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Jabba The Pie
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously said, believe them. However, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. But when they keep calling you “cutie pie” even though you don’t really know them, forget Maya and believe nothing but your own pie. You see, life is like a pie contest. You are the chef of your integrity pie and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about their pie and absolutely … [Read more...]
Rilakkuma Mitarashi Dango
I wonder if you have seen such a color as soft and chewy as Mitarashi amber. The golden glaze is made of soy sauce and sugar, and it covers the pearl-like sticky rice cake as known as "dango", in Japanese. This is Mitarashi Dango, and all Japanese grew up with Mitarashi Dango, especially around 3 peckish o'clock in the afternoon. I remember I was always fascinated by its color; I used to raise it up before even thinking about eating, and gazed at it for the longest moment. Perhaps it was the … [Read more...]
Education TV
12 educational videos to watch "Why do you not eat meat?" "Do you not miss it?" "Do you just want to loose weight?" "Are you religious?" These are the common 4 questions I get when I tell them I don't eat meat. Like every vegan/vegetarian people would say, it's not easy to deal with people who are not used to seeing the minorities. Eating for me is how you proclaim your believes 3 times a day. I don't believe in animal cruelty and I don't want to support that by eating it. 3 … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Smoothie with Soot Sprites
These are "Makkuro-Kurosuke" from My Neighbor Totoro, and also "Susuwatari" from Spirited Away. The translated version of their names often disappoints me, because it's just "Soot Sprites". Soot Sprites.... I got the sentiments, but it kills the subtlety of Japanese goodness when I see the word "sprites", -a supernatural entity in European mythology (i.e. Wikipedia). To us Japanese, we see souls, and spirits in everyday things, including dust or soot. We don't see fairies, we don't see … [Read more...]
Yubaba Miso Soup
This is Yubaba, from the film Spirited Away. She looks so scary to me; her head is bigger than a screen! But what I found scarier than her physical appearance is her magical skill of stealing people's names, or I should say, stealing their identities. To me, she represents a modern corporation. When you work in a corporation, you get paid monthly, but they also "own" you monthly. If you ever worked at a company, especially in Japan, you know what it feels like to lose your identity little by … [Read more...]
No Face Yakisoba
This is a character from the film Spirited Away, one of my favorite films of all time. His name is No-Face; the spirit of having no personality. No Face is wildly known as "No Face" to some of you, but in Japanese, the spirit's name is actually "Kaonashi", and it simply means, "faceless". To me, "Kaonashi" slightly differs from the "No Face" connotation, because he has no face of his own, so he has to absorb the faces of those around him, in order to pseudo-exist in his pseudo-reality, by … [Read more...]
Vegan Ramen With a Global Warming Polar Bear
Finding ramen without meat isn't really an easy search. But it's always easy to wonder if you can improvise the taste of ramen using plant-based items. I make a lot of vegan and vegetarian recipes here on Yukitchen, but making the world vegan is not my mission here. That would be supremacy, and no supremacy in history ever inspired us to think on our own. Instead, I can create a recipe, that would take my imagination to travel all the way to the North Pole. Climate change has become a global … [Read more...]
Nigaoe(Caricature) Cookies
"Nigaoe(似顔絵)"(ni-gah-oh-eh) is a caricature. It's a portrait realistically drawn by capturing or deforming the appearance and characteristics of a person. Ever since I was a kid, I've always loved drawing nigaoe. I find people's faces fascinating. It's the wrinkles, the freckles, and the idiosyncrasies on their faces that I find them so beautiful. And the more unique their faces are, the more I find joy in drawing them. Perhaps it's not the people's faces I love; -it's the stories behind their … [Read more...]
Yukitchen is available in Japanese!!!
I finally finished translating all my recipes into Japanese!! Some of you might be thinking "So what?" but this was A LOT of work for me. I love languages. I can pick up new words quickly because I find languages extremely fascinating. But I don't really enjoy translating. I've worked as a translator before, but that might be the most excruciating job I have ever done. So I decided to only take translating jobs with my own set rate, so it makes more sense doing it. It was a lot of … [Read more...]
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