If you can do it :)... I wrote this from the site of a Russian lady living in Japan.
I have cooked Tonkatsu cutlets several times, delicious with the sauce of the same name (it happens in Japanese online stores, where you can also buy briquettes of semi-finished Japanese curry sauce). By the way, tonkatsu is served with cabbage salad: finely chop the cabbage, mash with salt, season with lemon juice, vegetable oil and sugar. You can also add finely chopped cucumber and dill (this is already from the canteen gag :))
Dressing for salads "Wasabimayo".
Table mayonnaise - 1/2 cup
Wasabi (paste) - 1/2 teaspoon
Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
Mix everything together with a spoon, or a fork, or a whisk for knocking eggs. To a homogeneous consistency! Be especially careful to ensure that all the wasabi is mixed. When eating lettuce, a piece of wasabi that gets on the tongue can greatly spoil the sensations.
It turns out dressing, similar in consistency to mayonnaise, cream-colored.
The proportions can be varied according to your own tastes. Those who like spicy, eye-patch food can increase the dose of wasabi to 1 teaspoon or more (depending on how fresh the wasabi paste you find). Soy sauce acts as salt, so DO NOT add extra salt. But if you prefer heavily salted food, you can add more salt. Just try it first.
What salads can be dressed?
Variations I have personally tried:
1. Primitive.
Potatoes, boiled "in uniform" - 2 pieces of medium size
Boiled egg (cool) - 1 piece
Fresh cucumber - ... to be honest, I don’t remember what kind of cucumbers are found in Russia at this time of the year. Assume that there should be about the same amount of cucumber as potatoes. Maybe a little less.
Peel potatoes and eggs. Cut and paste everything.
2. Avocado and shrimp.
Avocado - 1 piece
Small shrimps - about 1 cup boiled (the volume is somewhere the same as an avocado)
Onion - to taste, 1-2 tablespoons very finely chopped.
Ripe avocado shake out of the skin and cut into cubes. Boil shrimps (peeled "tails") in salted water. Cut the onion into thin half rings, lightly pour boiling water over or just soak for 5 minutes cold water(then, the stump is clear, drain the water). All mix and season. Mix very carefully, because avocados have a nasty habit of "smearing".
For prettiness, you can mix shrimp with onions and dressing and not large quantity avocado. Place this mixture in a salad bowl and sprinkle the remaining avocado on top.
3. Avocado with potatoes.
Boiled potatoes "in uniform" - 1-2 pieces
Avocado - 1 piece
Fresh cucumber - 1 small
Peel potatoes and avocados, cut everything into cubes or something else, season and mix. Likewise: stir carefully!
4. Spinach with squid.
I recommend the ratio of squid-spinach somewhere around 1 to 4 (squid by weight is 4 times less than spinach). But the proportions can be changed depending on your tastes.
Boil spinach, squeeze thoroughly. You can cook already cut or cut already boiled. Frozen spinach will also go, thaw it and also squeeze it well from excess moisture.
Boil squid (carcass, peeled) in salted water. Cut into strips 2-3 centimeters long and about 5 millimeters wide.
You can add onion thinly chopped and lightly soaked to "beat off" the bitterness.
Fill and mix.
In general, this dressing goes well with products that have a weak or not pronounced taste. Seafood is going well. Potatoes, fresh cucumbers and boiled eggs I also recommend. Pickled cucumbers and ham sausage would not be recommended, but if someone really wants to ... 10/21/2014 10:02:39 AM, trisch
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Niku-jaga (niku - meat, jagaimo - regular potatoes)
In general, meat and potatoes stewed in soy sauce. Lots of variations are possible. I will give the classic version and possible additions, a lot of room for creativity.
Necessary:
potatoes, say, 500 grams;
meat, beef, 200 grams (you don’t need to take tenderloin, the meat should be a little fatty, take something like for stew or roast); meat should be 2-3 times less than potatoes (pork is possible, but then not very fatty, boneless chicken will also work). Bones and cartilage are not desirable.
onion, one large head
dashi broth (1 tablespoon per 500 ml of water)
ordinary soy sauce (I don’t know which ones are found in Russia, take the simplest, BUT NOT SOUR!), that one. that for sushi - it will do.
sugar, maybe a little sake, salt
any vegetable oil, but refined (so that there are no foreign odors)
green peas canned or frozen. canned can be used as is, just drain the water, it is better to boil the ice cream slightly (drain the water too, of course).
Deep frying pan or wide saucepan with a thick bottom.
Peel the potatoes and cut into pieces the size of a tablespoon. Medium potatoes - somewhere in 8 pieces. Small young potatoes can be whole.
Cut the meat into pieces 2x2x2 cm approximately. It is better if a large piece can be cut into very thin slices along the fibers, the thinner the better. But the pieces are fine too. You can also use minced meat.
Cut the onion in half, and then chop the hemispheres lengthwise, not too carefully, somewhere around 5-10 mm wide.
Everything seems to be ready. Let's get started!
1. Put the pan on medium heat. To the bottom - a little vegetable oil, two tablespoons. We throw onion into the heated oil, and then - meat. Fry until the meat completely changes color and begins to release juice. Here you can add 1/3 cup of sake, if there is, and stir for another 5 minutes. If there is no sake, well, no need. The meat should pierce easily with a fork. If it's too harsh, reduce the heat and stir a little more. Throw potatoes in there. 5 minutes, stirring, fry everything together.
2. Pour meat and potatoes with dashi broth. If we use a dry concentrate, then you can prepare the broth in advance or pour the potatoes with meat with water, and then pour the dasha concentrate. The broth should only slightly cover the meat and potatoes. I think two glasses, no more. Follow the instructions on the concentrate packaging! Or try on the tongue: the taste should be lightly salted.
