Love to Asian Food

When I lived in Japan, I enjoyed foreign contries' food like Itarian pizza and pasta, French food, Indian curry, Thai nudle, etc. almost every day. I thought foreign contries' food is more delicious and interesiting than Japanese food. To tell the truth, I looked down Japanese traditional food as Japanese food, especially traditional one, is too normal, simple and boring for me. When my husband decided to come to the USA, I didn't have any worries about food but was looking forward to eating a lot of Eurpian and American food.

However, recentlly, I realized from the buttom of my heart that Asian peaople cannot live even only one month if they cannot access Asian food. I bacame a creasy guy who is always looking for super markets which has a lot of Asian food in Chicago!

I think H mart which is one of the biggest Korean super market in Chicago is the best one for us so far. It has a lot of not only Korean but also Japanese food like REAL Japanese style sashimi, miso, sake, soysauce made by Japanese company, seaweed, etc.

I feel that I need more information about Asian food. PLEASE HELP ME EVERYONE!!

Three embezzlements

When I was in Japan, I worked for an investment company in Tokyo. One of the job which I was in charge of was the legal service and support for a company which our affiliate companies had invested in. Usually, companies which were bought by the other company easily don’t have good organization system, so I had some chance to see embezzlements committed by employee.

First, a man who was around 40 years old was a member of accounting team of a company in Osaka. His reputation was not so bad, but he had stolen about 200,000 dollars from the company. Just before we found who was a criminal person, he committed suicide, and died. He left his will which said he wanted to refund us all of the money by his retirement package and if he couldn’t get it, he want to do by his life insurance claim. He left a pretty wife and little cute two children. Even though his family didn’t have any fault, his family lost a lot of money and things besides bad reputation.

 

Second, an around 30 years old man who was also a member of accounting team of a company in Tokyo had stolen a lot of money, about 100,000 dollars, from the company. He had suddenly disappeared before we realized his crime, and committed suicide. His old, not wealthy and lonely mother had to compensate everything.

 

Third, an old woman who was over 60 years old was in charge of an accounting. She had also stolen huge amount of money, about 400,000 dollars, from her company in Nagano, Japan. After her crime was exposed, she was fired and had to start to refund all of the money every month. She doesn’t have anything valuable things like her own house, so her two poor sons had to be guarantor.

 

After I saw these three embezzlements, I found some common points. First, the three crimes had happened in the accounting team of every company. Sometimes, employee make some mistakes or do some illegal things like food poisoning, small theft, sexual harassment, etc., but I think, the biggest and deepest crimes related every company have usually happened in the accounting team in these companies. Second, although this is the case with not only the embezzlement but also any other criminals, criminals’ family cannot avoid being involved criminals. They don’t have any fault of these criminals.

 

On the other hand, I can say I found a different point among these three embezzlements. The over 60 years old woman never try to kill herself even though she stole the biggest amount of money of three people! It might be one of the evidence that old women are the strongest group in the world!

Culture Difference

When I think of difference between American culture and Japanese one, I usually think of two things. One is food, and the other is behave.

At first, As everyone may knows, Japanese traditional food is considered to be one of the most healthy food in the world. We eat more fish and vagetable and less meat and oil than American people. On the other hand, American traditional food are considered as one of the representative of unhealthy food.

The second difference, which are more important thing than food, I think of is people's behaves (which is including social rules). Most of service are slower than that of Japan, It is hard for me to set up our American life. For example, when I bought some applicants and furniture for our new life in Chicago, it takes so long time for them to arrive at our home. If we buy some things like above in Japan, we can get these things within the day or next day we buy them.

I was surprised from not only the speed of some services but also people's attitude to strangers. When I am walking outside, I was sometimes asked from some people who I don"t know which shop I got my shoes, bags, etc. In Japan, we never ask such private questions to strangers.

As I told above, American culture is a little bit different from Japanese culture, so when I moved here in Chicago, I got a lot of hard time from this difference. I don't want to remember what happened at that time! Anyway, I have managed to get used to American culture. Consequently, I really enjoy my American life now!

Dietary changes

 

Dietary changes of late years gave us much more effects than we expected. For example, because of dietary changes, there is a huge difference in the physical builds between children fifty years ago and children today. Why has our eating habits been changed? I guess one of the biggest reasons is globalization. We can access other countries’ food easily even though we are in our own countries. The second reason may be the change of life style. As result of the fact that people are busier than before, we started to use microwave and go to restaurants more often than before.

 

Most people got some good advantages of this diet changing. As I was saying, recently, we can go to some various type of food easily. It makes our quality life much better as dietary habit is one of the most important things in our life. Some people choose their own eating habits in order to show their own principle. Vegetarian and fruitarian are good illustrations of this. 

 

On the other hand, diet changing has some disadvantages. As we have much more junk food restaurants than before, a lot of children and some adult people who are not good at controlling themselves can access such kind of food easily. Consequently, we got some social problems regarding obesity of people.

 

As described above, We cannot say dietary changing is always good thing and we cannot say it is always bad thing. Of course, we cannot stop social changing including diet habits. At least we can say it is important for us to gather a lot of information and knowledge by ourselves in order to avoid disadvantage of dietary changing. 

 

The first blog for me

Hi!  I am a Japanese woman Yukie, come from Tokyo. Now I live in Chicago and am having a lot of fun with my pretty sweet friends! This is the first blog for me so I think I have to introduce of myself.
I came here last Summer as my husband entered into a law school in downtown of Chicago and we plan to go back to Japan next August. It means that my husband and I got a long vacation in the USA. I didn't want to miss this big chance to have a great time in Chicago and I thought it is important for me to improve my English skill to enjoy this long vacation. This is the reason why I decided to enter this school, Intrax.

Next, I want to introduce one of my great Intrax friend, Mikung Kim.She come from South Korea, so she is Asian! That may be why we have a lot of similar things. At first we like a lot of food and we can eat almost every food. Second, we are interested in Brazil, third, we are both cheerful and sometimes a little bit lazy...