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...]
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