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Tag: Yoshinaga Fumi

  • Winners for #whatiateyesterday

    A week came like a whirlwind, didn’t it? But I had so much fun eating and cooking these meals, as well as seeing everyone’s awesome meals that I am full to the brim! 

    Anyway, I’m happy to announce the winners and random.org was helpful in listing them out! I didn’t have a lot of entries so it was a tough battle! 

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    Congratulations to @dodogitu and @kitchencow, you folks won your copies of What Did You Eat Yesterday vol. 1! Just look at their awesome meals!

    Now be awesome and send me your addresses so that I can stalk you – NO! – I meant so that I can send your prizes! Send me your address at punkednoodle-at-gmail! 

    Thank you so much for the awesome folks who sent in their favorite meals for the last week! If you missed some recipes I made over the week, you can view all of them here!

    If you didn’t win, that’s all right! You can get your copy of What Did You Eat Yesterday from Amazon or Book Depository! 

  • What Did I Eat Yesterday: Earl Grey Sherbet

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    When I saw this recipe, I didn’t hesitate to make it. If you love tea and sherbets, Shiro’s dessert is an awesome treat without breaking a sweat! 

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  • What Did I Eat Yesterday: Green Peas Rice and Chicken Mushroom in Tomato Sauce

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    When I first started blogging about cooking meals from What Did You Eat Yesterday, someone was telling me about how he just can’t have the time or the chance to cook it because the ingredients were hard to find. I suppose that raised the challenge for me to find recipes in the series that were not difficult and were fairly easy to recreate in places without Asian groceries.

    In this recipe, I try out Shirou’s dinner after an interesting day at the Tominaga’s.

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  • What Did I Eat Yesterday: Banana with Yoghurt and Honey

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    Yesterday was such an odd morning because it started out as a really hot day and so I prepared a really cold breakfast I learned from What Did I East Yesterday. I was hoping this breakfast would keep me cool, but as soon as the rain poured, the cold breakfast was not seemingly.

    But that doesn’t mean this wasn’t good eats though! It’s a very simple breakfast with the warm intention of putting a smile on your face.

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  • Celebrating ‘What Did You Eat Yesterday’

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    I’m not exactly sure if you guys know but I love Yoshinaga Fumi’s What Did You Eat Yesterday?

    LIKE WHOA.

    By that I mean it’s a book staple that won’t disappear from my bookshelf for many reasons other than it’s a Yoshinaga Fumi manga. I’ve blogged about this title at random times for years and I’ve felt like a solitary fan, oggling this in my own corner.

    But something awesome is happening and starting tomorrow, everyone can have a chance to read this awesome title because finally, FINALLY, What Did You Eat Yesterday is being released in English thanks to Vertical!

    In celebration of What Did You Eat Yesterday’s release on March 25th, I’m doing a short What Did You Eat Yesterday feast and contest!

    Throughout this week, I’ll be sharing with you some recipes I’ve tried from Yoshinaga Fumi’s What Did You Eat Yesterday. At the very least, I’m hoping to share the good eats you can expect from the series as well as some easy and awesome recipes from the series that you can do at home!

    During this week, I’ll also be giving away 2 copies of What Did You Eat Yesterday vol. 1 to two awesome people!

    Joining the contest is easy peasy. All you have to do is take a photo of an awesome meal you ate within this week and tag it with #whatiateyesterday.  You can use instagram, twitter, or tumblr. And it doesn’t have to be home cooked meals (although that would be most ideal) but it can be meals shared with important people in your life (your lovely pets included!)

    It’s open to everyone and anyone from any part of the globe (as long as you guys have a post office!).

    So I hope you all will join me in this feast in celebration for the English release of What Did You Eat Yesterday!

  • #801MMF: The Fujoshi Bible

    In Eureka’s Fujoshi Manga Compendium, there’s this interesting section where they list down the things a fujoshi must read.　They called it the Fujoshi Manga Bible.  I thought it’d be best to share the list down here for fujoshi to check what these women think are titles that we fujojos must read. I’ll also try to append what’s available in English!

