Kurayami
Hi all, I'm sorry to post so late>_< Let's just say I had one of the worst weeks of my life and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better for the time being:S At least I'm not in school right now, so I have a little time to recover, but school starts MondayXD Well, no rest for the weary as they say...
As for next week, somehow my schedule is getting ramped up even further so I will try to maintain my one post a week routine but I don't know how intensive these courses will be yet so I may have to change it at some point. Thankfully this is only for two months, so at the end of June I will be free~XDDD At least until Septemeber;P
So, today I have the translation of the GRA from 07.12.08 about Oden=)
[Announcer: Speaking of Japan's delicious winter cuisine, the hotpot, there is fugu and crab but that's kind of extravagant. If you
were to talk about winter's standard dish that can make your whole family happy and full for a reasonable cost...that's right! Oden.
If, as a Japanese, you don't know about oden, that's embarassing. Do you know the origin behind the name 'oden'? The 'den' from 'oden'
is the 'den' from 'dengaku'. Dengaku is an old-fashioned food where tofu is coated in miso and then grilled. Dengaku came from an
entertainment group that lived atop mount Bokoku; there was an entertainer named Brother Dengaku (monk) whose pogo-stick-riding image
looked a lot like the pieces of tofu stuck on sticks, so that's how they became called oden. Tonight's GRA is a big study of oden.
Matsumoto-kun and Ohno-kun try their hand at making simple, doable-at-home oden cuisine for less than 500yen per person. Ohno vs.
Matsumoto. Exactly what kind of oden can they make?]
Aiba: Today's Oden study is...we're having Matsumoto-kun and Ohno-kun ne, do a competition for high quality original oden cuisine.
Sho: So then, exactly what are we doing?
Aiba: You're going to judge the oden that the two of them make. As in, which one was the most delicious.
Nino: I see.
Aiba: First of all, the one who's going to support Ohno-kun ne, this is Japan's Roppongi's Hassan's Chef Nakajima, your favor please.
Nakajima: Your favor please~.
[Announcer: Supporting Ohno is Roppongi's famous restaurant Hassan's Chef Nakajima Kesaji. He's been adoring Japanese cuisine for
34 years. With his publicized Japanese heart he'll suggest a new oden.]
Itou: So, the oden that you're going to make today...?
Nakajima: It's salt oden.
Aiba: Salt oden?? Did you suggest that Riidaa?
Nino: Who suggested that, who rally suggested that?
Itou: Salt oden?
Nakajima: Yes, with Akirai salt.
Aiba: With Akirai salt, I see. What reason did you choose it for Riidaa?
Ohno: Oden is nice and thick after all, so you get tired of it.
Aiba: Have you eaten it?
Ohno: The soup is also exquisite. (writing)
Aiba: Ah, the stock is esstenial ne.
Kazuyo: That's right ne-
Aiba: Matsui-san, you love oden don't you?
Kazuyo: I love it. The stock is very important after all ne. (writing)
[Announcer: Supporting Matsumoto-kun is Chef Hagiwara Masahiko. He's the owner of the Italian restaurant Chameleon in East Azabu.
What is the fusion he will reach in combining his knowledge of Italian cuisine with oden?]
Jun: I think everyone probably hasn't seen one like ours before. Have you ever seen one with red soup? (writing)
Kazuyo: Is it made with tomatoes?
Jun: Is it indeed;)
Aiba: He's keeping it to himself.
Kazuyo: He's keeping it to himself ne. I've never seen that one before.
Itou: So what kind of Oden is the Matsumoto team making today.
Jun: An Italian-style oden.
Aiba: ohhh, I'm looking forward to that.
Nino: Well of course, he's an Italian chef.
Aiba: That's right.
[Announcer: As commentator there is the head of the Oden Museum that is expanding online, Arai Yoshimi-san. He did a survey of approximately
500 oden places across Japan. He's an oden expert who knows anything and everything about it. In today's oden contest the rules are
that they do battle with 5 ingredients: vegetables, boiled-fish products, rolled foods, pouches, and 'free'. The contents of the
pouches is a secret. Eaxctly what will the two teams put inside?]
Aiba: All right then, the world's greatest original oden competition, ready, start!
Itou: First of all, the salt oden team, exactly what kind of broth do you have?
Aiba: Yes, let's go.
Ohno: Here it is.
Itou: Ah, I kind of thought you were bringing out food;P
[Announcer: The salt oden's broth is: 1.2 litres of water, 60ml of mirin, 8g of salt, and 10g of kelp tea. The kelp tea is the key.
Meanwhile, the Matsumoto team's broth is: one bouillon cube, 5 tablespoons of tomato paste, 1 teaspoon of paprika, a little pepper
and salt. A tomato-based oden, it's fairly intriguing. Well then, without delay the broth-making begins.]
Sho: Matsumoto-kun ne, did a drama a while back, so he knows Italian (cuisine) well. Ohno-san, Ohno-san are you doing any cooking?
Ohno: On this show... (writing) I'm doing it.
Kazuyo: From now ne.
Sho: So from now on?
Aiba: From now ne.
Sho: Eh, this is a cooking show?
Itou: Ahh, so the Italian-style one ne, they've put a lot into it ne.
Aiba: it's already completely red ne.
Itou: There was a lot of tomato paste and the broth is already getting completely red. And the salt oden has, after all, turned just
a little green ne~.
Aiba: It means it's reacting to the kelp tea ne.
itou: Yes, it's becoming the color of the kelp tea.
[Announcer: Once the broth preparations are done it's finally time to put in the first ingredient, the vegetables. But before that...]
[writing: tasting each of their broths]
Aiba: Shall I do the first round of taste testing? 'Aiba Time~' was it?
Itou: Eh, the Salt Oden team. It's a broth with kelp tea in it.
Aiba: Kelp...there's just a touch of kelp. Um ne...salt...it's salt! (writing) It's salt, it's salt!
Itou: Yes, it's salt oden. So please taste test the Italian-style broth a little.
Aiba: I'll just take a little...ah, the scent of the tomato is a lot less sharp than I thought it would be. It's refreshing ne. Ah!
Jun: What is it?
Itou: How is the flavor of the base?
Aiba: It's delicious. (writing) It was refrehsing.
Itou: Yes, so with that sensation, right now the Salt oden team is working on daikon for the vegetables right?
Nakajima: There's one key thing about the daikon.
Itou: A key thing?
Aiba: There's a key to making it.
nakajima: Yes, daikon ne, putting an unseen cross on this side is okay, but you put the other cut on the other side. If you put
the cross here it's fairly easy to break.