3. When it boils, pour in the sugar. Spoons 2-3 tablespoons. Again we try: distinctly sweet, but not cloying, the amount of sugar should not "clog" the taste of dasha. Close the lid and simmer over low heat until the potatoes are half cooked, about 10 minutes. Keep in mind - the less you interfere, the better. Otherwise, there is a risk of getting mashed potatoes with meat.
4. Add soy sauce. Here - to taste, like with salt. Spoons 2 tablespoons added and tried. It doesn't have to be very sweet, such a nice combination of sweet and salty. But the overall taste should be quite intense. Who prefers sweeter, you can pour less sauce, who is saltier - a little more sauce and add a pinch of salt. Simmer another ten minutes until done. After adding soy sauce, do not close the lid so that the water boils away a little. Then the broth will be thicker and tastier.
5. It is better if the pan stands for 20 minutes after turning off the fire to distribute the aroma. But here it is better to cover it with a lid.
6. Divide among bowls and top with green peas, 1-2 tablespoons per serving.
Variations.
1. Add carrots, 1 medium size. Cut into large pieces, roughly like meat, and add to the pan BEFORE the potatoes.
2. After adding soy sauce, add coarsely chopped Bulgarian Bell pepper any color. Then green peas are optional.
3. Add green beans after adding soy sauce. Also no peas.
4. Peel and chop one large tomato. Add 5 minutes before done.
5. Option without onions, but with ginger. You need a little ginger, no more than 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh. The meat is fried in oil with ginger, then potatoes are thrown there and then - as usual.
10/21/2014 10:03:48 AM, trisch
Well, actually, Tonkatsu
Tonkatsu (pork fried in breadcrumbs.)
To prepare tonkatsu, you will need pork, a boneless part of the thigh, like a pork chop. This meat should be cut across the grain into slices about 1 cm thick.
These chunks should be lightly beaten off with a hammer or a knife handle (lightly! You don’t need to make a pancake!), add salt and pepper.
Roll in flour. In order to flour something that cannot fall apart (different meats, fish, shrimp, etc.), I usually use plastic bag. Pour a couple of tablespoons of flour into the bag, put the meat in the same place and shake everything together thoroughly.
Dip the floured meat in the loose a raw egg, and then carefully roll out in breadcrumbs.
Pour refined vegetable oil into a deep frying pan with a layer of about 2-3 cm. Heat the oil to a temperature of about 170 degrees.
If there is a cooking thermometer for high temperatures, then measure it - just spit. If there is no thermometer, then carefully drop one drop of a raw egg into the pan with butter.
If the drop fell to the bottom and lay there for some time before surfacing, the oil temperature is below 160.
If the drop began to hiss violently and blow bubbles immediately on the surface of the oil, then the oil is overheated, above 180.
If the drop sank into the oil to about half the depth, and then quickly flared up, blowing bubbles, then this is just close to 170 degrees, you can lower the prepared meat into the oil.
It is fried quite quickly, about 5 minutes for each cutlet. Ready tonkatsu gets delicious golden color. In the process, it is recommended to turn the cutlet over a couple of times for even frying.
Place the finished oil tonkatsu on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
Using a similar technology, you can cook chicken, fish fillets, oysters, and in general quite a lot of things.
Often, tonkatsu is served as one of the varieties of donburi - rice covered with some kind of food on top.
Donburi with tonkatsu is called katsudon.
For a serving you will need freshly cooked rice, one raw egg, a quarter of about onion and, the stump is clear, ready-made tonkatsu.
Coarsely chop the onion across.
In a small skillet or saucepan, mix about half a cup of dasha, a couple of teaspoons of sugar and a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce. If there is no dasha, then you can do with water, then add a pinch of salt and a little more sugar. All proportions are absolutely conditional, be guided by your own taste. You can add a little sake or dry white wine (about a tablespoon).
Bring the mixture to a boil and throw in the chopped onion. Simmer for 5-10 minutes over medium heat until the onion is soft.
While the onion is simmering, beat a raw egg in a separate bowl, cut the tonkatsu crosswise, put the desired amount of hot rice in a bowl or on a plate.
When the onion is ready, place the chopped tonkatsu on top of the onion in the skillet. Warm up a little.
Pour the beaten raw egg on top.
Turn on the fire to the maximum. As soon as the egg "grabs", turn off the fire. Don't overheat or the egg will become tough!
Gently "drain" the resulting mixture over the rice so that the tonkatsu retains its shape as much as possible.
21.10.2014 10:04:14,
My child has a birthday soon, and I decided to see what Japanese mothers offer to serve at the table for children's parties. Still, our children eat Japanese food well, grow up among it, and there is always that unknown layer of cuisine that they, say, love and eat in kindergarten or somewhere outside the home on trips. At home, I don’t cook classic Japanese cuisine, so many things simply fall out of focus. So, Japanese children's party... Googled all evening yesterday and laughed.
In general, the Japanese are not quite accustomed to having parties at home with the invitation of guests. More often they just buy a cake in a restaurant, and if friends still come home, they rarely treat them with something other than chips and juice. Adult gatherings are also an element of rather fashion for everything Western, in women's magazines they are now very beautifully and fashionably furnished: fashionable European bread, pates, sausages, olives ... It is felt that the broad masses will perceive this culture for a very, very long time, simple and elderly Japanese are much more accustomed to dinner in a restaurant with guests, and at home - an evening in a narrow circle around a pan with nabe in winter or a grill with yakiniku in summer.
