Foods' Days

Hey, everyone

From yesterday, a typhoon gradually comes to Kanto area.

You have to be careful fully if you go out somewhere during this two days... :)

This time is my last day for posting a blog.

I really worried about what should I write for last blog.

It will be so cool if I wrote special contents such as "relationship between eating foods and human life".

But I could not do those kinds of things, because I am not specialists for foods.lol

So, I decided to introduce "Foods' Days" this time.

Did you know that there are countless foods' days in a year?

Almost of those days are birthday themselves or are just born by joke of foods' name.

For example, my birthday is January 28 and I found that there are two foods' days on that day.

That is "Rice day" and " Chicken day".

Rice is named as "Kome" in Japan and Kome is written like "米" with Japanese Kanji.

And 米 become "八十八" (= 88) by taking the word apart. That is why Rice day is January 28.

And, next is about chicken day.

Chicken is called as "Niwatori" and Niwatori's "Ni" and "Wa" has same pronunciation with 2 and 8 in Japan.

So, January 28 is Chicken day.

I am not able to actually understand those reasons and not agree why 28/01 has Rice and Chicken days.

However, it is true that there are a lot of foods' days.

So, it will be fun to check what foods' days your birthday has or what foods' days is today?

Thank you for your seeing, everyone!

And, Good-bye :)

A Chipped Ice (Kakigo-ri)

Hey friends,

Do you save an electricity?

I decide not to use an electricity in my house as much as possible.

I am going to use an electricity a lot in KUIS, because the electricity cost of university is used from our money.

I decide to spend an amount of time in Kanda university in this summer instead of being in my home!

In these days, I often eat a chipped ice in Lapaz.

Kakigo-ri is the one of my favorite foods in my college.

The cost is cheap (100yen!), it has various kinds of taste, and is delicious, so I like it.

It is also symbolic summer food.

Strawberry (Ichigo)

There are some kinds of syrups to a chipped ice, however I always think 'what is Blue Hawaii taste?'

In thinking seriously, Blue color syrup is un-normal.

From what is Blue Hawaii made? I am really interested in Blue hawaii chipped ice's sauce.

So, I searched about it a little bit.

~Blue hawaii~

 The syrup's real name is blue curacao. Blue curacao is a cactail. A chipped ice staff named the blue

 curacao chipped ice as blue hawaii. Blue hawaii is originally coctail's name. Raw materials of blue

 curacao was orenges' skin. Blue curacao was made from colorating  orenges' skin which was dissolved

 with water and was added an alcohol to take a flavor.

Although, I do not know wheather current blue hawaii taste is made from blue curacao, the material was

coctail.

I am really suprised to the truth!

By the way, although there are some kinds of Kakigo-ri syrups in KUIS, I realize, Meron syrup is not.

I am going to ask staffs 'why meron one does not exsist in here?'

And, I will try to encourge them to make meron chipped ice, because I like it so much.

Wht kinds of chipped ice (Kakigo-ri) taste do you like in KUIS or other place?

Thank you:)

Turkish Foods

Hey guys,

I gonna introduce some of Turkish foods today.

I went Turkey about 20 days in last summer vacation as international volunteer member and that was my first trip going overseas.

It was great for me and I experienced a lot of wonderful things.

Do you know about Turkish foods?

There are some Turkish foods in Japan such as Kebab and Expanding Ice cream.

Kebab

Anyway, do you know that Turkish dish is one of Three Major World Dish?

It is recognized as traditional and delicious dish as same as Chinese dish and French dish.

Turkish foods was born by mixing traditional Turkish foods which expand to Middle Asia and some Europe dish.

Turkey is located in Middle East Asia and the country is often influenced from both Europe culture and Asian culture.

And, that things made Turkey as one of Three Major World Dish.

I think that the best Turkish foods was an expanding ice cream.

I could eat it just 60 yen, very cheap!

If you go Turkey, please try to eat a lot of delicious world dish.

Thank you:)

Great Beer!

Hey everyone,

In these days, the temperature is so crazy, too hot and humid!

In Kumagaya, the heat already achieved in over 35 degrees.

I guess that The World will ends not so far in the future...

By the way, I am going to focus on Beer today!

Because, I like to drink an alcohol especially in exhausted days such as Fridays, part-time job's days, job hunting days and tests days.

I want to introduce some information about Beer!

You are Great!

What brand is favorites on beer in Japan?

There are best five of beer products!

No.5 Super Dry (Asahi Beer) -in 1987, it was offered as first hot beer in Japan and has been loved by a lot of middle ages.

No.4 The Premium Molts (Santory) -it got first gold medal for Japan in Europe which are known for beer country.

No.3 Ginga Kogen Beer -do you know this beer? I did not know the name. It is a local beer and so fruity and nice taste. Let's try it.

No.2 Ichibanshibori (Kirin Beer) -it has a nice taste and I also drank this one today while I write a blog.

And No.1 Ebisu Beer (Sapporo Beer) -this one has so nice taste. The label has a sense of quality. My grand father sometimes send this one to my house. I love my grand father.