Itou: So that means not putting both bars of teh cross on one side, but one on the underside ne?
Nakajima: That's right, that's right. if you do that the flavor will also come out easily.
Itou: Right now the Salt Oden team is putting in daikon.
Kazuyo: it's kind of grotesque ne.
Sho: That's right, that's right.
Kazuyo: Kelp oden right here...
Itou: The sliced daikon is now going in.
Nino: It's starting to smell like tomato over here. (writing)
Itou: Ah, is that so?
Aiba: It is?
Itou: Well, and, ah, this is exciting. Just now three whole onions went in!
Aiba: Scary~, they're going in whole!
[Announcer: Next is the boiled-fish products. The Ohno team has horse mackeral dumplings, the Matsumoto team has pork dumplings.
The ingredients for the Ohno team's horse mackeral dumplings are: a horse mackeral split into three filets, a 5cm green onion,
one or two eggs, 2 tablespoons of potato starch, one to two teaspoons of salt.]
Aiba: They're taking off the horse mackeral's skin.
Itou: So, first of all...ah, they're taking off the morse mackeral's skin. And the Italian-style one is pork dumplings.
Aiba: There's an egg.
[Announcer: The ingredients for the pork dumplings are: 150g of ground pork, 3 pieces of raw ham, 10g of parmesan, 1-3 eggs, a little
pepper and salt.]
Itou: So, this is how they're putting in the flavor. It is certainly becoming very Italian-style.
Aiba: That's right.
Itou: Also, the salt Oden team is...oh, doing well.
Aiba: That's super fast.
Itou: He's chopping it finely.
Aiba: Amazing.
Itou: That's very fine ne.
Nino: There's a lot of movement over here.
Itou: So...ah, this-!
Kazuyo: Amazing.
itou: Chef, this means you're going to wrap it in the raw ham ne?
Sho: it's meat on meat ne. (writing)
Nino: Of course oden is raising Sakurai-san's tension.
Kazuyo: And at this stage they're putting in the dumplings.
Itou: So this is the Italian-style Matsumoto team, and the ham-wrapped pork dumplings will be finished shortly. And inside there is
a little cheese...so, that's 1, 2 going in.
Aiba: it's going into the oden ne.
Itou: So..ah, this is it ne, as you would think ne.
Nakajima: You bring it out through the gap.
Itou: Ah, you bring it out through the gap, and then you put it in.
Nakajima: The term 'dumpling' comes from the words 'pinch' and 'insert', originally.
Itou: I see, I see. So this would be that very pinching work. So, Riidaa...
Aiba: Pinch it...it squeezed out.
Itou: Eh? He accepted it!
Aiba: It shouldn't take two of you to do that, do it by yourself.
Jun: Hurry up and put them in, it'll boil. (writing)
[Announcer: Tonight, something you can instantly try at home, there's still more ways to create delicious oden to come. The competition
is finally heating up. Eh? This is oden? The oden competition, next is rolled items. The Ohno team is rolled gingko, the Matsumoto
team is rolled sausage. The ingredients for the rolled sausages are: 5 sausages, 300g of minced squid, 5 basil leaves, 200ml of olive
oil, a little pepper and salt.]
Aiba: So this is-
Itou: First of all, it's the squid ne.
Aiba: So this is squid.
Itou: Something green has appeared, what is this?
Aiba: What indeed, what indeed?
Sho: These are leaves ne.
Aiba: Sakurai-san, what kind of leaves, what kind of leaves? Please ask.
Sho: What kind of leaves are they?
Jun: These are basil.
Sho: Yes, they're basil.
Itou: There's basil inside.
Aiba: Squid, basil...
kazuyo: The squid is a lot of work ne, getting it like that.
Itou: Which means that they're carefully wrapping up the sausages.
[Announcer: The Ohno team has rolled gingko. The ingredients are: 250g minced walleye, 15 gingko nuts, 1-2 eggs.]
Itou: So, meanwhile, over here is the Salt Oden team.
Aiba: What is this?
Nakajima: This is egg ne, and minced walleye.
Aiba: Ah, it's minced.
Itou: So, they're mixing that in with the egg.
Aiba: This time Riidaa's doing his best.
Itou: Yeah, Riidaa's doing his best ne. And, meanwhile this is the Italian-style Oden team.
Sho: The smell of the horse mackeral is...
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Nino: Amazing ne.
Aiba: It's hanging in the air?
Sho: Um, getting basil stuck in your teeth aafter eating pasta with basil really sucks ne.
Itou: Ah, that's right ne~.
Nino: Ah, you can just go forward without paying attention to him.
Itou: Yes. So, this is the Salt Oden team...
Aiba: The gingko nuts-
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Itou: They've lined up three of the gingko nuts.
Aiba: -three line up.
Itou: Lining up three of them...
Aiba: uwa, they're burying them. They're burying the gingko nuts.
Itou: It's rolling them, rolling them.
Aiba: Rolling them.
Itou: Rolling.
Aiba: Rolling.
Itou: They're rolled items.
Aiba: Rolled items.
Itou: They're rolled items.
Aiba: Ah, is that so.
Itou: And Riidaa ne, he's done it ne.
Aiba: That's right ne, just as you would expect from him ne.
Sho: Gingko nuts smell ne. (writing)
Aiba: Well that's something he didn't need to say ne. Huh? There was some kind of new ingredient ne?
Itou: The frying pan has come out. So this time, to make the dumplings they're going to use frying pans ne. Tha Salt Oden team...
Aiba: The Salt Oden team-
itou: There was quite a bit of salt in this, the rolled gingko nuts.
Aiba: Let's go.
itou: It's going into the frying pan,
Aiba: Let's go, let;s go. This is kind of exciting ne.
Itou: That's right ne.
Sho: It really is exciting.
Aiba: Ne.
Sho: Over here as well ne, it's really something you don't often see.
Aiba: You don't ne.
Itou: And both teams are kind of doing some teamwork ne.
Aiba: These ones here are constantly going around each other.
itou: Revolving?
Aiba: Ping pong...like doubles ping pong. (writing) Like they're flipping their paddles, like they're flipping their paddles huh.
itou: Is that what this is? Do you have any pointers on cooking it?
Nakajima: Perfectly getting the burner to cover the surface, kind of scorching it.
Itou: scorching it ne. Frying it-
Aiba: So it's scorching it as much as possible ne. (writing)
Itou: That's how it is ne.
Nakajima: When it's scorched then you take it out.
