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Rakkyo(pickled scallion)

sake and snacks

When the Japanese drink sake, they eat the snacks.The snack is said to be “sake no sakana” in Japan.They change by a kind of the sake.They are sometimes salt and are sometimes sashimi.A person drinking sake with salt is the best drinker.




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Sachi no Otera Gohan(Sachi’s Temple meal)

Shojin ryori

Shojin ryori were indispensible food for monks, and taking meals was emphasized as part of ascetic training and developed as dishes for entertaining guests at temples.Shojin ryori exerted effects on Japanese food and contributed to its development.




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Tororo




Tenacious Japanese

Japanese is tenacious.We are destined that we become tenacious.Have you eaten kaiseki cuisine?Kaiseki ryori is a form of meal which follows the manner of sado (Japanese tea ceremony).It is the source of the Japanese food.The food which was sticky in Kaiseki cuisine exists always.It is the reason why we are tenacious.
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Tororo

The representative of food with sticky is Natto.However, Natto smells awful.Therefore there are the people in disfavor with Natto, too.The food with sticky is Tororo in substitution for Natto.Tororo is the source of the tenacity of Japanese.
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The sex drive booster

When we wants to sex drive booster, we eat Tororo.If your father eats Tororo with dinner, you do a room key and should sleep early.Please endure it even if you want to go to the restroom.That is a precious thing.
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Grilled eggplant recipe




Grilled eggplant recipe

Speaking of summer in Japan, it is Grilled eggplant.Grilled eggplant go with beer and sake, shochu.It is a basic dish in Japanese food.It is said that the eggplant has low nutritive value.However, the special texture and taste attract a Japanese.

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Mugicha




Good memory

Have you play in the mud?I play in the mud at the age of a child.A mud dumpling, a mud castle, a mud pond, etc.Above all, I maked mud coffee frequently.By mischief, I deceived a friend in it.That is a good memory now.
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Barley tea

I become an adult and do not play mud.However, I do not forget the mischievous mind.I found a substitute of the mud coffee.It is Mugicha.Mugicha is brown tea with barley as raw ingredients.Mugicha is the Barley tea.He/she drinks it with Japanese food.I do the mischief that pretended Mugicha to be coffee to a friend.
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Effect of the Mugicha

Effect of the Mugicha is “1.protect stomach””2.promote the blood circulation””3.antibacterial action””4.prevent a cavity””5.lower your temperature”.This is Japanese super food.I drink barley tea on hot summer days.
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Lotus roots pickled in vinegar recipe




lotus roots pickled in vinegar recipe

Do you know the lotus root? And have you eaten a lotus root?I have not felt that a lotus root is delicious.The lotus root is used as ingredients of the Japanese food in a Japanese restaurant.I enjoy a texture than I enjoy the taste of the lotus root personally.This lotus root recipe is a dish to enjoy a texture.

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This photo is lotus roots pickled in vinegar (1).

This photo is lotus roots pickled in vinegar (1).

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Tanita food

Nobody Can Stop Tanita.Speaking of a hamburger, it is McDonald’s.Speaking of cola, it is Coca-Cola.Speaking of diet, it is Tanita in Japan.Tanita food is exhibited if I go to the Japanese convenience store.Tanita pudding, Tanita chocolate, Tanita snack, Tanita Japanese food, etc.
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Tanita recipe

Tanita is a measurement equipment manufacturer known for its weight and body fat scales.Tonita is a company’s custom to be careful about health very much.Two books of recipes based on the food served at Tanita’s company cafeteria have become bestsellers.Tanita recipe is healthy and is popular.
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No life, No Tanita

Tanita opened Restaurant.The restaurant serves the same healthy food that is offered in Tanita’s cafeteria.And, Tanita produced various food.For a woman minding a body shape, Tanita supplies an indispensable product more than before.
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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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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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Grated Japanese radish




Diet food

Japanese radish contains large amount of digestive enzymes such as amylase, protease and lipase, Isothiocyanate.Isothiocyanate is only produced from a chemical reaction when the cells of the daikon radish are broken by grating or cutting them.The isothiocyanate promotes metabolism.Therefore Grated Japanese radish is eaten as diet food and be used for Japanese food.
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Japanese radish recipes

