{"id":15120,"date":"2010-11-30T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2010-11-30T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T01:50:30","slug":"japan-fix-request-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/30\/japan-fix-request-for-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Fix: Request for submissions (plus a bit of perspective)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post brought to you by <\/em>Gail Cetnar Meadows<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (Hiroshima-shi, 2007-10)<\/strong>, co-founder of Hiroshima JET webzine the <\/em>Wide Island View<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0In an effort to revive the “Japan Fix<\/a>“<\/strong> posts, I’d like to share a recent discovery to help you find a little piece of Japan close to home. <\/em><\/p>\n

How do you get your Japan fix wherever you live? Write it down and send it to me at gail [at] jetwit.com <\/strong>for the entertainment and benefit of the JET alum community.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Having called Hiroshima home for three years, my husband and I knew we’d miss our old neighborhood haunts when we returned to the U.S., especially our favorite <\/a>okonomiyaki<\/a><\/em> joint<\/a>. There, our weekly visits made us such familiar faces that the cooks greeted us by name when we walked in and we even had our own stools at the bar a la Norm from Cheers. I didn’t hold out any hope of finding an\u00a0okonomiyaki-ya<\/em> back in the sticks of Ohio, but now that we’ve relocated, the search is on.<\/p>\n

Whether or not I find it, though, I at least know that there are a number of stores in our area that carry a decent selection of Japanese goods, which means I can always cook our favorite Japanese dishes at home. While\u00a0searching for the local Japanese markets around our new town, I stumbled upon a blog post<\/a> on my favorite Japanese cooking blog,\u00a0JustHungry.com<\/a>. The author of this blog had compiled a wonderful reader-contributed list<\/a> of Japanese groceries and stores across the U.S. The list is categorized by state, so you can just scroll through to find something close to you. Thanks to her I’ve discovered a selection of Japanese food items in a grocery store just a short hop from my house, where I found my latest Japan fix: a shelf bearing at least half a dozen flavors of \u30e9\u30e0\u30cd. Ah, natsukashii<\/em>!!<\/p>\n

How do you get your Japan fix where you live? Send it to me at gail [at] jetwit.com<\/strong> and I’ll post it on JetWit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post brought to you by Gail Cetnar Meadows (Hiroshima-shi, 2007-10), co-founder of Hiroshima JET webzine the Wide Island View.\u00a0In an effort to revive the “Japan Fix“ posts, I’d like to share a recent discovery to help you find a little piece of Japan close to home. How do you get your Japan fix wherever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t