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  • Lunch at Tsukiji Outer Fish Market

    Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 5:50AM / Members only

     

    Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime(築地魚河岸三代目/Tsukiji fish market wholesale the third)is the popular comics. It has been  translated into Chinese and has published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Moreover was filmized and is showing at the Shanghai Film  Festival.

    movie site
    http://www.uogashi3.jp/movie/

    The advisers of the comics are Koichi Ogawa(the former wholesale/the chef of Chiaki Japanese fish restaurant) and his wife  Fumi Hirano(writer/anime voice actor).Fumi is famous for acting Lum Invader(拉姆)in Uruseiyatsura(山T女福星福星小子) .


    千秋(chiaki)
    http://www.3daime.jp/chiaki.htm

    I went to the Chiaki restaurant to interview her and took the lunch with fresh fish from the Tsukiji market.

    Tuna & horse mackerel bawl(800yen)



    Ladies lunch(950yen):tuna bawl, long green onion and tuna soup, boiled spinach seasoned with soy sauce and tuna powder, desert(a bracken-starch dumpling)

    Tokizake(salmon) from Hokkaido


    I learned some hangs of fish cooking by Fumi.
    -to remove the smell from fish, salt on it just before boiling and grilling.
    -to prevent oil splash, soak cuttlefish and  prawn in milk, dip them in batter and deep fry it.
    -a fresh fish cuisine just caught from a fish preserve is not yummy, because too fresh fish need some time to mature.
    -Tokizake(salmon) from Hokkaido, sea bass, flatfish are in season.

         
    Tsukiji 350th aniversary / Fumi Hirano


    The Tsukiji fish market was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu just 350 years ago. In recent years becomes a popular attraction for foreign travelers. There are  "inner market" (licensed wholesale market)and "outer market"(mixture of wholesale and retail shops). After the interview, I dropped by my favorite shop to get some.

    松露(shoro): omelet specialty store established in 1924
    http://www.shouro.co.jp/shouro.php

    Which omlet do you like best?

  • Obama Hula Girls

    Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 5:35AM / Members only


    Video: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=V5QK6bj-Ngs



    On June 6th the hula dance group, “Obama girls", left to Honolulu, the hometown of candidate Obama, to participate in "Hawaii Festival". Actually it was made up by "The residents' group which supports candidate Obama unofficially" in Obama-shi,Japan.

    Obama (小浜 means small shore in Japanese), is a small fishing town in Fukui Prefecture. The residents of Obama-shi have supported Barack Obama only because the pronunciation of the town "Obama" was the same. The residents also put various souvenirs for sale to promote the town with officials. In fact not a few people criticize them for making a fool. However I am no judge on the issue.

    Well, would Obama-shi succeed in getting big international attention?  How do you think about their sense of humor?

    Video:

    http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOQFX2ozKQ

     

  • What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

    Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 12:31AM / Members only

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  • What We Can Do

    Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:36PM / Members only

    Here is the list for donation to China and Myanmar from Japan. Make releif contribtions to help them. (sorry, only in japanese)

    日本国内でもネットで店頭で、募金活動が広がっています。

    ■nifty internet donation
    http://www.nifty.com/tokusetsu/index.htm

    ■yahoo japan internet donation
    http://volunteer.yahoo.co.jp/donation/detail/1301007/

    ■Mainichi newspaper 毎日新聞東京社会事業団
    http://www.mainichi.co.jp/shakaijigyo/mai_contents_saigai.html

    ■NHK 日本放送協会
    http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkvnet/spot/2008-china-eq/

    ■Japanese red cross 日本赤十字
    http://www.jrc.or.jp/sanka/help/index.html

    ■店頭募金(seveneleven,itoyokado,seibu,sogo,etc) 
    http://www.itoyokado.co.jp/company/news/spcl/2008/pdf/20080513.pdf#search='

    ■Pちょコム e-money
    http://www.pchocom.jp/topics/news_index.html#080508_2

  • The festival of Nezu Shrine

    Friday, May 2, 2008 2:13AM / Members only

    There are large crowds in the precincts in these holidays called "Golden Week".

    Well, what photograph do they take all together?

    The answer is・・・azalea! It's the azalea festival.

    Nezu shrine(根津神社)in Tokyo is noted for its azalea and about 50 kinds, 3,000 stocks bloom at  a garden. The shrine was originally commissioned by Japanese legendary prince about 1900 years ago.

     

    There are several rules for a worshipper, though many people does not follow them. At first, enter the precincts after bowing lightly at a Torii(鳥居).

    Pure water on your hands with a ladle and rinse out a mouth  to purify yourself.(手水)

    Bow twice, clap your hands twice in prayer, then bow once.(二拝二拍手一拝)



    After woship is over,enjoy foods at venders.

    corns from Hokkaido


    boiled konnyaku from Yamagata ; a gelatinous food made from devil's-tongue starch

    japanese beans pancake

    candies. micky the left.

    dried cuttlefish

    locusts,small fish boiled in sweetened soy sauce


    beans coated with sugar



    grilled garic and mashroom from Aomori

    the noted  shop of "Sake (alcohol) Manju(steamed bun)" in this shrine.

      

    While I took pics, they were sold out!

    and games!!!

    What do they aim at with guns?

    hahaha...

    Here's a flea market

    It says "How about this for the present of Mother's Day?"

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  • posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 7:15AM  [Report]
    what is cmaping? ;/

  • posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 6:34AM  [Report]
    ha~ u saw the pictures i sent u?!
    thanks ~^^

  • posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 2:57AM  [Report]
    I use the google translator, but i notice the different word constellation, so reversed. When i have difficulty again in the next japanish official artist blog i will ask you, my dear.
    Thank you for your support, you are an angel, Jasmine !!! =)

  • posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 2:33AM  [Report]
    My pleasure, i like what they blog, my dear !!! Japan interest me more and more, hahaha !!! ^^
    But i have still a lot to learn about the grammar, hihi !!! =)

  • posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 1:56AM  [Report]
    Hey....JasmineT.
    How are you recently??Busy in work?

  • posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 11:00PM  [Report]
    Hello, my Gold!!! How are you?

  • posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 10:45PM  [Report]
    thx alot for the concern~

  • posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 9:49AM  [Report]
    maybe can help clean up the air.....

  • posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 9:21AM  [Report]
    it's over~~

  • posted on Friday, Jul 4, 2008 9:02AM  [Report]
    haha```yup```im just a junior```
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