Food, Food, and More Food Thread

dochira wrote:
I'll try to check this place out. I've only had okonomiyaki. Gotta try the Tokyo-based monjayaki.

Yeah, I've never had monjayaki...from what I've seen it has more cabbage in it than the Kansai-fu okonomiyaki. A lot more cabbage, as illustrated in the Dotch Cooking Show ep I once saw. :beaten:

I once saw this Tokyo Next Stop Discovery mini-doc and the host stopped by this one street food vendor and he was selling these Monjayaki Korokke. It looked pretty good.

dochira wrote:I'll try to check this place out.

Me too... The only okonomiyaki I've seen/had was at those Mitsuwa events...

Mikasa Foods pretended to process inedible rice into glue when inspected

OSAKA -- Workers at a factory of Mikasa Foods, which is accused of selling inedible rice for human consumption, pretended to be processing such tainted rice into glue materials whenever it was inspected by a government regulator, a company official said.

Yuzo Miyazaki, manager of the Osaka-based company's business section who previously headed its Kyushu factory in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, admitted that he approved the practice.

"When I took over the management of the factory two years ago, workers had already been pretending to process rice into glue materials (on the occasions of government inspections). I instructed them to continue the practice," Miyazaki said.

However, he said he does not know when the cover-up started.

The ministry requires businesses that process tainted rice into non-food products to submit their manufacturing plans every month, and inspects their factories almost every month to see if they actually process the inedible rice according to their plans.

Moreover, the ministry's Fukuoka agricultural administration office conducted a special inspection on Mikasa's Kyushu factory in January last year and August this year in response to a tip by a whistleblower that workers were pretending to be producing powder for glue only when it was inspected.

However, the ministry notifies businesses in advance of each inspection, allowing Mikasa to pretend to be producing powder for glue only when inspected. Furthermore, the factory kept two sets of records and slips to cover up its activities.

In a related development, another sake brewer, Bishonen Corp. based in Kumamoto Prefecture, announced Tuesday that it had procured rice from a Mikasa Foods affiliate in Osaka from January to May this year, and immediately stopped shipping its liquor on the same day.

It has already been learned that two shochu liquor makers in Kumamoto Prefecture had unknowingly bought inedible rice from Mikasa.

Tu_triky wrote:

Well, I've mentioned Gaja, which is located in Lomita, a few times on this board...it's pretty good. I've been there a few times. They have okonomiyaki and monjayaki as well as other plates/types of Japanese food (i.e. yakisoba, etc.).

Their speciality is okonomiyaki.

Here's the website:

http://www.gajamoc.com/

I must have missed it every time you posted it. It's not bookmarked in my food folder.

where the heck is lomita anyway... :rofl:

oh wait, it's pretty close to my friends place.

krim wrote:

I must have missed it every time you posted it. It's not bookmarked in my food folder.

I have a food folder too! :victory:

where the heck is lomita anyway... :rofl:

It's in the South Bay.

oh wait, it's pretty close to my friends place.

Perfect. :)

Since Gaja has been the topic recently...here are few pictures I found on Flickr:

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perfect, except for the naruto t-shirt. :shakehead:

krim wrote:perfect, except for the naruto t-shirt. :shakehead:

Gold "Lame" no less. :shakehead:

Today's food porn ~ my visit to Shinsengumi after a 3 month absence! :dancing:

Horenso Gomaae (Spinach with Kurogoma [Black Sesame] sauce)
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Gyu-tan (Beef tongue)
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Nankotsu (Cartilage)
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Pork Belly
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Shiso Leaf (Japanese Basil) wrapped in Pork
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Tebasaki (Chicken Wing)
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Tsukune (Ground Chicken Meatball)
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Tori no kawa (Chicken Skin)
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Gizzard
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Negima w/ Tare (Thigh meat with green onion basted in Sauce)
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Negima Shioyaki (Thigh meat with green onion grilled with salt)
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Kokoro (Heart in special sauce)
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Quail Egg wrapped in Bacon
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Aspara bekon (Asparagus wrapped in Bacon)
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Enoki mushroom wrapped in Bacon
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Bonjiri aka Bonbochi (Chicken tail) w/ Lemon
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^ Dang, you're going to town with the food this week, aren't you? :drooling:

bmwracer wrote:^ Dang, you're going to town with the food this week, aren't you? :drooling:

Fo' sure. I am making up for not eating out for over 3 months. I honestly didn't eat out even once for the entire summer basically. :sweat:

But on these days of indulgence I balance out the meals...today I had one cup of Kashi cereal for breakfast and some green beans for lunch. So Shinsegumi was the only really big (protein) meal I had all day.

