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

Soy milk miso soup recipe




Soy milk miso soup recipe

In recent years, cuisine incorporating soymilk called ‘tonyu nabe’ (soy milk one-pot dish) has grown in popularity.Soy milk is essential to create beautiful skin.There is food called “Miso” in Japan.Miso is essential to create beautiful skin, too.I introduce a recipe using the miso and soy milk.It is very delicious Japanese food.

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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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Kenca Ramen -Ramen Fight-




Ramen is Japanese food.

“My dream is to have a Ramen shop in the future.”Youths who have such a dream increase in Japan.The ramen is eaten in the United States and Europe.The ramen is one of the Japanese foods on behalf of Japan.The day when a ramen shop unfolding on a global scale appears from Japan may be near.
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Kenca Ramen

This comic is not useful for the person whom a dream wants to have a ramen shop toward.However, this is useful for the people who are interested in Japanese ramen and yakuza.The comic name is “Kenca Ramen”.In Japan, Kenca is fight.
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Yakuza

There are few scenes where a yakuza appears in comics, but the way of life of the chief character is a yakuza.Originally Yakuza is people that must help the weak.Seeing from such a point of view, a chief character of Kenca Ramen is a yakuza.
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Japanese food weekly vol43




Taco Bell revenge

Taco Bell is landed in Japan for the first time in the 1980s.However, they withdrew immediately.”think outside the bun”.I wanted to eat Taco Bell in Japan.I think that the tacos with full of vegetables are healthier than Japanese food.News that Taco Bell revenge Japan spread.The details of his intentions have not been clarified yet.
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Jan 31 2015

ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE

Pancake shop that been expanded into the whole land of America opens second shop in Japan.ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE in Harajuku.The first shop which opened in Kichijoji is full day after day.Probably they will succeed in Harajuku.
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Mar 27 2015

Sarasaclips and Chupa chups

I like milk and cafe taste.It is Chupa chups.It is a joint production of Chupa chups and ballpoint.You smell Chupa chups when you write a letter with this ballpoint and this design was very cute.If you get a chance to come to Japan buy it.
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Jan 19 2015

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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Egg drop with freeze dried tofu and green peas recipe




Egg drop with freeze dried tofu and green peas recipe

Freeze dried tofu is a food made of preserved tofu.It is called “Koya tofu” in Japan and ingredients used for plebeian Japanese food.The koya-dofu processed the traditional way is hard, takes one night to reconstitute and is difficult to cook softly, so it’s a time-consuming ingredient for use in cooking.However, a technique progresses in the present age and we can cook it easily.

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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.

Dungeon cuisine -Dungeon meshi-




Nintendo Advanced Video System

Nintendo Advanced Video System was sold in 1985.We can play in a house the game that play in a cheap candy shop.That was shocking to us.We came to be able to play a role playing game by being able to do video game in a house.The representative of that game is a dungeon game.
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Evolution for enjoy dungeon

It is unexplored gourmet comics.That comic name is Dungeon cuisine(Japanese name : Dungeon meshi).By the Dungeon cuisine, the chief character killed monster and cook it.And eat.”Wait for me, monster! I cook you as a steak now!”.It is Japanese food of the new sense.
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How many monsters have you killed?

How many monsters have you killed? Have you thought to eat the monster?I have not thought.I think that this comic is fantasy, but it is drawn by a very realistic way of thinking.Because it is ecology very much, I want to recommend it to Greenpeace.
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Japanese food weekly vol42




Omurice festival

April 15, 2015 – May 16, Omurice festival is held in the Tokyo Sky Tree.All those who are proud of their skill gathers from the all over Japan.The term omurice is a word made in Japan.Omurice is a Japanese food of fried rice wrapped in a thin omelette.
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Apr 15 – May 16 2015

Meat festival

April 24, 2015 – May 6, Meat festival is held in Komaba park, Tokyo.Last time, the number of the guests recorded a total of 421,000 and it was used approximately 64 tons meat.Please come if you love meat.
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refer to http://nikufes.jp/

Apr 24 – May 6 2015

Samantha Thavasa sweets

Japanese brand leader opened a cafe.Brand name is Samantha Thavasa.With a brand of a bag and the jewelry, it is very popular with Japanese young women.The shop based on white and pink is Samantha Thavasa world.Because it is very cute, please go.
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refer to http://www.samantha.co.jp/special/2012/sweets/

Jan 24 2015

Zousui




About zousui

Zosui is made by simmering cooked rice again with meat, fish and shellfish, mushroom and vegetable, seasoned with soy sauce, miso, etc.There are “nabe” cultures in Japan.”nabe” is Japanese food that for 4 or 5 people sit around a hotpot “nabe”, put soup and ingredients the pot into their own bowls and eat them. When the contents of the hot pot have been eaten, people usually salt the left over soup, add rice and bring it to boil, making zosui.It is Zousui.
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Zousui diet

In late years, Zousui’ s existences is changing.As well as Zousui to eat after a pot, they eat Zousui from a beginning.And, in Japan, Zousui diet begin to been popular.I heard that somebody lose 7 kg in Zousi diet.In 20 days!Because the vegetables are used abundantly, Zousui is very healthy.However, Zousui. . .

