Tag: food

I saw a report that said Americans throw away an average of 27% of available food, an unfortunate reality in ...

Part of the challenge of studying a foreign language is learning to categorize and separate the new concepts you encounter. ...

Last time I mentioned that the word "taco" (tako) happens to mean something very different in Japan: octopus. The Japanese ...

There are many strange and new tastes that await a foreigner who comes to live in Japan. Some, like pickled ...

You probably don't think of soybeans as being vital to culture, but in Japan, the lowly soybean is the most ...

Like most countries, the keitai (mobile phone) has become a huge part of life in Japan, and for the younger ...

Sushi is the delicious raw fish on rice eaten in Japan, and it's so popular here that we have to ...

Bento is the famous boxed lunch consumed millions of times daily across Japan, and fast becoming a sensation all over ...

I took the kids out for ramen last night, and while we were waiting for our gyoza dumplings to be ...

Like most other expats living in Japan, I've got a special relationship with...McDonald's. Back when I was getting used to ...

Last time I talked about words in English that happen to have meaning in Japanese, too. We keep coming up ...

The next time you're in Japan, I suggest you check out the maid cafes that can be found mostly around ...

Obi-wan Kenobi said it best: a lot of the reality we perceive depends on our point of view. I've talked ...

Tokyo is the sprawling capital of Japan, home to 12 million people, a number which rises by several million during ...

One of the first words a foreigner learns upon coming to Japan is daijobu (dai-JOH-boo), a very useful term which ...

Last time I talked about some of the interesting discussions I've seen on Japanese TV shows, even about subjects that ...

If you're thinking of breaking into Japan's tarento (talent) world, here's a bit of advice: you gotta be original. Japan's ...

Japan has really changed for the better over the past decade and a half in terms of how easy it ...

The Japanese, of course, use chopsticks at almost every meal, whether they're eating rice, noodles, fish or meat. (Certain foods ...

Over the weekend I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular ...

Japan is in an uproar right now over a food poisoning scare involving frozen dumplings called gyoza -- you may ...

It's winter in Japan right now, the season for one of my favorite dishes, nabe (NAH-beh). The word means "pot" ...

There are many large and small challenges you encounter when learning Japanese. For example, it's difficult being at peace with ...

Before I started J-List, I worked as an ESL teacher, sharing my native language with Japanese students. One Friday, an ...