So, ideas for a children's menu. Having gone crazy from the daily preparation of figured obento for the whole family, housewives, of course, are not often eager to cook a stunning children's table. In addition, Japanese children are malnourished, eat modestly, they are not spoiled, so they are easy to please and surprise. Main details holiday table- these are fruits (in Japan they are perceived as sweet, dessert, so there are always few of them) and sushi in the children's version.
Chirashi zushi is "lazy sushi" when pieces of crab, shrimp, salmon and / or tuna cubes, caviar, pieces of cucumber and thin omelette strings are stacked on top of rice.
Reminds me of something, doesn't it?
Don't be scared. It's Halloween.
Yes, in Japan it is believed that children eat best: fried potatoes, fried chicken and hamburgers. It seems to me that with this approach, the days of the glory of the Japanese as a thin and sonorous nation are numbered ...
But everything is not so bad, but they have no prejudice against vegetables. They are not disguised in any way, they are not faked for anything in order to shove them into a child. Here is the children's plate menu at one of the hotel restaurants in Okinawa where we were in May
And yet it seems to me that the Japanese do not fully grasp the meaning and necessity of children's holiday menu. It is difficult for them to make both beautiful and childish. Well, which of the small children will eat boiled eggs or olives? It seems to me that they just scatter everything. And Anpanman (Japanese Gingerbread Man) will not help.
Here is a photo from one Japanese blog, from the birthday of a child
Holidays in the same family. They clearly follow the trends and try to do everything beautifully.
It was they who ordered the children to have a fondue party on the DR
There may be no cake at all.
And here a man with the chief's claims was cooking. On the children's menu: roast beef, sushi, cabbage with anchovies, couscous salad...
Salmon rolls with broccoli sprouts (children applaud), ramen eggs marinated in soy sauce (rumble), scrambled eggs with crab stick inside (children ask for supplements).
And here is a merciless feast in the style of the game and cartoon Youkai Watch
How much soul and talent!
But for comparison - children's menu from some restaurant. In Japanese chain inexpensive restaurants that are classified as a family restaurant - where the widest menu covering any need - there is always such a menu. There you can find at least a cutlet, spaghetti, sausages, pancakes and ice cream. And of course the children's curry, they love it.
We continue to peep at other people's tables
Children's cakes. With cakes in Japan, everything is very simple. Such curly cakes, as in Russia, with varied design, decorations, characters yet. But there are already craftswomen who make them to order for a large Russian-speaking audience. I wonder if the fashion will spread to the Japanese?
Snack jar, I liked it
Here's what they made: pasta, tomato-meat sauce, vegetables. In this case, a huge amount of inedible decor, specially designed to decorate food, always helps out. All kinds of skewers, without which bento is indispensable, stencils for cutting out any figures and sculpting any divine creatures from rice.
Common delivery option festive snack- a large dish, often disposable, with a large number of sectors. It can be put on the table and taken to a picnic. On such a dish there will be everything at once and a little spaghetti, and meat, and fish, and vegetables, and even sweets. In addition to such a dish, there may be nothing else at all, this is enough.
Here is a snack option for 3 children offered by the delivery service: 3 puddings for dessert and a deep fry bacchanalia.
And here are snacks for adults, Japanese style: tempura, steamed soybeans for beer, boiled vegetables and cognac
And here is a holiday delivery for a large company
In principle, any kitchen needlework among Japanese women is quite common. I really dislike this phenomenon and hope that I will not have to make food in the form of people and animals. Food is food, it can and should be beautiful and appetizing, but it does not have to have eyes, tail, claws, horns, etc.
Also someone's holiday table
The host meets the guests, she offers to turn to Japanese clothes with and issues cards with new names.
While the guests are expected, the presenter offers to make origami on a piece of A4 paper, they will be needed during the evening.
Leading: Konitiva! (Hello ladies and gentlemen! Noble samurai, charming Japanese girls…. Thank you for coming to our Japanese garden to spend this romantic evening together. Today we celebrate the birthday of the charming Japanese girl Natati and the brave shogun Sahi-san. Since the evening is in our oriental style, therefore, we will now call everything accordingly, that is, in Japanese.
Let me introduce the guests. Well, as I see all the guests did not come with empty handed and now they will explain to us what their gifts symbolize (guests stand up when they call their names)
Welcome family
1. Maximudtse: Iriki and Jehito-san(They give a gift (origami) and explanations for it, for example Airplane - I wish you to travel this year to warm countries))
2. Family Rumyantsehun: Anzhemi and Dimako-san
3. A family Sharpanodtsa Olesity and Ivanito-san
4. Family Bogdanidtso Snezhaki and Mihun-san
5. A family Sukharidce Alesi Sereki-san
6. Family Pimenzen Alemi and Jendai-san
7. Family Kunyadzu Tanyako and Makhei-san
Well, now let's pour and drink to Original gifts and nice congratulations.
Many of you are well acquainted with Japanese cuisine, and some of you will try exotic dishes for the first time. Therefore, we provide you with a choice of cutlery - chopsticks for professionals and forks for amateurs! (The presenter distributes chopsticks and forks)
Leading: Well, my dear “Tanjobi omedeto” (Happy birthday-guests standing 3 times)
And now, bon appetit - itadakimas!
Host Toast: We wish you with all our heart
Good health forever
Good endless love
Great hope, strong faith,
And happiness without measure
In the work of lasting success,
And in life - sincere laughter! (Let's drink)
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(Guests are dressed up, balls are attached to their stomachs) Dima, Angela, Zhenya and Ira
Leading: And now sumo wrestlers want to congratulate you. We meet (congratulations).
