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Post by Jade on Oct 30, 2013 1:34:31 GMT
Ah I don't know why I thought you had been there during high school. Sorry about that. No kidding that stuff was like drinking regular soda (or pop as we Brits like to say ^^). I really miss it too. I wish at least one of the FOUR oriental supermarkets in Newcastle, would import it. Unless it's considered too 'fun' and might cause underaged drinking so is on the banned imports list (I wouldn't be surprised to be honest). Last time I was there, I made a video of myself opening on, so when I missed that sound I could play it back. My laptop died though and I didn't have a back up copy of that video. I guess I'll just have to wait until next time I'm there... 酎ハイ恋しいなぁ〜 (;_;) 'Soft drink' here in Aus! I did go in high school as well btw, but that was only for two weeks in 2006.I never really paid attention to the sound tbh, it was more 'oh thank god, I finally found an alcoholic drink I can stand' lol
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Post by MidoriAbby on Nov 4, 2013 23:28:57 GMT
Jembru, ah, we say pop in the midwest of the U.S. too. The east and west coast use soda, the south uses 'coke' for everything, and I'm not sure exactly but somewhere people say 'soda-pop', I've just never heard it... at all' We do say soft drinks as like a more general term for anything with bubbles like bubbly water (sparkling water? do other people call it that?) too. Regionalisms are cool.
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Post by Orbit Ennui 未 on Jan 14, 2014 23:18:26 GMT
...did you ever try kirin brand Chu-hi? The ones where when you opened the can, the little diamonds went 'pop'? I LOVED that. Not really so much for the taste, although the apple.. oh and peach.. yummy! I just found them so satisfying to open. On my way home from work I'd always swing by the Odakyu Ox (I'm pretty sure that's only in Kanagawa, being that we were on the Odakyu sen) and pick up a can of chu-hi and a stack of 3 cartons of nattou. Then I'd sit in front of the TV watching a man with a guitar sing to kids, and not understand a word of it, while I ate all 3 cartons of nattou, washed down with a chu-hi. Looks tasty, but I'm thirsty. Can you buy these in grocery stores in Japan, and do you have to have proper ID to purchase? What age restrictions, and views on drinking in Japan. As for legal drinking ages in general, I live in a household where alcohol is available, especially for Sunday dinner, and have learned that it's NOT acceptable to drink to excess.
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Post by Bokusenou on Jan 14, 2014 23:33:53 GMT
The legal drinking age there is 20. When I was there you could even buy alcohol from vending machines, but I think you needed a special card or something. I don't really know much else, since I don't drink, so I didn't pay much attention to that kind of thing when I was there.
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Post by Jembru on Jan 15, 2014 0:04:41 GMT
Chu-hi is available in pretty much any convenience store in Japan. As Rin says, you can buy it from jihanki too. I haven't been to Japan for almost 5 years, but at least when I lived there, you definitely didn't have to use your I.D at all machines. You generally only had to use it until 9pm (or 10, I forget which), if you had to use it at all. The machine near my home was free to use 24/7. I'm quite sure, because I obviously only had my gaijin card and passport as ID in Japan, neither of which worked in the machines, and I definitely used to run out in the wee hours of the morning during a heavy session with the Americans next door. ^^
I STILL get asked for my ID here in the UK and I'm 31 now! People I meet frequently ask me if I'm in college/uni. So when I lived in Japan, you can imagine I was very, very much a babyface. Even in my next job after returning from Japan, my co-workers used to tease me that I looked like a child. Yet in Japan, I was never, not once, asked to prove my age. I think if you're not Japanese, they just don't want to stir up a fuss.
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Jacob
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Post by Jacob on Jan 11, 2015 19:31:18 GMT
Sometimes I'm not positive what to put in my onigiri...
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Post by Jembru on Jan 12, 2015 1:15:58 GMT
Sometimes I'm not positive what to put in my onigiri... JACOB!!! Glad to see you back! My favourite is seaweed! I sometimes use boiled spinach too. I've vegetarian though, so there are better things I'm sure. My boyfriend's favourite filling is teriyaki chicken. He's quite into cooking, so we've bought all the ingredients to make the sauce. When we get around to it, I'm going to try it with chicken-style quorn pieces and try my own teriyaki chicken onigiri!
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Post by Jacob on Jan 12, 2015 3:26:27 GMT
Sometimes I'm not positive what to put in my onigiri... JACOB!!! Glad to see you back! My favourite is seaweed! I sometimes use boiled spinach too. I've vegetarian though, so there are better things I'm sure. My boyfriend's favourite filling is teriyaki chicken. He's quite into cooking, so we've bought all the ingredients to make the sauce. When we get around to it, I'm going to try it with chicken-style quorn pieces and try my own teriyaki chicken onigiri! Mmmmm sounds so delicious, the last time I made it, I put canned tuna inside of it. It was delightful, looking forward to trying teriyaki chicken next! By the way: I have forgotten a good chunk of my Japanese, so as I regain my courage to post in Japanese, I will...
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