Umechan

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Study materials for grocery shopping?

I’m looking for anything out there that could help me navigate grocery stores in Japan? Maybe an Anki deck for food labels with proper kanji? I’ll be there for a period of time later this year and while my conversational skills are okay, I don’t know that I could grocery shop! I’ve got Genki 1 and 2 and some vocab cards...

Umechan,

Try googling food label vocabulary. Here are some I found.

survivingnjapan.com/…/ultimate-guide-to-reading-f…cotoacademy.com/japanese-food-label-vocabulary-gu…kokorocares.com/…/reading-labels-in-japan-labels-…

Umechan,

There’s no evidence that it made them gay. Maybe the demon provided a matchmaking service for closeted medieval queers.

Umechan,

Is it really that bad? I’ve been living in Asia for 10 years, and although it seems like there are some desperate bottoms in rural areas and smaller cities, it doesn’t really feel like things are that easy for tops. There’s actually been plenty of times when other tops have wanted me to bottom for them.

Umechan,

Yes. I’m not married, and I’m sometimes shocked at how some men seem to use marriage as an excuse not to learn basic life skills, especially in an age when you can learn almost any non-professional skill for free on YouTube.

My dad always did his fair share of housework, but he rarely cooked. Once I was old enough, I would cook for him whenever my mother was away. During her first trip away after I got my first job, my dad got really drunk because he didn’t feel like waiting for me to get home and make him dinner before going out. He was born in the 1940s, so I accept that his generation were raised to see cooking as feminine, but we should have moved on from that.

Umechan,

It’s a pointless move, but it helps them in their aim of adopting America’s anti-woke culture war rhetoric.

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    Umechan,

    I think trimmed beards can be very attractive, but I’m not going to judge anyone who’s clean shaven. I don’t have a beard because they don’t suit me, so not having one isn’t a deal-breaker.

    Umechan, (edited )

    I was once wondering around a neighborhood in Tokyo and passed by a group of friends who were saying goodbye to each other. I heard one of them say “お疲れヤマ”. I stopped, wondering if it was some strange kind of slang or regional variation, but she then started laughing and said “お疲れマウンテン”.

    Umechan, (edited )

    Sorry to nitpick, but there’s no way there’s only a 5 inch height difference between them. Once again, someone has been caught using Grindr inches.

    Umechan, (edited )

    代々墓 (だいだいばか): An ancestral grave

    One of my Japanese teachers pointed out that it’s often used in sentences like OO家族代々墓, which makes it sound like " the OO family are massive idiots.

    I also thought 五十五 sounded funny when I first learned it, because I thought it was supposed to be pronounced like “go Jew go”.

    It probably doesn’t make any sense noq considering how quickly internet language changes, but I learned the word for ambulance (救急車 きゅうきゅうしゃ) around 15 years ago, and at the time QQ meant crying, and was used to call people emotional crybabies. It reminded of the term “wahmbulance” which people would use when someone is being whiny.

    Umechan,

    No, he’s just full of shit like most conservative politicians.

    Umechan, (edited )

    The most tragic thing about this is that she isn’t even using the word breedable correctly. The traditional meaning of the word, which she is trying to gatekeep, means to produce offspring. Humans breed by procreating with another human to create human children. Vaginas do not breed with other vaginas to create vagina children, so vaginas are not breedable.

    Even if you think the slang form of the word breedable this guy used is invalid, he’s still breedable as long as he’s capable of impregnating someone, even if he has no desire to do so.

    Umechan, (edited )

    There’s a karaoke place near me that has free soda and allows you to bring your own alcohol. I brought a bottle of abilla pisco and Angostura bitters so I could turn their gingerale and cola into chilcano and piscola. I also made a strawberry and yuzu macerados (infusion) with the pisco and can’t wait until it’s ready next week.

    Umechan, (edited )

    手紙 is the direct object. 家 is the place it was sent to, so I suppose that counts as an indirect object. Sentence order for Japanese is very flexible (although the verb must always come last), so I wouldn’t worry too much about memorizing any particular order beyond Subject-Object-Verb.

    Edit: I took a look at the source you gave, and I think you should probably disregard this sentence pattern. It’s clear from the purpose of the lesson that they were purposefully trying to shoehorn から, へ, and に into single sentence. I don’t think it sounds particularly natural.

    Umechan,

    Where do you live? Mapo tofu is relatively common, so you could likely get it in your own country if it has a sizable Chinese population. I wouldn’t even call it a specialty of Japan, and I’ve personally had better ones in other countries.

    Umechan,

    No son of mine will ever use a namby-pamby Easy Bake Oven. He’ll learn to bake using a proper oven like a real man.

    Umechan,

    Cum dumpsters need representation too.

    Umechan,

    How did he manage to hide it so well?

    Does anyone know any good blogs/sites for restaurant reviews that aren't user generated.

    I’ve been trying to find some good restaurants to go to when I visit Tokyo around New Year’s. I live near Nagoya, which has a few good western dining options, but isn’t quite so good for Malaysian, Burmese, or Middle Eastern. I generally find Gurunavi and Tabelog overwhelming unless you’re searching for one specific area...

    Umechan,

    Yes, it means the same as crowdsourced in this case.

    Umechan,

    東京グルメで世界一周 Foreign cuisine from around the world divided by region and country. More common cuisines like American and Italian are also divided by specialty.

    Any reccomendations for international, non-chain restaurants in Tokyo that are ideal for solo diners and open over New Years?

    I live in Aichi, and I’m planning on visiting Tokyo over the New Years holidays. I’ll have a few days when I’m not meeting friends, and as I can’t travel often due to my health, I’d like to make the most of Tokyo’s wider variety of restaurants while I can. Nagoya doesn’t have the variety of international cuisine...

    Umechan, (edited )

    Also, does anyone know any good sites for finding restaurants that aren’t user generated? I find Gurunavi and Tabelog overwhelming, and also lacking in detail for individual restaurants. Is there anywhere with more detailed and curated content. I like bento.com despite it’s design language being stuck in the early 2000s. Is there anything like that but in Japanese and more extensive?

    Umechan, (edited )

    Somewhere casual as I’ll be alone. I’ll probably just be eating and going unless they also have decent drinks. I know plenty of places in Ameyokocho will be open, but there really isn’t anything there that I couldn’t get in Aichi, so I’m more interested in non-Japanese. As I stumbled upon the South Indian restaurant last year, I suspect there might be some other foreign-staffed restaurants that don’t close as their families aren’t in Japan, so I thought I’d ask on the off chance that anyone knows about any others.

    Andra looks nice. I’ll probably check it out when I’m in Ueno.

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