Food; how to make Japanese curry

I made Japanese curry for my close and good American friends yesterday. I wanted them to eat Japanese food made by real Japanese. First, we went to Wal-Wart to buy ingredients. We need potatoes, onions, calottes, beef, and curry roux. You can put in chicken instead of beef. Ingredients are very simple and you can make it easily. After shopping, prepare one pot, pour water into half of the pot and heat it. Next, peel potatoes, onions, and calottes. You can put and boil beef first in the hot water while you are peeling. Finishing peeling vegetables, you put potatoes first, because it takes longer till they are tender. Then you can put other vegetables at the same pot. You can let it look for about 10 minutes to make them tender. After that you take the curry roux and melt it in the same pot. Even if you melt all the curry roux, you have to keep heating and mixing ingredients and curry roux. When the roux is pulpy, you can finish heating and pour the curry roux in on the rice on your dish.

Food; eating culture

My culture is always showing respect to other people and older people, even when you are eating. First, even when you get food at a restaurant, usually people wait until others get food. If they say that it is fine to eat, and not let the food cool down, you can start to eat the food. You say “itadakimasu” before starting to eat food. This means thank you for giving and making food. If there are chopsticks and it’s a small bag, you take the chopsticks out and break them. Then you can start to eat. When you eat rice and food that is used with a rice bowl and cup, you eat holding it. You bring foods to your mouth. If you are drinking alcohol or sake while eating, you should pour the drink for others. It is a very important manner. If you notice someone’s drink is empty, you ask him or her pour if you can theirs drink naturally. Did you enjoy eating? It sounds strict, but relaxed. After you eat, you put chopsticks back in a bag and say “gochisousamadeshita”. It means the same as the first phrase. It is appreciation that you are given food.

Food; favorite restaurant

I have worked at a sushi bar for 3 years since I was freshman in college. I didn’t like sushi at all, but I was interested in Japanese traditional food, so I started to work. First, I had no idea about sushi, seasonal foods, how to cook, how to eat, how to explain to customers these things. After more working at the workplace and more fun, I was getting to like sushi. Now my favorite restaurant is a sushi bar. Also, it is not a traditional sushi bar. After I work, I used to eat with friends who worked together. Sometimes I took sushi out to my home too. Coworkers who I worked with are very nice and fun. We were always together and it was like one family. My favorite sushi is a sushi roll, whose name is “Negitoro roll”. This sushi roll has leek, yam, quail egg and tuna. It is very good. My mouth watered at the thought right now. I will definitely scream when I go back to Japan and eat Japanese food.

Food; My Interesting Place to Buy Food

I like Wal-Mar. When I came to America, I didn't have any items such as a bracket, a pillow, hand soup, a laundry bag, detergent, toilet paper and food, so I went to the Wal-Mart first. I still remember the first day that I went to Wal-Mart. It is a very big store, and you can buy anything you want and are looking for.I like Wal-Mart, so my interesting place to buy food is Wal-Mart. I don't need to go other stores to buy other stuff. Every time, I can get all that I am looking for at Wal-Mart only. Each section has many kinds of foods and goods, and all I need is there. Also, products are very cheap!

Food; fast food

Usually, I don't go to fast food in my country or America. I have already decided in my mind that fast food is not good and not healthy at all. In Japan, Japanese foods and restaurants are healthy and have good foods, but there are fast foods too. I will tell about similar and different points between Japan and America. First, there are some similar things; it is easy to find fast food. Especially, young people often get fast food. The price is very cheap. You can get foods soon. There are seats where you can eat inside, and also you can take it out. Next, differences are that I can tell the truth completely, but I think more Americans often go to fast food in their daily life. The size is totally different. The size in America is huge. I was very very surprised. How big large size is!!! The service and worker’s smile sometimes look and sound boring and lazy. I sometimes saw that worker saying lazily “May I help you?” and “What do you want?" I didn't feel good as a consumer. It is impossible in Japan. They are very friendly and give a perfect smile to each customer. They are nice workers even if it is very busy because of a lot of customers.

Food; breakfast

I miss Japanese food a lot. Honestly, I don’t think I will miss American foods when the day comes that I have to leave America. This time, I would like to tell how to cook my favorite beakfast that I have had since I was a kid. Every morning my mom used to make a good breakfast for 3 kids in my family. First, set to be ready to boil the rice in a rice-cooker before you go to bed and you can start to cook soon, because it takes about an hour including washing the rice. Usually, our family and people in Japan eat fish a lot. I used to eat fish at breakfast. My favorite fish that I used to eat were Saba-mackerel and Shake-salmon. Add a salt to the fish and grill it. While you are waiting for the fish, make a Japanese Miso Soup. Miso is soybean paste. Usually, I put soft seaweed, tofu, and mushroom-hackberry in Miso Soup. In my culture, rice is needed at home for every meal every day. Rice, Miso Soup that I explained, fish and Japanese food are very healthy and have nutrition. I want to show Japanese foods to my American friends here and I want them to know how delicious, good, and healthy Japanese food is for people.