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[Lasher]

OK Folks here is how my wife and I translated this. It's the proper translation of this recipe, almost the same but .. its cleary not what the other person had posted.
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Thank you for checking us out! We are introducing this weeks tasty one dish. Make sure you eat it cold!

Skinless chicken breast Cut in half 2 pieces
Soumen Noodles 10 oz
Watercress Julien 1/2 cup
Radish Sliced thin 1/2 Cup
Shitake 1/2 Cup
Chicken Broth 1/3 Cup
Sake 2 Large Tablespoons
Sugar 1 small teaspoon
Kaitei no mitsu 1 pinch
(Bottom of the Sea Nectar/Honey)

In a small sauce pan, stir together 1/3 cup water, chicken stock, sake and sugar
Bring to a boil then chill until cold. Grill chicken brast 8 min on both sides then also chill
Boil the soumen for 3 min and leave in cold water untill chilled
Spead watercress shitake and radish around the soumen. Slice the chicken breast thin and fan ontop of the soumen
add the bottom of the sea honey into the sauce before serving
Pour the sauce generously.

Go go Delicious chef!
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As you can see the main point in here is the last ingrdients translation, that kanji is definitely NOT Crab. It's Nectar/Honey. It's a little tricky to translate the last kanji there because it has no direct translation in english.

The closest you can get would be Hachi mitsu or Bee Nectar 蜂蜜 You can say amost the same thing with a flower. Flowers have nectar or mitsu but when the bee takes it it becomes Hachimitsu

Kani / Crab
蟹
Nectar / Honey
蜜

If you can't read the character properly you may need to install the other languages on your system. But here is a Pic to help. even if you can't read kanji you can clearly see the symbols are different.



On another note, this was clearly a not a native Japanese speaker who made this recipe pic. Japanese do not use the words ounces or sauce pans and rarely use Cup as a measurement, it's always cc and grams. Also take a look at the Jar thats closest in the pick. I can't be absolutely certain but those look like the same ingredients you drop into Slusho.

[Melampus]

[Duckie]

Yay Lasher! I'm not Japanese expert, and it took me a couple of double takes to make sure it wasn't crab, but it's definitely the honey kanji (I guess the little "hat" is the giveaway)

[Lasher]

I updated my post just now to make it easier for people who may not have the characters installed. I used a pic for everyone to see. thanks guys

[Kingpin]

Makes you wonder what may be in store in the next few weeks, could be for the moment we're viewing this out of context, a context which will be established if there's a picture next week.

I don't know if that is the case, but I'm interested in seeing what might appear now that the 1-18-08 page updates have started again.

[Lasher]

[Duckie]

And don't forget, according to slusho.com, the ingredient must be kept cold the entire time to preserve freshness, which is why this is a cool-noodle meal.

Interesting, though. In the cloverfield universe, its NOT just slusho that uses the ingredient found by Ganu. Its people all over Japan.
This challenges a lot of theories that the drink itself is important (i.e. something happens only to characters that drink it), since the ingredient is apparently waaaay more common and, thus, likely to be ingested.

[Red Walrus]

Thanks Lasher.

It sounds like the secrect ingredient - why can't it be used in other things.


The way it was stressed to keep it cold it makes sense--
Because the ingredient was discovered on the deep
ocean floor, under amazing pressure and in the most extreme cold, Ganu
knew he had to serve the ingredient in a near-frozen state to preserve its
freshness!!


And one fateful day, he and his teammates discovered a deep sea ingredient
unique to anything else!!!! While the team pondered miraculous ways to use it,

[Melampus]

if the deap-sea ingredient (we gotta get an abbreviation for that... anyone?) becomes wildly popular in various uses, w/Slusho just being 1 of them, then the theory about the harvesting of this deap-sea ingredient screwing up Bloop's food-supply becomes more plausible. I like that theory, btw - it's got a ring of realism to it that fits with the whole style of the movie.

Speaking of which, gene-splicing, radiation, etc., these are all hackneyed plot devices for monster movies - if it's going to be hyper-realistic, the plot should be something like: "it's a species that's always been around in the deep, deep oceans and we just didn't know about it until now; and, we only know about it now because someone [i.e., Slusho/Noriko/Ganu] upset/woke it, and after a brief reign of mindless, fish-out-of-water havoc, which was to say the least unfortunate for the citizens of NYC, we killed it [or, it just swam away]. Huh... go figure. Anyway, pass the tartar sauce..." That's as 'realistic' as a monster-movie could be.

I dunno, though - I wouldn't be surprised if the Dharma group is somehow behind this.

[ajaw]

okonomiyake

[i_c_weiner]

First, thanks much, Lasher. The nectar/DSI (deep sea ingredient) makes more sense than deep sea crabs with this recipe. The DSI being in the recipe is very intriguing, making it so that Slusho!'s secret ingredient isn't actually a secret ingredient at all, thus ending the speculation that Slusho! caused the attack.


Melampus, three reactions on what you said:
(1) Over"mining" of the DSI does sound like a cause for the awakening of a monster, and has capitalist overtones that are "more American".
(2) If they want to make this into a series of films, this storyline has advantages. The monster just woke up, he decides to attack a city. It happens. Then, in the next movie, a rival monster awakens/comes to Earth, and The Monster has an epic battle with it in the style of Cloverfield
(ARG, camcorders)
And, for the one I think is the most thought provoking, (3) doesn't the storyline you posted sound a bit like that of a certain creature from R'lyeh?


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[Euchre]

[Euchre]

[O0O]

Really strange how all the recipes instructions are detailed except for what to do with the crab...they just chuck it into the sauce.

If you are to add "one crab", you should have to peel/chop it right?

[rjharris1960]

It's obvious, the monster is a giant mutated crab, duh!!