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In addition, I see they have, in the Japan section, a local Hiroshima section. She'll like that, as it's where she grew up, though now her family is in Kobe and Osaka. Maturin, thanks again. balanga, like you, I, too, am surprised I never heard of this.
 
For what it's worth, my wife looked at the NHK World, but it's not exactly NHK. It's a variant--I didn't get what the difference is, but she wasn't surprised, saying the main NHK would charge money. Despite that, seems interesting with a wide variety of places, including, for example, Hiroshima local news, etc.
 
scottro said:
my wife looked at the NHK World
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I stopped watching NHK.
Since the one NHK World I watched is for international foreigners thinking of emigrate to Japan for work, so besides telling lots of how life is in Japan, having frequent small classes in Japanese language, they are showing a lot of the whole country: national parks, landscapes, hiking trails, ancient sites,... I loved that show where an American (?) - speaking fluently japanese, of course, (as far as I can judge) traveled whole Japan by bike - many very interesting, and cosy small villages, specialized farms, fishermen, artists, small manufacturers doing very special things, or doing very traditional things, like paper completely handcrafted like fivehundred years ago, etc etc. - very, very interesting!
But those bastards doing also a lot of cooking! Very good cooking! Very interesting cooking! Extremely tasty looking cooking! Everything always absolutely top quality; basically like Italians: If it's top quality and absolutely fresh, do the least with it. Else - and that's what Japanese do way more than any other cuisine I experienced so far - very extremely effortful processes to create ... new things. Y U M - M Y!!! It's way beyond anything you get here in a Sushi bar; maybe remotely in some (very expensive) top quality japanese restaurant - if even. *sigh*
You see, Middle Europeans are not even capable to cook rice right. They don't wash it before cooking. 🤢, you say? That's right. But they just don't know better. It's no wonder they don't prefer rice.
And I don't can just go there for dinner - it's on the other side of the globe. I just have to watch like one got a special japanese leek fresh directly from the field by the farmers he just passed by, went into the village's next small restaurant, asked the chef to do what he thinks was best to do with that leek, and got it served grilled only with a dip made of raw egg and soy sauce... YUM-MY, I say. Most yummy. I can only watch! 😭
Well, at least that teached me to try to grill leek, and so I did. For sure not as good, because I did not get any leek of that quality by now - but, if you never tried it by now: grilled leek. Yummy!
Japanese for sure know how to cook, and eat.
 
USerID said:
Television ended in 1976, when the Sex Pistols spewed so much profanity on live television that some father reportedly threw the television out the window...
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Interesting. I remember people throwing their TV out of the window when we lost in soccer... So, what's worse?
 
Maturin, personally, there's only a few Japanese dishes that I liked. My wife likes preparing seafood, which I don't like. She is a good cook, and she's willing to accommodate me, (to a point) but I remember one new year, when we were in Japan, her mom prepared a bunch of traditional New Year food and there was very little I liked. I have a very plebeian palate and she can usually make something easy for me in a few minutes.
 
Crivens said:
Interesting. I remember people throwing their TV out of the window when we lost in soccer... So, what's worse?
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I don't know what's worse. Maybe Ukrainian television. But seriously, it depends on how much a television cost back then. I guess someone could afford to destroy their own property. And televisions weren't that expensive in rich countries. Maybe television will return, along with the spiral of progress, as something new. What kind of television did you have? I watched a TV like this. The cost of such a TV in the USSR in 1986-1987 was 665 rubles. The salary of an ordinary factory engineer in 1986-1987 was 180 rubles :)))
How much did you have to work and save up for a color TV? It took years, sometimes up to 3-5 years...
So, in your rich kingdoms, you could have had fun like that.
 
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