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Just Hungry - Japanese recipes, healthy and fun eating, the expat food life and more.
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Japanese recipes for non-Japanese people! Also healthy cooking and a general obsession with food.
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Printable cards for communicating dietary restrictions in Japan

If you have any dietary restrictions, communicating them clearly can be an issue, especially when you don’t speak the language. Here are a selection of print-and-cut sheets to bring along with ...

22 h ago 1 person likes this

Umeboshi (pickled plum) article in The Japan Times

This month’s Japan Times article is about umeboshi, the sour-salty pickled fruit (usually called a pickled plum, though it’s actually more related to an apricot) that’s practically ...

4 days ago 2 people like this

House renovation and kitchen planning, an ongoing saga

My cancer treatments are over for now, and since my body is no longer being bombarded by gamma rays and such, I am feeling quite a bit better. So now it’s time to get back to the huge task of r...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

Sashimi, raw eggs and more in The Japan Times, plus raw proteins elsewhere

My Japan Times Food article this month is about all the raw proteins Japanese people like to eat. You probably know that Japanese people like raw fish (in the form of sashimi, and as a topping for su...

27 apr 12 5 people like this

My sister Megs amazing pastry skills

It’s been a bit too serious around here, so here’s some fun. I think I’m pretty good at savory cooking, but when it comes to pastry I definitely need more practice. However, my litt...

20 apr 12 1 person likes this

Sketch diary: Cancer, the ladyparts version

Today I started a 3-week course of brachytherapy. Unlike the 6-week course of external beam radiation therapy that ended on Friday, which definitely made me feel pretty horrible, brachytherapy is not...

18 apr 12 2 people like this

Sketch diary: At a low point

Following up on the last entry from my sketch diary: Just one more week to go with the radiation therapy, and it’s really tough. I was in a lot more physical pain just after surgery (or before ...

05 apr 12 2 people like this

Eating sakura (cherry blossoms and leaves) article in the Japan Times

My latest article in The Japan Times is about edible cherry blossoms and leaves. Japanese people love the cherry tree so much that not only do they eagerly look forward to their all too short floweri...

26 mar 12 3 people like this

Sketch diary: its harder than I thought

I am two and a half weeks into a six week course of radiation therapy, to zap the remaining cancer cells in my body. The course I am doing now is the type where a highly localized beam is aimed at my...

22 mar 12

One year hence: My furusato, myself

Furusato is a Japanese word for which there really is no direct equivalent in English. Most times it is translated as ‘home town’, and the sentiment is similar. It means the place where y...

11 mar 12

Shio-kōji (salt kōji) article in The Japan Times

On Just Hungry and its sister site, Just Bento, I usually stick to ingredients that are fairly easy to get anywhere, especially if you have access to a decent Japanese grocery store. But since the ta...

27 feb 12 1 person likes this

They even took the freaking toilet paper!

I am back home from New York now, after my father’s memorial service last Sunday and an all-too-short Itoh sisters’ reunion. We got home late last afternoon, glad to be back, very tired a...

20 feb 12 1 person likes this

Monday photos: New York cravings

I am in New York, for family reasons. Not the best of circumstances, and I wasnt even sure Id make it given my lousy health these days, but with the kind help of airport staff, I did. So, what does a...

07 feb 12

Setsubun and beans article in the Japan Times and food superstitions

This month’s Japan Times article is about the traditions and superstitions surrounding Setsubun or Risshun, the first day of spring, which is coming up on February 3rd. The focus of the article...

27 jan 12 2 people like this

Monday photos: This little pig is not a guinea pig

It’s a bit late to be posting these photos, but here they are. In Europe, the pig is considered a lucky symbol of the New Year; in Switzerland for instance people give each other little pepperm...

23 jan 12

A super-efficient Japanese kitchen

Following up on my previous post, here’s more about kitchens - this time about their layout and how they should function. The more time you have to spend in a kitchen, the more important this i...

17 jan 12 4 people like this

Whats in your kitchen? What is your kitchen?

The subject of ‘kitchens’ has been front and foremost my mind, again. The renovations on the house that I talked about a few months ago haven’t really progressed much beyond what yo...

13 jan 12

Totally off topic: About your small business site or blog, and getting it noticed - what not to do

This has nothing at all to do with Japan, or food, or anything else that I normally write about here. But I am putting it on this site in the off chance that it will be read by regular folk. That is,...

12 jan 12

Monday photos: Winter in Provence

For the past couple of years I’ve been spending most of the winter months in Japan, or somewhere else. Last year I spent most of January in New York and Seattle promoting the Just Bento Cookboo...

09 jan 12 2 people like this

Mochi and New Years article in the Japan Times, plus a very rich buttery mochi dish

I am a few days late posting this, but this month’s Japan Times article is about the traditions surrounding mochi or omochi, the sticky pounded rice cake. Mochi is both eaten and displayed in t...

04 jan 12

Basics: Japanese soy sauce - all you need to know (and then some)

I’ve written so many articles here on Just Hungry over the eight years of its existence that I’ve forgotten half of them. But one thing I have not really done so far is delve into the sub...

28 dec 11

Monday photos: Santa

My stepfather is an accountant. He looks and acts exactly like an accountant too, most of the time; sober suit, serious demeanor, the glasses, the thinning hairline. He does have a wry sense of humor...

19 dec 11

My fathers favorite Tampopo scene

As I’ve previously mentioned, my father passed away about 3 weeks ago in New York. I did not have the kind of close relationship with my father that I have with my mother (they divorced more th...

15 dec 11 1 person likes this

Monday photos: Last chance sushi at Narita Airport Terminal 1

It’s been yet another bad week for me, which is why I haven’t been around - again. Last Friday (December 2nd), I was rehospitalized due to my surgery wound getting badly infected. I know ...

12 dec 11 1 person likes this

Monday photos: Kaki (Persimmons)

To me, persimmons or kaki (柿）are the quintessential fall fruit. Although there are by some counts around 1,000 different varieties of persimmons in Japan alone, they can be broadly divided into two t...

28 nov 11 1 person likes this

Sweet potatoes (satsumaimo) in the Japan Times, plus an update

This month’s Japan Times article is about sweet potatoes*, which are called satsumaimo in Japanese. Satsumaimo means “potato from Satsuma”, referring to a region of southern Kyushu ...

25 nov 11

Hiatus

Ill be offline for a while (not sure how long), to take care of the health issues. There will be updates over on JustBento hopefully, as The Guy Does Bento series continues, but over here the lights ...

14 nov 11

Accidental butter

From the age of 3 on, or so my mother says, I would always hang around the kitchen asking questions, tilting conatainers to my level, getting underfoot and in everyone’s way. After about age 5,...

07 nov 11 1 person likes this

Reader beware.

Long time readers of this site may know that I’ve had some pretty serious health problems in the past couple of years. Last year while undergoing emergency surgery for a horribly infected insec...

02 nov 11

Monday photos: Coffee break in Japan

Japan is so well known for tea - both the beverage itself and the many customs and rituals surrounding it - that many people don’t know that coffee is just as deeply ingrained in daily life as ...

31 oct 11

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