Leading: Sahi-san, you know the wrestlers have competitions tomorrow, and one player got seriously ill and they asked me to find a replacement for him. You could help them and fight tomorrow in a tough fight. Wrestlers will test the birthday boy for strength and dexterity. (We attach the balloon to the birthday boy's stomach and fight until the balloon bursts and wins.)
Leading: For congratulations, we drink to the bottom.
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Leading: You know the Japanese are big aesthetes when it comes to food. And Japanese proverbs are as beautiful as Japanese dishes. And to get small prizes, you need to find an analogue of famous Japanese proverbs.
(Guests are given cards with Russian proverbs, we read proverbs, we give out a prize to the one who correctly finds an analogue)
List of Japanese proverbs and approximate analogues:
1. You cannot catch a horsefly and a bee at the same time. If you chase two hares, you won't catch one.
2. If you fall in love, then you will forget about ugliness. - Love is blind.
3. Negotiate a price for an uncaught badger. - Share the skin of an unkilled bear.
4. While alive, we do not appreciate, but died - we regret. - What we have - we do not store, having lost - we cry.
5. As if a bird suddenly flew out from under the feet. - Like a bolt from the blue.
6. Than a hundred tomorrow, fifty today is better. - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
7. Silent bug gnaws through the wall. - There are devils in the still waters.
8. Fear breeds black devils. - Fear has big eyes.
9. Bitten by a snake, afraid of rotten rope. - Having burnt themselves in milk, they blow on the water.
10. The one who does not know is happy like the Buddha. - The less you know the better you sleep.
11. It is impossible to catch a tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair. - To be afraid of wolves - do not go into the forest.
12. And you will wait for good weather for sea travel. - And there will be a holiday on our street.
13. A falling drop breaks through a stone. - Water wears away the stone.
14. Having poisoned yourself with poison, treat yourself with the same poison. - Fight fire with fire.
Leading: And now let's raise our sakazuki (we take glasses in our hands), let's drink for love and our beautiful birthday people! Kanpai (We drink to the bottom)!
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(We dress up the guests with a mustache, a bathrobe Olesya, Vanya)
Leading: Dear birthday people, the representative of the Japanese parliament himself came to visit us with congratulations.
We meet
Congratulation of the Japanese for the newlyweds
Japanese: Dear lady!
Translator: Dear ladies and gentlemen!
Japanese: Delegate Nasa, Japanese mother Honda, Prime Minister.
Interpreter: Our delegation arrived from the Land of the Rising Sun on behalf of the Prime Minister.
Japanese: Herak tu hundred write satires.
Translator: Our road was very difficult. We flew by plane for a long time.
Japanese: Mitsubishi Toyota san to pit to ditch.
Translator: Then we drove for a long time in a foreign car called Zaporozhets.
Japanese: Doroguchi Sahi-sana. and Natati-san!
Translator: Dear birthday people!
Japanese: Freebie gunda kishi - misi yahamaha.
Translator: Thank you for inviting me to this significant event.
Japanese: Prime Minister Murakashi Palakashi.
Interpreter: The Prime Minister regrets that he could not come and congratulate you personally.
Japanese: Kyurono hawadzimi two boorish Japanese mother.
Translator: But he sent us - two the best representatives Japanese people.
Japanese: Shikenawa ikebana shuka sex.
Translator: How many smiles, joy and love are here!
Japanese: Women - dignity is thin - lush.
Translator: How many beautiful and slim girls!
Japanese: Suzuki Kimonota Herovata Japan Suki.
Translator: Unfortunately, our Japanese women are not so beautiful and charming.
Japanese: Nasa japanese macaque monkeys are foolish.
Translator: Yes, and men cannot compare with your Russian heroes.
Japanese: Hitachi shuki tena, rodaki mani dali.
Translator: How richly the table is served. Apparently your parents are rich and take good care of their children.
Japanese: Aren't you a sick Japanese mother?
Translator: Have you ever been to Japan?
Japanese: On hiro, your mother is Japanese.
Translator: We invite you to visit our homeland.
Japanese: Desya hamonda sun prime minister take out su him Japanese mother.
Translator: On behalf of the Japanese people and their Prime Minister, we thank you for the invitation and look forward to a generous meal.
Japanese: Quasimo mod amori pavori cherub shuka sex.
Translator: We wish you much happiness and love!
Japanese: Primihi, poor, poor life is a bitch!
Translator: Accept a gift from our people!
Leading: Let's thank our guests for the gift, invite them to the table and raise our sakazuki glasses for congratulations. Kapnay (Drink to the bottom)
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(We dress up the guests Misha-geisha and Snezhanna-shogun, congratulate and give a gift).
Leading: We all know that Japan has very smart and wise people. They love to solve Sudoku and different puzzles. So we will now try to solve a crossword puzzle, only Russian, let's see how smart dear guests you are. And in the crossword puzzle, a gift for birthday people is encrypted, so that they can only get it with your help.
1. Singing to the backing track - karaoke
2. Raw fish - sushi
3. Hired killer - ninja
4. Mistress - geisha
5. Paper plastic - origami
6. Suicide - kamikaze
7. Suicide - hara-kiri
8. Fate is karma
9. Bathrobe - kimono
10. Vodka - Sake
11. Warrior - Samurai
12. Cartoon - anime
13. Bouquet - ikebana
14. Mustard - Wasabi
15. Warlord - Shogun
Leading: Well, here is the long-awaited gift, meet the beautiful geisha and the brave samurai with congratulations for the birthday
Congratulations from ... Japanese (or Japanese)
Suitable as a congratulation for a wedding, an anniversary or a birthday. There are two speakers - an interpreter and a Japanese (a man in an ordinary suit, preferably dark-haired). Don't forget to bow a few times. The interpreter always listens very carefully, and only then answers
If a woman plays this role, you need to tinker with the costume - tie and wrap fabrics on a kimono robe, make a bow at the back, put on “sabots” - at least high heels, white makeup with red shadows. Japanese woman dark hair collect in a bun on the head, fasten at least with long knitting needles.
