1 Minute Japanese: Proverbs about Food

Three Japanese proverbs about food:
Hana yori dango - Food over Flowers
E ni Kaita Mochi - Can't eat a painted cake
Bushi wa kuwanedo taka youji - Even if a samurai hasn't eaten he holds his toothpick high.

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[VTPPGLVR]

wow. that... last one kinda threw me off... :) :aint ashamed to admit she had to rewind a few times to get it:

I <3 your vids! Is this you talking (like with the DS) or are these tapes you've accquired?

[thejapanshop]

Hi! I do all the English narration and my wife does the Japanese.

[zenhill]

wow, very well done, im a subscriber

[thejapanshop]

Thanks! I appreciate that. :)

[thejapanshop]

Thanks!

[anne730405]

The samurai one means that even when you are poor, you still act as if you are rich just like if a samurai will pretend that he ate a feast (holding the toothpick high) even if he actually didn't. The rice cake proverb is that no matter how good fantasy or dream is (how good a drawn rice cake looks), it is not real or not as good as a real version.

[satsugekibukouken]

the dango looks good

[teas781]

The similar meaning in other phrase.

"鷹は　飢えても [死すとも] 穂を摘まず"

taka wa ue-temo [shisu-tomo] ho wo tsumazu

= Even if the hawk starves [is dying], he doesn't pick up an ear of rice (unlike a sparrow or a crow).

= the noble-minded person controls himself (keeps his mind) not to do wrong thing, when if in hardships.

(my English is not perfect)

[XF0N]

dango daikazoku :)

[josiescookies17]

@ThePuppetMuffin He does kinda ha

[josiescookies17]

I WANT THAT DANGO!!!!

[ThePuppetMuffin]

Duuude You sound like Kakashi from naruto xD

Love it Lool

[Tenshionnanoko128]

Hanami rice dumplings <3

[Lalarizu]

@36Melli36 I don't know if this is right. I used google translate.

Selbst wenn ein Samurai nicht gegessen hat, hält er seinen Zahnstocher hoch.

[mspap123]

~dango, Daikazoku~

Thumbs up if Clannad got you here

[36Melli36]

gomenasai, i'm german and i can't english so good, can anybody say me the sentence "even when a samurai hasn't eaten, he holds his toothpick high" in german?? arigato ;D