Grated Japanese radish is often served as a relish or a condiment with Japanese food.I like how to eat to it mix with rice.Grate Japanese radish and mix ponzu and mix it with rice.The thought gives me palpitations.
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refer to lunch diary at Tsukiji blog

Japanese radish recipes art

In Japan, the art using the grated radish is popular secretly.Grated Japanese radish is food such as the snow.Therefore we make a snowman and make a white bear.Probably I think that there are many people making Olaf this year.
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Stewed black beans recipe




Stewed black beans recipe

The black beans is regarded as an amulet or a charm against bad luck.Therefore the Japanese eats them for New Year holidays.One of the representative Japanese food recipes is Stewed black beans.Stewed black beans is healthy and yummy.The recipe is simple.Let’s cook it!

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Sweet potato which has been sweetened and boiled recipe




Sweet potato which has been sweetened and boiled recipe

The sweet potato which is eaten in the world.It is used for various dishes in Japan.I introduce representative Japanese food in that.It is Sweet potato which has been sweetened and boiled.You can easily cook in a Japanese food recipes.Let’s cook it to today’s dish!

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Takuan




Shojin ryori

Tempura, sushi, sukiyaki are Japanese food.Shojin ryori is King of the Japanese food in that.Shijin ryori is Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Natural taste of the vegetables are well brought out. And they are made without guise.Takuan is eaten frequently in Shojin ryori.Takuan is pickled radish.Dried Japanese radishes are pickled in rice and salt.
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Takuan diet

My friend continued eating a menu (rice, Takuan, miso soup) and lost 5 kg in one month.It is the eating habits like the old priest.It is “Shojin” definitely.However, Takuan doesn’t contains abundant nutrition.Besides, the people having high blood pressure should not eat it because salt is abundant.Two slices are just right per day.
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Canned Takuan

Originally Takuan is preservation food.About 300 years ago, the priest Mr.Takuan devised Takuan to preserve a Japanese radish.And, in the present age, it was canned so that is preserved during a longer period.
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refer to Miyazaki Airport shop

Myoga -Japanese ginger-




Foolish legend

“We become foolish if we eat Myoga(Japanese ginger).”It is a legend to come for a long time in Japan.Myoga(Japanese ginger) is the food which is indispensable to Japanese food.In fact, we grow wise if we eat Myoga(Japanese ginger).The legend of Myoga(Japanese ginger) is a false rumor.
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Detoxification

An ingredient included in Myoga(Japanese ginger) stimulates the frontal lobe, and our memory improves.And Myoga(Japanese ginger) enhances a diet effect.If we eat Myoga(Japanese ginger), kidney moves lively and drains extra water from our body.Detoxification effects, which are now trendy, are expected with it.
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How to eat

Japanese eat Myoga(Japanese ginger) raw basically.Popular how to eat is vinegar sweetened with mirin and sugar pickles.You can cook it easily.If it is hard for you to eat it raw, you should cook it in tempura.It is yummy.
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refer to KOKURAKU

Water shield




High-quality food

Do you know Water shield?It is called Junsai in Japan.Have you eaten it?I have eaten it.I ate it for the first time in a Japanese food restaurant.Because the Japanese food restaurant was high-quality, I thought it to be high-quality food.However, it is an inexpensive food.
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Diet food

I enjoy a texture by Water shield.It is a bit thin taste.Some people looks like frogspawn and dislike it.Water shield is suitable for diet.Water shield is comprised of water in most.Therefore you do not gain weight even if you eat a lot it.
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Water shield rescipe

Rince the Water shield for 2,3 times.Boil it.Cool with ice water.Eat it with Wasabi soy sauce.This recipe is the simplest and is the most yummy.Let’s eat water shield if you are on a diet.
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refer to Ando food blog

Kimpira gobo recipe




Kimpira gobo recipe

Kimpira gobo is a Japanese food made of chopped burdock root cooked in soy sauce and sesame oil.Japan has dietary habits called ‘ichiju-sansai’.It is the composition that has three dishes(one main dish + two side dishes).We eat Kimpira gobo as one of two side dishes.It is yummy.

