Full Moon, Vol. 1, Omake Manga 1
Baby Castella
This is often sold at food stalls that are set up when there are festivals. It’s a little bigger than a quail’s egg. Regular castella, originally brought over from Portugal, is like a light pound cake, rectangular in shape.
Shio Biifun
Biifun is noodles made of rice flour. Shio Biifun is biifun stir-fried with vegetables, meat, etc. and flavored with shio (= salt).
Jingisukan
(This is the Japanese way of saying Genghis Khan.)
A very popular dish in Hokkaido. You cook lamb or mutton on a helmet-shaped pan put on charcoal, and put vegetables on the rim, so the veggies catch the meat juice.
Nowadays jingisukan is popular as “diet food,” as mutton’s supposed to burn off fat and calories better than other types of meat. So there are Jingisukan places popping up all over Tokyo.
Yami Nabe
This is, uh, more of an event rather than enjoying food. What you do is have each person bring something (better be at least edible, and solid!). You make the room dark, then dump what people brought in the nabe (= pot) with broth in it. The point of making the room dark is so that you don’t know what’s in the nabe. After the stuffs are well boiled, each person then picks something from the nabe, and has to take at least a bite of it, no matter how gross it might be. (-”-)