J-Word Play: October ’11
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The riddle asks, “What’s the meat dish that everyone likes?” 鋤焼ã (Sukiyaki) is a traditional Japanese dish combining the words for “spade” (as in for gardening) and “cook.” It seems that this name originated from the Edo period practice of cooking fish or tofu (or meat if it was available, I suppose) on the metal part of a spade instead of in a pot.
Though 「ã™ãã€means “spade” in this case, it can also mean “to like.” Hence it’s the meat dish that everyone likes.
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Two issues back, a comic in this publication compared the chance of a foreign female getting a Japanese boyfriend to one’s chance of winning the lottery. Winning the lottery’s definitely more difficult! Whatever you’ve heard, there’s a shot for those of us raised in the West too. I don’t have any fancy percentages for you,…
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