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Loading ...September 2, 2010
One of my tasks as a wee lass in the early 90s was to wash the rice for dinner while my single mom did the rest of the preparation and cooking. She told me that the ultimate goal in rice-washing is to get the water clear.
With my tiny hands,
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August 20, 2010
When I first moved to Studio City earlier this year, my friend Trevor greeted me with “Welcome to the city of sushi joints and bong shops.” And I thought to myself, “Heaven?” I kid, kind of. According to Yelp.com there’s about 63 places to eat sushi in the 7.11 square miles
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August 19, 2010
The eskimos have many words for snow, just like the Japanese have many words for seaweed.
For those of us on the other side of the pacific, the lack of words for seaweed is problematic. It is very confusing when reading the translated English ingredients for nori, iwanori, wakame and
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August 18, 2010
I have a friend (let’s call him Mr. X) who’s both a Japanophile and a shopaholic. Not that this is a bad thing – the combination means that his apartment is a treasure chamber of Japanese collector’s items, beautifully rustic ceramics and a kitchen swollen with all kinds of Tokyo food imports.
Mr.
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July 26, 2010
Summer is here. A very fucking uncomfortably hot summer is here. I am not young enough to go out to the beach and lay out all day any more, which pisses me off. However, staying young-looking requires me to wear a lot of sun screen. What is it to get old? It’s
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July 15, 2010
When the heat rolls in, laziness comes in the form of “I don’t want to cook.” Maybe it’s also an instinctual thing where I am unconsciously preparing for a fire or earthquake which is more likely to happen in the hot summer months by hoarding a bunch of canned booty.
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July 8, 2010
Quite possibly the only herb in the mint family that the Japanese will not associate with toothpaste is shiso. Shiso, or sometimes referred to as perilla, Japanese basil or beefsteak plant is often found as a garnish in Japanese cuisine. I noticed that Yamahomo and I seem to
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July 1, 2010
The first time my husband found a bag of Capellini at a grocery store in America he said “It’s like sōmen.” Indeed, sōmen is about the same thinness as capellini and takes about the same time to boil – 3 minutes.
But unlike capellini, sōmen is always eaten cold
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June 10, 2010
This monochromatic sunomono salad may look humble, but it packs a sweet and sour punch. It tastes somewhat reminiscent to the cucumber salad that comes with Thai satay skewers. Although sunomono is eaten more like a salad than pickles, it does cleanse
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June 3, 2010
Cold noodles are one of the best things about the summer. My favorite cold noodles are soba noodles. When it’s hot outside and steaming rice sounds like the last thing I want to do, I can always rely on soba noodles. But there have been more
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