June 29th, 2007
The children are missing their fried fish, but for now, I am playing it safe. I haven’t bought seafood from any of our Asian markets here for the past three weeks, and the ones I have are clearly marked “harvested in US waters”. It’s getting mighty sad, this current state of affairs. […]
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March 30th, 2007
Just EWWW.
To his credit, Chef Tatsuo Tanabe claims this is the first time he’s done this, and that it will be the last. Eat Tokyo has gotten good reviews the past year, and if you think about it the air inside a restaurant’s kitchen isn’t exactly sterile, but still….
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Tags: eat-tokyo, In the News, Japanese, […]
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February 21st, 2007
Fake nutritional information brought to light, or why you shouldn’t trust everything you see. Just because it’s on TV, just because there are “researchers” and “experts” on it, doesn’t mean it’s true, or correct.
Tags: aruaru-daijiten, fake-information, Healthy Eating with Asian Food, In the News, Japanese, Japanese-cuisine, misinformation, natto-health-benefits, scientific-inquiry
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August 19th, 2006
New listing Synear Food Holdings of China has been dominating trading in Singapore the past few days. The company’s IPO has been drawing a lot of investors, and trading closed at 84 Singapore cents yesterday, up from the opening price of 54. Synear, which specializes in frozen dumplings, hopes to […]
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January 14th, 2006
Foodex 2006 - Japan’s 31st International Food and Beverage Exhibition, will be held March 14-17, 2006 at Makuhari Messe (Halls 1-8). For the trade only.
Tags: In the News
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November 25th, 2005
This month’s host of Lasang Pinoy, Minnette of Lafang List, invited us to write about our favorite Pinoy soul foods.
Pritong Isda (Fried Fish), served with sawsawan (dipping sauce) of toyo at dayap (lemon and soy) and patis at dayap (fish sauce and lemon juice). My current favorite dip is bawang-sibuyas-kamatis-patis (garlic-onion-tomato-fish sauce) but we […]
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November 24th, 2005
Yesterday hubby and I went out early to go shopping for today’s Thanksgiving meal. As I zeroed in on the lovely plantain bananas in the produce section, this lady zeroed in on me. She asked me what I do with plantains and we got to talking about food, and as Asians usually do […]
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October 28th, 2005
A brief overview of the Avian/Bird Flu that’s been on the news nonstop the past few months and what it boils down to in terms of food:
Bird flu is an infection caused by the avian influenza virus. The particular subtype that’s been making the news is H5N1.
Wild birds have the virus naturally, but it […]
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