grated daikon; daikon grater
juice pressed from a bitter orange; ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice)
burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case
to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)
mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus); server (in an online game)
food cooked in miso; cooking in miso
teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)
Kyoto-style grilled fish; fish slices pickled overnight in Kyoto-style sweet white bean paste, then grilled
red sea bream (Pagrus major); Japanese sea bream; red tai; porgy
fish having white flesh (e.g. tai, hirame, karei)
wasabi (Wasabia japonica); Japanese horseradish
stir-fried shrimp in chili sauce
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
difficult to ...; hard to ...
gambling den; gambling house
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious
likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn
domineering husband; hectoring husband; husband who rules the roost
putting that aside; that said; apart from that; anyway; be that as it may
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively
inheritance; something given or received
look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes
sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
bell pepper; green pepper; pimiento; pimento; capsicum
carrot (Daucus carota); Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)
father and mother; parents
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious