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Kawara Senbei named after the Japanese traditional roof because of the design of the snack itself. Senbei is a type of snack that is flat and crispy. The snack has a hint of sweetness into it and I can kinda compare it to the filipino snack called “barquillos” that is less sweet.  I saw thisContinue reading “Kawara Senbei”

According to wikipedia Gaijin (外人; “outsider”, “alien”, “Non-Japanese”) is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese. The word is composed of two kanji: gai (外, “outside”) and jin (人, “person”). Similarly composed words that refer to foreign things include gaikoku (外国, “foreign country”) and gaisha (外車, “foreign car”). The word can refer to nationality, race or ethnicity, concepts generally conflated in Japan. Some feel the word has come to have a negative or pejorative connotation, while otherContinue reading “Gaijin in Japan”