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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...

My Food Blog Analysis

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 Hello! Thank you for reading my blog! For this post, I would like to give you a food blog analysis.  This is the food blog I am going to show this time. It is, "The Pioneer Woman". The creator of this blog is Red Drummond, and she used to opearate this blog by her own before. But now, she works with team and is creating this blog, still now.  There are ads such as kitchen products and so on. The website is very colorful and is very easy to understand the details. We, readers can leave comments on the blog, so we can interact with the blog creators. Although I mentioned that this is a food blog, there are posts on beauty, home and life, and lots more. The blog is updated about once a week or two weeks.  I liked the color variation used on the website, and the variety of contents made on the blog. It looks like the blog is for women, there are many contents that might interest men. If you want to know more, google it as, "The Pioneer Woman"!

Food-Related Book Review

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 The title of the book I am reading right now is "Bread, Wine, Chocolate The Slow Loss Of Foods We Love" by Simran Sethi. The author is a journalist, but also writing novels like this. This book was published in 2015 from HarperOne. The main point this book wants to talk about is as you can see from the title of the book, she wants to tell us the loss of food, by talking about few types of food from chocolate, bread, wine, beer and more.  As far as I read, she mentions how we eat small amount of species that live around the world. For example, we only eat meat such as beef, pork, chicken, maybe lamb but as you can see, they are few of the species we eat as meat. She wants to alert us that we eat same species too much. It is true that we must eat variety of food, but it is also difficult to change our eating habit.