How to Speak Easy Japanese

Hi All,

I forget to teach you how to read the ingredient. This is very simple.

豚　－BUTA - PORK
牛　－GYUU - BEEF
鶏　－TORI－CHICKEN
肉　－ＮＩＫＵ－ＭＥＡＴ


*Meat here doesnt mean BEEF Meat. It does contain any meat (including pork) so better you ask them first.
Here is how to tell them in japanese. I will write in Japanese and in Roman so that you know how to talk to them.

どちらの食べ物は豚肉が穿いてないですか。
Dochira no Tabemono wa butaniku ga hai te nai de su ka.
Which one of the food here does not contain any pork?

そうですね。こちらは豚肉が穿いています。
Sou desu ne. kochira wa butaniku ga haite imasu.
Okay. This food does contain pork.

もし、良ければ、豚肉にとってもらいませんか。
Moshi, yo kere ba, buta niku ni totte mo rai masen ka?
If you dont mind, can you take out the pork?

豚肉は無しにします。
Buta niku wa nashi ni shi masu.
i dont want any pork in this meal.

Sometimes, they will ask you why you dont eat. So here the Q & A.

なぜ豚肉を食べられませんですか。アルーレギ？
Naze, buta niku o tabe rare masen desu ka? Aru-regi?
Why cant you eat pork? Allergic?

いいえ、イスラーム教　ですが、豚肉はダメですね。
Iie, isuramu kyou desu ga, buta niku ha dame desu ne.
No, I am an Islam, therefore, I cant take pork.

はい、わかりました。ちょっと聞いてみますので、ちょっと待ってくださいませんか。
Hai, wa ka ri ma shi ta.Chotto kiite mimasu no de, chotto matte kudasai masen ka?
Okay, understand. I would need to ask them, could you able to wait for the moment?

豚肉だけですか。他のは大丈夫ですか。
Buta niku dake desu ka? hoka no ha daijyoubu desu ka?
Only pork right? others is okay?

if you doesnt want to take any meat at all, just say this.

私はお肉が食べられないですが、どちらの食べ物はお肉が穿いてませんか。
Watashi wa o-niku ga tabe rare nai desu ga, dochira no tabe mono ha o niku ha haite imasen ka?
I cant eat any kind of meat, which of the food here doesnt contain any meat at all?

So, good luck with your japanese speaking :)

the word that has been  U  is the word that you dont need to pronounce. Instead of DE- SU, make it as DES. Later :)

Halal Food in Japan Part 2

Hey! I am back! Here is the part 2 - Where to buy Halal Food.

If you stay longer in Japan, you may want to buy halal food to cook it yourself. I usually go ShinOkubo to buy my halal stock meat. You can find most of the things to cook such as lamb, chicken, beef, tamarine, kunyit, serai and other stuff there. It is run by Pakistani.

How to get there?

Take Yamanote Line heading to Shinjuku and take Shin Okubo station. When you go out from ShinOkubo, find a shop call Matsumoto. Make sure Matsumoto shop is on your right and turn right. Just walk around 5-10meter (sorry, my math isnt good) the shop is located on your left hand side. In front of the shop you can see KPop Shop. (No connection but easier for you to see the shop). Its very small but many things are there.

before I forget, the earlier post of Part 1 I did mention about Halal Shop. Most of them will sell beer and alcohol as one of the shop requirements. This is because if they didnt sell that, its hard to make good money because they not only targeting Malays/ Muslims, they also targetting Japanese and other religions to taste their food.

http://mall.azhar.jp/oc/ <-- this is the link for you to buy online for at least 1-3months stock.

http://islamcenter.or.jp/eng/halalfood.html here is the list where you can buy the halal stock.

http://www.bento.com/r-indian.html - Indian Restaurants all over Tokyo

http://www.halalthailand.com/eng/content.php?page=content&category=14&id=123 - Halal guidance.

taken from http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+37962



if u are muslim and want to eat halal for religious reasons, you could always eat seafood. I lived in Seoul(south korea) for a while and its almost impossible to find cheap halal food, almost every muslim who sells you halal food does it for the money and tricks u for it. so my advice is just say ''bismillah'' and eat anything(except pork of course) and always remember that '' al-din yusr'' which is translated to '' religion is simple'' its a blessing and not a bother. ramadan kareem everyone


