February 12, 2021 To start with, I tried baking regular bread in my home bakery. Making bread is a little more difficult than cooking rice, but with a bread machine it's incredibly easy. Just add the ingredients and press a button. After the three steps of kneading, fermentation and baking, you j...

February 3, 2021 Buying food is cheaper, easier, and tastier... so it's not hard to imagine that the number of people who don't cook at all is on the rise . In Singapore, it is common to see women who are flashy and have no sense of housework (life), and who look like they could be walking around...

February 3, 2021 Squid rice is often seen in Hakodate station bento boxes and at Hokkaido product exhibitions, but it's easy to prepare. What?...Cut the tentacles, stuff them into the body along with glutinous rice, and seal the opening with a toothpick. All you have to do is put the squid rice b...

February 3, 2021 (1) Explanation of the situation Initially, the next import was scheduled to arrive in Seongju on February 21st. Last time, we reported that due to the impact of COVID-19 and the situation between the US and China, the trends of container ships, which handle the majority of globa...

February 17, 2021 If you're a woman, you probably own a diamond. But why is it that the sparkle of a diamond is so valuable that it makes their eyes twinkle so wildly ? Speaking of science, rubies and sapphires are formed when oxygen molecules are combined with aluminum or beryllium molecule...

February 17, 2021 Akita Komachi has a cleaner taste than Koshihikari. Akita-grown cherries are particularly large, and are characterized by their clear, crisp texture and sweet taste that spreads throughout your mouth. Tsuyahime has a firm, rather than crisp texture, while Koshihikari has a fluff...

March 17, 2021 Hey, Mom. In Singapore, you often see these flat creatures that look like geckos coming into homes, right? It's squishy and soft. If you look closely, its hands look like a baby's, and it's quite cute. The word for gecko is written as "yamori" or "gecko" in Japanese . As the n...

March 17, 2021 Ryuho The Akita Agricultural Experiment Station is located near Yanagiba Toshiro's hometown. In addition to "Akita Komachi," we also carry the black rice "Asamurasaki, " which was previously handled by Inazo , the sake rice "Akita Sake Komachi ," rice koji "Ame Koji," and Hinai Jid...

March 21, 2021 Natto is expensive overseas. Among the Japanese food products found in Japanese supermarkets, this is probably one of the products whose prices are most different from those in Japan ( excluding special sales items) . Therefore, there must be many Japanese people who secretly ...

April 14, 2021 After spring break, the moms build a wall in front of the condo in the afternoon. As we approach this place, we see a timid man passing by pretending to be a dirty local man , who is none other than Inazo the Man. What kind of conversations are taking place there? There's prob...

April 28, 2021 Hey mom, listen, listen! Last year, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Honjo said, "COVID-19 is an RNA virus, so it's very tricky!" I was talking about this. Listen to this, ① I immediately understood why it was so troublesome. ② I was confused and decided to look into it. ③ I ignored it ...

April 28, 2021 Yogurt is expensive in Singapore. Recently, ocean freight rates have skyrocketed (2 to 4 times higher depending on the route), from $7.50 per 950g to a whopping $9.20, an increase of more than 20%. There used to be a time when two bottles of milk were priced at $5, but I don't see ...

May 26, 2021 Hey mom, listen, listen! The mRNA vaccine will be administered soon, right? Are you interested in mRNA? Hey, hey, I'm just worried about the side effects. The coronavirus is an ultra-primitive organism made up of only mRNA, not DNA. The genetic information in mRNA is very fragil...

May 26, 2021 The Moderna site is completely empty, so you can make as many reservations as you want! With this many spaces, everyone who wants to get vaccinated will likely be vaccinated sooner than expected (though it will be Moderna) . Why is that? Even Nobel Prize winner Professor Yamanaka ...

June 10, 2021 Hey mom. Copper prices have been soaring recently. Do you know why? The keyword these days is "carbon-free society." Even a kid can understand the idea of ​​reducing CO2 emissions because of global warming . But how does this relate to the copper market? So the engine becomes a m...

June 10, 2021 I went to Moderna for the first time. In Seishu, they are mobilizing all the local uncles and aunties to promote vaccinations, so the speed is completely different from Japan. In Japan, people tend to exaggerate even small mistakes and no one wants to take responsibility for anythin...

June 20, 2021 Since August of last year, shipping delays and skyrocketing ocean freight rates have shown no signs of stopping. Currently, container ships are still jammed off the coast of Los Angeles and somewhere off the coast of China . This has caused a domino effect, making it difficult to bo...

Tokachi soybeans Toyokomachi Toyokomachi from Tokachi, Hokkaido, has finally arrived in Singapore for the first time! Because of its high sucrose content, it is said to be ideal for boiled beans (such as boiled beans or hijiki), but its sweetness is on a par with Ryuho. However, children will ...

July 21, 2022 *Koshihikari, the northernmost variety of rice → Currently, this is not available, so this is a concrete example of the production method of specially grown, pesticide-free Akitakomachi rice. We have received a shipment of Koshihikari rice produced in the northernmost part of Ja...

July 21, 2021 There is a way to prepare the abundant green and yellow vegetables in a way that is easy to do and goes well with rice, and is also very effective for intestinal health. That's right. It's miso soup with lots of ingredients. Bunapi, wakame seaweed, green onions, spinach... there are...

August 4, 2021 There is a way to prepare the abundant green and yellow vegetables in a way that is easy to do and goes well with rice, and is also very effective for intestinal health. That's right. It's miso soup with lots of ingredients. Bunapi, wakame seaweed, green onions, spinach... there ar...

August 4, 2021 There is a way to prepare the abundant green and yellow vegetables in a way that is easy to do and goes well with rice, and is also very effective for intestinal health. That's right. It's miso soup with lots of ingredients. Bunapi, wakame seaweed, green onions, spinach... there ar...

August 4, 2021 This is probably the consensus among rice merchants in Japan, rather than among rice growers , that unpolished rice is less tasty than regular polished rice . So why is it sold in supermarkets? (2) Actually, we have a rice polisher that can polish rice without washing it, but the r...

August 18, 2022 (1) Annual consumption There is a unit of measurement called "koku". 1 gou is 150g, 1 sho is 1.5kg, 1 to is 15kg... 1 koku is 150kg. It seems that the size of the masu is the standard, and 1 koku was the amount that a Japanese person in the Edo period ate in a year. The Edo per...