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  • MMF: What did I eat yesterday?

    MMF: What did I eat yesterday?

    All this Yoshinaga talk around mangadom through this month’s Manga Moveable Feast has honestly left me hungry. We all know how much Yoshinaga Fumi loves her food and many of us often suffer from all the lovely food that she features in her manga. If you read Antique Bakery, I’m quite sure you’ll be craving for cakes. If you read Not Love But Food, you’d wish you were in Japan to try out all the fun restaurants they ate in. What’s frustrating is how the food she features in her manga is inaccessible unless you’re a genius baker like Ono.

    Well, not any more. At least if you can read Kinou Nani Tabeta. 

    My favorite non-BL Yoshinaga is her domestic story between a lawyer and a hairdresser and their laidback dinners. They’re an odd couple of sorts but they share a passion for food and love for sharing meals. While some would think that reading into their dinners can get one hungry, the ease they show in preparing the dishes make you think that maybe… just maybe… you can cook it at home.

    Starving for some Yoshinaga dishes, I thought I’d share with you two easy meals I learned from Kinou Nani Tabeta. These ingredients can be easily found in a Japanese grocery. I’ll also point in some alternatives just in case you want a taste of these dishes but can’t find the ingredients.
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  • Spotlight: Nakamura Asumiko

    Spotlight: Nakamura Asumiko

    I believe I’ve been told by one of my advisers that I shouldn’t write something that I’m obsessed about. Bias, after all, is one of the greatest sins in historical writing. It’s like a painted picture where everything is all right or all wrong and it’s hard to tell whether it’s the truth or not because of all the biases people have on it. Is it pretty? Is it ugly? Does the picture really translate the heart of what it’s trying to represent? Or are we simply translating what the painter wishes to portray and nothing more?

    It’s hard to get rid of biases but when images sway you to the point of obsession then maybe, just maybe, that picture has more truth that it should hold.

    It is in this obsession that I cannot forget Nakamura Asumiko. She draws a gaze that convinces me more than ever that she deserves this spotlight.

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  • Spotlight: Yoshinaga Fumi

    Spotlight: Yoshinaga Fumi

    I write this spotlight today with a mildly sore leg as March started with a big bump… in more ways than one.

    I wonder if living life past a quarter of a century meant seeing your life in still panels with soft lines and endearing faces. Surely, my face was far from endearing, nor was the experience of being hit by a car in any way graceful. But strangely, all worries, anxieties, and fears disappeared as soon as I shared a meal with the lady who hit me with her car. And I can visibly remember the joy of eating food with someone, even if she kind of messed up my legs a little.

    At that time, I felt that moment reminded me of a Yoshinaga Fumi panel, two people eating, healing pains and worries with a quiet but hearty meal and smiles on their faces.

    Hence, in commemoration of being thankful for life, I put a spotlight on Fumi Yoshinaga.

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  • Ooku 6 comes out with a special guidebook

    Ooku 6 comes out with a special guidebook

    The 6th volume of Ooku will be sold in Japan on August 28. According to Comic Natalie, along with the manga is a separate special volume which serves as a guidebook to the world of both the movie and the comic. It features interviews with the cast and Yoshinaga Fumi herself. I’m personally most intrigued by the Yoshinaga-sensei’s interview because I’ve always been fascinated at how she built the story for this one.

    My interest for Japanese history is completely challenged by this series. While I do know it’s fiction, Yoshinaga showcases the emotions of real people. I do see the subtleties of Japanese court life in every page and also the passing reality of Japanese life at that period. It is surreal that it’s not real because for me, it would have passed off as something quite true if I read through my books. I hope in that interview, I get to see the wealth of research Yoshinaga-sensei does with every page. It’s really a brilliant series. I think the world would appreciate it more without its Fakespeare.

    That aside, the guidebook also contains special illustrations and images for the movie. I’m excited for the movie as well and wish I could be in Japan on October just to catch. Oh well, we may not have that for now, but we can always just look at these lovely covers and hope it’ll get to our shores soon. The guidebook and volume 6 will be available in Japan on August 28.