Japanese: Dear lady!
Interpreter: Ladies and gentlemen!
Japanese: NASA delegate, Honda Japan mother, prime minister.
Interpreter: Our delegation arrived from the Land of the Rising Sun on behalf of the Prime Minister.
Japanese: Herak tu write satires.
Interpreter: Our road was very difficult. We flew by plane for a long time.
Japanese: Mitsubishi Toyota san then pit then ditch.
Interpreter: Then we drove for a long time in a foreign car called Zaporozhets.
Japanese: Dear Kolyan!
Interpreter: Dear Nicholas!
Japanese: Freebie gunda kisi - misi yahamaha.
Interpreter: Thank you for inviting us to such a significant event.
Japanese: Prime Minister Murakashi Palakasi.
Interpreter: the prime minister regrets that he could not come in person.
Japanese: Kyurono hawadzimi two boor japan mother.
Interpreter: But he sent us - the two best representatives of the Japanese people.
Japanese: Shikenawa ikebana shuka sex.
Interpreter: How many smiles, joy and love are here!
Japanese: Babay - dignity is thin - lush.
Interpreter: How many beautiful and slender girls are here!
Japanese: Suzuki kimonota herovata japan females.
Interpreter: Unfortunately, our Japanese women are not so beautiful and charming.
Japanese: Nasa japanese macaque monkeys are foolish.
Interpreter: Yes, and men can not compare with your Russian heroes.
Japanese: Shuki juice mimindo huli washi moda quasimoda hemurovata moonshine.
Interpreter: How cheerful Russian men are, especially if they drink a glass of champagne or a martini.
Japanese: Hitachi shuki tena, rodaki mani dali.
Interpreter: How richly served the table. You are obviously rich and take good care of your earnings.
Japanese: Aren't you a sick Japanese mother?
Interpreter: Have you ever been to Japan?
Japanese: On hiro you are a Japanese mother.
Interpreter A: We invite you to visit our homeland.
Japanese: Dexia hamond sun prime minister take out su him japan mother.
Interpreter: On behalf of the Japanese people and their Prime Minister, we thank you for the invitation and look forward to a generous meal.
Japanese: Quasimoda amori pavori cherubim syuka sex.
Interpreter: We wish you much happiness and love!
Japanese: Thank you, my chest of drawers!
Interpreter: Thank you!
Japanese proverbs.
To remake this text for the hero of the day, they may come in handy for you.
1. If the problem can be solved, then you should not worry about it; if it cannot be solved, then it is useless to worry about it.
2. Having thought - make up your mind, and having decided - do not think.
3. Do not delay the departing, do not drive away the newcomer.
4. Fast is slow, but without interruptions.
5. It's better to be the enemy good man than another bad.
6. Without ordinary people there are no great ones.
7. Whoever wants to go upstairs will invent a ladder.
8. A husband and wife should be like a hand and eyes: when the hand hurts, the eyes cry, and when the eyes cry, the hands wipe away the tears.
9. The sun does not know the right. The sun knows no wrong. The sun shines without the purpose of warming someone. The one who finds himself is like the sun.
10. The sea is large because it does not disdain small rivers.
11. And a long journey begins with a close one.
12. He who drinks does not know about the dangers of wine; who does not drink, he does not know about its benefits.
13. Even if the sword is needed once in a lifetime, it must always be worn.
14. Beautiful flowers good fruit do not bring.
15. Grief, like a torn dress, must be left at home.
16. When there is love, smallpox ulcers are as beautiful as dimples on the cheeks.
17. No one stumbles while lying in bed.
18. One good word can warm three winter months.
19. Make way for fools and lunatics.
20. When you draw a branch, you need to hear the breath of the wind.
21. Check seven times before you doubt a person.
22. Do your best and leave the rest to fate.
23. Excessive honesty borders on stupidity.
24. In a house where they laugh, happiness comes.
25. Victory goes to the one who endures half an hour more than his opponent.
26. It happens that a leaf sinks, and a stone floats.
27. Do not shoot an arrow into a smiling face.
28. Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable, but a cold look and a cold word are unbearable.
29. At ten years old - a miracle, at twenty - a genius, and after thirty - an ordinary person.
30. A woman wants to - she will pass through the rock.
31. To ask is a shame for a minute, and not to know is a shame for life.
32. A perfect vase never left the hands of a bad master.
33. Do not be afraid to bend a little, straighten up straighter.
34. Deep rivers flow inaudibly.
35. If you set off on a journey along own will, then a thousand ri seems to be one.
To compose your text, you may also need "Jokes about the Japanese", which are located at this address:
I bring to your attention detailed scenario of the Japanese party which we spent with a friend for our guests. japanese party was dedicated to March 8, but you can easily remake the script for any occasion, be it a friends party, a birthday or even an unusual wedding.
Japanese Party: Gathering Guests
Invite guests to introduce themselves or introduce them yourself, diluting the names with vowels and rewriting them in the Japanese manner. Change the letter "l" to "r". To female names add endings: -i, -ko, -mi, -yo, -e, -ki, -ra, -na, -ri, -ka. And after the name, add the respectful treatment “san”. For example, Anna - Annako-san, Ira - Iri or Iriko-san, Natasha - Natami-san, etc.