What has been said by this writer is actually true. They sometimes do it for Money so its usually very expensive. You can eat Soba or Udon (just ask for only vegetarian or Tempura Soba or Udon) its only cost you 500-1000yen (if there is a set) but for Halal food, its not like in Malaysia, you buy roti canai and you get curry for free. the Nan its 600yen and the curry sometimes goes up to 1000yen above.If you are not a vegetarian or a seafood eater, better train yourself because it is easier for you to say that you don't consume meat rather than troubling yourself. 
My advice is you shall try all Japanese food while you were in Japan because the taste is tastier in Japan. 
There is a shop call Standing Sushi Bar in Kojimachi Station (Yurakucho Line of Tokyo metro) exit 2, turn to your left after you see a statue boy, walk around 50meter and you can find the shop on your left handside. (blue signboard next to an Indian shop). The Sushi here is delicious!!! Ask for Aburi Engawa with Fon-gu, it is totally HEAVEN!! 
You can also search for Sushi Zanmai, there are everywhere but Sushi Zanmai in Malaysia is not the same branch in Tokyo. I asked them, they dont even know there is such place in Malaysia but I asked the staff, not the owner. So I am not really sure if they are connected to each other. Sushi Zanmai is expensive here, because one sushi (usually we get 2 at one price right) but there, one piece is over 95yen above but Standing Sushi at Kojimachi, 1 biji is 75yen, so cheaper. 
Therefore, I am out from here. 

Halal Food in Japan Part 1

Hello! Its almost time for me to leave this beautiful country. Seriously, I dont want to go back but I have some other responsibilities in Malaysia, so here I am giving you tips about restaurant in Japan.

In Japan, everywhere you go there must have pork in the food but not all. Those who are not really strict with religion, I am suggesting you these food but please remember what I have teach for you to speak Japanese to ask if there is any pork in the ingredient. To be easy, just say you are vegetarian or you can only eat seafood and vegetarian. No meat. Click HERE to see how to speak/tell them that you cant eat pork

http://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/pdf/routemap_en.pdf

Above is the map for you to check where you shall go.If you are staying for longer period, I suggest you to get the PASSMO card or SUICA card for the Tokyo Metro. If you have this card, you can reload 1000Yen, 2000Yen, 5000Yen, 10,000Yen. (RM40, RM80, RM200, RM400). You dont need to buy the ticket if you have these PASSMO card.

Okay now, I want to tell you where is the best place to eat for Halal Food. First, I would like to introduce Malay Kampung. The owner of the Shop is Shin. He is from Ipoh. The food there excellent. I have tried Nasi Ayam, Nasi Goreng and also Teh tarik makes you feel like home.



Take Hatchobori (Hibiya Line of Tokyo Metro) Exit A5 then you walk straight till you see Docomo Shop. Then turn left and go straight till you see Family Mart. Go behind family mart and walk 20meter and you see on right Malay kampung on 1st Floor. 〒104-0032 Chuo-ku, Tokyo森田ビル2F 1-4-8 Hatchobori
+81-3-3537-6690 - 
Call Shin if you cant find the shop, he can help you to guide. He can speak English and Malay because he is Chinese Malaysian but he have Japanese slang hehe. So cute.

Another shop called Malay-Chan. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/japan/tokyo/restaurants/malaysian/malaychan

You can find the map at the link for you to go there. I never eaten there but my husband ate Nasi goreng belacan and it was delicious. Its spicy too.

Another shop call Siddique. http://vege-navi.jp/?.79.2. You can find it here. The Cheese Nan and Chicken Tandoori IS SUPERB. Another shop is located at Suehirocho (Ginza Line - Tokyo metro) take the exit and just walk through Akihabara. The shop is small but you can see it there. They also have nearby the Indian Embassy in Ichigaya area. 3 stories of shop. Check it out there.

Therefore, I shall end this Part 1. I shall go to part 2 where to buy Halal Food.

Public Transport & Traffic Jam

Yesterday, after watching the Sakura at the nearest park from my work, I suddenly have some thoughts about Public Transports and Traffic Jam in Malaysia. every single day in twitter, I always saw people complaining about these two freaking problem. I just raising opinions here. Like it or not, not my problem. Its our people's problem. 

Yesterday, after conversations with my friends from Europe and Japanese, I feel so damn unlucky. I was wondering, why I dont have that much of money to go travel all around the world just like them. Then after few things I make a research, I found out that in Europe, people dont use car just to go to work (unless it is very far away). same here in Japan. I only see people use cars when they need to go travel far and if they have many places to go in one day. if not, they will only use the trains. 