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Corner store’s Oden diet




Convenience store

The corner store is called a convenience store in Japan and is called ‘convini’ for short.Seven eleven, LAWSON, Family mart, etc.If you walk the town in Japan, you can find it by all means.Various products are sold there.Freshly brewed coffee, Condom, Magazine, etc.Nearly everything is sold there.
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Oden

One of the popular items in corner stores is oden.It is the item which is popular among particularly women on a diet.Oden is a type of boiled and seasoned food in Japanese food.Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku, and processed fish cakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth.
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Ingredients suitable for diet

Oden is often sold from food carts, and most Japanese corner stores have simmering oden pots in winter.Ingredients suitable for diet is Konbu, Daikon(Japanese radish), Boiled egg, Atsuage (thick fried tofu), Hanpen (a cake of ground fish combined with starch and steamed).Please go to the corner store if you come to Japan on a diet.
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Nukaduke




Diet Japanese food

Nukaduke is Japanese Pickles.It is vegetables that have been pickled in salted rice bran.The salted rice bran is called ‘Nukadoko’ in Japan.”Nukadoko” is like a paste of seasoner. It can’t eat itself but add vegetable great flavor.It’s very simple but it produce very pleasant taste!
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Cucumber Nukoduke

An enzyme breaking down fat is included in Cucumber Nukoduke.This is effective for dieting just to eat it.Japanese comedian reduced the weight by this diet effect 4.5 kg.Such is the power of Nukaduke.Nukaduke is a representative of the Japanese food.
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Strong-smelling

But nukaduke has an unpleasant point.It is Strong-smelling.The representative of Strong-smelling by Japanese food is Natto, Kusaya, Nukaduke.When we make nukaduke, we must mix nukadoko by hand every morning.Strong-smelling is full every morning in the room.It is a smell of the morning in Japan.
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refer to Sadako’s Pickled Factory

Kenchin soup recipe




Kenchin soup recipe

It is Japanese traditional soup.Cook the tofu and vegetables with sesame oil and am the simple soup which added soup stock to.Originally it is shojin ryori(vegetarian cooking).Shojin ryori is Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Natural taste of the vegetables are well brought out. And they are made without guise.

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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.

Fish marinated in spicy sour sauce -Nanban Zuke- recipes




Fish marinated in spicy sour sauce -Nanban Zuke- recipes

It is a classic Japanese food recipes in summer.It is Fish marinated in spicy sour sauce -Nanban Zuke- recipes.Nanban Zuke is a dish prepared by pouring (or soaking in) ‘nanbanzu,’ Japanese sweet vinegar mixed with chopped green onion and red pepper (nanban), on karaage.

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Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame recipes




Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame recipes

Do you eat wakame(seaweed)?I dislike wakame(seaweed).I am weak in that texture that it did slipperily.However, I can eat only this dish.It is ‘Vinegary salad of cucumber and wakame’.I feel that summer came when I taste frank acidity.It is summer basic Japanese food.Viva Japanese food recipes!

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Edamame Natto




Marks & Spencer

The British department store chain Marks & Spencer started selling edamame salads.According to the Daily Express, edamame has become more popular as the number of Japanese restaurants in Britain has increased.Edamame Boom in Britain.
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Edamame Natto

It was noted that edamame is rich in vitamins and fiber, health-conscious Britons started to show interest in it.Edamame is the best as a snack with beer.In Japan, it is a self-praise boom for some reason.Therefore they think that Japanese food sweep over the world.And they got carried away.They used Edamame for ingredients of the natto.
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Alien

Something sticky such as the slaver of green and the alien such as the blood of the alien.It is bad.Is it food?So, it is Edamame natto.I like natto, but I seems to be difficult to eat this natto.I show courage and eat.???.It is yummy unexpectedly.Edamame natto is sold in Hokkaido.I did not have financial power to go to buy it this time.Therefore it is homemade.Please stop at the supermarket if you go to Hokkaido.Surely you can find edamame natto.

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Shunsentei Nadakiku Kappatei

The oden is one of the representative Japanese food.The oden in Himeji is unique.You go to Himeji and should eat the oden.It is this restaurant if I eat oden in Himeji.’Shunsentei Nadakiku Kappatei’.Because it is a brewing company direct management restaurant, you can drink the delicious sake.

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