Aiba: I see ne. You take it out when it's scorched.
Itou: Both teams are grilling up their rolled items in the frying pan. So, the Italian-style Oden team is done grilling. The rolled
sausages are going in now, into the red soup.
Aiba: Ah, they're going in over here too. They wnt in first over here. (writing)
Nino: It went in. It went in over here too.
Sho: What kind of contest is this?
Itou: Speed really doesn't have anything to do with it ne.
Aiba: Nothing to do with it ne.
Nakajima: That's great ne. (writing) It's perfect.
Itou: Ah, then this degree of scorching is good?
Nakajima: If it's like this it absorbs the broth.
Aiba: Ohhh, this is perfect.
Itou: Definitely, it's scorched.
[Announcer: What's inside the pouches is something to look forward to at the taste testing. Next is the free ingredients. The Ohno team
has shrimp potatoes, the Matsumoto team has gnocchi! The ingredients for gnocchi are: 250g of May Queen potatoes, 150g of potato starch,
20g of parmesan, 1-2 eggs, and a little pepper and salt.]
Aiba: You crush gnocchi ne.
Masahiko: Because they're potatoes ne.
Itou: He's mashing the potaotes.
Aiba: meanwhile...the Salt Oden team...
itou: So, they're at the point of peeling the shrimp potatoes. And Riidaa is...cutting the corners off ne.
Aiba:P Cutting the corners ne.
Nakajima: This is bevelling ne.
Aiba: bevelling.
Nakajima: There's another key point here.
itou: Yes?
Nakajima: With potatoes, when you cook them with corners they break apart. And these shrimp ones are especially quick to break apart.
Itou: I see. So just like this...
Aiba: You're saying that it's essential to bevel them.
Itou: I see.
Nakajima: That's how you make delicious ODen.
Aiba: I see.
Itou: The Italian-style Oden Matsumoto team is making their gnocchi. The chef is kneading it with his hands. All the earlier ingredients
are in it. Meanwhile, the painstaking bevelling of the shrimp potatoes continues, this is the Ohno team.
Aiba: You;re kinda amazing, you're like the real thing itou-san. (writing) Your on-the-spot commentary.
Itou: I can do it fairly well ne.
Aiba: That's amazing. How many years is it, since you started doing it? (writing)
Itou: Well from here it would be something over 10 years-
Nino: We don't need to have this conversation. Talk about the food.
itou: So...
Aiba: They're putting them in.
Itou: So, the bevelled potatoes are also going into the boiling broth. Into the pot.
Nino: Over here they're kind of moving along.
Itou: Ah, this shape?
kazuyo: Eh, amazxing!
Aiba: Amazing, amazing! They're kind of making it into this stylish shape ne.
Itou: At it's base it's gnocchi ne.
Aiba: MatsuJun too...
Itou: He's shaping it ne, the same as the chef.
Kazuyo: That's right, he's very skilled.
Aiba: Very skilled ne.
Itou: Ah, they've made one or two.
Sho: I see.
Jun: Alright, it's over.
Aiba: Oh, so that means...
Itou: So, that means...
Aiba: All that's left for the cooking is to boil it.
[Announcer: The Ohno team and the Matsumoto team, after each boiling their own for about 30min. they're done! Finally, the taste-testing.
They're extremely moved by the super new Oden. Rave Review Arashi. Furthermore, the surprising way of eating it that makes it even
more delicious is?]
Aiba: So, they're finished~!
[writing: Original Oden taste testing]
Aiba: The Salt Oden...eh, Riidaa team, how is your confidence?
Ohno: Ah, we're confident ne?
Nakajima: It's perfect ne.
Aiba: it's perfect?
Ohno: Commander was constantly sayting 'perfect, perfect'. (writing)
Aiba: Ah, it's perfect?
Ohno: Perfect.
Nino: Yeah, it's perfect.
Aiba: Matsumoto-kun team, how is it? Your confidence?
Jun: We're confident. (writing)
Masahiko: We're confident.
Aiba: You're confident?
Jun: IF I were to say, the Salt Oden, well the flavor's a little different, but it's kind of a basic approach. Ours will turn everything
on it's head. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne, it completely changes the image ne. Which means that, without delay, let's start with the Ohno-kun team.
Itou: Salt Oden...open!
Kazuyo: Oh, it looks delicious~.
Jun: It looks tasty ne.
Nino: That's great. How is the smell?
Sho: There's no wind, please go over there.
Aiba: How;s the smell?
Sho: The smell's good too.
Kazuyo: it smells good~. It looks delicious huh, the juices of each of the ingredients is coming out. (writing)
Aiba: So, next-
Kazuyo: -this is high quality.
Aiba: Next let's open the Matsumoto-kun team's.
Itou: Open!
Jun: This is how it is.
Aiba: There we go~! It smells amazing ne.
Nino: You get the feeling it did become oden-like after all ne.
Kazuyo: It did.
Nino: It smells good.
Ohno: It smells like cheese ne.
Nino: That's right ne.
Kazuyo: Amazing.
[Announcer: The vegetable competition is daikon vs. onion; first, the Ohno team's daikon.]
Aiba: Oh Riidaa, what's the key point about the daikon?
Ohno: This ne...the soup is perfec6tly matched to the daikon. (writing)
Kazuyo: That's right ne.
Aiba: Perfectly ne.
Sho: I want the ingredients, but the taste of the broth intrigues me.
Aiba: That's right ne. Well then, please dig in, go ahead!
Kazuyo: Yes, thanks for the food~!
Sho: It's incredibly tender. (writing) It smells really good.
Nino: Ah, you're right. Well, I guess I'll eat some.
Itou: This is the first ingredient, the vegetable daikon.
Aiba: How is it, how is it?
Nino: This is extremely delicious. Tasty.
Aiba: What about you Matsui-san?
Kazuyo: Delicious~!
Aiba: Delicious?
Nino: The flavor comes out very naturally, though it's different.
Aiba: Ah, I see. General, they're talking about it this much.
Nakajima: I'm happy ne.
Kazuyo: The broth is perfect.
Aiba: Ne.
Kazuyo: This is great ne.
Nakajima: This broth has my and Riidaa's love in it. (writing)
Aiba: There's love in it? Yes, well, shall we go to the Matsumoto team? We'll start with the vegetables as well for the Matsumoto team.
Itou: Ah bread-
Aiba: Ah, there's bread with it too ne.
[writing: french bread]
Jun: This is the chef's selection.
Aiba: Do bread and oden go together ne?
Itou: Ah, and on top of the rbead...ah, but it's gotten kind of small in the end.
