# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

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**Category:** Reading\
**Created:** [December 28, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948 "2021-12-28T08:51:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/979 "2022-01-27T16:58:44Z")

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**Tanuki Scroll XXVII:** [中華まんレシピ](https://www.nisshin.com/entertainment/komugiko_club/chukaman/) 🥟

Today I succumbed to the urge and looked up a dumpling recipe. It’s a few days later from super dumpling day but that’s okay because dumplings are meant to be enjoyed all day, every day. 🥟

It seems this too, as with the mochi, leads to disappointment as I do not have the necessary equipment, I have neither a bamboo steamer, or a regular steamer… but this could be resolved if I were to buy one. Perhaps it is worth the investment, since bamboo steamer = unlimited dumplings, and unlimited dumplings = unlimited happiness 🤔

Regardless there’s a lot of good words here, there’s a video too for listening practice and for making you hungry.

**☆ Learnings ☆**

> **Food Words**
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> **日清** 「にっしん」ー This is the company name: Nisshin. But it is also a historical term, meaning Japan and Qing (Dynasty) China.  
> **薄力粉** 「はくりきこ」ー Pastry Flour / Cake Flour  
> **餡** 「あん」ー Red Bean Paste; can also mean filling (for a dumpling eg) (I feel I really should have seen this before now)  
> **白菜** 「はくさい」ー Napa Cabbage / Chinese Cabbage  
> **しょうが** 「生姜」ー Ginger (the food) (Another word I’m sure I should have come across by now)  
> **長ねぎ** 「ながねぎ」ー Spring Onion / Green Onion (uses 本 as counter)  
> **ひき肉** 「ひきにく」ー Minced Meat  
> **ごま油** 「ごまあぶら」ー Sesame Oil  
> **大さじ** 「おおさじ」ー Tablespoon  
> **小さじ** 「こさじ」ー Teaspoon  
> **せいろ** 「蒸籠」ー Bamboo Steamer  
> **蒸し器** 「むしき」ー Regular Steamer  
> **まな板** 「まないた」ー Chopping Board  
> **耳たぶ** 「みみたぶ」ー Earlobe  
> The recipe states: 耳たぶくらいの固さになるよう水分を調整してください, to make something as “hard as an earlobe” sounds a bit weird, but I guess it makes sense  
> **こねる** 「捏ねる」ー To knead  
> **下準備** 「したじゅんび」ー Preliminary arrangements; Preparation
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> **Japanglish Words**  
> **ベーキングパウダー** ー Baking Powder  
> **ドライイースト** ー Dry Yeast  
> **ラード** ー Lard  
> **スケッパー** ー Dough scraper  
> **グルテン** ー Gluten  
> **ベンチタイム** ー Bench time; Rest time; Take a break  
> **クッキングシート** ー Parchment Paper; Baking Paper
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> **New Meanings**  
> **生地** 「きじ」ー Dough; batter (Only knew as cloth before)  
> **下ろす** 「おろす」ー To grate, as in cheese (looking at the list, this word has a lot of meanings)  
> **塗す** 「まぶす」ー To sprinkle with

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> [@liveunderwater](#):
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> Had to say さようなら猫姫様 to my little lady cat yesterday.

So sorry to hear about this 😿

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> [@Daisoujou](#):
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> I do have two little omamori that I ordered from a shrine

These are really pretty!! I love the white & gold one!

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