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Japan Celebrates Sushi
posted (March 17, 2014)
It was Japan Day on Saturday at the Princess where that country's Embassy in Jamaica organized an event to celebrate their culture's culinary arts. World class sushi chefs were brought in alongside Japanese community members from Belize. We sampled their selections:..

Hiromoto Oyama, First Secretary Embassy of Japan in Jamaica
"We need to have a bit of understanding among each other, because if your people and my people misunderstand each other, it's going to be difficult to work together, so it's very important that we understand your culture and you understand our culture and we have friends among our people."

"Human like us, we are what we eat, so it's very important that we show Belizean people what we eat and we like Belizean people to appreciate our foods and Japanese people here they appreciate Belizean food - it's very good that we appreciate your food and you appreciate our food so that we can understand each other better."

Yosuke Masuda, Japanese Volunteer - Curry Koichi Fukuoka
"This is Japanese curry, it's different from Indian curry and its more mild and thick. The ingredients are onion, carrots, potatoes and chicken."

Maki Akiyama, Making Obento
"Obento is Japanese traditional lunch. This is like tradition in what we bring to school and work. The main one is the rice, we also eat like Belizeans, white rice, but we don't put anything in it, no coconut milk, no coconut oil - just plain rice and then this is salmon, egg role and octopus."

Sachiko Inoue, Making Sushi Roll
"This is egg and cucumber and this is the Chinese Mushroom - Japanese Shitake Mushroom - people like this."

Yoshihisa Yuri, Making Takoyaki
"Takoyaki is flour and inside is octopus, but Belizeans don't eat octopus."

Hiromoto Oyama, First Secretary Embassy of Japan in Jamaica
"This is Mr. Sato and his family. His son is 16 years old and he is aspiring to become a sushi chef like his father. They come from the northern part of Japan and they have a small family hotel on the Pacific Coast and their hotel was destroyed by a tsunami 3 years ago. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, his father Mr. Sato, he almost gave up because the damage to the hotel was so severe that he thought he wouldn't make it, but his son cried in tears and pleaded to his father not to give it up. They have loyal customers that come and stay frequent to the hotel. The hotel guests also ask him not to give it up and they supported him to get back on his feet - so he gather his courage from all these encouragement and the support from the people and he started rebuilding his hotel one by one and after a few years he now has the time to around and work. He is now travelling to New York, Jamaica and Belize to present his artwork - to share his appreciation to the people who helped him."

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