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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