How to open the can

Recentry cans are not necesasry to use the can opener because there are with tab to open.
Japanese many can's tab has just this shape.
Tab floats above top of the can to open easily.

The yakitori can.Yakitori is a Japanese popular poultry foods.

When you open the can it is easy to open having some space between tab and top for insert finger.

There was no space when the can with tab had started to sell in Japan.
I had struggled to open the can but now I can open very easy.

Mackerel can

how about your country's cans?

The pasta source can

My favorite food "Tofu"

Very famous Japanese and Chinese food "tofu".
Tofu made from soy beans and it is very healthy.

package

Tofu are almost having white and square shape.
How does that tast?











Actually tofu's tast is very bland but somehow very good.
In Edo era that was abot 150years ago, there were over 100 recipis in Japan, perhaps China was more recipis than Japan.
I like tofu and cook some dishes, put into miso soup and mabo-dofu and hiya-yakko.
Mabo-dofu is a Chinese food a little hot, it increase appetite.
Hiya-yakko is the most simple dish I think, that is only cut the tofu into easy size to eat and pour soy souce and some herbs put on if you want. In summer, cold yiha-yakko is good for to take nutrition

My rice cooker

This is a my rice cooker it can cook 600g rice seeds at once.

The rice seeds get to heavy when it cook, because they suck the water so 600g rice seeds become about 1.3kg rice after cook.

I was given this used rice cooker from my friend and have used this since 1993, Japanese products are really long life and don't break, I think.
If this cooker broke it maybe impossible to fix because probably there are no parts to repair in the produced campany.
If it goes I have to buy new one but I'll feel something sad.

I ate instant Ramen yesterday

Yesterday, I ate instant ramen at lunch.
It was salt taste ramen I cooked myself.

This is the package.
It is written "shio" big black letters that means salt in Japanese.









I can tell you how to make ramen, it's very easy I have cooked ramen since about 10 years old every Satureday.

First: Put water in a pot then boil the noodle about 3 minutes.


Second: When noodles are tender, you turn off the heater, and put into pot soup powder.

Finish: Move to the bowl and eat.
Add egg or hams or some vegetables, it makes taste good.




If you get a ramen you'd try to cook and eat.

Umeboshi

This picture is "ume-boshi".

Ume is a plum seed, umeboshi is dry plum in English and it have strong acidity taste.

Ume-boshi is a kind of pickles, it is made to confit salt after drying harvested plums.
It can preserve long term over 100 years.
Almost Japanese know thats acid taste so when we imagine umeboshi we secrete saliva naturally like a Pavlov's dog.

In the picture you can see some black parts, that are basil leaves to enhance flavor and color.

Japanese healthy food "natto"

Do you know what is this?

This pictures are my natto.
It dosen't rotted.

Natto is made of soy beans to be fermented and very healthy food.
I like natto very mucu, I wish to eat natto evryday, every breakfast, evry lunch, every dinner, so much I love natto.


It have peculiar smell, but that is not bad smell.
If you come to Japan, I want you to eat natto.
It must bring you a great experience.

pinch with chopsticks

Natto can live long time, there lives many natto bacteria more than other putrefactive bacterias, so natto bacteria wins other ones to fight.
There is the natto bacteria around the earth naturally, actually we can make natto very easily.

Society of natto

Japanese instant food "cup-men"

This pictere is one of the Japanese instant foods called "cup-men".
Men means noodle.

This is a soba whicn is the Japanese traditional food made of buckwheat.

Cooking cup-men is very easy, only put boiling water into the cup and wait three minutes or a little more.

There are so many typs of "cup-men" in Japan for example soba, ramen, udon, miso-soup, buta-jiru(Japanese pork soup), harusame, etc and almost is delicious and easy cooking.

Maybe the first "cup-men" in Japan is CUP NOODLE by Nissin foods in 1971, I like curry noodle.