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halalsushi

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  1. I drank a very delicious Korean black soy bean milk with sesame in Koreatown. I'm not sure of its name but it was really yummy.
  2. She just put carrots, some sliced broccoli, negi, onions, and beef in it. And she made the noodles from flour.
  3. Lol, I'm not Chinese but I also never heard of vinegar being mixed in after cooking rice.
  4. Thanks for posting information on this. It's great to see the influence of the the Islamic world on different peoples around the world.
  5. Oh okay, thanks. Lol, you got it a week after? That's really lame. I had a subscription to this one American magazine called National Geographic, it was good since I got it before it hit the stores.
  6. When I buy the Japanese cooking magazines down here occasionally though, I cannot sign up for a subscription since they are based in Japan. Are there any good Japanese magazines that allow subscriptions from United States?
  7. Salaam, thanks for the link! This site is really great.
  8. That's really cool, I look forward to seeing info on the program. Maybe I can attend one of the workshops.
  9. Albison, thanks for the link to that thread. I'm going to check it out. :)
  10. Yeah, it costs a dollar here at the Japanese bookstore in Los Angeles. Hmm, I never saw that Japanese/English magazine before. I see it when I'm at the bookstore again, I'll tell you.
  11. Trsyka, oh, my bad. Lol. Do they have any Korean ramen shops in the USA?
  12. Thanks for the website, I think I'll try this curry to see how it tastes. Soup, that's quite true. Sometimes curry does taste better when it's flavor develops more. Just heat it again on the skillet and it's as fresh as before. Yeah, in my family history, I think I can trace possible Spanish descent. My maternal great-grandmother who is Japanese had large eyes and looked Spanish and so did her siblings. She and her family were Catholics, which was very rare in Japan.
  13. Yeah, I was flipping through Orange Page at the bookstore down here. It costs a dollar here and in Japan it costs 150 yen. The first half of the magazine has recipes and the rest of the magazine has comics and articles right? How much does it cost in the UK?
  14. Hi, what are the best Japanese food zines? I have this one I brought at the store and it has some good recipes. I notice that the Japanese magazines are higher quality and have better pictures then American magazines that I have seen.
  15. Hi, thank you! That would be a great help. Yeah, that is so cool that Arab traders made it to Korea. I am very interested in the Islamic interaction with east Asian countries such as China, Korea, and Japan. The Japanese interaction with Islam in those times was probably little to none at all but there were a few dozen Japanese government and military officials that converted to Islam during World War 2. Some soldiers converted to Islam and began working on Islamic-Japanese relations. Others converted when Japan had occupied Muslim-dominated Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. The Prophet Muhammad (saw) once sent an envoy in an attempt to convert a Chinese emperor. He didn't convert but he did build several masjid (mosques) in Muhammad's (saw) honor. Islam also flourished in medieval Chinait's said that some of the rulers were Muslims that concealed their religious identity. I was once told that a band of ronin traveling by boat had gotten shipwrecked and ended up in Saudi Arabia. When they arrived in Saudi Arabia, the Arabs who were ignorant of Japan thought of them as Chinese. I was also told that there are a few descendants of these Japanese still living in Saudi Arabia. Japan hadn't had much contact with other countries for many centuries, besides occasional trade and conflict with China and Korea. Several Japanese Buddhist monks did go to India in order to study Sanskrit in order to write down the Buddhist scriptures. I'd like to learn more about Okinawa and study some of the language. They had their own kingdom and now some Okinawans are vying for indepence from Japan. China can be thanked for Japanese adopting kanji. Korea is the "father" of Japanese culture so to speak. Korea laid the foundation for the development of Japanese culture. Korean farmers that settled on Japan centuries ago introduced rice culture and influenced language, religion, that would later be modified over the centuries to form a seperate identity. Okinawa on the other hand had heavy interaction with both China and Korea (it was a big center of trade) and wasn't closed off to interaction with other cultures like Japan. Islam is now the fastest growing religion around the world and it's growing fast in Korea. There is actually even an old Muslim community in Korea that dates back several centuries. Check this site out. It has lots of information on Islam in Korea in both Hangul and English.
  16. Salaam alaykum to all the Muslims. What are the best Islamic restauraunts down here in Los Angeles in your opinion?
  17. "Dry macaroni is suitable for storing, trading, and transporting. The invention of the bronze press industrialized the manufacturing of pasta, making macaroni affordable. Present in Sicily since Arab occupation, macaroni became extremely popular in Naples in the 1700s. It is from there that dry pasta started its journey to conquer the world. Sicilian history is fascinating for all the different people that occupied the island during different times. The greatest influence was left by the Muslim occupation that lasted for two centuries. Muslims contributed greatly to Western cuisine with a variety of foods: rice, spinach, alcohol, oranges, lemons, apricots, sugar and more. And in Sicily their influence is still greatly felt today." http://www.annamariavolpi.com/what_is_italian_cooking.html If you have any more information on the Islamic influence on Italian cuisine, please feel free to share it. Thanks!
  18. Touaregsand, thanks for the welcome! :) Yeah, one of my good friends is from Zimbabwe which is of course in South Africa. He invited me to come over for dinner but I have yet to go to his house, we played basketball a lot during the summer but we've been busy with school. The summer is almost here again, so we'll have more time to chill. Thanks Richard, I'll look for those Kenyan food topics. :)
  19. Ah, okay. Thanks so much for the information. Yeah, I read some of the Japanese curry thread. Are there any Korean curry mix brands or just Japanese ones?
  20. I ate this really spicy, instant Korean-style ramen for lunch recently by a company called Nong Shim. When the soup base is steaming hot and very spicy, it tastes like your mouth has been set on fire. It was really that hot!
  21. Hi, I'm interested in the different types of curries around the world. There are so many different recipes and I've tasted just Japanese varieties. Does anybody have information on Korean curries and any recipes? I'm not sure but is it similar to Japanese curry? Thanks.
  22. Hi, does anybody know about East African food? I live in Los Angeles and there is a small "Little Ethiopia" neighborhood here. I've tasted Ethiopian food at this one restauraunt called Nyala's and it's good. The dishes seem to have been influenced by Indian cooking. I guess it's because East Africa has had a lot of interaction with Arab and Indian traders. Ethiopians use this flat, sourdough pancake-like bread called injeera (I think that's the name) as a utensil to eat their food. It's an interesting experience since you don't use any forks or anything, you just grab the injeera piece and scoop up the food. Ethiopian food is served with pieces of injeera in the center and side dishes surrounding it in a circle. Another East African county, Somalia, also has been culturally influenced by Arab traders that arrived there centuries ago. I've never tried Somalian or Eritrean food but I would like. Are there any other good restauraunts in Los Angeles to check out for other East African foods? Thanks.
  23. I love kare a lot and my grandma always makes it when my cousins come over to visit. I just purchased some spices from an Indian market so I can grind them together and make my own curry powder. I plan on comparing the flavor to the S&B powdered curry I have. Thanks for those recipes, I'm going to use them along with an Indian curry powder recipe I have. My grandmother told me she used to only use the powder but she couldn't find it anymore as the years went by, so she started buying the roux. I just found it at Marukai, the supermarket down here, while I was walking down the curry aisle.
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