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restaurant with long lines

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Keio University

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dark soy sauce; regular soy sauce

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chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce

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edgy; avant-garde

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adding water; dilution with water

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branch store; branch of a firm

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sprinkling (water); watering (plants)

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lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

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Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky

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by your leave; with your permission

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chicken bones; chicken carcass

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shoulder roast (e.g. of lamb)

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frizz; kink; crimp; curls (hair, noodles, leaves, etc.)

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Kegon Falls (near Nikko)

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whole wheat flour

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to cook (esp. grains such as rice, by boiling); to finish cooking

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chemistry laboratory; chemical laboratory

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comfort food; soul food

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tenkasu; crunchy bits of fried batter left after cooking tempura

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cheese for melting; melting cheese

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bread flour (high gluten); strong flour; hard flour

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egg boiled, peeled, and steeped in soy sauce marinade

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mapo tofu (spicy Sichuan dish of tofu and minced meat)

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bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt

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originality

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hear; here

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pig's feet

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limited quantity

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by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)

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committing (oneself to); commitment; involvement; commit (data management, version control)

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katsuobushi; small pieces of sliced dried bonito

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on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat

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cake flour; pastry flour

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sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)

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to waver in one's resolution

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(being) off night duty; end of a night shift

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ramen restaurant

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unkind; mean

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jingisukan; grilled mutton and vegetable dish; slotted dome cast iron grill (used for jingisukan)

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no matter what; whatever you say; in the end

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to knead into

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pineapple; pine

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stone mortar; millstone; quern

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for the general public

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queue jumping; breaking into a line; muscling in on; interrupt

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Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE); Paekche

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steep mountain; craggy mountain

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oddity; eccentricity; peculiarity

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green bamboo

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