visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; inquiry (about someone's health); letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; get-well letter
menu; schedule; program; menu
standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods
Japanese food; Japanese dish; Japanese cuisine
freshly boiled (rice); freshly cooked; steaming; piping hot
cut; slice (meat, fish); fillet
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta); dog salmon
to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn
natto (fermented soybeans)
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
Lyophyllum shimeji (species of edible mushroom); euagaric fungus (in grocery stores, usu. refers to cultivated field mushrooms, etc.)
wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)
cut; cutting; omission; cutting; haircut; (continuous) shot (in a film or TV show); illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.)
to become empty; to be emptied
maid; helper; help; assistance
tidying up; clearing up; cleaning up; clearing away; putting in order
lazybones; good-for-nothing; idler; slacker; loafer
it can't be helped; so it goes; c'est la vie
dish towel; tea towel; dishcloth
everyday life; daily life
odds and ends; all; every
oleander; Nerium oleander var. indicum; rosebay
fruit; nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content; substance
balcony; veranda; verandah; porch
considerably; fairly; quite; rather; pretty
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
(short) rest; breather; break
coffee-flavored milk; coffee milk
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
chewing; mastication; digestion (e.g. of words); assimilation; comprehension
to spend time (on doing something)
fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
together (of two people); both (of you, them, etc.)
support; help; backing; covering (from enemy attack); protection