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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 15h

Using the Sour Rouge apples I got last Sunday to make apple tarts 🍎 Recipe from Alexandra’s Kitchen 🔗 alexandracooks.com/2019/09/13/f...

Sliced apples atop a small frangipane tart

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s been kind of nonstop since Silver Week ended. I should really just take it easy tomorrow but there’s another event I kind of want to go to, or at least make an appearance

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The event was great though, to be fair. I got to chat with a bunch of my favorite coffee people and had too much coffee (again) but it was earlier in the day, so I think I’ll be able to sleep better

Daiichi from Breath Coffee making pour over

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A friend of mine who I admire is in town for the weekend on a business gig and I wasn’t able to grocery shop because I was having coffee with him. I had too much coffee and slept not great and then I went to the business gig (event)>>

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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To end International Translation Day on a translating note, here is an old, but excellent essay by the legend Cathy Hirano on the difficulties of translation in general and J-E translation in specific.

hbook.com

Eight Ways to Say You: The Challenges of Translation

Last year I had the honor of attending the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony in Massachusetts, not as an award recipient but as an accompanist — as the translator for Kazumi Yumoto’s The Friends,...

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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey, newbie J-E translators! Do you want to enter a contest and win fame and fortune (a prize and the respect of your new peers)?? Now you can!

jat.org

Twenty-third Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese<>English Translators (Oct.1-Nov.7) Source Text and Guidelines | Japan Association of Translators

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes Hiroshima really do be having small town vibes. The metal zipper on my beloved backpack stopped zipping, so I went to a カバン専門店 on Hondōri where an acquaintance of mine from two years ago works. I met him at a local 飲み屋 but only saw him sporadically>>

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year🎶 (Apple season) Sour Rouge apples from Nekokawauso Cidery in Shōbara (Hiroshima) and grown without pesticides. Nearly every Sunday, the cidery brings 規格外 apples to Inity Standing Bar in the city and holds a 詰め放題 for ¥700 🍎🍎🍎

Pinkish-red Sour Rouge apples from Nekokawauso Cidery in Shōbara (Hiroshima) artfully arranged on two placemats, one beige and the other muted red and beige plaid

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recent eats roundup, Okayama edition! Details in alt 🍞Something Like That 🍽️ Rikū ☕️ Onsaya Coffee

A bright and juicy single origin hand drip Kenya with a simple salad, half a hard boiled egg, and buttered toast.

Burn the bejesus outta yo’ mouth, piping HOT chicken battered in nori with assorted side dishes. Haven’t had カフェご飯 in a long time and this hit the spot.

Cup of single origin Ethiopia, so bright and floral!

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Who else was up at 4 am to catch the first shink out at 6 am? Just me? …yeah, that tracks.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Was very fortunate to be gifted tickets to the Pokémon x Traditional Craft Works exhibit at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. The small details were mind blowing. Loved that sketches from the design process were also on display!

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I go to cupping events at the local coffee shop about twice a month and dang if it doesn’t feel amazing to correctly identify differences in coffee. Like, fuck yes! My sense of taste is pretty awesome!

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recent Hiroshima eats roundup! Details in alt 🍜 Taikō Ramen 🍵 Akam Coffee Works ☕️ Kiki Coffee

The perfect bowl for extended summers, the dashi-based soup is light, but still brimming with umami, accented by a toasty oil made from green onion and dried sardines. Topped with earthy myōga, crunchy cucumber, decorative and colorful strips of daikon and carrot, and two types of juicy chāshū (thinly sliced pork shoulder and thick-cut chicken breast), there’s plenty of fun textures that add to the experience.

But the crown jewel is the high hydration noodles that provide an incredible snappy, chewy texture. Add a big squeeze of lemon halfway through for extra summer zing! So glad I got to try their chilled ramen this year.

Matcha gelato made in-house with a mixture of espresso and red bean paste makes one incredible affogato

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy to report that the neck crick is much better this morning. Slightly less happy to report that yesterday, I made an appointment with the local 外科 for this morning.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Call for submissions: any manga panels or text from Japanese novels where a character is using an swear word original from English (in katakana is fine).

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So, Tiger balm + intermittent icing for me today. And some painkillers, probably. Wonder if I have any of the good stuff leftover from when I had Covid.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I used to get these neck cricks (like throwing your back out kind of pain but in your neck) when I was in middle school. Haven’t had one in awhile though, dang.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two weeks ago, it was back pain. This morning, woke up with a horrible crick in my neck. It really do be one battle after another here on the island of Snob.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LRP: The absolute chokehold that Home Movies had on me. I rewatched some of it recently and was shocked at how many one-liners I remembered. Such an excellent show.

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Anung Un Drama @space-ghost.com · 14/09/2026

“I'm not going to lie Gohan when you told me your father went around the world collecting dragon balls I automatically thought he was a heroin addict. A drug user Gohan. Chasing the dragon is what they call it."

