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The blog side of life · 1M ago

Tanita Shokudo at Osaka University

This semester started off with a nice surprise. I was about to get some spinach omrice because that’s the only menu at “Sora” cafeteria which doesn’t drive up your energy consumption by 900-1000 kcal like the others and is a tiny bit more healthful than a plain omrice. But when I entered the cafeter
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The blog side of life · 1M ago

Doubts and Confidence

If there was a list for endangered blogs, this one would be on it for sure. It’s getting harder and harder for me to find some spare time to type a few words, but I’ll try to keep it up and post a little piece about my current life. So I made it into the [...]
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The blog side of life · 4M ago

Oops, it’s been ages…

… since I wrote something on my blog. This is due to the fact that I got very busy from November last year and didn’t do much interesting stuff. On the opposite, I had to cut back on social life a lot because I expectantly had to write a quite long research proposal for the [...]
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The blog side of life · 4M ago

Maru no Uchi Tanita Shokudo – Eating for the Patient

Being in Tokyo for a day this week I used the opportunity to visit the restaurant of the Japanese scale maker Tanita which opened earlier this month. Tanita, the company which introduces itself as the one “who measures health” (「健康をはかる」タニタです）, had already published two cookbooks based on the recipes
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The blog side of life · 4M ago

Oops, it’s been ages…

… since I wrote something on my blog. This is due to the fact that I got very busy from November last year and didn’t do much interesting stuff. On the opposite, I had to cut back on social life a lot because I expectantly had to write a quite long research proposal for the [...]
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The blog side of life · 7M ago

Sake with Wasabi

At the beginning of September I went to a fancy beef restaurant in Kyoto called Inayoshi. I got gift coupons worth 10.000 Yen from my company for my birthday which were to spend at Inayoshi or for Japanese classes. Of course I opted for a nice evening with my boyfriend at Inayoshi. Usually, I wouldn
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The blog side of life · 7M ago

Kannon-sama, Katana and Sake – A Trip to the Countryside of Nara

Wow, it’s already October and I still have so much to write about what happened in September! Remember I made a trip to Uji at the end of August? It was a trip organised by a tourist agency to promote Japanese tourism. At the beginning of September I participated in another trip. This time we [...]
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The blog side of life · 8M ago

Come to Japan! There’s No Reason Why You Should Not!

I’m proud that A Modern Girl invited me to contribute something to this month’s Blog Matsuri which she’s hosting on the topic “Reasons to Visit Japan” I just peeped at the contributions she already received and have to say there’s already a great collection of reasons to visit Japan ranging from del
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The blog side of life · 8M ago

Beer, Beer, Beer!

It’s the 150th anniversary of the German-Japanese friendship and what would be better to celebrate this with the most famous German beer festival: Oktoberfest! While the Oktoberfest in Osaka naturally was much much smaller than the original the beer was just as good and a Japanese band playing and s
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The blog side of life · 8M ago

Bottoms and Mouths – Japanese Place Names

Remember I wanted to write a post about the interesting chat we had with the owner of the tiny restaurant in Karuizawa? Well, here it is When we went to Karuizawa by train I noticed some places contained the kanji for bottom which is shiri (尻) in Japanese. For example Shiojiri (塩尻). While I wondered
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