I like to cook an omelet containing fried rice, and Japanese people call it ‘Omu-rice’. I used to cook it when I lived by myself near my University. I need eggs, chicken, mushroom, carrot, onion, ketchup, and some flavor. We can choose two type of taste of rice, which is rice with butter or rice with ketchup. If I cook the former, I will mix chicken and vegetables in rice. If I cook the latter, I will mix mushroom and vegetables in rice. Garlic will make rice with butter tastier. I will cook each of the ingredients and they will be covered by egg. And then, next part is my most favorite part and I will draw art or letters on the egg with ketchup. I like drawing a smiling face on it and I liked to write down my name on it when I was child. I think almost all children like the dish, because mothers tend to cook it for their children and it is a famous of food which children like.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Different Eating Culture
Japan and America have different culture and the biggest difference is that Japanese people use chopsticks to eat and American people use knife and fork to eat. Of course, Japanese people use knife and fork but they use them only when they eat foreign country’s food. I can’t eat rice with knife and fork. Japanese people have special greetings when they start eating and finish eating. However, American people don’t have them. While it is good to make sounds when they eat noodles in Japan, American people are not allowed to make sounds. If Japanese people make sounds when eating noodles, it means the food is tasty. However, I know we cannot do that in the US, so I follow the American style. When I came to the US the first time, I was so surprised that American people ate meals with soda. I usually have meals with green tea; therefore, I felt a difference of culture between Japan and America.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
My Favorite Restaurant
My favorite restaurant in my country is a Japanese noodle restaurant. The restaurant is in front of my grandparents’ house and the owner is my grandparents’ friend. I have eaten dinner there since I was a child, and my family likes the noodles there, too. If I can go to the restaurant now, I will choose hot noodles. The noodle is very famous around there and it has been introduced in a local magazine. Every day many people wait to eat it and other kinds of noodle of lunchtime and dinnertime. There are boiled egg, seaweed, sliced beef, and mushroom in the noodle. The boiled egg is not so hard, but it is not raw and the taste is perfect. I have tried to make the same one many times in my home, but it was very difficult and I couldn’t make it. The soup is very hot, so I can get hot after finishing eating it. I especially like to eat it in winter.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
An Interesting Place to Buy Candy
In my country, there is a company that handles cosmetics, general merchandise, and imported food. I especially like to buy imported food there. I can see a lot of candy from America, Australia, Europe, and Asia there. German candy is my favorite food and they have many kinds of flavors such as coke, tropical fruit, apple, grape, and orange. I ate this type of candy when my friend’s father gave me some as a souvenir from Germany. Since I ate it the fist time, I have been a big fan of this candy. Whenever I stop by the shop, I buy one of them and I am satisfied with getting it. I also like dried mango and I used to eat it during break time when I was at my University in Japan. I recommend the cookies covered with chocolate from Australia. I like the original one but every taste is delicious and the combination of cookies and chocolate is nice. I want to try other candies and know what kind of candy people living in other countries eat.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My Favorite Breakfast
I like to eat sliced bread in the morning. When I was in Japan, I used to eat it because it was easy to prepare and I could choose many kinds of tastes. Of course, I like rice but it is hard for me to eat rice in the morning. I don’t know why it’s hard for me. I enjoyed deciding on a jam, which I stored in a refrigerator. I had strawberry, blueberry, apricot, pumpkin, and black sesame jams and butter. I changed the taste of bread every day. I also like eating fruits such an apple, orange, and berry. I sometimes cooked scrambled eggs and vegetable soup. Especially, my favorite soup was cabbage and mushroom soup, and I felt very happy to drink it on a winter morning. My favorite drink is vegetable juice and hot chocolate. I look forward to eating and drinking them after going back to Japan.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
My favorite food
My favorite dinner is food that I cook. I lived in Osaka by myself for two years so I used to cook almost every day. In my dinner, there are rice, miso-soup, fish, and vegetables. I like rice with mushroom, chicken, carrots, soy source, cooking alcohol, and some flavor. It’s Japanese traditional food and very delicious. I usually put to-fu, seaweed, and onion in miso-soup and I also can put many vegetables such as potato, carrot, and cabbage in it. Japanese people have a lot of ways to cook fish, and my favorite way is to simmer it. I make a special sauce with water, sugar, sweet sake, soy sauce, and salt, and I simmer the fish with the sauce. A combination of rice and the fish is very good and healthy. I like salad and my favorite dressing is ginger flavored. My mother taught me how to cook them, so I took over my mother’s taste.
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