英会話タイムトライアル
2026.6.12 D10
S: Tell us about your hometown.
Y: OK, I will tell you about my hometown. It’s a very lively city, just like Tokyo. So I feel at home in Tokyo.
Y: Tell me a Japanese food that you learn to like.
S: Oh, that’s easy. I have one food that I learned to like.
Y: OK, what’s that?
S: Uni. (Oh.) English uni is sea urchin. (Urchin, yeah.) The word sea urchin doesn’t sound delicious. (Yeah, true.) And I thought, how do you eat it? (True.) But I learned to like uni.
Y: OK, how did you learn to like it?
S: I had uni pasta or uni spaghetti. I learned to like it because I didn’t eat it alone. (OK.) If you don’t like a food, don’t eat it alone. Eat it with something.
Y: Oh, that’s a good way to learn to like something. So now you don’t eat uni with pasta.
S: Oh, 👂but I have uni 👂as sushi all the time. How about you, Yoon? Tell me about a Japanese food that you learned to like.
Y: OK, so, um, I’m going to say natto.
S: Ah! You learn to like natto?
Y: I learned to like natto.
S: How did you learn to like it?
Y: At first, I couldn’t stand it because of the smell. (I see, because of the smell.)
Y: So I needed something else, just like you, Steve.
S: Oh, you ate natto with something else? (Yes.) That’s how you learn to like it? (Yes.) What did you eat natto with?
Y: Actually, I made it natto chahan, natto fried rice.
S: Oh, you had natto fried rice.
Y: Yes. Oh, boy, and that was delicious. (I see.)
Y: Do you ever have natto?
S: Ah, no. I have not climbed the natto mountain. Ha-ha.
Y: So, that is the Japanese food that you still don’t like.
S: That’s right. Are there any Japanese food that you still don’t like?
Y: Actually, no. I’ve climbed all the Japanese food mountains.
S: All the mountains! Like which ones?
Y: The natto mountain, the tsukemono mountain, (Um-hum.) the sashimi mountain, the hijiki mountain, mozuku mountain. I have climbed them all.
S: You have climbed all the mountains of Japanese cuisine. (Yes.)
Y: OK, tell me about a food that you learned to like.
-I learned to like green peppers. I didn’t like that vegetable, but I love them now.
Y: Oh, you learn to like the food. I see. How did you learn to like it?
-I had green peppers with 👂hamburger meat. Now it’s one of my favorite dishes, actually.
Y: That’s good. Are there any foods that you still don’t like?
-Actually, there are are foods that I still don’t like. I don’t like octopus or squid. In Japanese, they say tako and ika. I still don’t like those foods.
Y: OK, I’m hungry. How about you?
-I’m hungry too.
Y: Thanks for answering my questions.
-Sure. My pleasure.