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Skriven 2008-03-09 20:14:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
Ärende: Tips again
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-=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Glen Jamieson <=-

 CS> Waiting tables can be very lucrative in a place with meals of 15$ or
 CS> more, but tends to be far less so at a pizza place with a 3.99$ special
 CS> and a 50cent Tea.  You tend to get the leftover change only

My answer to those in that position is, "Don't work there. Go back
to school and then get a better job!". If everyone refused to work
under those conditions, wages would go up (and so would menu prices,
but hey a $4.99 pizza special is still pretty cheap.)

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     Title: Japanese Original Western Food
Categories: Japanese, Info
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I write about Japanese original foods with foreign country names.

Turkey rice: It is fried rice with pork cutlet and spaghetti. There
are several stories about the origin of this name. Some said it came
from Turkey, but I don't think a pork cutlet food came from an
Islamic country. Some said fried rice meant China and Spaghetti
meant Europe. Pork cutlet is the bridge between Western and Eastern,
so that the meal was called Turkey. Hmm, it sounds reasonable but
it's too much. Some said Spaghetti was red, rice was white, there
are three colors on the dish. So the meal was called "tricolor"
first. This sound very true for me. There are many such stories for
that name, and we don't know the truth actually.

American dog: I tried to find why we call it American dog sometimes
but I couldn't find any information. Maybe it came from the U.S
simply.

Napolitan: Long pasta with Tomato Ketchup or tomato-based sauce,
onion, button mushroom, green peppers, sausage, bacon and Tabasco
sauce is called Napolitan. It was made at Hotel New Ground in
Yokohama. After ww2, the hotel was used by GHQ and there is still a
room where Douglas MacArthur stayed. The hotel must have cooked some
western-like food for GHQ. That would be the reason why Napolitan
was made there. This blog is a Napolitan blog, he eats napolitans
almost everyday.

Siberia cake: This is sponge cake with sweet beans cake "Yokan". I
read the name comes from the fact that it looks likes a railway or
the frozen ground of Siberia.

All foods are Japanese original but look like some western foods. We
call such food "Yoshoku". Here is the typical Yoshoku menu. Curry
rice : Of course, the original is Indian curry. Japanese curry is
more sticky and heavy. Like wiki said, it is arranged into curry
udon"" or "curry pan". My Indian friend said, Japanese curry is
completely different from India but he likes Japanese curry too.

Korroke: It's a deep fried dish originally related to a French dish
"croquette". Popular korrokke is mashed potato and mince meat. I
loved the one with crab meat and white cream. In Japan, Korrokes are
sold in the meat shop, freshly-fried ones are so delicious.

Hayashi rice: It's a kind of stew that contains beef, onions, and
button mushrooms, in a thick demi-glace sauce which often contains
red wine and tomato sauce. We eat it with rice. The name would come
from hashed beef.

Cutlet and fried: Pork, chicken cutlet is typical menu item of
Yoshoku. Actually an assortment of fried dishes (this would be
shrimp, oyster, crab and cream) was my favorite menu when I went to
yoshoku shops.

Omuraice: It's fried rice covered by omelet. If you watched the
Japanese movies Tampopo, you would remrmeber the Omulet.

Yoshoku restaurants were popular after ww2 because people sensed
some western mood there, but the number of Yoshoku restaurants are
declining. Maybe it is easy to try original western and ethnic
foods, and most yoshoku menu items are possible to cook at home
because we don't need to use any special seasoning for them. But
still people love those "original Japanese western foods" :-).

Mari

From: Http://Smt.Blogs.Com/Mari_diary/
 
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Cheers

YK Jim


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