Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
Our family sometimes goes to a Yakiniku restaurant in our neighborhood for dinner. Every time we dine there, I order the meat portion Tan-Shio (たん塩/タン塩: meaning Tongue Salt or Salted Tongue) at least once....
A while ago, I noticed a few online searchers came to my blog article on Tokyo souvenirs via google with the keyword, Banana Manju (バナナ饅頭). I, of course, know what banana and Manju are. But until...
When it comes to Nori (海苔), the first thing that comes to many people’s minds will probably be a blackish dry sheet of seaweed used in sushi rolls. Including the one for sushi, the...
Anpan (あんパン) is a classic Japanese round bun first made in 1874 by the founder of a bakery named Kimuraya (present-day Kimuraya Sohonten) (Google Map), Kimura Yasubei (木村安兵衛). Anpan (あんパン) As you may already...
A few days ago, I stopped by a supermarket as usual on my way home from work and looked for something interesting for the blog article. As a result, I found this Tamago Senbei...
In the previous post, I talked about the Japanese ski soup Ski Jiru (スキー汁) and mentioned the place where the art of skiing was first transmitted from abroad. Specifically, for the first time in 1911,...
The prefecture where I live, Niigata, has heavy snowfall in the winter, and accordingly, here, there are a lot of ski resorts. Every year when wintertime comes, from various places in and outside of...
As I wrote in this post on how the Japanese words for adults, Seijin (成人) and Otona (大人), differ in meaning, I will talk here about the difference between Shonen (少年) and Seinen (青年)...