Jun: It did ne. It's incredibly tender.
kazuyo: To the point of dissolving.
Ohno: Ah, this looks delicious as well.
Itou: On topf of the bread...it really gives you an exciting impression.
kazuyo: Ah, it looks incredibly delicious.
Jun: And now...
Aioba: What kind of bread is this chef?
Masahiko: Cut French bread to a thickness of about a centimetre, then put olive oil and parmesan on it, then pop it in the toaster.
Aiba: And on top of that more olive oil.
Jun: In terms of the way to eat it ne, um, you mash the onions and eat them with the bread.
Aiba: My my my.
Jun: Like french onion soup. (writing)
Sho: Yes yes yes.
Nino: You understand what he means...
Itou: Ah, it's tender!
Sho: Ah, it's French onion soup ne. (writing) Eh, you mash this...?
Nino: Together with the bread, you eat it together with the bread.
Sho: Ah, you eat it together with the bread.
Aiba: This is stylish ne, kind of ne, after all ne.
Sho: That's right ne.
Itou: So, how does it taste?
Aiba: How does it taste Sakurai-san?
Sho: Dewishus.
Aiba: My my my. Oh, Ninomiya-kun went. How is it?
Nino: But, if you didn't tell me this was oden I'd have no idea, really.
Aiba: Ahhh, this is new-
Nino: Kind of like this is it's own cuisine.
[Announcer: Next is the boiled-fish products and the rolled items. Both of them are hard to resist.]
Itou: It looks delicious ne.
Sho: Ah...delicious~. (writing)
[Announcer: And the pouch competition. What did both teams put inside?]
Itou: First is the Salt Oden team's pouch.
Aiba: That's right ne. Riidaa ne, this will surprise everyone ne?
Itou: Well then, please go ahead and eat.
Nino: Thanks for the food. So there's something unexpected in here after all?
Aiba: Well, I was surprised. 'They put this in?'
Itou: Like 'ah, they're making this?' ne.
Aiba: Go ahead, go ahead.
Sho: Huh?
Nino: Unexpected. (writing)
Aiba: It's unexpected right?
Sho: huh??
Aiba: Sho-chan, show it to the camera, to the camera.
Sho: Egg?
Nino: This is delicious. (writing)
Sho: This is ultra tasty. (writing)
kazuyo: Delicious~!
Aiba: They're congratulating each other;P
[Announcer: Inside the pouch is a raw egg. it's the fun idea of putting a standard egg inside the pouch.]
Aiba: This is amazing.
Itou: it just went in as is!
Nino: This is amazing ne! (writing)
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Nakajima: Thanks.
Aiba: It got him excited~.
Kazuyo: Amazing.
[Announcer: The opposinh Matsumoto team, what are the contents of their pouches?]
Nino: Thanks for the food.
Kazuyo: Thanks for the food.
Aiba: What could be inside them?
Nino: Director?
Aiba: Director, can you tell?
Sho: It's Italian. (writing)
Aiba: There's Italian inside? There's Italian inside.
Sho: Italian...uwa uwa.
Masahiko: Do you know what it is?
Kazuyo: Ah, something came out.
Sho: it's kind of different from your imrpession of a pouch ne. It's still a more different sensation from the kind that has mochi inside
you could say.
itou: Yes, so how does it go together?
Sho: It's exquisite ne. (writing)
[Announcer: Matsumoto-kun carefully made each and every one of these pouches. Inside there's 100g of short pasta, 5 olives, 5 tablespoons
of cheese, 5 basil leaves, 5 anchovies. Last is the free ingredient. The Ohno team has shrimp potatoes.]
Nino: This kind of feels like it's become it's own small dish ne.
Aiba; Ah, a high quality one.
[Announcer: The Matsumoto team has gnocchi.]
Sho: This is ultra tasty.
Kazuyo: Delicious.
[Announcer: And, it's the decision.]
Aiba: Are you ready?
Sho: You can't compare these. (writing)
Aiba: Well then, please give your decision!
Sho/Nino: ready, and-
[Announcer: The Ohno team's Salt Oden, the Matsumoto team's Italian-style Oden. In the end, which one was more delicious?]
Aiba: Well then, please give your decision!
Sho/Nino: ready, and- tada.
[writing: Ohno team Salt Oden victory.]
Ohno: Thank you very much.
Kazuyo: Sorry ne.
Aiba: What was the greatest cause of victory?
Sho: For me...the Italian onion, the horse mackeral dumpling for the Salt Oden, the Italian rolled sausage, and there was the egg
pouch for Salt Oden, but after all the shrimp potato at the end was what I liked~.
Aiba: Ah, I see, what about Ninomiya-kun?
Nino: When I was thinking about which one I'd wnat to eat again, it was the daikon ne. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne~. What about Matsui-san?
Kazuyo: I will have lived 50 years by next year. But in terms of oden the Japanese-style sense is better ne. I couldn't overlook that,
it was delicious, but this one was also incredibly delicious.
Nino: this one ne, there was no need to make it into oden. (writing) That was perfect.
Aiba: It's perfect ne.
Itou: So that means that the result is a victory for the Salt Oden.
Aiba: That's the final result.
itou: So everyone, your final comments.
Ohno: It's thanks to General ne. (writing)
Aiba: Well, you lost but it was a good fight Matsumoto-kun.
JUn: It was too bad ne.
masahiko: It was too bad ne.
Jun: The power of the Japanese-style was strong ne. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne. Oden is something Japanese ne.
itou: Although ne, this competition was to kind of break that image a little ne.
Jun: This means that we couldn't break it ne. Well this, if it wasn't oden it would be good ne.
Nino: This could be a complete course in an Italian meal.
Sho: Well ne, if you brought that out and told someone it was oden they'd be shocked ne.
Awww, I was sure Jun would winXDD He looked so happy when they complimented the sausage rolls and pouches. And Sho wouldn't stop making obnoxious comments, so funnyXD And, the best part of all, somehow they managed to disembarass themselves of Kanako-chan, who has been irritating the heck out of me for months now;P But man am I hungry now...XD
I'm sorry I don't have anything else right now, it's been hard to concentrate on anything really...I had to call in sick to work twice, which makes me feel guilty on top of everything, and by the end of Saturday it could be a lot worse. But I will do my best to get through it and get back to the little happinesses that are waiting for me somewhere. And my Time DVD still hasn't come!O_o Stupid mailXD At least it's warmer here now^^ take care everyone, I hope someone you love smiles at you today:)
痛みや苦しみだけ。どうして私を許せないんですか？そんなに好きなのに。。。
As for next week, somehow my schedule is getting ramped up even further so I will try to maintain my one post a week routine but I don't know how intensive these courses will be yet so I may have to change it at some point. Thankfully this is only for two months, so at the end of June I will be free~XDDD At least until Septemeber;P
So, today I have the translation of the GRA from 07.12.08 about Oden=)
[Announcer: Speaking of Japan's delicious winter cuisine, the hotpot, there is fugu and crab but that's kind of extravagant. If you
were to talk about winter's standard dish that can make your whole family happy and full for a reasonable cost...that's right! Oden.
