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【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 MONTHLY SPECIAL in MARCH & APRIL 2012

It is the arrival in “the autumn of the appetite ” to be able to fully taste seasonal food while getting deepen in autumn, and healing the stomach which weakened in the summer in a harvest season.
For Monthly Special of Ichiba Junction, rice is an appearance in such a season.

Martial Art and Traditional Performing Arts 2012

Like every year this year too, The Martial Arts and Traditional Performaning Arts by the students of the Department of Martial Arts of the Nippon Sport Science University took place on February 18th (Saturday) 5 pm at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre Show Court, Albert Park.

Drunk Talk: 3. Seikyo Junmai Ginjo Omachi

Seikyo (true mirror), which is getting popular at Dan Murphy’s recently, a gem that embedded with the wish to reflect the sincerity of the brewers, which looks like a mirror when poured in a glass.

【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 Yamagataya Seaweed Gift Series Arrival!

Yamagataya was established in Nihonbashi, Tokyo by Sohachi Kubota who came out of Oshu in the Edo era (1764); and their history is more than 240 years. The name of the shop yearned for the far-off hometown Yamagata prefecture and to be named.
Yamagataya where continue following tradition from generation to generation and still notice at a position as a long-established store of “nori seaweed” in Japan.

Sipping with the Sake Master = Shochu – Discover Japan’s other great drink =

Shochu – Discover Japan’s other great drink

Whilst most Australians are familiar with sake, shochu is an often overlooked and under appreciated Japanese drink. Shochu is a distilled spirit commonly made from rice, barley, soba (buckwheat), sweet potato or brown sugar. Many other obscure variants exist including carrot, tomato, chestnut and even milk!

【ICHIBA JUNCTION】 Introducing Sansai Mix Vegetable

The edible wild plant(sansai) grows wild in the fields and mountains and is the generic name of the plant to make edible. There are few harvests, and it is a characteristic that taste has many bitterness and lye. Therefore take much time and process including the lye omission to cook a fresh edible wild plant, but “Sansai Mix Vegetables 1kg” of Ichiba Junction is already cooked; can use it easily .