Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
May 10, 2016
March 07, 2016
Japanese customers set to win from Australian free trade agreement from Jan 1st 2015
Picture: Japanese customers freezer
"...Australia's signing of a trade agreement with Japan in April could turn things around when it comes into effect in 2015.The report (Victorian Food and Fibre Export Performance Report 2013-14) found beef exports to Japan would rise as frozen beef tariffs drop from 38.5 per cent to 19.5 per cent over the next 18 years."
Source: Growing appetite for Victorian meat drives record exports
September 29, 2014
By Steve Lillebuen
THE AGE NEWSPAPER
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/growing-appetite-for-victorian-meat-drives-record-exports-20140929-10nb07.html#ixzz3EfSyCGcs
"...Australia's signing of a trade agreement with Japan in April could turn things around when it comes into effect in 2015.The report (Victorian Food and Fibre Export Performance Report 2013-14) found beef exports to Japan would rise as frozen beef tariffs drop from 38.5 per cent to 19.5 per cent over the next 18 years."
Source: Growing appetite for Victorian meat drives record exports
September 29, 2014
By Steve Lillebuen
THE AGE NEWSPAPER
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/growing-appetite-for-victorian-meat-drives-record-exports-20140929-10nb07.html#ixzz3EfSyCGcs
December 31, 2015
October 07, 2015
September 27, 2015
Video: Touch Screen Shinkansen Sushi Japan
Make sure you visit a Kappa Sushi store when you visit Japan so you can experience this amazing meal. Here here in English
#sushi, #japan, #shinkansen, #touchscreen,
japanese customers, www.japanesecustomer.com,
#video, @jcustomers
September 07, 2015
Video: How to make a panda themed Japanese onagiri lunchbox
September 01, 2015
Pizza in Japan? #pizza #japan # japanese #japanesecustomers
Pizza in Japan?
By JapaneseCustomer.com
Copyright 2015.All rights reserved
Pizza in Japanese is normally written in katakana,
ピッツァ and is pronounced as pittsua.
Supermarket pizza can be purchased at Ito Yokado, for example a 15cm Pizza Margherita can be purchased for 267 yen including tax that contains Hokkaido wheat and Italian mozzarella cheese.
Picture: Ito Yokado - Pizza Margherita for 267 yen including tax
Pizza can also be purchased from Italian restaurant's as a menu item, for example: Capricciossa written as カプリチョーザ for example pizza on the menu start at 1380 yen through to 1780 yen plus tax but can be discounted on special days such as the 10th, 20th or 30th each month when pizza's are discounted by 20% .
Video: Shakeys Pizza in Japan
Shakeys Pizza where you can have a lunch viking (all you can eat in Japanese) for a set price, for example, as an adult for 710 yen. I remember hearing or reading that the creator of Pac Man got the idea for the character and game while dining at a Shakeys Pizza in Omotesando in Tokyo?
Video: Pizza Hut menu in Japan
Foreign franchise pizza chains in Japan include Pizza Hut, Domino's
Local franchise chains include Pizza La, Pizza Station
Video: Pizza Station Menu in Japan
Italian food as a segment is growing as more types of pasta is being seen on the shelves and the market for pizza is also expanding with more types of pizza, more natural cheese types and a wider variety of ingredients.
ピッツァ, Ito Yokado, pizza, food, italian, market, #japan, players, types,insight @jcustomers, #pizza, japanese customers, #japanese customer, www.japanesecustomer.com
August 29, 2015
Japanese chocolate maker Royce now popular in USA
"Japanese
(Chocolate maker) rival, Royce’, with a very different approach to
chocolate-making. …the Nama, vaguely truffle-like and alluringly creamy. Green
tea, bitter dark, mild milk and white are some of the options, all made with
fresh cream from farms near the factory in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost
region. ..Royce’ makes…novelties like potato chips covered with fromage blanc,
cocoa-dipped marshmallows and flat chocolate squares called Prafeuille with
gooey fillings of honey, berries and caramel"
Source: From
Japan, a New Approach to Fine Chocolates
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: January 15, 2013
New York Times
August 28, 2015
August 17, 2015
Japan Travel: Must try food in Japan #1 Yakisoba instant noodles
Picture: Yakisoba instant noodles |
Visiting Japan and want to try some unique foods? Instant yakisoba noodles should definitely be on your list of food items to try. This is one food you can easily afford, find and enjoy, just about anywhere in Japan. As Japan has so many conveniences, when ever you feel like a bite to eat, all you have to do is to find the nearest convenience store, brands like Family Mart, Sunkus, Daily Yamazaki, Lawson, many are open twenty four hours a day.
Yakisoba is a well loved food in Japan, and can be eaten fresh as a food stall item at many festivals, station kiosks and food stores such as supermarkets.
What makes instant yakisoba noodles such a treat is that you can find it yourself at a convenience store with no language skills by just looking for the pack in the noodle section. They are a large Styrofoam bowl with a colourful lid showing a picture of the product, thin noodles in a dark brown sauce with nori seaweed sprinkled on them. At convenience stores in Japan you get to experience real Japanese convenience. In Japan, convenience store has microwaves, a constant supply of hot water in kettles, chopticks, serviettes, toilets,etc.
