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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Easy to Cook Japanese Recipe Yaki-meshi (Japanese Style Fried Rice)

Yakimeshi or Japanese Style Fried Rice is a popular dish to cook at home in Japan. It is best to use left over rice or rice that you have made previously that has been frozen for this recipe to give it the best texture.

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 4 cups cooked left-over rice
• ½ cup fresh or frozen green peas, cooked & drained
• ½ cup fresh or frozen corn, cooked & drained
• 2 eggs
• vegetable oil
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 small carrot, peeled and chopped
• 1 spring onion, chopped
• 1 tsp salt
• a pinch of pepper

Method

1. Warm or defrost rice briefly in microwave.
2. Cook peas and corn separately and drain well.
3. Break eggs into a bowl and stir.
4. Heat a frying pan over a high heat, add a small amount of oil. Add egg mixture to pan, stirring constantly. Transfer scrambled egg onto a plate.
5. Add more oil to pan, add garlic, carrot and spring onion and stir for 1 minute with wooden spoon.
6. Add green peas and corn, then warmed rice stirring continuously. Add scrambled egg.
7. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir-fry for a minute.

Note:

• If you want a spicy version add 1 Tbsp of curry powder
• For a Tokyo-style fried rice add soy sauce instead of salt
• Other ingredients you can add to the fried rice include chopped ham or bacon, cooked chicken thigh or roasted duck.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Japan’s Sense Roid Replicates Human Hug

Japanese inventors have pushed the boundaries of technology again with the ultimate companion for lonely singles, a wired torso-shaped device that you can hug and it will hug you back.

Called the Sense-Roid, it looks like a tailor’s mannequin with silicone skin and is packed with pressure sensors. It is connected to the jacket worn by the user and replicates the feeling of an embrace with the help of air compressors.

The illusion of a mutual hug is enhanced by artificial muscles and vibrating devices in the jacket. According to reports many people initially feel surprised and uncomfortable about the unusual experience, but gradually get accustomed to it.

Watch the video below for the unique Sense Roid



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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mos Burger in Australia

Mos Burger is coming to Australia. After my last post about Lotteria’s Tower Cheese burger, which you can read here this is some good news for burger lovers in Australia. Mos Burger is a famous hamburger chain restaurant in Japan that pitches itself as a gourmet burger chain that is healthier than its rivals. Its burgers are made fresh and with Asian style tastes such as teriyaki and soy. The chain is well known in Japan for its Mos Rice Burger that uses a bun made of rice and the original Mos Burger. My favourite has to be the Spicy Mos Burger that comes with a really delicious sauce. Mos Burger has hardly changed its menu for Australia but has increased the burger sizes by 20 per cent along with its prices.

Mos Burger will begin its test run with a store in Brisbane and aims to establish stores in Sydney and Melbourne, and then in Perth, Adelaide and other cities and regional centers. The company is eying about 30 outlets in five years.

Success is heavily tipped and it could be the start of a Japanese chain restaurant invasion.

Original Mos Burger

Yakiniku Rice Burger
Mos Burger Japan Menu


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Monday, June 27, 2011

Changes to Japan Australia


No, you haven’t made a mistake. This is still Japan Australia.

I just decided to make a few changes to the Blog.

What do you think?

After a year and a half of the same design, I thought it would be nice to have a change. I decided to go with a mountain scene which reminds me of my home in Gifu, Japan and the blue colours give it a nice calm/relax feeling.

Let me know what you think of the changes and please feel free to post any comments.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Tower Cheese Burger

The Lotteria fast food chain in Japan has just brought out its new burger. The Tower Cheese Burger. Released on June 24th and based on its original 160 yen cheese burger you can stack up to 10 beef patties for 100 yen each. Lotteria has been promoting the new burger based on the two versions below.

Tower Cheese with 5 beef patties 700 yen about (USD $7)

Tower Cheese with 10 beef patties 1400 yen about (USD $14)

It is a whole lot of beef and cheese with no vegetables. Only extras include pickles and ketchup.

What do you think? Would you try one?

Tower Cheese with 10 beef patties

Compare the double cheese burger with the Tower Cheese with 5 pattues and 10 patties

 
Check out some other burgers from Japan including:

The Burger King Meat Monster

McDonald`s Big America series

Friday, June 24, 2011

Shin Nihongo no Kiso

The Shin Nihongo no Kiso series of Japanese textbooks was very important in helping me successfully learn Japanese. The first book Shin Nihongo no Kiso I enables the beginner or new learner to master the basics and make simple sentences and conversation. The second book Shin Nihongo no Kiso II is for the more advanced with more advanced conversations based on real life daily situations.

Here is a breakdown of the two books

Shin Nihongo no Kiso I
100 hours study time, 25 lessons, 800 vocab items, and 75 sentence patterns

Shin Nihongo no Kiso II
100 hours study time, 25 lessons, 680 vocab items, and 64 sentence patterns

The series starts with the Shin Nihongo no Kiso Main Textbook with seperate English Translation and Grammatical notes available. The main textbook is all in Japanese, which is a great way to immerse yourself in the language, but I highly recommend getting English Translation and Grammatical notes as they really helped me. The English Translation lists the vocabulary for each chapter in romaji, kana and English as well as an English translation of the sentence patterns and example sentences from each chapter. The Grammatical Notes in English explain in detail the grammatical points and structures for each chapter with lots of examples to help you with correct usage.

I have found that my grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and reading and writing improved dramatically using this book. It was also a great aid in studying for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Jyagariko

Jyagariko (じゃがりこ) is one of my favourite Japanese snacks. Made by Calbee the most recognised snack company in Japan, it comes in a cylinder cup with a peel-off lid as you can see from the picture. Jyagariko is basically a seasoned potato stick made from non-fried potatoes. The original flavours are salad and cheese, but now there are a multitude of different flavours and types. These snacks are really crunchy, perfectly seasoned and tasty with the original salad Jyagariko still my all- time favourite.




Check out some other Japanese Snacks in this series below

Onigiri Senbei

Collon

Kinoko no Yama

Pocky



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