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Japanese Food Onomatopoeia

Japanese Food Onomatopoeia: Shuwa Shuwa and Tamarind Lemonade

June 30, 2011 · 21 comments

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tamarind lemonade image sasasunakku I’m home! It feels like a warm bath on a cold day to go eat Korean wild sesame steamboat with my friends and then call Peppermint Patty, an ice-cream parlour (and I do mean parlour) to ask them if they’ll stay open just a few more minutes so we can come in and squeeze ten of us in a booth while we eat poisonously green and orange ice-creams, make rude jokes and laugh uproariously then watch Iain win a hideously ugly stuffed turkey for Anna in one of those pick -up-a-toy-with-a-claw machines. Even if it is cold. Even if I miss F.

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Japanese Food Onomatopoeia: Gatsu Gatsu

May 10, 2011 · 14 comments

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eating with gusto image

This is a picture of me eating gatsu gatsu-ly (mainly because no-one else would let me post a picture of them with their mouth full, the things I do…) To eat “gatsu gatsu” means to eat with gusto. Sounds kind of like “what a guts” in English so it’s easy to remember. I eat gatsu gatsu-ly pretty often, especially when hangrrr strikes or when I’m eating my favourite things like taco rice, Thai yum and chocolate chunk cookies.

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Japanese Food Onomatopoeia: Mochi Mochi

April 12, 2011 · 25 comments

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red sticky rice image sasasunakku Mochi mochi means glutinous (not glutenous!) and sticky. Mochi mochi stuff has a chewy bite, for example mochi (natch), sticky rice like the sekihan in the picture, some kinds of mushipan and Pao de Queijo.