Linguistics you can taste . In addition to being a way to provide nutrition and spread joy, food is sometimes a way to transmit language too. You don’t have to be fluent in French or Italian, after all, to know what “flambé” or “al dente” mean when you see them on a menu or in a cookbook.
If you’ve been reading SoraNews24 , or simply have spent much time in Japan in the fall, there’s a pretty good chance the word “tsukimi” has creeped into your vernacular consciousness. Coming from the words tsuki (“moon”) and miru (“look at”), tsukimi originally means “moon-viewing.” Since a raw egg dropped into a bowl of noodles looks a full moon before the heat of the broth cooks it, noodles prepared this way also came to be known as tsukimi-style, and in recent years hamburger restaurants in Japan have started using tsukimi to describe special burgers with fried eggs that they serve for a limited time in autumn , coinciding with the traditional moon-viewing (as in actually looking up at the moon) party season in Japan.
But there’s still more Japanese vocabulary to learn, and more mouthwatering tsukimi burgers to eat, thanks to Japanese fast food chain Lotteria’s Torori Hanjuku Tsukimi Fair and the Wafu Hanjuku Tsukimi Zeppin Cheese Burger . First, let’s unpack the linguistics of the event name. Torori is an adjective used to describe something melty or gooey, but in an enticingly appetizing way.
The cheese on a pizza that’s right out of the oven, or.