I've also started working out again so I can afford to pig out and not pay for it too dearly because I'm engaging in pretty rigorous cardio 6 days a week.

Tu_triky wrote:Fo' sure. I am making up for not eating out for over 3 months. I honestly didn't eat out even once for the entire summer basically. :sweat:

But on these days of indulgence I balance out the meals...today I had one cup of Kashi cereal for breakfast and some green beans for lunch. So Shinsegumi was the only really big (protein) meal I had all day.

I've also started working out again so I can afford to pig out and not pay for it too dearly because I'm engaging in pretty rigorous cardio 6 days a week.

That's the right way to do it, I believe: If you're gonna do the crime (indulge), you gotta do the time (on the Stairmaster)... :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
That's the right way to do it, I believe: If you're gonna do the crime (indulge), you gotta do the time (on the Stairmaster)... :victory:

Well I wasn't very healthy in my habits for a while so I put myself on a correctional course so to speak this summer (in terms of nutrition). It paid off in spades so now I'm rewarding myself as it were.

I have nothing against the Stairmaster but I stick to the treadmill. I just crank that sucker up to 15% to 18% incline (which is max incline depending on the model of treadmill) and sweat my a$$ off. :sweat: That burns far more calories than jogging because it uses more muscles.

Tu_triky wrote:I have nothing against the Stairmaster but I stick to the treadmill. I just crank that sucker up to 15% to 18% incline (which is max incline depending on the model of treadmill) and sweat my a$$ off. :sweat: That burns far more calories than jogging because it uses more muscles.

I feel the same way about my rowing machine. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I feel the same way about my rowing machine. :victory:

Hell, that ish works out lots of different muscles all at once! Moreover you're actually toning your muscles and perhaps strengthening them (i.e. making them bigger) at the same time which in the long run is the best...because the more muscle you have the more calories you burn even while doing nothing. The general rule is that for every extra pound of muscle you put on you are burning b/n 35 to 50 extra calories even at rest. :victory:

Anyway, sorry, I digress....

In any event, I have more food pictures forthcoming! I will keep it a surprise... :mrgreen:

Tu_triky wrote:Hell, that ish works out lots of different muscles all at once! Moreover you're actually toning your muscles and perhaps strengthening them (i.e. making them bigger) at the same time which in the long run is the best...because the more muscle you have the more calories you burn even while doing nothing. The general rule is that for every extra pound of muscle you put on you are burning b/n 35 to 50 extra calories even at rest. :victory:

Using it gets boring from time to time, but after watching the sculling during the Olympics, I got motivated again. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Using it gets boring from time to time, but after watching the sculling during the Olympics, I got motivated again. :beaten:

Those guys are INSANE....most of the time they put it all out there...and you know those fools are SPENT after the end of a race! Prolly burn a bajillion calories in one heat!

Anyway, one day I must break my "silence" and we should get together with some of the usual suspects for dinner somewhere. :victory:

Tu_triky wrote:Anyway, one day I must break my "silence" and we should get together with some of the usual suspects for dinner somewhere. :victory:

And hit the gym afterwards. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
And hit the gym afterwards. :mrgreen:

Haha...perhaps before, because I have a feeling that trying to go afterwards would be a highly unlikely proposition. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
And hit the gym afterwards. :mrgreen:

stumbling to the car is usually enough exercise for me. :hehe: :hehe:
especially after wandering around a few blocks trying to remember where I parked, and remembering it was in the parking lot all along.