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Restaurant Review

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 Hello! I went to a restaurant in Osaki with my friend to analyze their food. The name of the restaurant is Rokurinsha(六厘舎). It is very close from the Osaki station.  At this restaurant, they serve tsukemen(つけ麺). By the way, do you know what tsukemen is? Try to imagine ramen. Ramen contains cooked noodles in hot soup, while tsukemen separates soup and noodle and the noodle is boiled and chilled. You dip in the noodles in soup and eat it, and that is what tsukemen is. Rokurinsha is famous for their tsukemen, and there are five located in Tokyo.  I ordered the stereotype tsukemen with more noodles. It was 930 yen. Tsukemen is picture on the right. In the soup there was a big char siu, few menma, naruto, dried seaweed and fishmeal(it is not for fertilizer). First of all, I tasted the soup. I felt the dashi very strong. It tasted bonito and pork broth. The mixture of them was amazing, and I could not stop eating it. Noodles were soft and chewy, and they were more like udon. F...

My Dinner

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 Hello there! Thanks for reading my blog again. By the way, do you live alone? Do you eat enough vegetable. Don't you want to get warm while eating? Then I will recommend you eating nabe(鍋). Nabe is a dish mostly eaten in winter season. It is very popular among Japanese. It boils vegetables and meat, and the soup that boils will change with what kind of nabe you eat. There are many types of nabe, shabu-shabu(pork nabe), kimchi nabe, oden, and more.  This time I made kimchi nabe. I used daikon radish, carrot, enoki mushroom, green onion, bean sprouts, tofu, Chinese chive, Chinese cabbage and pork slice. All you need to make kimchi nabe is to buy soup for kimchi nabe and boil the soup, then add vegetables and meat and enjoy! I ate it with rice, which match perfectly with nabe. There are tons of vegetables and meat, so it is very nutricious. Since it is very easy to make and very healthy, why not try making it?

Analyzing the poem,"My Days Are Numbered"

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 Hello! Today, I would like to present you this poem, "My Days Are Numbered" by Rick Moranis. I made a presentation of this poem with my partner. We chose this since this was easy to read. ---------------------------------- This is the poem we analyzed My Days Are Numbered By Rick Moranis The average American home now has more television sets than people ... according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said. — The Associated Press, Sept. 21. I HAVE two kids. Both are away at college. I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players, two VHS machines and four stereos. I have nineteen remote controls, mostly in one drawer. I have three computers, four printers and two non-working faxes. I have three phone lines, three cell phones and two answering machines. I have no messages. I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus...

How to Make a Chocolate Banana Cake

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 Hello! This time I will be presenting a recipe of how to make a banana chocolate cake! You thought that it is just an ordinary cake, right? Actually it isn't. I am going to make it only with rice cooker! Ingredients(Serving...2-3people) ・Chocolate...100g ・Banana... two quantity ・Pancake Mix...75g ・Fresh Cream...100cc ・Egg... one quantity How to make it Step 1. Crush chocolate into pieces Step 2. Melt the chocolate in rice cooker(Press the cooking button while you melt it) Step3. After chocolate melts, add fresh milk until it is mixed well. After it is mixed well, press the stop cooking button of your rice cooker. Step4. Add egg and pancake mix in the rice cooker and mix it well. Step5. Mash up bananas and add them in the rice cooker and mix it. Step 6. Push the cook button and wait until the cake is completely heated. Step 7. ENJOY!!! Magical powder, Pancake Mix I used pancake mix to make this cake, but as you know, it is usually used to make pancakes. But with this, you can make ...

The IVE Project

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Before I start telling my experience at IVE project, let's start with what IVE project is. IVE project is an exchange project, which is used for students from around the world to discuss varieties of matters. As I am in food related seminar, I discussed about food. This is how the IVE project page looks like. There are many themes going on with discussions such as art, Covid-19, technology and more.  I uploaded my discussion question, and there were lots of replies. I believe there were replies from Japan, China, Taiwan, Columbia, Turkey and few more. Replies from Turkey were the most(I guess) which was unexpected. I had a decent discussion with them, which I was really relieved because I did not think there would be lots of replies coming from many people. I guess I started with easy question which made many people to reply.  In total, I did enjoy reading those replies from many countries. It is not easy to have conversation with lots of countries. It was a great opportu...

Turtle Tower Restaurant

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I was assigned to analyze a restaurant review, and the name of the restaurant is,"Turtle Tower Restaurant". It was a video review made by four people. The restaurant is a vietnamese restaurant, and pho is one of those popular dish at this restaurant. So in the video, a review is made on this pho(the picture below). The review in total was neutral, although there were some points that did not like making review on this restaurant. The video gave basic information on this restaurant which was important to understand the background of this restaurant. As I was watching through this, it was clear that the reviewers did not like rare meat, since they are from states. I was interested by the reviews they were making, but there was one thing I really did not like about watching this video. There is this aged man in this video, and he did not like the pho at this restaurant. He mentioned that the flavor was too weak and did not like rare meat. Actually that is how pho is, and he did ...

Hungry Planet: China

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 I made a presentation about China cuisine from a book called,"Hungry Planet". By the way, it is about urban area in China. The family below is what we will feature on about what they eat, and how much they spend on their food. First of all, let's start with brief explanation of this family. This is the Dong family, on the front of the right is Dong Li, and to his left is Zhang Liying, his mother. On their back is Guo Yongmei, Li's wife and on the right is his son, Dong Yan. Zhang Liying is not always with them, and she eats few times a week with the family. They live in an apartment.  They stock a week worth of food at their house. Also, they enjoy a combination of international food(western fast food) and traditional Chinese food. Although Li prefers traditional dishes, his son prefers western fast food such as, McDonalds, KFC and more. They also shop mostly at international supermarkets such as Walmart. There is a saying in China, that they will eat everything with...