Soba

In Japanese film there is a flowing trend of a desexualized mothers. In this essay the interpretation is of both Japanese Horror, and Japanese Noodle Western. In movies such as Like Dark Water and Tampopo the reoccurring trend of the asexual mother is shown. Through the articles of The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese, Filming “Chinatown: Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations, and Introduction to Japanese Horror Film the mix of the Western, Japanese and Chinese’s cultures intertwined. The film Tampopo by Juzo Itami is a Japanese Noodle Western; a play on word from Spaghetti Western, that show cases a single mother Tampopo (dandelion) trying to run a successful ramen noodle shop. Goro a truck driver dressed as a cowboy shows up at the restaurant to eat, when asked about the food he openly admits it’s not very good. Tampopo then insists on him teaching her, he then helps Tampopo to create a new re-established restaurant. Tampopo a mother of Tabo is a widow who is dressed conservative and paternal. A customer and long time friend Pisken harasses Tampopo into either giving up her shop or dating him. Even though Pisken hits on Tampopo he never talks to her as a women but as a potential business opportunity. The one man who Tampopo likes is Goro; he helps her learn how to cook ramen and helped her son learn how to fight. In this relationship however they never let the relationship grow into anything, continuing as friends through the movie. Its not until the end of…

Okinawan Soba is made up of Chinese noodles with Japanese flavoring and soup. I relate to Okinawan soba because Okinawa is closer to Japan than to China, even though my father’s ancestors are from Taiwan or the Chinese noodles. I believe that I identify more to my Japanese side because I lived in Japan for the first few years of my life, I even went to a Japanese-speaking school during Kindergarten. In Japan a candle-lit ceremony is held, that is called the Bon Odori or Bon…

The first video is a short clip taken from a movie called Mr Baseball. There is this man who visits a coach’s house and are having lunch. I think assumption of similarities will explain the issues inside this video. We all eat food but we do not always have the same table manner. One issue is that we make sounds when we eat soba. This is normal in Japan but other foreign people will think this as a wrong behavior. Another issue that was found in this video is that American people do not eat…

oregano, and oil). Once you bite, flavor and taste of ingredients which selected carefully are spread in your mouth and it makes you eat one more slice. You can also enjoy their a la carte including salads, snacks, or seasonal dishes for every month." In 1997, one of the well-known Chinese dumpling chefs opened this restaurant in Taiwan. Since then, their dumpling taste was accepted local people. After that, in 2002, they opened 2nd store in Taiwan and the culinary art and savory taste are…

I am inquisitive, but it is not simply the conventional I-ask-a-lot-of-questions type of inquisitiveness. Emphatically, I am endlessly curious, inherently agog to searching and discovering. However, time and time again has proven my intuition to be dangerously curious. Trust me when I say this: I am a daredevil, bad-to-the-bone, with no fear of pioneering my own path to acquire more knowledge and satiating my hunger for erudition. Even through situations that would now prove too juvenile to…

two children; a boy and a girl aged around seven to twelve. They select a table next to me. Another thing that further confirmed the group to be Japanese was the language used when they made their order. They also gave the courteous bow to the chef and exchanged a few words. Findings The family makes different orders, and each of the family members selects what they prefer to eat. The father orders what he pronounced as ‘Mazikushi, ' and this seems like longer pieces of Sushi. The wife, on the…

it. Basically I want to either get a workstudy job or a job in general. I hate having to ask my parents for money, they have already provided me with so much I don't to go overboard. In addition I know now that 8ams aren't my cup of tea, therefore if I get the schedule I planned then my earliest class would be around 10. And I also want to make sure I don't take an online courses. I know will procrastinate again and will be rushing to finish the work last minute. Overall this quarter I was…

stairs which leads out to the foyer. Outside the entrance, the front door looked exactly what I had in mind. The door which I use to be greeted with a warm smile and a hug. The base of their house is raised on a foundation and to the left of the porch is a brown stretched out seating area where most of my family spent outside exchanging conversations. Looking around I saw that my grandmother’s vegetable garden still remained in the same spot. Not much about the house seemed to have changed,…

still up studying. You hear your stomach rumble and you just realize you haven 't eaten yet. There 's not enough time for you to cook something up and you don 't want to eat a snack. The perfect solution, ramen. In a few minutes your cup noodles are ready for you to eat. Have you ever noticed that a lot of students tend to eat cup ramen more than other foods? They 're on this budget called the ramen diet. Ramen first appeared in Japan in 1910, when Chinese cooks, at a restaurant in Tokyo, tried…

security at nuclear pants and military bases” by restricting areas to just certain chips. Lewan also comments the implanting “might start with Alzheimer’s patients or Army Rangers” but many protested that the Alzheimer’s patients are not in a clear mind to agree to this and would be later “suggested for convicts and . . . parolees” to also be some of the first to receive the implant (Lewan). In some countries the RFID chips are already being distributed throughout the population to those who…