tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
outbreak of an illness; onset of an illness; appearance of symptoms
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
especially; particularly; unusually; (arch.) additionally
payment (taxes, fees, etc.); supply (of goods); delivery
person of doubtful origin
anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)
Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki
concession; conciliation; compromise
monjayaki; pan-fried batter with various fillings
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
iron plate; steel plane; sure thing; certain winner
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
business use; business purposes
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
to polish up; to shine up
rust-proofing; anti-corrosive
attentive to detail; meticulous in one's work
metal fittings; metal fixtures
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef); omakase
mix; mixed-race person; multiracial person
per-capita division; division according to the number of people