The Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In fact, my mom -- for the first time ever -- asked me when Tet was. When I responded, "January 23, 2012," she about fell out of her chair. "It's so fast this year," she said with a slight groan.
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A bluefin tuna, bought for nearly three-quarters of a million US dollars has been sliced up and served to eager customers at a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo. The tuna, caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, (about 736,000 US dollars,) on Thursday in the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. The price for the 269-kilogramme (593-pound) tuna beat last year's record of 32.49 million yen (around 420,000 US dollars.) Though the fish is undoubtedly high quality, the price has more to do with the celebratory atmosphere that surrounds the first auction of the year. The winning bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, the president of Kiyomura Co. which operates a nationwide sushi restaurant chain called Sushi-zanmai. The best slices of fatty bluefin, called "o-toro" in Japan, can sell for 2,000 yen (24 US dollars) per piece at Tokyo sushi bars. But the restaurant chain is offering the tuna at its usual price of 418 yen (around 5.44 US dollars) for an "o-toro", and cheaper for other less fatty parts of the tuna. With a long queue of customers circling the block around the restaurant, Kimura has limited orders to just one piece per person. The tuna was caught off Oma, in Aomori prefecture just north of the coast that was battered by the March 11 tsunami. Japan eats 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught, the most sought-after by sushi lovers. Japanese fishermen, however, face growing calls for tighter fishing rules amid declining tuna stocks worldwide.
NEWS.com.auNorth Korea requests US food aid: reportsThe Korea HeraldNorth Korea's leadership, headed by Kim Jong-un, has requested changes in the composition of food aid from the US after his father Kim Jong-il died, Japanese media reported Sunday.
Add a little love to your next bento box or afternoon snack with a heart-shaped hardboiled egg. Other than one freshly cooked and peeled hardboiled egg, all you need is one milk carton, one round chopstick and rubber bands.
Since the melamine tragedy of 2008, when infant formula sickened thousands of babies and killed at least six, the country has faced a string of reported food dramas: Watermelons exploding from too much growth chemical, borax in beef, bleach in mushrooms, soy sauce made with arsenic and from human hair, and "eggs" created using chemicals, gelatin and paraffin.
Even melamine continues to show up. Chinese food imports are regularly turned away from U.S. ports because of melamine content, and last year Chinese police seized more than 26 tons of milk powder tainted with the chemical from an ice-cream maker.
KARAWANG, Indonesia (Reuters Life!) - Ngadiyo, a farmer in Indonesia's West Java, worries that there won't be anyone to grow rice once he retires.His son and two daughters moved to Jakarta, the capital, (Ageing farmers & Indonesian food security,...
At her home in New Delhi's Greater Kailash-I, Sarla Razdan is contemplating what to make for dinner. Her family chips in with suggestions and the choice is soon made. On the menu tonight is a family...
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