To male names add endings: -o, -hiko, -go, -ru, -ro, -shi, -ke, -zu, -ki, -ya, -ti, -mu, -hei, -to, -ta, -bu , -n, -sa, -iti, -give. After the name, add the appeal "san". For example, Maxim - Makishimo-san, Vitaly - Vitarizu-san, Dima - Dimaru-san, etc. Such appeals will sound interesting and funny. You can even make name tags to put next to each guest's plate, or name tags to pin on everyone's clothes when they enter the party. We have prepared badges with names remade in Japanese style.
used as background music contemporary japanese compositions: AAA group, Ai Otsuka, Utada Hikaru, Meiko Kaji and others. At the same time we got acquainted with modern Japanese music, it was very interesting.
When the guests gathered and sat down, japanese party started.
Greetings
There were two hosts: me - Vikatori-san, and my friend Aniko-san.
AT.: Konitiva!
BUT: Hello!
AT: Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen! Noble samurai, charming Japanese women….
BUT: Thank you for coming to our Japanese garden to spend this romantic evening together. Let me introduce (and introduce each other)
Victory-san
AT: Aniko-san
Our party is Japanese, therefore, we will now call everything accordingly, that is, in Japanese.
Aniko-san, is that what the Japanese call the city of San Francisco?
BUT: Well, Francisco-san, of course!
AT: This is how we will help our guests to reincarnate and will call them exclusively in Japanese!
(Give name badges)
Competition "Japanese Proverbs"
AT: By the way, Aniko-san, do you know that a new dish called USSR is becoming more and more popular in Japan? As it turned out, this is 1/6 of the land.
BUT: Many of you are well acquainted with Japanese cuisine, and some of you will try exotic dishes for the first time. Therefore, we provide you with a choice of cutlery - chopsticks for amateurs and forks for professionals! And in order for us to start our little feast, we will hold the next competition.
AT: The Japanese are big aesthetes when it comes to food. And Japanese proverbs are as beautiful as Japanese dishes. And in order to get the desired device, you need to find an analogue of the well-known Japanese proverbs.
(we read the proverbs, we give out the choice of sticks or forks to the one who correctly found the analogue)
List of Japanese proverbs and approximate analogues:
You can't catch a horsefly and a bee at the same time. If you chase two hares, you won't catch one.
If you love, then forget about ugliness.- Love is blind. Love is blind.
Negotiate a price for an uncaught badger.- Sharing the skin of an unkilled bear.
We don't appreciate it while we're alive, but we regret it when we die.- What we have - we do not store, having lost - we cry.
As if a bird suddenly flew out from under my feet. Like thunder from a clear sky.
Than a hundred tomorrow, fifty today is better.- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Silent bug gnaws through the wall.- There are devils in the still waters.
Fear breeds black devils. - Fear has big eyes.
Bitten by a snake, afraid of rotten rope.- Having been burned in milk, they blow on the water.
Shine of gold brighter than the radiance of Buddha. “Money opens all doors.
The one who does not know is happy like Buddha.- The less you know the better you sleep.
Then - at least fields, at least mountains. “After us, at least a flood.
It is impossible to catch a tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair.. - To be afraid of wolves - do not go into the forest.
And you will wait for good weather for a sea voyage. - And there will be a holiday on our street.
A falling drop pierces a stone.- Water wears away the stone.
Poisoned by poison, treat yourself with the same poison.- Fight fire with fire.
BUT: Now let's raise our sakazuki(we take glasses in our hands), let's drink for love and beautiful ladies! Kanpai!
AT: And now bon appetit - itadakimas!
White Day in Japan
BUT: In Japan, by the way, there is a holiday similar to our usual March 8, when men give gifts to women and congratulate them. This holiday is celebrated on March 14 and is called White Day. White Day- this is a continuation of the holiday of St. Valentine, which was proposed for celebration by confectionery companies so that the ladies would not be offended. After all, on Valentine's Day, only women congratulate men.
AT: During these two holidays in Japan, more than half of the annual turnover of chocolate comes true. There are two types of gifts on Valentine's Day and on White Day: giri choco and honmei choco. The Japanese would not be Japanese if they had not dragged something of their own into the foreign custom. So it turns out that every year many women buy tons of chocolate on Valentine's Day to give it to their father, brother, work colleague, boss, neighbor, etc. only because “it’s necessary”, “it’s customary” and in general they are obliged to do it, because this weights. honmei choco is intended for those who are really dear to the donor and, as a rule, they try to make it on their own.
BUT: On White Day, the triple return rule applies, according to which the value of a gift on White Day must be two to three times the value of the corresponding gift on Valentine's Day.
AT: And following the Japanese tradition, we first invite girls to make their men a sweet gift with their own hands to encourage them to return the present.
Contest with fishing rods
Props: bamboo sticks, candies, tray. We take out a tray with sweets, give the girls fishing rods with a rope attached to them and a hook at the end. Sweets with loops tied to them are laid out on trays at a decent distance from the participants. With a long fishing rod, holding it by the edge, you need to hook a candy. Let's give it one minute. Who will collect more sweets for a loved one as a gift?
Origami (hearts)
BUT: Dear ladies, did you congratulate your men on the past holidays? And you, gentlemen, have you prepared gifts for your loved ones? If not, then remember that best gift for them, it is your heart.
AT: And how to quickly and simply give your heart to your beloved or beloved - we will now show and teach you!
We distribute to all guests a square of red colored paper and show them step by step how to make a heart out of paper. Download the diagram online.
Children's haiku guessing
AT: ancient tradition poetry in Japan, passed down from generation to generation, has developed its own rules and manners of writing. haiku, japanese poetry, combines minimalism and contemplative immersion in the subject. This is high art, which we will also touch tonight. We will unravel the deep meaning of each haiku. The most insightful of you will win prizes!