What I mean is that you buy the noodles and pay at the cash register and then you make the noodles in the store. Yes, you make the noodles yourself! If you have trouble locating them in store, just ask the staff (yakisoba arimasuka?)
So what is so great about Yakisoba instant noodles? For me, its the taste, which is a mixture of a thick rich sauce, tangy ginger, the tenderness of the noodles and the overall smell, that is very unique.
Step 1. You peel back the foil lid and also peel back the drainage vent , a small panel on the lid.
Step 2. Take out the sachets enclosed and then pour in hot water from the kettle in-store and fill the Styrofoam bowl up to the line indented on the inside which is generally about halfway.
Step 3. Re-peal the folded lid back over the bowl and re-seal by tucking the lid under the bowls edge and wait for three minutes to pass (a great time to check out some Manga magazines for the latest news).
Step 4. When the time has elapsed, you drain the hot water from the bowl by the small vent, being careful to hold the bowl tight and avoid any hot steam.
Step 5. Then you start opening the variety of sachets and adding them individually into the bowl. The store assistant will give you a set of disposable chopsticks (waribashi) when you pay and it is now time to open these, split them apart and use them to stir the noodles and contents of the sachets.
Step 6. Re-seal the lid, tidy up the bench by disposing of all rubbish in the bin and then take the bowl outside with your chopsticks and find a nice seat outside to enjoy your meal.
Yakisoba instant noodles are a cheap snack or meal that take about 5 minutes to prepare and are very affordable at about 150 yen (AUD $1.62). Plus you get to experience the fantastic convenience of making the noodles yourself in-store. Just like the locals do it.
June 19, 2015
New: Japanese Television commercials 2015 (*Note in Japanese)
Video:
New collection of the latest Japanese Television commercials
(*Note in Japanese)
June 17, 2015
Organic Foods Japan: "duck rice"...sells at 20 to..30 percent premium over conventionally grown rice"
"Takao Furuno...decided to turn his farm organic..he stumbled across the traditional practice of using Aigamo ducks to protect rice. The ducks eat insects, pests and snails. They use their feet to dig up the weeds - in the process, oxygenating the water and strengthening the roots of rice plants...his "duck rice"...sells at 20 to..30 percent premium over conventionally grown rice"
Source: The power of unreasonable people
By John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
Harvard Business Press.USA, 2008.
Page 96
May 15, 2015
April 11, 2015
Japanese companies are large investors into the Australian food industry
Video: Japanese Investment in Australia
Source: Austrade You Tube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhJeG4Xd2b8
"Japan remains a vital stakeholder in the
Australian food industry. It's investment is 60 percent larger than China's, coming from the likes of KIrin, Asahi, Marubeni, Itochu and Sumitomo"
Source: China's appetite heralds good times for Aussie growers
By Damon Kitney
The Weekend Australian
2nd November, 2013, page 23
February 11, 2015
January 12, 2015
Matcha Japanese tea has ten times the antioxidant content of regular Japanese green tea
Picture: Matcha green tea |
"Just one glass of matcha tea is equivalent to drinking 10 glasses of regular green tea in terms of antioxidant content
(the naturally occurring compounds that prevent chronic disease and slow the ageing process)...packed with vitamin C, zinc, magnesium and the catechin EGCg..which has cancer fighting properties"
(the naturally occurring compounds that prevent chronic disease and slow the ageing process)...packed with vitamin C, zinc, magnesium and the catechin EGCg..which has cancer fighting properties"
Source: The foods you'll be eating this year
By Dilvan Yasa
Body and Soul Magazine, page 8
Sunday Herald Sun Newspaper,
January 11th, 2015
December 10, 2014
Video: Innovative Japanese customers cooking fried shrimp !
Japanese comedy and innovation at its best!
Note: Narration in Japanese
Source:3秒クッキング 爆速エビフライ」篇
3 seconds Cooking detonation velocity fried shrimp
Labels: Food, innovation, Lifestyle, Marketing, Video
September 08, 2014
Australian businesses must get serious about North Asia opportunities according to Catherine Livingstone, Business Council of AUstralia
Picture: Japanese Green tea with Manju |
(Australian) "Business needs to devise implementation strategies to maximize the opportunities that will arise from getting preferential access to North Asian markets and managing costs and increasing productivity in order to be genuinely attractive to our regional customers"
Catherine Livingstone, President Australian Business Council of Australia
Source: Asia in no doubt Australia means business
By Catherine Livingstone
The Australian Newspaper
Monday 28th APril 2014, page 12
Read full article here
August 09, 2014
Whats new this summer in Japan? Japanese television commercials (Japanese)
Source:
Japanese TV Commercials [ 2014 weeks 29 & 30 ]
June 22, 2014
Australian cheese is one of its largest agriculture exports to Japan
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