= Osaka “pajeon” pop-up =

— Korean style pajeon 파전 scallion pancakes with seafood Here is a story about another Korean dish being offered as Japanese. Toss a few bonito flakes on top of pajeon, squirt some MSG ajinomoto kewpie sauce, then it becomes a Japanese, just as serving miso soup with a hamburger turns into washoku.  The non-Asian American goes […]

= The darkside of washoku: How Japan completely swiped rice seed stock from Korea =

 — Korean bapsang table in 1900 photograph Surprise, Koreans started to eat white rice thanks to the Japanese, only starting in the late 1960s?  The myth of washoku has a darkside unabsolved from Meiji and Hirohito Japan repressed legacies. The rice based aspect of the washoku myth was spawned from meticulously premeditated destruction of Korean culture by […]

= Curry rice born from British style Meiji era militarization =

As previously explained, ancient pre-Meiji Japan did not have a widespread food culture based on rice. The food culture was so lacking due to the silent resignation of the populace to grow rice but live a riceless and meatless life. Boys were culled and girls raised to be sold off, things were that bad. So […]