One of my least favorite things about the modern food today is the artificial food coloring. I was one of the many people who fell into a commercial trick, never thinking anything negative about eating the food with shockingly bright colors that could actually give us serious diseases. For more information about the danger of food coloring, please go to this article I wrote before. And please, stop eating food with artificial coloring. Nothing good will happen! I've been on a mission to … [Read more...]
7 good things will happen if you go on a plant-based diet
Yukitchen encourages plant based foods. And I noticed that people tend to ask why quite often, so I decided to make an article about it to clear things out. Going on a plant based diet basically means you are a vegan. So yeah, I don't eat meat, at all. My diet choice has made my life so much happier, but I did realize that it's not really making people around me happy. I think it's because I'm Asian, and Asians eat meat like Cookie Monster eats his cookies. My family and friends from Japan … [Read more...]
Panda Tapioca Milk Tea With Panda Boba
When I had my first tapioca milk tea, I was a student at UCSD. I was at a "Tapioca Express" AKA "Tapex" on Convoy Street after school, getting in a queue with a bunch of Asian Americans with my heavy backpack filled with textbooks. Asians in the states love Boba, and I became one of them ever since I had my fist Boba at Tapex on Convoy :) Boba tea is called "Bubble tea" in Singapore, and of course, I didn't know that, because my boba education started in California. So when I just arrived in … [Read more...]
Butter or Margarine? The answer is easy.
When it comes to the butter aisle, picking the best product for your health can be a confusing decision that ends up leaving a lot of people stumped. It's no wonder so many people don't know whether they should be opting for butter or margarine as years ago we were continuously told that butter was a big no-no. This caused vegetable-oil based margarines to increase in popularity as doctors started warning patients about the dangers of saturated fats and recommending that margarine was the … [Read more...]
Choco-Banana Rilakkuma Toast
This week I purchased a western food called "Nutella" for the first time in my life. I'm aware that Nutella is a wildly common food throughout the US and Europe, but not in Japan. I lived in the states for seven years, yet I promised myself never to lose my Bushido (the way of a samurai) and cooked Japanese food almost every day. I never even touched any American ingredients when I went shopping at the grocery stores. Looking back, it was almost madness; it was as if I was afraid of becoming … [Read more...]
Gluten-phobia or Gluten-aware?
What is "Gluten"? Gluten is a sticky, stretchable protein found in grains like wheat, barley, oats, and rye. Most of us unknowingly love it, because gluten gives our favorite foods that special touch: It makes pizza dough stretchy, gives bread its spongy texture, and is used to thicken sauces and soups. Even your soy souse contains gluten! To people with a chronic digestive disorder called celiac disease, gluten is truly evil: Their bodies regard even a tiny crumb of it as a malicious … [Read more...]
Rilakkuma Scrambled Eggs
Most young kids will run after mom if she tries to leave them alone with a stranger. But according to a study, kids who haven't bonded well with their mothers—psychologists call it "insecurely attached"—will rather stay behind with a security blanket. And in my case, it was always stuffed animals. They say kids with secure attachments to their mothers were more or less likely to have a security blanket, because they simply don't need a security blanket to fill their void. But what about the … [Read more...]
Panda Shiratama Anmitsu
"An" means bean paste, "mitsu" means syrup. To me, Anmitsu is an epitome of sugary treats with a side of nostalgia. I remember those summer days in Tokyo where I got in line at a cafe with my mother. Whenver we order an anmitsu together, she would always order hers with ice-cream, and I would always order mine without ice-cream. Now that I'm 6000 miles away from her, those details of my Anmitsu memories come back to me like a tornado, and I'm just right here alone in my bed, wondering why I … [Read more...]
Make your own curry powder
Curry is my favorite food of all time. I love curry because it's not only tasty but also it does a good thing to out bodies. I've been cooking curries for ever since I was little, but only a couple years ago I decided to make my own curry from scratch. Why? Because 1: I found out that store-bought curry contains meat and chemicals, and that's a no-no. And 2: I feel like a bad-ass Indian chef when I'm working on making curry from scratch. I can almost hear the comical Indian music in my kitchen, … [Read more...]
Artificial food colors and solutions
I used to think food like this looks good and tasty. Birthday cakes nowadays are always coated with shockingly vivid colors with a Winnie the Pooh on top smiling. I was one of the many people who fell into a commercial trick, never thinking anything negative about eating these food. But was I to be blamed? I grew up with parents who got me those colorful cakes for my borthdays, and all my friends seemed to be eating just the same, too. Unless you go nuts and read about nutritions all day like … [Read more...]
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