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Tom Aaron's Articles in Food & Beverage

  • Cold Noodles in the Summer in Japan: Ramen, Soba, and Udon
    This article discusses cold noodles eaten in the summer in Japan. Ramen, soba, and udon may be the three most popular types of noodles that can be served hot with a broth, or cold without one. Most ramen is made from wheat flour, salt, water and kansui. Soba is made by combining buckwheat flour with wheat flour. Udon is made from wheat flour. Soba noodles are probably the thinnest with ramen not that much larger. Udon noodles are thicker.
  • Cold ramen, okonomiyaki and takoyaki: Japanese food to try if you can find it
    Japanese food offers more than sushi, sashimi, sukiyaki, teriyaki, and tempura. This article suggests three Japanese foods to try if you can find them: cold ramen, okonomiyaki and takoyaki. The author had never heard of these foods before visiting Japan.
  • Hot Buns in Japan: Pork, Pizza, Curry, and Salty Caramel
    Hot buns in the winter in Japan include pork, curry, and salty caramel buns. The buns are based on the Chinese pork buns and are a fast food available at convenience stores and other places. Biting into a hot bun on a cold winter day is one of the small pleasures in life.
  • Japan and Curry
    Curry rice is one of the most popular dishes in Japan. The curry rice served in Japan differs greatly from the curry and rice eaten in most of the world, tasting more like a curry flavored stew. Curry is also used in other dishes in Japan including curry udon and curry buns.
  • Japanese food and images
    Japanese cuisine includes a number of dishes combining parent and child together, an image that seems to resonate with the Japanese public. In sushi, eating male and female reproductive organs together does not resonate with the Japanese public, but eating all the different parts of both genders of the same fish does resonate with some.
  • My friend who eats fermented soybeans
    My friend Fred eats natto, which is fermented soybeans, just as he does other things for his health. He tries to avoid talking about it with Japanese as natto is just a food, not a topic worthy of such great interest and discussion. Fred's perspective differs from that of many Japanese.
  • Devil's tongue jelly: the fatal jelly
    The September 2008 death of a 1-year-old Japanese boy from choking to death on devil's tongue jelly brought the death toll to 17 victims since 1995. Devil's tongue jelly, unlike other jellies, does not melt in the mouth. The Japanese government moved to pressure the manufacturers of devil's tongue jelly to prevent additional deaths. Yet, the government has not taken steps concerning food products with far higher fatality counts.

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