanese is lazy.In particular, they are lazy about eating.Natto, the pickle, pickled plum that be the representative of the Japanese food are symbols of the laziness.And the most symbolic event is Christmas.Japanese feels troublesome that I roast chicken and they buy chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken and celebrate Christmas.
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Japanese style Christmas

And, In 2015 years, the Japanese are more lazier.They felt troublesome that they chewed chicken.And they sell the buns which they modelled on chicken for Christmas.They ate chicken and abandoned that they celebrated Christmas.The evidence is this.
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Roast chicken bun for Christmas in Japan video

Oraf bun




Do you want to build a snowman?

Be very sorrowful.Do you want to build a snowman?Though She want to build it together, she cannot build it.In my house, it is shown every day.The running time is 6:00 p.m.Japan is still “Frozen” fever.
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Excellent supporting role

I like Olaf among characters in Frozen.He is bright and positive.And he has mind of the self-sacrifice.Even if one’s body broke up, he helped Ana.Japanese convenience store paid attention to mind of his self-sacrifice.
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Oraf bun

I like Japanese foods very much.However, the Japanese food may sometimes exceed a degree.It is the typical example.It is Oraf bun.Even if Oraf has mind of the self-sacrifice, it exceeds a degree to change him into a steamed bun.However, I who was Oraf fan bought it.And I accepted mind of his self-sacrifice and ate it.
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Frozen Oraf bun in Family mart video

Melon bun




Melon, melon, melon

When Japanese apologize, they presents a melon.When Japanese visit somebody in the hospital, they presents a melon.I think that you do not know it, but, as for the melon, a captive does a Japanese heart.The melon may be served as dessert of the Japanese food course dish.Melon, melon, melon…
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Bread such as the melon

Best 3 of the Japanese favorite bread is a bean-jam bun, a cream bun, a curry bun.Bread entering by dividing into there came up.It is Melon bun.Melon bun lock on a cream bun.A various kinds of melons bun is sold if I go to the Japanese supermarket and convenience store.
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Pursue a melon.

Cream is used for a cream bun, and curry is used for a curry bun, but the melon is not used for melon bread.Melon bun is applied melon with picture, design, pattern and the like.Therefore Melon bun am going to model on a melon desperately.The result is this melon bun.
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Melon bun Battle video

Nissin Massaman curry noodle




Love curry

Japanese loves curry.I eat curry once a week.”Curry is a drink.”.It is a Japanese wise remark.Though curry is an Indian food; such as the Japanese food I feel.I hear that “What is the most delicious food in your country?”.I may answer that “It is curry.”.
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World’s 50 best foods

There is curry chosen as the most delicious foods in the world in Thailand.It is Massaman curry, and the king of curries, and perhaps the king of all foods.Oh, what kind of taste is the world’s best food?I wanted to eat by all means, and I went to the convenience store.Why did you go to the convenience store? It goes to the convenience store if troubled in Japan.
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Nissin Massaman curry noodle

Speaking of a cup of instant noodle, it is Nissin.Nissin paid attention to World’s best foods.And they created it.It is Massaman curry noodle.And it was sold in the convenience store which I went.That made me excited.And I ate it.It is very very yummy.Viva Nissin!
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Nissin Massaman curry noodle video

Yakult to eat




Yakult kid

When I was young, my tension went up whenever I drink Calpco and Yakult.Because we was able to purchase it very cheaply, Yakult was had always ready by a house.I did not know that familiar Yakult was sold all over the world.I who was brought up in Yakult am glad.I wants Yakult to enroll in a world heritage as Japanese food.
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Yakult to eat

Yakult to eat in Japan was sold the other day.My favorite food becomes easily elated.I like snacks called “Kaki-no-tane”.In the United States, It called “kameda crisps” is called and is sold.They are sold for various taste.I thought that only the plain taste was enough for them.I’m sorry. Yakult should not make the same mistake, too.
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Taste

It is yogurt visually.The texture is yogurt, too.This may be yogurt!Hmmm.It tastes of Yakult in an aftertaste.It is yummy, but there is no surprise.If Yakult be sold in your country, If you have drink Yakult, If you love Yakult, you come to Japan and should eat it.
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Yakult to eat video

Green sweets -Yukimi Daifuku Matcha-




green, green, green

I thought that the Japanese color theme was red.Probably I watch a Japanese national flag and imagine it.However, the essence is different.Japanese color theme is green.If you visit Japan, you can understand it.
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Japanese sweets

You get down on an airport and I want at first you to go to the airport shop.It should be green paradise there.Even if you look at the left even if you look at the right, it is Green matcha.And you leave the airport, and, please go to the convenience store.Probably there will be green paradise.Japan already has been already predominated by green.
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Japan No.1 Ice cream

Yukimi daifuku is one of the ice cream which is famous in Japan.Chewy texture and the affinity with sweet vanilla ice are good.The matcha taste of Yukimi daifuku was sold.Oh, shiver my soul, Yukimi daifuku has followed an overseas person, too?That sucks.However, there is not the reason not to eat Matcha taste Yukimi Daifuku as I am Japanese.Let’s eat the Japanese food(Yukimi daifuku)!
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Green sweets -Yukimi Daifuku Matcha- video