AT: Aniko-san - explain the deep meaning of this haiku and translate it into Russian:
Tanya-chan lost her face -
Crying about the ball rolling into the pond.
Get a grip, daughter of the samurai.
BUT:(Our Tanya cries loudly, dropped a ball into the river)
AT: Arigato, Aniko-san!
So, let's begin! We read haiku, you explain!
1. Lived with an old woman
Two puffer fish.
One white, the other gray - two funny fish.
(The grandmother lived with 2 funny geese)
2. The son of a gray goat lived with an old woman.
He went to the bamboo grove to graze.
Everything in this world is changeable, only horns and legs are eternal.
(There lived a gray goat with my grandmother)
3. Came out of the fog
Moon with the face of a samurai.
He drew a sword from his kimono pocket.
(The hedgehog came out of the fog, took out a knife from his pocket)
4. Brothers Enike and Benike
Enjoyed sushi.
No matter what the child would enjoy, if only he did not drink sake.
(Eniki Beniki ate dumplings)
5. Old woman
Planting rice on Mount Fuji.
(Baba sowed peas and said loudly Oh)
6. The cat passed away.
The fur is not the same on the tail.
Shut up or take it.
(The cat died, the tail fell off, whoever says something will eat it)
7. A greedy person is like beef meat,
To the ram of distant Turkey,
Salted cucumber fruit.
(Greedy beef - pickled cucumber)
8. Satisfied rice merchants dance on one leg -
Foolish person fooled
For four nunchucks.
(Tricked the fool into 4 fists)
9. The son of a bull moves with an uneven gait.
Take a deep breath - tatami ends,
Falls are unavoidable.
(A bull is walking, swinging)
10. Look carefully at the grass -
Here sat a green grasshopper that looked like the fruit of a cucumber.
Oh yeah frog.
(In the grass Grasshopper sat)
11. It, no, san, si, go - a walking hare is careless.
Hit by hunting nunchucks.
Slap-slap, oh-oh-oh.
(One, two, three, four, five, the bunny went out for a walk)
12. Geisha ice cream, sakura for children ...
inattentive person
From Basho Street.
(Here's the scattered one from Basseinaya Street)
13. Playful summer fly
Sat down on sakura jam.
That's the end of haiku.
(the fly sat on the jam, that's all the poem)
Prizes - candy and chopsticks
Sakura competition
BUT: On White Day, a month after Valentine's Day, young people pamper their girlfriends and give them back signs of attention.
AT: Therefore, we invite men to make a return gesture right now and shower their loved ones with cherry blossom petals.
BUT: But in order to give our competition a real samurai spirit, we decided to hold it in the best traditions of Sumo wrestlers. (we say this after the men have left). But what are sumo without a uniform - a special mawashi belt?
We invite three men, we attach inflated balloons to their stomachs with adhesive tape.
Q: Your task is to collect sakura petals from the floor in such a way that the "belly" does not burst. The one who collects the most petals and at the same time remains safe and sound will receive a prize.
We pour a mountain of rose petals on the floor, give each participant a basket.
The prize is wind music.
Presentation of the nominees for the competition for girls "Miss Blooming Sakura"
AT: What is the women's holiday without a competition of femininity, beauty, charm and Japanese style? The standard of Japanese beauty, grace is considered Cherry blossoms, so we will choose Miss Cherry Blossom from our guests!
BUT: We conducted an unofficial poll of our guests, who put forward several nominees for this title. Hello!
A: Iriko-san! Please come out and do a lap of honor.
Dance with fans
A: We were visited by a charming geisha, who will now show us her art of dancing. Meet Mariko-san!
My sister Maria in a kimono and with two fans performed this dance wonderfully.
Competition "Russian-Japanese translator"
AT: Aniko-san, everything is romantic in Japan: geishas, sake, hara-kiri...
BUT: Yes, we have nothing: women, vodka, stabbing ...
AT: And you are well versed in Japanese words, just like a Russian-Japanese translator.
BUT: I think there are much better interpreters among our guests. Let's invite them to participate in the competition.
We choose three participants.
BUT: I call Russian word, and you must remember the corresponding Japanese. Let it be not quite an exact analogue, but suitable in meaning.
AT: Humor is welcome. We give the title of "Russian-Japanese translator" to the most active and resourceful "Japanese scholar" and award a prize.
Aniko-san names the words, I count how many correct answers everyone has.
Examples of words and analogues:
Singing to the backing track - karaoke
Sacred Mount Fuji
Raw fish - sushi
Hitman - Ninja
Sword - katana
mistress - geisha
Paper plastic - origami
Suicide - kamikaze
Suicide - hara-kiri
Fate is karma
Bathrobe - kimono
Vodka - sake
Hooray! - Banzai!
Letter - hieroglyph
Fat man sumo wrestler
Pet - Tamagotchi
Warrior - samurai
Vanka-vstanka - Daruma
Poem - haiku
Cartoon - anime
Bouquet - ikebana
Mat - tatami
Crossword - Sudoku
Mustard - wasabi
Soy cheese - tofu
Wrestling - karate, aikido, judo
Warlord - shogun
comics manga
Funny haiku again
AT: And again poetry. This time it's a haiku reading competition. After all, it is not easy to read beautifully, as well as to compose.
We distribute leaflets with funny haiku in advance to the guests and now we invite them to read the works, calling them by Japanese names.
1. Die for the great Hippon
I will leave my wife only debts
Yes, three Tamagotchis, a little less ...
2. My plane is buzzing,
It's hard on my plane.
More like Pearl Harbor.
