Japanese Food Words - Tasty Japanese Gourmet Meals

Comment on the word men Japanese word for noodle.

2008-08-23T02:51:00.000-07:00

In Japanese, men mean noodle, or the long stringy pasta thingamajigs that goes into ramen or other types of Japanese fine gourmet meals cuisine.

Raw Fish

2008-08-23T02:34:00.000-07:00

Raw fish ain't what it sounds like...no... really... it's not!

Sushi are jewels of food, look, smell, and taste better than finger licking good!

How many people to seat at fine Japanese restaurants serving their best gourmet meals

2008-08-14T09:22:00.000-07:00

Basic Japanese - People counters -
How to count in Japanese for people.
Hito 人 the Japanese counter for the masses.

When counting people in Japanese we use the counter for person or hito 人 (ひと). Hito also has the reading of にん. The first two counters or words for 1 person and 2 persons are exceptions and are irregular. Just make sure you memorize these 2 words and even if you did say ichinin or ninin you might be understood anyway, even though those aren’t the way Japanese is used. The Japanese love to try to understand gaijin. When at a fine gourmet restaurant in Japan, the first thing the maitre d will ask is, “ how many people in your group,” to which you could reply any of the following. If two people then say futari. You will most likely hear the maitre d saying “ O- futari san desu ka?”, which means, “Table for two?” to which you could reply, “Hai so^ desu”, “Yes that is correct, 2.”

Nin 人 is the counter for people or persons so that we will have from 1-10 people the following:

hitori - 一人, 1 person
futari - 二人, 2 people
sannin - 三人, 3 people
yonnin - 四人, 4 people
gonin - 五人, 5 people
rokunin - 六人, 6 people
shichinin - 七人, 7 people
hachinin - 八人, 8 people
kyu^nin - 九人, 9 people
ju^nin - 十人, 10 people

If you can count to 100 in Japanese, then just add nin 人 to say how many people you are talking about. The same for any number up to infinity. The word for everyone or everybody is minna and depending on how polite you wish to address everyone by, you either add the polite san さん or sama 様 to minna皆making it minnasan 皆さん or minnasama 皆様.

More advanced examples:
hachiju^hachinin - 八十八人, 88 people
sennin - 千人,1000 people etc.

As always,
Ganbatte Ne! 頑張ってね!
Do Your Best!
Makurasuki

Somen - Noodles for the summer months

2008-08-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

The Japanese word men in general is used for your basic noodle. There are many different types of men. The most famous of which is Ra-men, which has become quite popular in America and sales are good because of its cheap price. Somen on the other hand could be considered the angel hair of ramen, except that somen is seasonal. The Japanese eat somen in the summer chilled in a bowl with its own special tare (sauce) similar to soy sauce. The noodles are very thin, like I said and there is no need to overcook. Just boil a couple of minutes, put ice in a bowl with the special tare and blam, instant summer meal that keeps the heat of the humid summers months off of you and instead offers a nice chilly summer meal. Try somen for you gourmet meal during your summer stay in the land of the rising sun, Japan.

Takoyaki

2008-08-11T20:44:00.000-07:00

Takoyaki

Takoyaki tastes delicious and is very good for you too. Its fresh but never tastes wet. The main constituents of this Japanese food dish delight which served on the streets in Japan under a canopy or simply prepared on a skewer stick, made into a ball like catfish bait, in a busy throng of hungry for takoyaki fanatics are boiled octopus in a ball corn meal. A tasty gourmet meal and cheap at 2-4 balls/ 100 yen.

It tastes like a corn dog more than it gives anyoctupus, so you with a weak stomach need not worry