Category: Food

Miho Yoshioka serves up Nissin’s Men no Tatsujin

Modern instant noodles were invented in Japan by businessman Momofuku Ando (安藤百福), the founder of Nissin, one of the biggest manufacturers of instant noodles today. His noodles were boiled with flavouring, deep-fried with palm oil to remove moisture, and dried into a noodle cake. Other preservation methods have been tried, including preservation with salt and smoke, but Ando concluded that palm oil is the most efficient.

吉岡 美穂（よしおか みほ、1980年2月3日）は日本のタレント、女優。元レースクイーン。 元トリンプ下着キャンペーンガール。

Translation: Mihi Yoshioka (born February 3, 1980) is Japanese talent and actress, and formerly a race queen as well as a former Triumph underwear campaign girl.

“Race queen” (katakana: レースクイーン – rÄ“su kuiin) is a Japanese term for a type of promotional model found as part of a pit crew in certain kinds of motor racing, such as F1 races.

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Pizza La Kun & Toppings

Pizza or pizza pie is the name of an oven-baked, flat, usually round bread covered with tomato sauce and cheese with other toppings left optional. While originating as a part of Italian cuisine, the dish has become extremely popular all over the world.

Pizza-La (ピザーラ) is the highest-grossing pizza chain in Japan. Franchises of the chain are located in 34 of Japan’s 47 prefectures.

Gal Sone Eats 7 Kilograms

Natsuko “Gal” Sone (Japanese: “ギャル” 曽根 菜津子 “gyaru” Sone Natsuko, b. December 4, 1985) is a female Japanese competitive eater. Her popularity has helped produce a resurgence in Japanese competitive eating or oogui after the outcry following the death of a Japanese schoolboy imitating an eating stunt in 2002 resulted in a three year hiatus for major Japanese eating contests.

Donburi (丼, lit. “bowl”, also frequently abbreviated as “don”, thus less commonly spelled “domburi”) is a Japanese “rice bowl dish” consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice. Donburi meals are served in oversized rice bowls also called donburi. Donburi are sometimes called sweetened or savory stews on rice.