Canned Pudding shake




Japanese loves puddings

Japanese loves puddings very much.If you go to the Japanese convenience store, you can understand the reason why they love puddings.Many kinds of puddings are sold.The pudding which was particular about an egg, the pudding which was particular about of the texture, etc. I misunderstand that puddings is Japanese food.
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Pudding is drink

They loved puddings too much and thought that they wanted to eat a pudding anytime.Therefore they changed a pudding into a drink and were at the can and have begun to sell in vending machines.It is Canned Pudding shake.It is the revolution of the pudding.
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Canned Pudding shake video

As for the pudding, the U.K. is the origin.It was introduced into Japan approximately 200 years ago.Probably I think that a pudding is sweets selling most in Japan.Please watch the video of such a Japanese pudding.

Carbonara with Pucchin Purin




Pucchin Purin

Pucchin Purin is a pudding selling most in the world.The total sale number is 5,100 million.Pucchin Purin is served if you request that you want to eat a pudding in Capuchin It is not authorized in the UNESCO, Purin is Japanese food.
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Strange rumor

Strange rumor about Pucchin Purin is in the air at Japan.It is a rumor to cook pasta using Pucchin Purin.I went to the library and read documents.However, I cannot get a clue.Therefore I stole into the company which produced Pucchin Purin and stole a secret recipe.Based on the recipe, it is the video of the pasta recipe that I cook.

Japanese sandwiches ranking




3rd Cutlet sandwich

Cutlet sandwich is a cutlet (usually a pork or beef cutlet) sandwich with white bread.It is called Katsusando in Japan.It is the constant seller of the Japanese sandwich.It is a cutlet of Japanese food with bread.It is sandwich in semi-foreign style―semi-foreign in structure.
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2nd Bean jam and whip cream sandwich

The knight met the samurai and made a team.The team attacks my stomach.When I eat the sandwich, I always imagine that.Bean jam is called “Anko” in Japan.Anko is used for a Japanese sweet.It is Japanese whip cream.Therefore “Bean jam and whip cream sandwich” is very sweet.
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1st Fruits and whip cream sandwich

I eat basics, the sandwich with a lunch.However, I eat this sandwich in tea time.This is not a sandwich anymore anymore. This is a cake.Acidity of the fruit and Sweetness of whip cream.They are the best combinations.They are like Holmes and Watson.
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Japanese sandwiches ranking video

Rice’s friend “Gohandesuyo”




Seaweed culture

Japan is seaweed culture.There is a company of seaweed founded in 1690 in Japan.The company owns a building in the excellent location in Tokyo.It is the same as owning a building in Fifth Avenue of New York.Japanese loves seaweed.
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Not appointed to a world heritage

There is food culture called “Gohan no otomo” in Japan.”Gohan no otomo” is Rice’s friend(rice topping).The first popularity in Rice’s friend is “Gohandesuyo”.”Gohandesuyo” is the food which pasted seaweed.It is the Japanese food which is not appointed to a world heritage.
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Bread’s friend

It is Rice’s friend in Japan, but turns into Bread’s friend in your country.Spread butter on bread and spread “Gohandesuyo” on and eat.It is a devil visually.This regards me as the essence of the Japanese food.Please watch Bread’s friend video.

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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Slime curry video

Happy Turn ice cream




Okashi

I love Japanese sweets. More attractive sweets than those of other countries’. Abundant choice.(woman/Hong Kong).Japanese sweets is called “Okashi” in Japan.Yesterday evening on television I heard that Japanese sweets is popular in the world.I thought that it would be the news of the self-satisfaction.However, I like Japanese sweets like Japanese food, too.
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Ama-Shoppai

There is Japanese sweet of mysterious taste in Japan.It is sweet and is salty.It is called “Ama-Shoppai” in Japan.It is very popular.The name is “Happy Turn”.Once you pop, you can’t stop.Powder of the magic is sprinkled on it.When everyone eat it, everyone are a captive of the powder of the magic.
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Why ice cream?

Ice cream of the “HAPPY TURN” taste was released.Most people thought “Why would ice cream be released?”.Sweet and salty ice cream? ? ?Because the ice cream is sweet, it is yummy.Happy Turn ice cream is sweet and salty.I ate.It is wonderful!It is taste to eat for the first time. Very yummy.You come to Japan, too, and, please eat.

The Black Hamburger from Japan’s Burger King




COMME des GARÇONS

I grew up in a fashion boom of the 80s.Various apparel brands gained power in the 80s in Japan.PERSON’S, BIGI, BA-TSU, FRANDLE, etc.COMME des GARÇONS and Y’s stood out in those brands.The design based on black was too cool.It was Black shock.
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Black hamburger

And, in the 2000s, a black shock is reproduced.I think that they have been affected by Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto.It is a hamburgers called KURO DIAMOND and KURO PERL.It is sold in Japan’s Burger King.When I watched these, I felt that a Japanese was wonderful.I thought that the Japanese food was stupid at the same time.
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Unmask black

“Because it is a black color, may I eat it?” No problem, the black is bamboo charcoal.In Japan, we use the bamboo charcoal for a dish.Bamboo charcoal has a sterilization effect and puts it in drinking water and puts it together when we cook rice.Therefore I think that this hamburger is more yummy than a conventional hamburger.

