Let's write words in Japanese

Hello everybody, こんにちは。

I've made how to type and write Hiragana on the computer before, based on Hiragana chart.

Lets talk about Katakana for a little bit today.

all the sounds are the same as hiragana.

Katakana look boxy and has edgy shapes compares to Hiragana.

Japanese Alphabet (Katakana) Poster
by falkdesigns

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Katakana is used to express foreign words like,

McDonald = マクドナルド　
Ski = スキー　
America = アメリカ
cake = ケーキ
party = パーティー

all sounds are flat in Japanese.

uses the long line to express long sounds　or extend sounds

you may not recognize the words when it pronounced in Japanese but you'll surprised to know a lot of English words are used in Japanese.

how to write / type Katakana is basically the same as how to write Hiragana.

Let's practice writing / typing words.

First, change the setting to Japanese typing mode,

to type Japanese, you need to know how it pronounced the word in Japanese.

type in  = McDonald = makudonarudo = マクドナルド
 hamburger = hanba-ga- = ハンバーガー
hotdog = hottodoggu = ホットドッグ

small つ is used when you skip the sound. to write small つ、type the consonant twice. you can also make the words smaller if you type in x before the word

only works for vowels and small tsu っ　

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French Toast with French Bread

French bread gets dried and hard just after a few hours if you left out, You might cut your mouth if you’re  eating this as it is but you can make the best French toast out of this! I mean I can’t eat other French toast anymore.

About 1/3 of French toast Cut into slices

Soak into the mixture of these

1egg
3/4 cup of milk (about 170 cc)
1 tablespoon of sugar
cinnamon (optional)

You flip the bread and coat with the mixture.

Heat up the frying pan, put some oil, maybe some butter and cook for a few minutes each both sides.

Put on the plates, enjoy with butter and powdered sugar.

Non-Stick Frying pan

Salmon Teriyaki dinner at home

Salmon Teriyaki with rice, miso soup, vegetable

This salmon Teriyaki is very easy. No marinade necessary.

 First, mix these to make a sauce and set aside.

 1 Tablespoon of Soy Sauce
 1 Tablespoon each of water and sweet sake
 1 Teaspoon of Sugar
hint of grated ginger (optional)

Heat up frying pan, coat with oil, Place the salmon, skin-side up in the pan. Cook until golden brown on 1 side. Turn the fish over with a spatula, and cook until it feels firm to the touch and the skin is crisp if desired.

Add the sauce, cook till the sauce get a little thicker. Serve with cooked rice and enjoy!

Here's Mirin (Sweet Sake) you can use white wine instead.

Asian Party Dish, Nabe

Are you ready for the holiday? It's getting chilly out, For a lot of us, Japanese, (or Asian), it's time to enjoy Nabe. We cook vegetable and meat, fish on a table and dip on a favorite sauce. Once you prepare ingredients, you can cook as you eat, sitting around the table, we would take turn to cook, serve, and eat with favorite drink such as sake. I recently enjoyed Thai style nabe. The recipe is for about 4 people.

Ingredients are simple. You'll need half of a whole Chinese cabbage, green onion, next to Chinese cabbage is called "Shungiku" (garland chrysanthemum) You can find those vegetable at Asian market, but you can skip some ingredients if you can't find them.

On this Thai Nabe, I used Cilantro, if you have Asian market near you, you can buy Shirataki (konnyaku noodles), Enoki mushroom, and Tofu (may be you can get all over nowadays).

Chop all vegetables/tofu into bitable size, boil over konnyaku noodles and chop.

For meat and fishes, thin sliced meet (beef in pic and shrimp devined and peeled or any kind of fish or meat as you like. I added fish ball, and made some shrimp wan ton.

Make dipping sauce. For Thai dip sauce, you'll need
6 table spoon lemon juice
6 table spoon fish sauce
2 tea spoon sugar
1 or 2 clove of garlic, chopped
5 stems of cilantro, chopped

Just mix them.

For Japanese nabe, you can use ponzu (soy sauce plus some lemon juice) for the dipping sauce.

You can add chopped cilantro, garlic, and Chinese chili sauce on your dipping sauce as you like.

On a portable stove on the table you are gathering at, put a pot, you can use usual pot.
The soup is one litter of chicken broth, chopped lemon grass stem, and cilantro stems.

For usual Japanese nabe, we would use kelp broth (a 1 inch square dry kelp with about an litter of water) with a few table spoon of soy sauce, sake, and so on.

You don't need to make it salty since you'll dip the food to your dipping sauce later.

Put a lid and wait for boiling soup..

Once the broth is boiled, put tofu, shirataki, Chinese cabbage, green onions, fish ball, but not the meat or fish.You don't have to put all the meat, or vegetable at once. cook as you eat.

Add some meat and fish to the boiling pot. put lid and wait for a while.

It's cooked! Add soup on nabe when it seems little low later on before you add more vegetable or meat. you can add some water since it's already flavorful.

Serve on individual bowl and eat with dipping sauce and topping.

After you scoop up all the meat and vegetable, add some cooked Udon noodle or cooked rice and boil and serve. This is called Shime in Japanese. (means finishing up)

This burner is handy for camping too!

This is similar to what I have.


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