Tag: food

"You've been in Japan too long when you no longer find anything amusing about the concept of 'Vermont Curry.'" Although ...

I've written before that two of the most important foods to any culture are beans and pickles, two food categories ...

Like all countries, agriculture is important to Japan, and a large number of people are involved with various types of ...

In 1989 Japan enacted its first consumption tax (e.g. VAT or sales tax), forcing a 3% tax on purchases on ...

Food can be an important bridge between cultures, something Yasu and I are certainly learning here in the American South. ...

Yasu and I continue to have fun in Georgia, visiting various tourist sites and finding interesting foods to eat, like ...

One thing I like about the Japanese is how creative they are with language. The other day I was choosing ...

The Japanese love to make meals into something that's pleasing to the eye as well as the stomach, a tradition ...

There's nothing like living as an expat to make you appreciate the things that were available in your home country ...

The money used in Japan is the yen, written with the kanji 円 en which means "circle." Yen comes as ...

Although I dislike the oppressive heat and humidity of summer in Japan, I'm a big fan of Japanese summer festivals, ...

I've heard that it's impossible to live in a country unless you truly enjoy the food there, and it's certainly ...

One fun aspect of living in Japan is visiting convenience stores and seeing what new snacks have been released. While ...

It's always fun to turn on late night TV in Japan and see what interesting shows I can find, like ...

I'm safely back in Japan, the land where everything is extremely clean and well-ordered. Now I'm trying to get used ...

We're having loads of fun at the San Diego Comic-Con here in always-sunny San Diego, selling tons of Tentacle Grape ...

One of the more challenging aspects of learning a foreign language is picking up idiomatic expressions, which can be terribly ...

I finally made time to finish the second season of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, ...

I went to Japan in 1991, happy to finally put all the Japanese I'd studied at SDSU to some use ...

One day I took my son out for a bowl of gyudon, steamed beef over rice, the most popular form ...

It's well known that the Japanese love rice, and eat it with nearly every meal, but they're no slouches when ...

One sad aspect of Japan's society is いじめ ijime (pronounced ee-jee-MEH), the cruel bullying that happens in school, sports and ...

There are many differences between Japan and America, and one of the biggest is food. Obviously the things that I ...

Mrs. J-List and I had fun in Las Vegas, relaxing by the pool and turning off our brains for long ...