Nice lesson…but I think you gave everyone Spanish and Italian a heart attack saying paella is like risotto! With risotto you add a lot of broth to the rice, but little by little, to make a much creamier consistency - closer to zousui. With Paella you use less liquid, and it all goes in at the beginning, which makes the rice drier and looser. They’re really different.

I love them both, but Paella is too much work. Risotto is easier…

oh man, you guys are making me hungry!
会社の辺においしいスペイン料理屋さんがあるけど、ちょっと高いです。残念ながら…

I’m not sure how that reading got into Japanese.

probably has something to do with kanji being imported in the 500’s and japanese having less sounds than chinese
look at the mess katakana words are… at least they understand the meaning from the kanji. heheheh.

tonight i had 印度料理
i ate so much ナン that i think my 腹 is about to explode…..

Javizyさん、you just read my mind!
a ほど lesson is already in the works as of this afternoon!!!

i’m off to bed now! zzzzzzzzz

My daughter was a violist in the Valencia Opera House Orchestra last year, but is now back in New York teaching music at the Harlem elementary school made famous in the movie “Music of the Heart” with Meryl Streep. One of the factors in her decision was . . . Spanish food. She loved the taste, but レストランで食べるときにいつもおなかが壊したそうです。My wife had the same experience when she visited her there. It seems that the Japanese digestive tract just doesn’t get along with that much olive oil. Or maybe it was something else, I don’t know. Since the Spanish are really late night people, the the opera performances would go from about 8 PM until about midnight (with two intermissions) , and then she would have to go home and still cook her own dinner. Being a morning person by nature, this just wreaked havoc with her body clock.

Maybe the Spanish restaurants in Japan adjust their cooking for Japanese tastes. And by the way, for those of you on the JPod staff, we have one right next to Meguro station. Casa de Fujimori http://www.casa-de-fujimori.co.jp