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Archive for the ‘Food in Japan’ Category
POSTED FROM THE WEBSITE All who say ‘I love beer’ may to join ! Drinkers will be able to drink samples more than 120 micro brewed beers. “Great Japan Beer Festival 2007, Osaka” This festival founded Mr. Ryouji Oda and organized by “Japan Craft Beer Association”and “BeerTaster Non Profit Organization”, started 1998 and held every year, with the total number of more than 90,000 beer lovers attended which came to those events. -More than 120 different craft beers are available in 50cc samples with only the entrance fee. Save the Earth: you always use the only one glass you get on entrance.
I had another idea. Maybe I should take my video camera and do some reports on sushi places around my area. Sure it’s been done before, but hey…I can convince my wife that I’m doing this in the name of research. haha. I’m adding cooking videos to the Oyamake blog and thought you might want to see one. This is one of my favorites: Chicken Marmelade Donburi. Soooo good! I asked Tomoko to make it for everyone. Let me know if you like it. Here’s the recipe: 2 1/2 tbls orange marmalade Combine wet ingredients and mix. Add chicken diced in thumb sized cubes. Marinate 15 minutes, overnight is better. Sautee cabbage in butter. Do not brown. Set aside. Sautee meat leaving some marinade on the side. Add left marinade after chicken is cooked. Carmelize and then set aside. Construction: Put about 2 cups of cooked rice in a bowl, top with cabbage, then some mayo, then about four pieces of chicken and a sprinkling of the marinade. Done. (serves 2 or 3 in Japan) revver(168792) Can’t we just be invited to go out to dinner without wondering how much it’s going to cost or who’ paying? Last night we went out to dinner with friends, many friends; I guess you can say it was a party because 20 people showed up. The problem was with a couple who have a little money (I mean, A LOT of money). They were concerned about who was paying. They wanted to know how much it was going to cost–I think because they wanted to know how much money to bring. “Don’t worry about it.” In America, if we make plans to go out with friends we simply ask where we are going and then bring enough money plus maybe a credit card to cover any craziness over and above. We don’t, in a middle class society, worry if the Joneses are going to pick up the tab. Well, maybe we would if we made plans to have dinner at The Ritz. These people almost didn’t come because they were worried they would have to split the bill. I don’t think they like splitting the bill. One person pays and that’s it. Well, they cam. An d the tab was picked up by a man who just built a cruise ship in China. WOW! What a dinner: crab, sashimi…and and and a hangover. “Stone baked potatoes” is the cry from a small little cart that cruises the neighborhood all day everyday in the colder months. People sometimes come out of their houses following the sounds to buy a piping hot sweet potatoe that costs about $7.00. Another cart that cruises our neighborhood is the Rahmen guy. I can’t remember song exactly that is played but it is distince no less. The reason I am bringing this up is because I couldn’t sleep last night due to the potaoe salesman. Some carts don’t play music. They use a whistle instead. The whistle blows the same tone at relatively low volume continuously. The heat from the fire in the oven feeds the whistle. The sound permeates the neighborhood with a monotounous, annoying sound only Japanese can appreciate. I on the the other find it just as annoying as the politicians blaring their campaigns from vans over loudspeakers (I yelled at one the other day to quiet, “urusai!!”). BTW, the big purple potatoes taste great. No butter need. |
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The following is being posted because I feel a need to take care of all foreigners who wish to get drunk in a place where nobody knows who anybody is after a few hours. Look for the guy wearing beer. See ya there!
Had to post a picture of tonight’s dinner ’cause it was soooo good. Sometimes Tomoko just blows me away with her cooking. Tonight we had this beautiful scallop and braised cod pesto salad with broccoli, celery and mixed greens served with sesame and konbu consomme and zakokumai (rice).
I’m sick! I was just watching TV and saw a show where TV personalities go around finding the cheapest best sushi in Japan. I’m sick sick sick!!! They found INCREDIBLE sushi for 100 and 200 yen. WHERE CAN I FIND IT?!!
it was still good 
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