If, as a Japanese, you don't know about oden, that's embarassing. Do you know the origin behind the name 'oden'? The 'den' from 'oden'
is the 'den' from 'dengaku'. Dengaku is an old-fashioned food where tofu is coated in miso and then grilled. Dengaku came from an
entertainment group that lived atop mount Bokoku; there was an entertainer named Brother Dengaku (monk) whose pogo-stick-riding image
looked a lot like the pieces of tofu stuck on sticks, so that's how they became called oden. Tonight's GRA is a big study of oden.
Matsumoto-kun and Ohno-kun try their hand at making simple, doable-at-home oden cuisine for less than 500yen per person. Ohno vs.
Matsumoto. Exactly what kind of oden can they make?]
Aiba: Today's Oden study is...we're having Matsumoto-kun and Ohno-kun ne, do a competition for high quality original oden cuisine.
Sho: So then, exactly what are we doing?
Aiba: You're going to judge the oden that the two of them make. As in, which one was the most delicious.
Nino: I see.
Aiba: First of all, the one who's going to support Ohno-kun ne, this is Japan's Roppongi's Hassan's Chef Nakajima, your favor please.
Nakajima: Your favor please~.
[Announcer: Supporting Ohno is Roppongi's famous restaurant Hassan's Chef Nakajima Kesaji. He's been adoring Japanese cuisine for
34 years. With his publicized Japanese heart he'll suggest a new oden.]
Itou: So, the oden that you're going to make today...?
Nakajima: It's salt oden.
Aiba: Salt oden?? Did you suggest that Riidaa?
Nino: Who suggested that, who rally suggested that?
Itou: Salt oden?
Nakajima: Yes, with Akirai salt.
Aiba: With Akirai salt, I see. What reason did you choose it for Riidaa?
Ohno: Oden is nice and thick after all, so you get tired of it.
Aiba: Have you eaten it?
Ohno: The soup is also exquisite. (writing)
Aiba: Ah, the stock is esstenial ne.
Kazuyo: That's right ne-
Aiba: Matsui-san, you love oden don't you?
Kazuyo: I love it. The stock is very important after all ne. (writing)
[Announcer: Supporting Matsumoto-kun is Chef Hagiwara Masahiko. He's the owner of the Italian restaurant Chameleon in East Azabu.
What is the fusion he will reach in combining his knowledge of Italian cuisine with oden?]
Jun: I think everyone probably hasn't seen one like ours before. Have you ever seen one with red soup? (writing)
Kazuyo: Is it made with tomatoes?
Jun: Is it indeed;)
Aiba: He's keeping it to himself.
Kazuyo: He's keeping it to himself ne. I've never seen that one before.
Itou: So what kind of Oden is the Matsumoto team making today.
Jun: An Italian-style oden.
Aiba: ohhh, I'm looking forward to that.
Nino: Well of course, he's an Italian chef.
Aiba: That's right.
[Announcer: As commentator there is the head of the Oden Museum that is expanding online, Arai Yoshimi-san. He did a survey of approximately
500 oden places across Japan. He's an oden expert who knows anything and everything about it. In today's oden contest the rules are
that they do battle with 5 ingredients: vegetables, boiled-fish products, rolled foods, pouches, and 'free'. The contents of the
pouches is a secret. Eaxctly what will the two teams put inside?]
Aiba: All right then, the world's greatest original oden competition, ready, start!
Itou: First of all, the salt oden team, exactly what kind of broth do you have?
Aiba: Yes, let's go.
Ohno: Here it is.
Itou: Ah, I kind of thought you were bringing out food;P
[Announcer: The salt oden's broth is: 1.2 litres of water, 60ml of mirin, 8g of salt, and 10g of kelp tea. The kelp tea is the key.
Meanwhile, the Matsumoto team's broth is: one bouillon cube, 5 tablespoons of tomato paste, 1 teaspoon of paprika, a little pepper
and salt. A tomato-based oden, it's fairly intriguing. Well then, without delay the broth-making begins.]
Sho: Matsumoto-kun ne, did a drama a while back, so he knows Italian (cuisine) well. Ohno-san, Ohno-san are you doing any cooking?
Ohno: On this show... (writing) I'm doing it.
Kazuyo: From now ne.
Sho: So from now on?
Aiba: From now ne.
Sho: Eh, this is a cooking show?
Itou: Ahh, so the Italian-style one ne, they've put a lot into it ne.
Aiba: it's already completely red ne.
Itou: There was a lot of tomato paste and the broth is already getting completely red. And the salt oden has, after all, turned just
a little green ne~.
Aiba: It means it's reacting to the kelp tea ne.
itou: Yes, it's becoming the color of the kelp tea.
[Announcer: Once the broth preparations are done it's finally time to put in the first ingredient, the vegetables. But before that...]
[writing: tasting each of their broths]
Aiba: Shall I do the first round of taste testing? 'Aiba Time~' was it?
Itou: Eh, the Salt Oden team. It's a broth with kelp tea in it.
Aiba: Kelp...there's just a touch of kelp. Um ne...salt...it's salt! (writing) It's salt, it's salt!
Itou: Yes, it's salt oden. So please taste test the Italian-style broth a little.
Aiba: I'll just take a little...ah, the scent of the tomato is a lot less sharp than I thought it would be. It's refreshing ne. Ah!
Jun: What is it?
Itou: How is the flavor of the base?
Aiba: It's delicious. (writing) It was refrehsing.
Itou: Yes, so with that sensation, right now the Salt oden team is working on daikon for the vegetables right?
Nakajima: There's one key thing about the daikon.
Itou: A key thing?
Aiba: There's a key to making it.
nakajima: Yes, daikon ne, putting an unseen cross on this side is okay, but you put the other cut on the other side. If you put
the cross here it's fairly easy to break.
Itou: So that means not putting both bars of teh cross on one side, but one on the underside ne?
