I see that besides the croquette, there’s a lack of deep fried foods which I’m getting sick of in our cafeteria. Hittsumi sounds really yummy and easy to make… Well if I ever decide to cook in our scary excuse for a kitchen any time soon…

Gotta have milk with every meal. Does a body good and what have you. I personally can’t down milk with a meal, especially when soup is part of the equation too.

@issa-sa: For all the fuss about healthy Japanese food, there seems to be a lot of deep-fried foods in the cuisine today. I remember during my study abroad, the cafeteria was filled with really unhealthy food so I generally stuck to the udon and soba soups.

@Yamcha: It would if there was some vitamin D in it too. I just learned that our local milk doesn’t have that, which means a lot of the calcium is just passing through. :(

Then uh, snack on some tuna or other fish for your Vitamin D! (although fish and milk doesn’t sound too good together)

Some bread have vitamin D, no? Or yogurt or some cereals?

@IcyStorm: I take supplements. ^_^ The cereal is fortified but it’s very expensive. I do eat a lot of seaweed and spinach, both of which have good amounts of calcium.

I think my health has taken a drastic drop ever since coming here… I think I should actually start cooking my own meals from now on… chock full off seaweed and whatever veggies I can find.

@issa-sa: What kinds of things do you like? Maybe I can help. I love cooking and experimenting. ^_^

I love almost all manner of food really… except pickles :P I used to love coking and experimenting myself (well in my case, the 2 come hand in hand -_-”) But I’ve stopped for a while now because sharing the kitchen with a floor-full of dormmates kinda killed that interest.