{"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":"<p><em>This post brought to you by <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gail Cetnar Meadows<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em><strong> (Hiroshima-shi, 2007-10)<\/strong>, co-founder of Hiroshima JET webzine the <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideislandview.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wide Island View<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>.\u00a0In an effort to revive the <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/japan-fix\/\">Japan Fix<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> posts, I&#8217;d like to share a recent discovery to help you find a little piece of Japan close to home. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How do you get your Japan fix wherever you live?  Write it down and send it to me at <strong>gail [at] jetwit.com <\/strong>for the entertainment and benefit of the JET alum community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"ramune\" src=\"http:\/\/yanai.blackmage.org\/sky2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ramune.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"210\" \/>Having called Hiroshima home for three years, my husband and I knew we&#8217;d miss our old neighborhood haunts when we returned to the U.S., especially our <a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/kato-chan-where-everybody-knew-our.html\" target=\"_blank\">favorite <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/kato-chan-where-everybody-knew-our.html\" target=\"_blank\">okonomiyaki<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/kato-chan-where-everybody-knew-our.html\" target=\"_blank\"> 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&#8217;t hold out any hope of finding an\u00a0<em>okonomiyaki-ya<\/em> back in the sticks of Ohio, but now that we&#8217;ve relocated, the search is on.<\/p>\n<p>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 href=\"http:\/\/www.justhungry.com\/handbook\/just-hungry-handbooks\/japanese-grocery-store-list\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> on my favorite Japanese cooking blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justhungry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JustHungry.com<\/a>. The author of this blog had compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justhungry.com\/handbook\/just-hungry-handbooks\/japanese-grocery-store-list\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\">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&#8217;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, <em>natsukashii<\/em>!!<\/p>\n<p>How do you get your Japan fix where you live? Send it to me at <strong>gail [at] jetwit.com<\/strong> and I&#8217;ll post it on JetWit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Japan Fix&#8220; posts, I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}