Nakajima: That's right, that's right. if you do that the flavor will also come out easily.
Itou: Right now the Salt Oden team is putting in daikon.
Kazuyo: it's kind of grotesque ne.
Sho: That's right, that's right.
Kazuyo: Kelp oden right here...
Itou: The sliced daikon is now going in.
Nino: It's starting to smell like tomato over here. (writing)
Itou: Ah, is that so?
Aiba: It is?
Itou: Well, and, ah, this is exciting. Just now three whole onions went in!
Aiba: Scary~, they're going in whole!
[Announcer: Next is the boiled-fish products. The Ohno team has horse mackeral dumplings, the Matsumoto team has pork dumplings.
The ingredients for the Ohno team's horse mackeral dumplings are: a horse mackeral split into three filets, a 5cm green onion,
one or two eggs, 2 tablespoons of potato starch, one to two teaspoons of salt.]
Aiba: They're taking off the horse mackeral's skin.
Itou: So, first of all...ah, they're taking off the morse mackeral's skin. And the Italian-style one is pork dumplings.
Aiba: There's an egg.
[Announcer: The ingredients for the pork dumplings are: 150g of ground pork, 3 pieces of raw ham, 10g of parmesan, 1-3 eggs, a little
pepper and salt.]
Itou: So, this is how they're putting in the flavor. It is certainly becoming very Italian-style.
Aiba: That's right.
Itou: Also, the salt Oden team is...oh, doing well.
Aiba: That's super fast.
Itou: He's chopping it finely.
Aiba: Amazing.
Itou: That's very fine ne.
Nino: There's a lot of movement over here.
Itou: So...ah, this-!
Kazuyo: Amazing.
itou: Chef, this means you're going to wrap it in the raw ham ne?
Sho: it's meat on meat ne. (writing)
Nino: Of course oden is raising Sakurai-san's tension.
Kazuyo: And at this stage they're putting in the dumplings.
Itou: So this is the Italian-style Matsumoto team, and the ham-wrapped pork dumplings will be finished shortly. And inside there is
a little cheese...so, that's 1, 2 going in.
Aiba: it's going into the oden ne.
Itou: So..ah, this is it ne, as you would think ne.
Nakajima: You bring it out through the gap.
Itou: Ah, you bring it out through the gap, and then you put it in.
Nakajima: The term 'dumpling' comes from the words 'pinch' and 'insert', originally.
Itou: I see, I see. So this would be that very pinching work. So, Riidaa...
Aiba: Pinch it...it squeezed out.
Itou: Eh? He accepted it!
Aiba: It shouldn't take two of you to do that, do it by yourself.
Jun: Hurry up and put them in, it'll boil. (writing)
[Announcer: Tonight, something you can instantly try at home, there's still more ways to create delicious oden to come. The competition
is finally heating up. Eh? This is oden? The oden competition, next is rolled items. The Ohno team is rolled gingko, the Matsumoto
team is rolled sausage. The ingredients for the rolled sausages are: 5 sausages, 300g of minced squid, 5 basil leaves, 200ml of olive
oil, a little pepper and salt.]
Aiba: So this is-
Itou: First of all, it's the squid ne.
Aiba: So this is squid.
Itou: Something green has appeared, what is this?
Aiba: What indeed, what indeed?
Sho: These are leaves ne.
Aiba: Sakurai-san, what kind of leaves, what kind of leaves? Please ask.
Sho: What kind of leaves are they?
Jun: These are basil.
Sho: Yes, they're basil.
Itou: There's basil inside.
Aiba: Squid, basil...
kazuyo: The squid is a lot of work ne, getting it like that.
Itou: Which means that they're carefully wrapping up the sausages.
[Announcer: The Ohno team has rolled gingko. The ingredients are: 250g minced walleye, 15 gingko nuts, 1-2 eggs.]
Itou: So, meanwhile, over here is the Salt Oden team.
Aiba: What is this?
Nakajima: This is egg ne, and minced walleye.
Aiba: Ah, it's minced.
Itou: So, they're mixing that in with the egg.
Aiba: This time Riidaa's doing his best.
Itou: Yeah, Riidaa's doing his best ne. And, meanwhile this is the Italian-style Oden team.
Sho: The smell of the horse mackeral is...
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Nino: Amazing ne.
Aiba: It's hanging in the air?
Sho: Um, getting basil stuck in your teeth aafter eating pasta with basil really sucks ne.
Itou: Ah, that's right ne~.
Nino: Ah, you can just go forward without paying attention to him.
Itou: Yes. So, this is the Salt Oden team...
Aiba: The gingko nuts-
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Itou: They've lined up three of the gingko nuts.
Aiba: -three line up.
Itou: Lining up three of them...
Aiba: uwa, they're burying them. They're burying the gingko nuts.
Itou: It's rolling them, rolling them.
Aiba: Rolling them.
Itou: Rolling.
Aiba: Rolling.
Itou: They're rolled items.
Aiba: Rolled items.
Itou: They're rolled items.
Aiba: Ah, is that so.
Itou: And Riidaa ne, he's done it ne.
Aiba: That's right ne, just as you would expect from him ne.
Sho: Gingko nuts smell ne. (writing)
Aiba: Well that's something he didn't need to say ne. Huh? There was some kind of new ingredient ne?
Itou: The frying pan has come out. So this time, to make the dumplings they're going to use frying pans ne. Tha Salt Oden team...
Aiba: The Salt Oden team-
itou: There was quite a bit of salt in this, the rolled gingko nuts.
Aiba: Let's go.
itou: It's going into the frying pan,
Aiba: Let's go, let;s go. This is kind of exciting ne.
Itou: That's right ne.
Sho: It really is exciting.
Aiba: Ne.
Sho: Over here as well ne, it's really something you don't often see.
Aiba: You don't ne.
Itou: And both teams are kind of doing some teamwork ne.
Aiba: These ones here are constantly going around each other.
itou: Revolving?
Aiba: Ping pong...like doubles ping pong. (writing) Like they're flipping their paddles, like they're flipping their paddles huh.
itou: Is that what this is? Do you have any pointers on cooking it?
Nakajima: Perfectly getting the burner to cover the surface, kind of scorching it.
Itou: scorching it ne. Frying it-
Aiba: So it's scorching it as much as possible ne. (writing)
Itou: That's how it is ne.
Nakajima: When it's scorched then you take it out.
Aiba: I see ne. You take it out when it's scorched.
Itou: Both teams are grilling up their rolled items in the frying pan. So, the Italian-style Oden team is done grilling. The rolled
sausages are going in now, into the red soup.