Not Chocolate, Yes Yokan




Wagashi

I thought that Yokan is food for grandma and grandpa when I am young.However, it was very delicious when I age and ate it.Yokan go with Japanese tea.I eat Yokan frequently now.Do you know Yokan?Have you look at Yokan? You may feel sick if you look at Yokan.
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Japanese sweets

Yokan, in general, is a Japanese confection which is made by jellifying bean jam, mainly made from adzuki beans, with Japan agar.The appearance is like the chocolate.However, you understand it when you eat it one share.A texture, taste are different from chocolate.
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Yokan video

The famous shop of Yokan is “Toraya” in Tokyo.When you visit customer for apology, it is permitted if I take Toraya’s Yokan.Toraya’s Yokan has great power.It is the same as chocolate buying in JEAN-PAUL HÉVIN.

Ramen doughnut




Ramen evolution

The ramen evolves every day.As for the old ramen, it was basic in noodles and soup and a roasted pork fillet.As for the current ramen, there are many kinds of ramen.Ramen is the dish which is indispensable to Japanese food.The Japanese loves Ramen.
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Ramen + Doughnut

Japanese Chinese food chain restaurant “Osaka Ohsho” begin to sale a monster .It is Ramen doughnut.Ramen is wrapped in dough and is a doughnut fried in oil.It seems to be even higher in calories than every food products.Still I bought it.
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As expected

I was hungry very much.Still I worked well and decided to eat Ramen doughnut.My expectation has come true.It is oil-like.However, the rich taste met my stomach very much.This ramen doughnut is sold at some restaurants of “Osaka Ohsho” until September 30, 2014.

Neapolitan burger




Neapolitan

Italian food culture fused with Japan food culture to establish a unique cuisine.It is Spaghetti Neapolitan.It is basic spaghetti in the cafe of the downtown area.It is Japanese food including the elements of the Italian food.
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Italia, Japan,U.S

In 2014, It was establish a unique cuisine again.Italian food culture fused with Japan food culture and U.S food culture.It is Neapolitan burger.It is the burger which sandwiched a hamburger steak and the spaghetti Neapolitan in buns.
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LOTTERIA

This hamburger is sold in burger shop “LOTTERIA”.”LOTTERIA” sold a ramen burger before.This burger shop sandwiches anything.They will sandwich tempura and the sushi in the near future.And the store’s name will be changed from “LOTTERIA” to “SANDWICHRIA”.

Yaki imo ice cream




Yaki imo

Yaki imo is a food called baked sweet potato.When it is winter in Japan, they come over to sell Yakiimo by car.By a shout called ‘Ishi———Ya——–ki——–mo’.It is a Japanese wintter tradition and one of Japanese food.It is sweet and is yummy.
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Yaki imo taste

Japanese likes yaki imo very much.Therefore the yaki imo taste of various foods is sold.Chocolate, Cake, Caramel, Sweet potato chips, etc.Haagen Dazs sells ice cream of the yaki imo taste.This time, the ice cream which I introduce is yaki imo taste.It is not refined like Haagen Dazs.I’m looking forward to it being sold.
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Yaki imo ice cream video

It reflects a Yaki imo faithfully.When you ate it, you will mistake it for genuine Yaki imo.However, it is ice cream.If you come to Japan, please eat Yaki imo ice cream.You will become its prisoner.

Cold Oden




Mr. Japanese food

Oden is one of the representative Japanese food.Beer and nuts, Irish whiskey and fish-and-chips, Tequila and tacos, Japanese sake and oden.When they failed by work in Japan, they are encouraged with oden stand restaurant by the boss.Therefore, for a Japanese, oden is very important Japanese food.
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Hot Oden

We usually eat the oden in winter.It is because oden is hot.The oden is sometimes used for a punishment game on TV.Okay, it is classic that the oden is hot.However, the oden lover thought to eat oden even in the summer.Therefore it is cold oden to have been released.
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Cold Oden video

Even if the hot oden is cooled, it is not delicious.As for it, oden soup is not marinade with ingredient.Then they thought.They thought that a problem was settled if they jellied soup.The result is this video.

Doraemo bun




Doraemon

I was jealous to Doraemon.Exactly, I was jealous to Nobita.Everything comes true for Doraemon.He take various tools out of the pocket.The tool which I thought that I want it most is ‘Box that everything come true in virtual’.I thought that I want to be the brightest boy in our class using it.
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Doraemon bun

Doraemon movie is shown now in Japan.At the part of the campaign, a Doraemon-related product is sold at a convenience store.One is this.’Doraemon bun’.Doraemon changed to a steamed bun.The contents are custard cream.It is yummy.This is right Japanese food.
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Good bye Doraemon viedeo

Doraemon continues being loved by Japanese children.I like all the characters appearing to Doraemon.I think Doraemon to be Japanese Disney and that the day when Doraemon overflows all over the world surely comes.Viva Doraemon.