For using the train, I do think it could save alot of money. For example, they can use rm400 (10,000Yen) for a month to get the One month ticket passes to go all over Metro line, JR line and Toei line or other line. So they save up on petrol already. The train is so convenience sometimes the longest time they take maybe 15-25mins (during weekends). At least they only use the car maybe once a month so that the use of petrol will be lesser. Not to condemn the petrol business but we can safe a lot with public transport. 

Why not government or oppositions who keep on thinking how to bang each other head, why not you bang each other head by thinking "How shall we improve our public transport and traffic jam in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor?". No harm to think this kind of thing rather than to think about how to "kill" DSAI, how to "kill" Najib and bla bla. I dont even see the benefits of that to our people. Both talk shit, thats all i know. 

First of all, the solutions. Why not make more public transport to all over KL and Selangor? Even in Pendalaman? you dont need to ruin all the trees and the kampung area, you just need to improve the area. In Japan, they still have trees and lake and whatever but still, they have public transport. This means trains. Once you have all the trains, then you can upgrade the bus. if you have more busses and less train, it does not help too as traffic jam will make people will not be interested to get the bus as their alternative.

Once you get the trains moving (dont tell me KTM is good enough- heard THOUSANDS OF COMPLAINT about it already). Putting extra coach for? No use if the train doesnt connect to other ERL and Monorail or LRT or STAR. and please, stop thinking to only put the LRT and trains only at the TOURIST SPOT. Sometimes tourist even complain and get a rental car for them to drive anywhere. You have to do this for RAKYAT not for TOURIST. I Repeat RAKYAT NOT TOURIST. 

I have so many things I want to say, but for the moment, let me keep this for me first. Talk to you guys again soon. 

Perkahwinan dan Cinta?

Dalam kehidupan kita yang serba ada, kita memerlukan cinta dalam diri kita, Tidak kiralah cinta kepada Allah, kepada teman, kekasih atau haiwan. Cinta itu memerlukan segalanya. Pengorbanan, perkongsian, kejujuran, kesetiaan, komunikasi dan rasa tanggungjawab. Banyak yang kita dengar, cinta yang tidak merangkumi segalanya. Kadangkala, kehidupan suami isteri kesunyian kerana hilang komunikasi antara mereka, pengorbanan yang dilakukan tidak kelihatan dan kejujuran disangka buruk, kesetiaan disangka curang dan hilang tanggungjawab.

Sebagai contoh, sebelum bernikah, kehidupan bagai berada di syurga. Segalanya bersama. Dikongsi, jujur dan setia, komunikasi sentiasa dan sentiasa mengambil berat atas pasangan masing-masing dan sanggup mengorbankan segalanya semata-mata untuk kepuasan diri dan harap dihargai.

Setelah diijab kabul, tahun pertama, kedua masih dalam kegembiraan. Setelah beranak 2-3, makin tunggang langgang. kesalahan kecil menjadi besar. Tingkah laku yang loving dan caring menjadi ganas. Curang berlaku. Tidak kira, lelaki atau perempuan. keduanya sama. Hendak disalahkan lelaki, perempuan juga yang selalu memulakan (pihak ketiga). hendak disalahkan perempuan, lelaki pun sama. masakan pokok bergoyang jika tiada angin yang bertiup.

Cthnya, lelaki di dalam kesedihan kerana sering bergaduh atas sebab tidak tahan dengan isteri/pasangan. Sepatutnya mencari sahabat sesama kaum yang bisa menenangkan fikiran kita, yang sepatutnya bisa memberi nasihat untuk cuba berbaik dengan isteri/pasangan. Bukan mencari yang kaum bertentangan, lebih-lebih lagi kaum yang bisa menggoncang dunia, HAWA. Sekali cerita, menjadi kasihan. dua kali cerita, menjadi simpati, kali ketiga, menjadi ambil berat, kali keempat, menjadi kekasih. Ini kerana hati seorang wanita cepat tersentuh dengan kesedihan dan lelaki gemarkan perhatian dari kaum lain.