Aiba: Ah, they're going in over here too. They wnt in first over here. (writing)
Nino: It went in. It went in over here too.
Sho: What kind of contest is this?
Itou: Speed really doesn't have anything to do with it ne.
Aiba: Nothing to do with it ne.
Nakajima: That's great ne. (writing) It's perfect.
Itou: Ah, then this degree of scorching is good?
Nakajima: If it's like this it absorbs the broth.
Aiba: Ohhh, this is perfect.
Itou: Definitely, it's scorched.
[Announcer: What's inside the pouches is something to look forward to at the taste testing. Next is the free ingredients. The Ohno team
has shrimp potatoes, the Matsumoto team has gnocchi! The ingredients for gnocchi are: 250g of May Queen potatoes, 150g of potato starch,
20g of parmesan, 1-2 eggs, and a little pepper and salt.]
Aiba: You crush gnocchi ne.
Masahiko: Because they're potatoes ne.
Itou: He's mashing the potaotes.
Aiba: meanwhile...the Salt Oden team...
itou: So, they're at the point of peeling the shrimp potatoes. And Riidaa is...cutting the corners off ne.
Aiba:P Cutting the corners ne.
Nakajima: This is bevelling ne.
Aiba: bevelling.
Nakajima: There's another key point here.
itou: Yes?
Nakajima: With potatoes, when you cook them with corners they break apart. And these shrimp ones are especially quick to break apart.
Itou: I see. So just like this...
Aiba: You're saying that it's essential to bevel them.
Itou: I see.
Nakajima: That's how you make delicious ODen.
Aiba: I see.
Itou: The Italian-style Oden Matsumoto team is making their gnocchi. The chef is kneading it with his hands. All the earlier ingredients
are in it. Meanwhile, the painstaking bevelling of the shrimp potatoes continues, this is the Ohno team.
Aiba: You;re kinda amazing, you're like the real thing itou-san. (writing) Your on-the-spot commentary.
Itou: I can do it fairly well ne.
Aiba: That's amazing. How many years is it, since you started doing it? (writing)
Itou: Well from here it would be something over 10 years-
Nino: We don't need to have this conversation. Talk about the food.
itou: So...
Aiba: They're putting them in.
Itou: So, the bevelled potatoes are also going into the boiling broth. Into the pot.
Nino: Over here they're kind of moving along.
Itou: Ah, this shape?
kazuyo: Eh, amazxing!
Aiba: Amazing, amazing! They're kind of making it into this stylish shape ne.
Itou: At it's base it's gnocchi ne.
Aiba: MatsuJun too...
Itou: He's shaping it ne, the same as the chef.
Kazuyo: That's right, he's very skilled.
Aiba: Very skilled ne.
Itou: Ah, they've made one or two.
Sho: I see.
Jun: Alright, it's over.
Aiba: Oh, so that means...
Itou: So, that means...
Aiba: All that's left for the cooking is to boil it.
[Announcer: The Ohno team and the Matsumoto team, after each boiling their own for about 30min. they're done! Finally, the taste-testing.
They're extremely moved by the super new Oden. Rave Review Arashi. Furthermore, the surprising way of eating it that makes it even
more delicious is?]
Aiba: So, they're finished~!
[writing: Original Oden taste testing]
Aiba: The Salt Oden...eh, Riidaa team, how is your confidence?
Ohno: Ah, we're confident ne?
Nakajima: It's perfect ne.
Aiba: it's perfect?
Ohno: Commander was constantly sayting 'perfect, perfect'. (writing)
Aiba: Ah, it's perfect?
Ohno: Perfect.
Nino: Yeah, it's perfect.
Aiba: Matsumoto-kun team, how is it? Your confidence?
Jun: We're confident. (writing)
Masahiko: We're confident.
Aiba: You're confident?
Jun: IF I were to say, the Salt Oden, well the flavor's a little different, but it's kind of a basic approach. Ours will turn everything
on it's head. (writing)
Aiba: That's right ne, it completely changes the image ne. Which means that, without delay, let's start with the Ohno-kun team.
Itou: Salt Oden...open!
Kazuyo: Oh, it looks delicious~.
Jun: It looks tasty ne.
Nino: That's great. How is the smell?
Sho: There's no wind, please go over there.
Aiba: How;s the smell?
Sho: The smell's good too.
Kazuyo: it smells good~. It looks delicious huh, the juices of each of the ingredients is coming out. (writing)
Aiba: So, next-
Kazuyo: -this is high quality.
Aiba: Next let's open the Matsumoto-kun team's.
Itou: Open!
Jun: This is how it is.
Aiba: There we go~! It smells amazing ne.
Nino: You get the feeling it did become oden-like after all ne.
Kazuyo: It did.
Nino: It smells good.
Ohno: It smells like cheese ne.
Nino: That's right ne.
Kazuyo: Amazing.
[Announcer: The vegetable competition is daikon vs. onion; first, the Ohno team's daikon.]
Aiba: Oh Riidaa, what's the key point about the daikon?
Ohno: This ne...the soup is perfec6tly matched to the daikon. (writing)
Kazuyo: That's right ne.
Aiba: Perfectly ne.
Sho: I want the ingredients, but the taste of the broth intrigues me.
Aiba: That's right ne. Well then, please dig in, go ahead!
Kazuyo: Yes, thanks for the food~!
Sho: It's incredibly tender. (writing) It smells really good.
Nino: Ah, you're right. Well, I guess I'll eat some.
Itou: This is the first ingredient, the vegetable daikon.
Aiba: How is it, how is it?
Nino: This is extremely delicious. Tasty.
Aiba: What about you Matsui-san?
Kazuyo: Delicious~!
Aiba: Delicious?
Nino: The flavor comes out very naturally, though it's different.
Aiba: Ah, I see. General, they're talking about it this much.
Nakajima: I'm happy ne.
Kazuyo: The broth is perfect.
Aiba: Ne.
Kazuyo: This is great ne.
Nakajima: This broth has my and Riidaa's love in it. (writing)
Aiba: There's love in it? Yes, well, shall we go to the Matsumoto team? We'll start with the vegetables as well for the Matsumoto team.
Itou: Ah bread-
Aiba: Ah, there's bread with it too ne.
[writing: french bread]
Jun: This is the chef's selection.
Aiba: Do bread and oden go together ne?
Itou: Ah, and on top of the rbead...ah, but it's gotten kind of small in the end.
Jun: It did ne. It's incredibly tender.
kazuyo: To the point of dissolving.