AT: Orego-san!
1. Three Samypayas in the winter wind
Sake is drunk cold
It would be better if we took port wine ...
2. Like the rays of a samyray blade -
And he got stuck
Cursed sprat in a tomato!!
3. What are you, neighbor Isyjima
Are you grasping at once for the sword?
Let's fight better in "nintendo" ...
BUT:*** — san!
1. Sakura white branch
Quietly lay down on the ground.
I am happy with the new saw.
2. From Monday
I'll start a new life
I will change my avatar on VKontakte.
3. Everyone in the haiku village
Learned to compose
Rice harvest gone...
Funny haiku about love and family
Read our nominations for the title of "Miss Blossoming Sakura"
1. I was waiting for a prince
Did not come. Mud, rain...
Is the horse sick?
2. In the land of the rising sun, the sakura has already faded,
Not a hieroglyph from you
No matter how dry the ginger root is.
3. There is only one thing I like about him.
And you need to get married
Completely go out.
4. Your answer shakes
Flowers in my ears...
Sad ikebana.
5. With a sweet paradise in a hut.
To temper your will -
I'm going there!
6. Dew drops
They fly from your lips
Please speak quietly.
7. I don't need a star from the sky!
I'm just asking you -
Change the light bulb in the chandelier.
8. The talent of the samurai wife is great -
With a single blow of the rolling pin she gives her husband
Bright stars in the night...
9. The samurai sword is all sticky...
Smear the son with a sword
Bread jam.
Japanese calligraphy
AT: The Japanese love to give each other exquisite cards with congratulations and wishes of happiness, love, good luck.
BUT: We also invite you to create your own greeting card and put a special meaning into it.
We invite all men without fail to come up to the tables and draw a hieroglyph with a gouache brush on a sheet. In front of the participants we put leaves with printed hieroglyphs denoting “happiness”, “love”, joy. Each participant chooses a hieroglyph with which he would like to congratulate his other half, and draws a hieroglyph. Whose hieroglyph turns out to be more beautiful and accurate, that participant becomes the winner, and his wish will certainly come true.
Requisites: Table, paper, brushes, black and red gouache, examples of hieroglyphs, 1 prize.
Another poetic moment
Walk in the rock garden
I wandered into the rock garden,
Didn't find one -
Someone took it.
Stone from Mount Fuji
I dropped it on my foot.
He screamed for a long time.
sakura handful of petals
I insisted on sake.
Easy to drink...
garden watching stones,
I thought about eternity.
The game "Japanese impromptu theater"
The facilitators read the text expressively. Actors at the mention of their hero pronounce a cue and reproduce this or that movement in accordance with the text. Seven actors and one presenter participate.
BUT: Ladies and Gentlemen! We present to your attention the production of the legendary Kabuki Theater "The Last Samurai". Roles are performed by: (roles are printed out to everyone)
Heroes and lines:
Sakura(pleadingly): "Tokase is not flower arrangement!" (which is translated: “just don’t make me an ikebana!”).
Sparrow (proudly): "Japanese bird!".
horses (two people) (sad):"We're bad as hell."
Grass(fervently):"Pick something!".
Samurai (two people) (menacingly): "Banzai!".
Text:
AT: In the boundless Japanese steppe grew beautiful SAKURA. Sakura branches swayed. In the branches of SAKURA sat a small SPARROW. Two purebred Japanese HORSE GRAZED nearby. And beneath them grew and stretched juicy Japanese GRASS. Oh, how she stretched! The stallions energetically and very greedily plucked the GRASS. GRASS at the same time affectionately tickled the abdomen of the stallions. THE HORSES were quite neighing.
BUT: Two Japanese SAMURAI Tamagotchi and Toshiba appeared in the steppe. SAMURAI Tamagotchi was a sumo wrestler, and Toshiba samurai was a karateka. What a Tamagotchi sumo wrestler! What a Toshiba karateka!
The two SAMURAI hated each other and were constantly bullying. And now they were grimacing and teasing each other. SPARROW, looking at this, laughed, chirping. The SAMURAI threatened the SPARROW, and he flew away from the SAKURA.
AT: SAMURAI Tamagotchi and Toshiba saw HORSE. SAMURAI wanted to saddle HORSE and attempted to do so. And another try, and another. Not immediately, but the SAMURAI coped and saddled the obstinate HORSE. The stallions beat their hooves impatiently and neighed in displeasure. The SAMURAI fidgeted nervously on their horses, wanting to fight the enemy.
BUT: They parted ways different sides and, breaking away from the spot, rushed towards each other. The Tamagotchi hit Toshiba, and he fell off his HORSE. As he fell, Toshiba bit the Tamagotchi. Now the SAMURAI Tamagotchi has fallen from his HORSE. The defeated SAMURAI lay on the GRASS. Above them towered the beautiful SAKURA, sadly bowing its branches. A SPARROW flew by, stared at the lying SAMURAIS and fell to the ground. SAKURA was left alone. Suddenly, thunder rumbled and lightning struck SAKURA. She fell noisily.
AT: Epilogue. Broken, crooked SAKURA grew in the boundless Japanese steppe. On it sat a plucked SPARROW. GRASS stretched under the tree, crumpled and lethargic. SAMURAI Tamagotchi and Toshiba lay in the GRASS and hugged each other. HORSES plucked the GRASS and neighed happily. Peace reigned in the boundless Japanese steppe.
Cinema "The Irony of Fate in Japanese".
We show guests an 8-minute film parody from Big Difference "Irony of Fate in Japanese"
The Japanese party ends with the announcement of the results of the contest "Miss Cherry Blossom"
And now disco and mass fun.