A little boy with a bowl cut stands next to a large man with red hair and a red shirt. They are both of a different animation style. The little boy is Gohan from Dragon Ball Z. The large man is Coach McGuirk from Home Movies.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GodDAMN. I literally work in a municipal government office and STILL get asked if I can speak Japanese by people dropping by the office. Do you REALLY think they would hire me if I didn’t speak any Japanese? Like COME ONNNNNNN

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sometimes being a translator can feel like a thankless job. But last night, while interpreting a Q&A session for Wednesday Night Kagura, I was blown away by unexpected kind comments from the audience about my translation of the play and interpretation for the session 🥲

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Recent Hiroshima eats round up! Details in alt! 🍑🐟🍰 DaDaico ☕️ Mushim Panen

Prosciutto and peaches, with some crispy white wine. Perfection.

Grilled saury pasta with roasted eggplant sauce, topped with myōga and sudachi zest, plus a sauce made of saury liver. Such an earthy, smoky treat that was so brightened by the sudachi.

Ispahan-inspired shortcake with rose whipped cream, lychee preserves, raspberry jam, and big hunks of juicy peaches.

Vanilla tart with almond praline in the middle and some dark cherry preserves, plus a side of coffee and cream.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just finished an English narration recording gig that I am so stoked to share with y’all once the time is right

Int. RECORDING BOOTH

Staff: Could you do the last line again, with more ありがとう〜って感じ？

Snob: Wut? 😶

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This weekend was spent mostly in the kitchen. Made everything bagels, cream cheese, and chicken and tomato stew, plus micro-brined lamb chops and roasted them with potatoes, zucchini, and okra. No photos yet because I am exhaustedddd

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seriously, go home, typhoon, you are DRUNK

Typhoon 24 taking the craziest loop around Okinawa, clearly had too much awamori

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Went to Lopia for the first time since the going to the grand opening. No line, which was awesome, but also no feta cheese (which was on sale for ¥600 during the grand opening!). Did snag some thick lamb chops, real bacon, and a few other things, though.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Went to see Mother’s Instinct (or 隣人 as Japan as retitled it). Loved how they played up the suspense with tight shots. The costumes were also so delightful, esp. Jessica Chastain’s wardrobe.

Film poster for Mother’s Instinct ft. Anne Hathaway in a blue, short sleeve dress, and Jessica Chastain in a teal, sleeveless dress.

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📢 Japan peeps 🚨 Tomorrow is the last day to submit a comment about proposed changes to permanent residency requirements 🚨 If you have feelings, stories, stats, etc. let them know 🙌🏻

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This whole series is wonderful and I hope it doesn’t end

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And Tim Curry is too charismatic and sexy, literally charms the pants off EVERYONE and that’s the energy I want to have going forward

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Also young Susan Sarandon is just so beautiful as the young ingenue

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watched Rocky Horror on the weekend and wow, if I had seen this in my more formative years, I could have been the greatest drama kid EVER. Always feel like I missed out on that because I was far too shy and had the self esteem of a blueberry muffin

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Kezrek Laczin @kezrek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Are we in space? Are we in water? Are we peering through a window of time, to the late Triassic, watching a plesiosaur eat the sun? ~Yes~ (posca markers on scrap wood)

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Been intermittently icing it and using Tiger Balm, also did some good stretches. Hoping it gets better without getting by worse.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My back, which hasn’t been acting up for awhile thanks to yoga and exercise, is back at it again 😣 I have no idea why, but it just decided “hey, how about low-key pain all the time for no reason?”

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

hell yeah

Put simply, translators must not cede a single inch of ground to machine translation. Translation is an art, not a merely utilitarian tool or necessary evil, and as such it is filled with choice and interpretation and subjectivity and craft and all the other things that make us human. AI-produced versions are not “translating” in any meaningful way so much as stealing and repackaging past human work, all while contributing to the false notion that objective translation is possible. What makes translation interesting is the human choice that has gone into it, and I do not want to spend one moment of my precious human life contemplating the “choices” an LLM has made – perhaps, if they are truly intelligent, they will one day make their own art for each other.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Yayoi Kusama, all over the last two days is so dang ROUGH

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荒木健太郎 @arakencloud.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

冠水時は絶対に水に入らないでください。ニュースなどで冠水したところを歩いて渡って避難するような映像が取り上げられがちですが、冠水時の避難は足元が見えない上に下水も溢れるので非常に汚れていて感染症の危険があります。本当に危険なのでやむを得ない場合を除き絶対にやめてください。

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today was my birthday. I was interpreting at kagura tonight and the lovely people I work with there bought me this beautiful cake and I’m just 🥺

Rectangle-shaped cake with strawberries, some blueberries, whipped cream, and topped with candles on a green table cloth.

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everything happening affects so many people I know and talking about these changes with Japanese friends has revealed more than one “I’m not racist, BUT (insert xenophobic misinformation here)”. My heart breaks for everyone who faces hard decisions in the fallout.

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