Stand up for Summer heat!

hello, how are you? today I'm going to introduce some foods which are good for tired body by summer heat. The summer heat has got me down and down:( I am not feel like I want to eat..even when I was hungry, weird!







so here are my recommended foods for ya:)

・Pork and Liver
We need to take lots of Vitamin B. It is very important to make a energy. Especially liver is a rich food. Also rice and bread which have a germ are good.

・Vegetables and Fruits

Especially, Okra, green soybean, pineapple, lemon and kiwi are seasonal veges and fruits.

They are rich Vitamin C. It make our body to cheer up!

・Natto and Tofu

They have lots of magnesium so that it help body metabolic and support Vitamin B.

These are my recommended foods. After I searched these foods, I realized the one famous proverb. In Japanese, "Ryoyo kuchi ni nigashi" and in English..I'm not sure but kind of " Good medicine for health tastes bitter".

Vegetables and Fruits are taste good but, especially Natto and Liver! They are exactly suitable foods for that proverb, aren't they:)?

The summer just has come. We know that its going to get hotter and hotter! so take care of your body and have a good summer!

Hi, its soooo hot these days..but I was watinig for summer so I'm exciting!

anyway, today I'm going to introduce about Vegetarian Restaurants in Japan and in America.

At first I'm going to intriduce vgetarian rstaurant in Japan.
I was suprised the number of vgetarian restaurants. There are many restaurants which have a variety of vegetable dishes but they also include meat and fish in it so they are not for vegetarian. There are only about 20 restaurants which have all vegetable dishes. I think this is very small number and could know Japan is not very kind for vegetarian:(

Now I introduce one of the vegetarian restaurant inTokyo.
It is named "VEGAN Healing Cafe". They often use brown rice and soybeans in their dishes. Also they have many organic ingredients. Beans and rice are basic and important food for vegetarian.

here is the restaurant's homepage address: http://www.vegancafe.jp/

Next, I'm going to talk about vegetarian restaurants in America.

There are 3873restaurants for vegetarian. It is big defference between Japan and America.. Especially in California, there are about 800 vegetarian restaurants!(I knoe America is huge but still...!) We can see that vegetarian culture is very common in America.

They use organic ingredients but also a lot of fruits in their dishes too. They have more ideas for vegetarian dishes.

we can search vegetarian restaurants from this wedsite:http://www.happycow.net/north_america/

Lara said being and living in Japan is diffecult, and I could know how difficukt it is now. Japan should be more cooperative to vegetarian. I want to go to the vegetarian restaurant and have a healthy dishes not just salad. haha!

Fry and make your own skewers

hi, today I am going to introduce the restaurant named "Kushiya-monogatari."

This is Kushi(Japanese fryed meat, veges and other foods) restaurant.

When you order the meal at restaurant, usually you get finished dish. but at this restaurant, you can choose any foods you like and fry them all by yourselves!

This restaurant is in Lala-port and we can have as much as we like for 2600 yen( its a little bit expensive:( and we have a 90 min for the meal.

Here is the process:

Step1-Pick some foods you like. There are veges, beef, chicken, seafoods... a lot.

Step2-Dip it into the sauce which mixed water and flour. Then roll it in the bread crumbs.

Step3-Fry it! The each table has a fry pot. It takes 1~3minutes.


Step4-Eat it! There are 6 diffrent kinds of sauces, for example Ume-sauce, Worcester sauce and cheese sauce...so you can enjoy many defferent kinds of taste.

We can also have salda, fruits, Curry and rice and chocolate fondue. (they are not for fry! haha)

I've thought fryed foods are heavy for stomach and they are acutually if you had too much them, but this restaurant have many vegetables so that it can be healthy and we can have vegetable with fun!

I recommend fryed shrimp with grated radish sauce(Daikon- Orishi Ponzu).

This restaurant is good for have a fun dinner with family or friends.

I want to make fryed foods at my home. I guess Tofu is going to be good fryed food...!

what kind of food is good to fry do you think?

Indiaaa!

Hello:) today I introduce about Curry Restaurant at Tudanuma Parco. There is a Curry Restaurant which is run by Indian men. (they are very friendly!)