Ohno: Ah, this looks delicious as well.
Itou: On topf of the bread...it really gives you an exciting impression.
kazuyo: Ah, it looks incredibly delicious.
Jun: And now...
Aioba: What kind of bread is this chef?
Masahiko: Cut French bread to a thickness of about a centimetre, then put olive oil and parmesan on it, then pop it in the toaster.
Aiba: And on top of that more olive oil.
Jun: In terms of the way to eat it ne, um, you mash the onions and eat them with the bread.
Aiba: My my my.
Jun: Like french onion soup. (writing)
Sho: Yes yes yes.
Nino: You understand what he means...
Itou: Ah, it's tender!
Sho: Ah, it's French onion soup ne. (writing) Eh, you mash this...?
Nino: Together with the bread, you eat it together with the bread.
Sho: Ah, you eat it together with the bread.
Aiba: This is stylish ne, kind of ne, after all ne.
Sho: That's right ne.
Itou: So, how does it taste?
Aiba: How does it taste Sakurai-san?
Sho: Dewishus.
Aiba: My my my. Oh, Ninomiya-kun went. How is it?
Nino: But, if you didn't tell me this was oden I'd have no idea, really.
Aiba: Ahhh, this is new-
Nino: Kind of like this is it's own cuisine.
[Announcer: Next is the boiled-fish products and the rolled items. Both of them are hard to resist.]
Itou: It looks delicious ne.
Sho: Ah...delicious~. (writing)
[Announcer: And the pouch competition. What did both teams put inside?]
Itou: First is the Salt Oden team's pouch.
Aiba: That's right ne. Riidaa ne, this will surprise everyone ne?
Itou: Well then, please go ahead and eat.
Nino: Thanks for the food. So there's something unexpected in here after all?
Aiba: Well, I was surprised. 'They put this in?'
Itou: Like 'ah, they're making this?' ne.
Aiba: Go ahead, go ahead.
Sho: Huh?
Nino: Unexpected. (writing)
Aiba: It's unexpected right?
Sho: huh??
Aiba: Sho-chan, show it to the camera, to the camera.
Sho: Egg?
Nino: This is delicious. (writing)
Sho: This is ultra tasty. (writing)
kazuyo: Delicious~!
Aiba: They're congratulating each other;P
[Announcer: Inside the pouch is a raw egg. it's the fun idea of putting a standard egg inside the pouch.]
Aiba: This is amazing.
Itou: it just went in as is!
Nino: This is amazing ne! (writing)
Kazuyo: Amazing.
Nakajima: Thanks.
Aiba: It got him excited~.
Kazuyo: Amazing.
[Announcer: The opposinh Matsumoto team, what are the contents of their pouches?]
Nino: Thanks for the food.
Kazuyo: Thanks for the food.
Aiba: What could be inside them?
Nino: Director?
Aiba: Director, can you tell?
Sho: It's Italian. (writing)
Aiba: There's Italian inside? There's Italian inside.
Sho: Italian...uwa uwa.
Masahiko: Do you know what it is?
Kazuyo: Ah, something came out.
Sho: it's kind of different from your imrpession of a pouch ne. It's still a more different sensation from the kind that has mochi inside
you could say.
itou: Yes, so how does it go together?
Sho: It's exquisite ne. (writing)
[Announcer: Matsumoto-kun carefully made each and every one of these pouches. Inside there's 100g of short pasta, 5 olives, 5 tablespoons
of cheese, 5 basil leaves, 5 anchovies. Last is the free ingredient. The Ohno team has shrimp potatoes.]
Nino: This kind of feels like it's become it's own small dish ne.
Aiba; Ah, a high quality one.
[Announcer: The Matsumoto team has gnocchi.]
Sho: This is ultra tasty.
Kazuyo: Delicious.
[Announcer: And, it's the decision.]
Aiba: Are you ready?
Sho: You can't compare these. (writing)
Aiba: Well then, please give your decision!
Sho/Nino: ready, and-
[Announcer: The Ohno team's Salt Oden, the Matsumoto team's Italian-style Oden. In the end, which one was more delicious?]
Aiba: Well then, please give your decision!
Sho/Nino: ready, and- tada.
[writing: Ohno team Salt Oden victory.]
Ohno: Thank you very much.
Kazuyo: Sorry ne.
Aiba: What was the greatest cause of victory?
Sho: For me...the Italian onion, the horse mackeral dumpling for the Salt Oden, the Italian rolled sausage, and there was the egg
pouch for Salt Oden, but after all the shrimp potato at the end was what I liked~.
Aiba: Ah, I see, what about Ninomiya-kun?
Nino: When I was thinking about which one I'd wnat to eat again, it was the daikon ne. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne~. What about Matsui-san?
Kazuyo: I will have lived 50 years by next year. But in terms of oden the Japanese-style sense is better ne. I couldn't overlook that,
it was delicious, but this one was also incredibly delicious.
Nino: this one ne, there was no need to make it into oden. (writing) That was perfect.
Aiba: It's perfect ne.
Itou: So that means that the result is a victory for the Salt Oden.
Aiba: That's the final result.
itou: So everyone, your final comments.
Ohno: It's thanks to General ne. (writing)
Aiba: Well, you lost but it was a good fight Matsumoto-kun.
JUn: It was too bad ne.
masahiko: It was too bad ne.
Jun: The power of the Japanese-style was strong ne. (writing)
Aiba: I see ne. Oden is something Japanese ne.
itou: Although ne, this competition was to kind of break that image a little ne.
Jun: This means that we couldn't break it ne. Well this, if it wasn't oden it would be good ne.
Nino: This could be a complete course in an Italian meal.
Sho: Well ne, if you brought that out and told someone it was oden they'd be shocked ne.
Awww, I was sure Jun would winXDD He looked so happy when they complimented the sausage rolls and pouches. And Sho wouldn't stop making obnoxious comments, so funnyXD And, the best part of all, somehow they managed to disembarass themselves of Kanako-chan, who has been irritating the heck out of me for months now;P But man am I hungry now...XD
I'm sorry I don't have anything else right now, it's been hard to concentrate on anything really...I had to call in sick to work twice, which makes me feel guilty on top of everything, and by the end of Saturday it could be a lot worse. But I will do my best to get through it and get back to the little happinesses that are waiting for me somewhere. And my Time DVD still hasn't come!O_o Stupid mailXD At least it's warmer here now^^ take care everyone, I hope someone you love smiles at you today:)
痛みや苦しみだけ。どうして私を許せないんですか？そんなに好きなのに。。。