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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

Ankake Spaghetti recipe




Ankake Spaghetti recipe

Ankake Spaghetti…That explanation is very difficult.Ankake is sauce.Ankake Spaghetti is spaghetti with sauce on top.The taste of sauce is ketchup.It is the Japanese food of the specialty in Nagoya.It is like Indian Spaghetti (curry-flavored pasta).It is very yummy, and there is its enthusiastic fan.Let’s cook it!

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Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-




I love sushi.

I went to a moving sushi place yesterday.I enjoyed a moving sushi.I love a moving sushi, but love the sushi which a chef makes in front.The fish are cut in front of the customers by a sushi chef and made into sushi.It is cool.I love sushi the best out of all Japanese food.
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Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-

I don’t know whether it is true or not but in Japan, it is publicized that Japanese foods are popular in the world.They take advantage of the advertising, and gourmet comics of a poor knowledge spread in Japan.Therefore we are hard to find orthodox gourmet comics.However, this comic is orthodox gourmet comicsl.It is “Mr. Oto -Oto-yan-“.
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Mr.Sushi

Japanese craftsman is an outlaw.It is an idea which has been decided upon down the ages.The sushi craftsman is not an exception, too.However, his work is the first class.It is described in this comic faithfully.When you read this comic, you are charmed by the first class work.
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Japanese food weekly vol41




Credit bread

It starts a plan to support a university student troubled with credit lack.It is Credit bread.They cannot take a credit even if they buy this bread.However, it is very popular in university students and is hard to obtain it.By the way, this bread is uninspiring.
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Jan 17 2015

Gold Omusubi

Do you know Omusubbi?It is a rice ball and food such as the sandwiches.The other theory says that nigiri-meshi or onigiri has older history and omusubi is its word of court ladies or a formal word.It is a representative of the Japanese food.And Japanese convenience store “Seven-Eleven” sold a high-quality Omusubi(rice ball).It is Gold Omusubi.Because it is very yummy, please eat it when you come to Japan.
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refer to 7 eleven

Jan 13 2015

Emergency water and Foods

Today 20 years ago, a great earthquake disaster happened in Kobe.At that time, I felt the house shake.It was very scary.Fortunately, there was no damage in my area.However, Around Kobe suffered serious damage.At that time, The water was required.Because we do not know when and where the disaster is caused, we should prepare for emergency water and foods.
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Jan 17 2015

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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Small fish boiled in soy sauce recipe




Small fish boiled in soy sauce recipe

The Japanese live on rice.We eat something with rice.Therefore a partner of the rice is important.It is called “Goahan no Otomo”.It is ultimate Japanese food.It is good for snacks to go with Beer if you do not have habit to eat something with the rice.Let’s cook it.

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Chie the Brat – Jarinko Chie




Gourmet comic???

I am unable to make a decision.Do I put this comic in the team of gourmet comics?This comic is Chie the Brat – Jarinko Chie.The organ which the chief character cooks looks very yummy.I recognize this comic as gourmet comics and I want to authorize an cooked organ to a world heritage as Japanese food of the downtown area.
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Story

The name of the chief character is Chie and the girl of the primary schoolchild.She has circumstances and lives with father who does not work.Seemingly it is thought in the miserable situation, but she is supported by various people and be loved by various people.Father is loved by various people, too.It is the human-nature story in such a downtown area.
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Unique people

The comic is set in downtown Osaka.There were many very unique people in Osaka of the times drawn with a comic.There were many useless people, but many sympathetic people.I am reminded of the nostalgic olden days every time I read this comic.
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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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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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Sukiyaki (Chicken) recipe




Sukiyaki (Chicken) recipe

Sukiyaki is one of the typical hot pot dishes of Japan.Sukiyaki is Japanese food.Sukiyaki cooking beef is basic, but can cook even chicken and pork deliciously.This time, I cook Sukiyaki with Chicken.Because you can fully take in vegetables with the sukiyaki, it is very healthy.

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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

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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