Meals

As we recently learned about time, I thought we should learn more vocabulary associated with it, through Meals.

Meal is Gohan ごはん, which is derived from cooked rice (ごはん) because in the olden days, all the Japanese meals consisted of rice.

So, when they wanted to say breakfast for instance, they just added the time of day with rice:

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Morning + Meal/Rice =  Breakfast

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But there are other ways to say each meal. We can learn more through the illustrations below:

Let us list the food on the breakfast table:

Tea = こうちゃ

Coffee = コーヒー

Orange Juice = オレンジ ジュース

Egg = たまご (Omelette is オムレツ)

Bread = パン (Toast is トースト)

Pancake = パンケーキ
Maple Syrup = メープル シロップ

Porridge = おかゆ (Oatmeal is オートミール and Oat Porridge is オート の おかゆ)

Cereal = こくもつ or シリアル

Milk = ぎゅうにゅう or ミルク

Food on the lunch table:

Steak = ステーキ
Mashed Potatoes = マッシュ ポテト (Potato is じゃがいも)
Gravy Sauce = グレービー ソース
Rice = ごはん (Uncooked Rice is こめ)
Water = みず

Food on the lunch table:

Soup = スープ

Hmm...I probably should've drawn more things for us to learn, oh well, maybe in the future.

Most of the vocabulary for food is quite easy since it's western and therefore would be in Katakana.

Before I end this post, let us learn a few other meals:

Snack = スナック
Tea Time =  ティータイム or おやつ