They have about 15 kinds of Curry and 10 kind of nan bread. The nan is warm and a littel bit sweet..so good! We can choose 3 Curries, and nan, rice, salda as much as you we want only for 980 yen in this restaurant. isn't this pretty cheap?

As I said they have many kinds of Curries. Its very interesting. I will try Coconut Curry next time hehe. There are many different kind of countries food restaurant in Japan. I think it because almost every Japanese don't have any ingredients which are forbidden in our religion. Its one of Japanese interesting Characteristic! and we can have a enjoy them:)

Do you like Curry? please tell me if you know good country food! Which country food do you like?

Hello:) today, I want to intoduce about Doughnut shop!

We have a famous Doughnut shop named 'Mr Doughnut' in Japan but today I want to introduce ' Krispy Doughnut'. There is the shop in the La-la port (again...but thats my favorite place!) and I've got Lemon cheese cake doughnut. It has lemon cream in it and covered cheese and some nuts..taste was soooo gooood!

ok, then I'm going tell you the short story of Krispy Doughnut...

Vamon( the fouder)had got doughnut recipe from French chef in New Orleans. He wanted to sell a hotand fresh doughnut so that he drilled into his doughnut factory and sell it from the factory directly! His first shop opened in 1937.

Then they created doughnut machines and thier doughnut became famous among Amerian people. In 2001, the shop opened in Canada which was first time for them to oversea. In 2006, Krispy Doughnut came to Japan finally! welcome to Japan~;)

I was a litte bit surprised at story because they have such a long history but they came to Japan just few years ago..! anyway it dosen't matter because we can have a delicious doughnut now:)

Moreover, they have a many kinds of doughnut. please check out.

http://www2.krispykreme.jp/menu_doughnuts/

The shop in the La-la port is always crowed especially after the lunch time. You have to line and wait for long time to get it so that I recommend you should go there except after Lunch time.

now I really want have a doughnut so badly!lol If you know any interestng doughnut, please tell me!

Wanna bite?

hello:) rainy everyday..I miss warm sunshine!

anyways, today I'm going to talk about "Apple". My hometown is Aomori and Apple is one of Aomori's well-known product so I want to let you know more about Apple!

Quick History

:The apple growth dates back to the 18th(about 4000 years ago) in Europe and came to Japan from China in the begining of Meiji period. There are about 2000 kinds of apple in the world now.

3 main Food Values

1. Good for beauty! Apple is rich in VitaminC so that gives good effect for our skin.

2.Effective for intestinal disorders! Also, apple is rich in dietary fiber. It helps our stamach and intestinal condition good. There is the opinion that its good for body to eat apple before you drink an alcohol...!

3. Prevention for bad teeth! Apple makes teeth clean and strong. We should big bit Apple!

http://www.ringomuseum.com/knowledge/kenkou.html

Recipes

:We already know some Apple recipes, like jam, pie, juice, cake...but today I introduce "Apple sushi". I've never tried before, have you? here is the recipe of Apple sushi, it looks good though!

http://recipe.gourmet.yahoo.co.jp/B003892/ please try:)

now I want to bite red bright apple~. When you buy an apple next time, I recommend to buy one from Aomori. It sweet and fresh!

Feel Hawai!

IF you want to have a great humburger, I recommend you to go to this humburger restaurant!
Its named "KUA 'AINA". This restaurant is from Hawai and we can have humburgers and sandwiches. I went to the Lala-port with my friends and got humburger and sandwich each of us as a breakfast!haha

The taste is really great and the meat was big and juicy! Its because they start to bake a meat after they got the order so that we can have a just baked meat in humburger. Also, we can pick some extra toppings(vegetables, cheese, etc...)so that we can make a own favorite hmburger or sundwich.When I having a this meal in this restaurant, I feel like if I were a Hawaian. The restaurant looks Hawaian beer garden, and stuff said "Aloha~" to us:)

That was my first time to visit "KUA' AINA" but it already became one of my favorite restaurant! MacDonald is not good enough for me anymore!haha! If you want to have a great humburger, go to KUA' AINA!