The origin of beer in Japan is said that The Netherlands expanded it in Edo in 1724. from then, beer has been drunk by Japanese and has changed to new, for example, Non-alcohol beer and Happoushu is so hot in near days.

A beer will become as new one by following a passage of time.

Let's try to drink a beer and spend this summer comfortably!

Thank you and bye:)

Sutamina-Don

Hey everyone!

In these days, the temperature is so humid and warm. The rainy season which I really do not like is coming.

I already am senior and have to get a job as possible before summer vacation, because it will be so tough to have a job hunting in summer vacation.

To spend summer vacation comfortably, we all need to care our foods.

I will try to eat Sutamina-Don in summer days.

I'm Sutamina-Don

What images do you have, when you hear the word, Sutamina-Don?

I absolutely image a Donburi of meats, meats, meats, meats and meats like upside picture.

In general, as for saying Sutamina-Don, a pork will be often used as Sutamina's meat. Why?

Because, a pork contains more Vitamin B1 for urging our fatigue restoration than a beef and a chicken.

So that is why a pork is often used in Sutamina-Don.

What ingredents do you use in your Sutamina-Don?

See you:)

McDonald's ♪

Hey everyone,

In these days is not it humid, it is? Rainy season will come soon, I really do not like it.

By the way, I ate McDonald's hamburgers for today-lunch in Akihabara in which place I had job hunting.

And then, I am interested about McDonald's, for instance, How many shops does it have in Japan? Does McDonald's have any different menus or something strange by depending on a lot of different places in Japan?

I decided searching some information of McDonald's in this time.

i'm lovin' it

As you know, McDonald's has a lot of shops in every where in Japan.

However, did you know that there are 3,286 McDonald's shops in all over Japan? ( 17/2/2011)

Although I actually am not able to image how the number is crazy, I am surprised.

The prefecture which has the most McDonald's shops in Japan is of course Tokyo! About 445 shops in there.

And in contrary, the least one is Shimane prefecture. They have just 10 McDonald's shops.

Next is about the difference of McDonald's shops in Japan. However, there actually are not some differences about menus, so I focused on shop's appearance.

It's cool

Can you believe the photograph is McDonald's interior? The place is Nagata-cho.

As these are, there are some fashionable McDonald's shops in all over the World.

To go out to find the high-lank McDonald's shops is maybe enjoyable for you.

Thank you, and see you:)

One of my favorite foods

Hello everyone,

Today I will introduce one of my favorite foods and history of it a little bit.

That is Ramen!

I'm Ramen

The look, smell,taste and volume all are great for me:)

To travel around Japan and  eat various Ramen in the various place is one of my dream.

By the way, do you know that Ramen came from China? I will introduce the history in short.


The history

It is said that Ramen was expanded by a Chinese who escaped from China in1659.

Ramen food culture expanded in earnest in Meiji era(1868~1912).

Mitsukuni Tokugawa(Mitokomon) is said first Japanese who ate Ramen.

Today, there are some kind of soup in Ramen, for instance, Soybean sauce, Miso, Salt , Pork and so on.

What soup is oldest one?

The answer is Soybean sauce!

And soup history is old in order of Pork, Miso, Salt.



I'm Tsukemen

To know some information about some foods we like  has us preferring its than before.

I will feel more fun for eating Ramen in the future!

Anyway, I will go out to eat Ramen from now on, because I am so hungry.lol

See you:)

One of my dislikable foods

 In this time I want to tell you about my dislikable food, the name is Nameko mushrooms. The reason why is that when I was an elementary school student, I vomited it out on the time of school lunch, because of at that day I felt so sick by chance and vomited it.

 I could not have eaten not only nameko mushrooms, but also some kinds of mushrooms since at that day. I always rejected mushrooms from my food culture and I regarded it as my enemy.lol

 In these days, I gradually discard my trauma and eat mushrooms except for nameko mushrooms. This is my changed food culture.

 Do you guys have some your changed food culture since your good or bad experience?

McDonald's Lawsuit

     McDonald's Lawsuit was that two teen-age men who lived in NY, America condemned McDonald's for they were fat because of McDonald's in August, 2002. In America, there generally are not only McDonald's, but also some other fast-food shops in public school, and the problem of foods have been discussed for quite a few years.

     Did you guys know about McDonald's Lawsuit? I guess that getting fat does not relate with McDonald's. McDonald's must not have a responsibility about it. It is responsible for consumers whether to buy or not, to gain fat or not. We can control eating habits by ourselves.

     Please write your opinion.　(^_^)

I am Ryosuke Tobata who is senior and  entered from KIFL in last year through taking break from school 1 year.

Unfortunatlly, My English skills have down since I entered KUIS. lol

I have lived in Inage, Chiba city since I was born which place is so near from KUIS it takes about 30 mini with a bike.

My best hobby is to ride a motor-cycle and travel to somewhere with it on horiday.

My dream is to buy and to ride more than 400cc motor-cycle and to travel around Japan.

ryosuke