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Originally Posted by SSJup81
IMO, I think it all depends on what you specifically need. You might can find a good alternative for said products you would get back in your home country. In my case, I don't import anything, 'cept for hair-related stuff since I'm "African-American" and have my hair braided. I might get a food from home every once in a while (my aunt sent me some grits. lol), but that's about it. My folks are sending me certain seasonings I can't seem to find here, and I miss my Wishbone Italian dressing. I just can't find any here (yet) that tastes as good to me as that...yet. So, yeah. I like using that particular dressing for pasta salads. Everything else I put in it I can find here.
Edit: Oh, forgot to mention that I do get deodorant and lotion from home. I have very dry skin, so Japanese lotion doesn't do anything for me.
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i am also partial to wishbone. good for pretty much anything. i've even used it on a sandwich
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Originally Posted by Columbine
Not sure what you mean by 'english curry', but curry is dead easy to make in Japan with a little investment in some spices.
Your average curry-from-scratch is simply
meat,
onion (diced)
chili (chopped)
garlic (crushed)
other veg (diced)
tomato paste
and maybe lentils or something for bulk.
if you take yourself off to the su-pa and hunt around you can usually get enough to make up a garam masala; cumin, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon, black pepper, cloves, coriander seed and bay leaves. if powdered, mix up each time you make a curry, if whole-spices you can measure out the proportions and shove it in a jar. Or make up your own dry mix by adding and taking what you like and don't like. You can also make wet spice pastes with the onion etc already incorporated and freeze them in portions.
But seriously, Japan is much better situated for getting hold of fresh spices than the UK is. I have never seen fresh galangal in a british supermarket (that wasn't a specialist). It was frequently on sale in both Sanko and Topworld in Osaka.
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awesome! thanks for the advice!