Pernah terjadi, seorang wanita menangis kerana suaminya mencari wanita lain untuk dijadikan teman berbicara tetapi masih terngiang2 di telinga sebelum mereka diijabkabul, si suami pernah berjanji "sesungguhnya, kamulah teman bicara, teman sehati, teman gembira duka, abang janji takkan sia-siakan kamu," tetapi, apabila bermasalah dengan isterinya, dia terus melupakan segalanya dan bila diungkit, "kamulah yang memulakannya".

pernah juga, seorang lelaki menjatuhkan egonya kerana wanita. Wanita itu mencari lelaki lain utk bercerita masalah dan sering mengaku "sy tidak faham lelaki" atau "lelaki hanya mengikut kata mereka, tidak kami", akhirnya lelaki lain mengambil kesempatan ke atas wanita itu kerana simpatinya. Ada juga yang sanggup memaafkan isterinya/pasangan kerana curang. Bila ditanya, si suami mengatakan "Itu salah aku sendiri kerana tidak berjaya mendidik isteriku ke syurga." atau " itu kerana aku telah gagal membentuk keluargaku". Wanita juga mengatakan "lelaki lain lebih memahami jiwaku darimu kerna itu aku curang" tetapi apabila berkahwin, kadangkala, mereka lagi teruk dari suami kita.

Lagi, seorang wanita yang disayangi suaminya tiba-tiba mendapat tahu suaminya diminati perempuan lain kerana kebaikannya ke atas isterinya. Suaminya yang melayan wanita kedua itu bagai adik, dalam dilemma. Wanita itu bagaikan racun ke atas perkahwinan pertamanya. Namun, direlakan tetapi yang kedua buatkan dirinya dipinggir kerana shihir..Suami yang baik, menjadi hilang tanggungjawab terhadap isteri pertama.

Suami sibuk dengan pekerjaan, isteri harus memahami keadaan. Suami mencari wang untuk kebahagiaan bersama. Tapi selalunya si suami mengambil kesempatan atas keadaan dengan mencari wanita lain untuk keseronokan dimana isteri dirumah setia menanti. Kadangkala, si isteri juga terlalu sibuk mencari wang, hingga lupa tanggungjawab sebagai isteri kepada suami. Temanku, pernah kesunyian kerana suami senantiasa ke luar negara atas urusan kerja, tanpa disedari, suami telah bernikah dengan perempuan lain.

kadangkala, mengapa suami mencari wanita lain - kerna isterinya MasyaAllah, garang melampau. Queen Control. Hinggakan si suami tunduk atas kehendak isteri. Segala kemahuan harus dituruti. Nasihat sikit, dimarahnya bagaikan syurga itu dibawah kakinya. Kadangkala, si suami terlalu mengongkong dan sering menggunakan ayat yang paling dibenci oleh kaum wanita dimana ketika inilah segalanya tentang agama dipertikaikan, "Aku lelaki, aku ada hak untuk kemana sahaja tanpa pengetahuanmu!" atau "Aku ketua di rumah ini, kau tiada hak untuk menghalang aku dari melakukan apa sahaja!" tetapi sedarkah dia? Dia berzina, berjudi dan menjahanamkan diri tidakkah berdosa? Jika masih lagi menggunakan ayat "aku lelaki dan aku berhak!" carikanlah jalan untuk sedarkan dia... Sedangkan Nabi Muhammad s.a.w tidak pernah berkata "Aku lelaki dan aku berhak untuk lakukan apa sahaja".

zaman dahulu, lelakilah yang harus mencari nafkah. hingga sekarang masih wajib bagi seorang lelaki mencari nafkah. Tetapi malangnya, ramai laki-laki yang mensia-sia-kan kaum wanita dengan membiarkan isterinya mencari nafkah menampung hidupnya dimana dia menghabiskan wang untuk sia-sia. pernah juga terjadi, seorang suami yang bergantung atas isteri mencari wanita lain atas alasan isteri tidak pandai menjaga suami kerna pentingkan pekerjaan dari nafkah. Bila pecah tembelang, isterinya dipukul dan sanggup dia melakukan zina untuk menyakitkan hati isterinya. lebih-lebih lagi isterinya yang menanggungnya.

pendek kata, cinta memerlukan pengorbanan. pengorbanan yang sangat kuat. Contohnya, seorang wanita menyukai seorang laki-laki tapi laki itu tidak punya harta hanya budi bicara. Harta dunia bisa dicari, dikejar. tetapi harta akhirat, hanya tuhan yang bisa memberi. Carilah yang sedap mata memandang, baik dari segala segi dan sekurang-kurangnya tidak malas. Sesama kita nasihat-menasihati.  Kehidupan itu Indah dengan Cinta.