Tag: food

Every large city has its Asian district, and in San Diego it's located along Convoy Avenue in the Kearny Mesa ...

In a world where so many anime series follow the adventures of yet another high school club trying to assemble ...

All languages use onomatopoeia, words based on sounds, and some examples in English are bark, oink, crash, click, snap, clap, ...

Quick, do you know how many Great Lakes there are in North America? The answer is five. The reason I ...

One of the most powerful symbols of Japan is, of course, Mt. Fuji, the beautiful volcano that sits astride Shizuoka ...

You may remember reading a few years ago that Japan had "outlawed" being overweight. Like much of what you read ...

We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...

It's been an eventful few months for Japan's economy, with the return to the conservative pro-business and oh-so-oddly-named Liberal Democratic ...

One thing you learn when living as an expat in Japan is how global the world can be. Recently my ...

I've learned a few things during my time in Japan, including dozens of ways to use mayonnaise as well as ...

Whenever two cultures come into contact, there's a sharing of language on both sides. This is why we all know ...

One thing I like about the Japanese is their interesting way of looking at things, which is often very creative. ...

One keyword that's big in Japan these days is チャイナリスク ("China Risk"), which describes the many potential problems that countries ...

There are certain benefits to being in Japan, including the ability to go almost anywhere by train and toilets that ...

Japan is probably the only country where eating too quietly will get comments from people around you. The correct way ...

One of the more enjoyable aspects to living in Japan is the constant stream of entertaining TV commercials, and I ...

One of the most fascinating things about the world is the way our perceptions change as the scale we're observing ...

Everyone knows that rice is the staple food of the Japanese, and it really is -- most people in Japan ...

There are certain things that the Japanese love, including cat ears, mayonnaise, and green tea Kit Kat. They also love...insurance? ...

While it's generally fun to be a foreigner living in Japan -- the people are nice, the sushi is cheap ...

One reason I'm able to live happily in Japan is that I love the food here, and while I'm always ...

Forming stereotypes about others is part of being human, and sometimes it's a fun subject to explore. Since Westerners make ...

Before the new year arrived, I went to Yoshinoya for lunch for my official "last beef bowl of 2012," and ...

There are many traditional foods enjoyed on New Year's Day. The most famous is called osechi-ryori and is essentially an ...