Diet & Exercise: Italian

Do you know “Mikaduki” in Niigata? This is Italian fast-food restaurant originated from Niigata. At this restaurant in Niigata, thick Yakisoba noodles, cabbages, vegetables artificially grown in the shade and sauce are used in dishes. It’s is like fried noodle not spaghetti.

“Italian” is name of menu. However, you may think that “Italian” is not Italian foods. Of course, you are right! This is not Italian foods but foods like Italian.　On this page, there are Italian, curry-Italian, white-sauce Italian, shrimp-in-chili sauce Italian, Italian with bean curd sautéed with ground meat, chili pepper in a thick sauce and so on. The menu I recommend is “curry-Italian”.

Usually, Mikaduki is in SATY, APITA, JUSCO, PLANT5 and so on. Therefore when I went to supermarkets like them, I almost went to there. Every Saturday and Sunday, there are many families, children and couples. Mikaduki is very popular among people in Niigata.

“Italian” has a good point about cooking. In this page, there are points of attention about cooking homeland of pasta. However, when you cook “Italian”, you don’t need to attend these points like cooking genuine pasta. Unfortunately, “Italian” has a bad point, too. It is that “Italian” isn’t suitable for diet. The genuine pasta has suitable menu for diet.

If you want to diet, you should have genuine diet pasta, but, if you enjoyed “Italian”, you may have better go to Mikaduki!

Diet&Exercise: Agar-agar

Agar is made of seaweed, Tengusa and not gelatins. It is available in different forms: bars, flaked or powdered.

This web site explains that agar-agar contains various minerals including calcium, magnesium, iron and potassium, so it is good for our health. Moreover, agar-agar contains 81% of dietary fiber, so if you have agar-agar before your meal, you can feel of fullness without overeating! Fortunately, agar-agar doesn't have very calories! Click on here.

Next, this web site indicates that agar-agar diet loser weight than conventional diet due to the maintenance of reduced calorie intake and to an improvement in metabolic parameters. In experimentation, it was made clear and evaluated. Click on here.

The picture is one of agar’s dishes, a milk-agar of strawberry. In this web site, there are many dishes using agar. Every dish looks tasty!

Tanabata Party

Today, we had a Tanabata party in my Japanese circle at no.7 building. Many students studying abroad came to this party. I became friends who I haven’t met them, so I was happy.

They wore Yukatas themselves. The girls were nice and the boys were cool! Everyone suits Yukatas.

First, we wrote Tanzaku and hung up them on sticks of bamboo. Some prayed to pass tests, others prayed to improve them English skills. I prayed … It’s secret! After that, we taught students studying abroad how to make ornaments of Tanabata. We made stars and something like net. It’s difficult for students studying abroad to make stars, but gradually, they became to be able to make stars very well.

Next, we played the game of “split-the-watermelon.” It took a great deal of time to cut them, but at last, Andy from Australia and Kan from South Korea cut two watermelons! We ate them, and they tasted sweet♥

Finally, we took a group photograph, and then we took many pictures each of them. Many photograph are my treasures!

I enjoyed this party＼(^0^)／　It was nice day ♫ Moreover, I’m looking forward to being able to seeing the Milky Way on July 7☆彡