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Glittering Crux Masque at 03:46, 20 November 2022

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Pink Moon Stick: thank you!!

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thank you!!

SwordPerson: Karumeyaki go!

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Karumeyaki go!

Pink Moon Stick: realphabetizing

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realphabetizing

Mesarthim at 08:47, 30 September 2018

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East of the moon at 00:08, 30 September 2018

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East of the moon at 00:06, 30 September 2018

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Glittering Crux Masque at 23:51, 29 September 2018

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Glittering Crux Masque at 23:48, 29 September 2018

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Glittering Crux Masque at 23:40, 29 September 2018

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 * [[Kozue Kaoru|Kozue Kaoru’s]] favorite foods are the '''Milk Shake''' and '''Cake'''.  She will never admit it though, because she likens those things to this nostalgic sweetness invoked by the memories of the most important people in her life.  Part of growing up she feels is pretending she doesn’t like these childhood treats.   All the same, whenever her twin Miki invites her out to a small bakery on Southern Cross Island, it’s rare that she refuses outright.  Instead she complains the whole trip.
 * [[Madoka Kaname|Madoka Kaname's]] favorite food is '''cream stew''', a popular yoshoku dish firmly established as a standard, home-cooked meal.  '''Yoshoku''' ('western food') refers to a uniquely Japanese style of Western-influenced cooking which originated during the Meiji Restoration.  Despite its name, there is no cream in cream stew; it is rather based in béchamel sauce, a white roux, which can be bought in granular packet form in stores.  It's very colorful, with chicken (or sometimes pork), potatoes, carrots, onions and green peas, and its mild taste is especially popular with kids.  It is also called 'white stew', a name which appeared in 1947 when Japanese schools started serving stew with skim milk added to it, to supplement calcium for children to help them recover from lack of nutrition during the war.  Papa Kaname prepares it with homemade chicken stock!
 * [[Marinette Dupain-Cheng|Marinette]] is particularly fond of '''macarons'''.  A French cookie delicately formed from meringue and almond flour, these delicate treats come in a wide variety of flavours and colours.  Marinette is admittedly biased in the source, as her family's bakery makes them frequently.  In addition to being light, sweet, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious, macarons lend themselves well to an artistic flair.  The batter is very easy to colour, and the little puffs can easily be adorned with bits of icing.  Just picture a cute little kitty-cat, or a deceitful hamburger, or a ridiculously elaborate replica of the Discworld - the sky is as ever the limit.
 * [[Mikoto Minagi|Mikoto Minagi's]] favourite food is Mai Tokiha's '''ramen noodles'''! Ramen is a common Japanese dish - wheat noodles, served in broth which is typically meat- or fish-based, with a variety of toppings. Many regions of Japan have their own variation of ramen: Tokyo's own spin on the recipe involves curly noodles and chicken broth with a little dashi, though perhaps Mai's own tendency to use chicken in her ramen is also because chicken is cheaper than some of the other meats in the market. Mai's ramen noodles were Mikoto's introduction to the fact that food could taste /good/ instead of just being plain sustenance, and she is forever grateful to her friend for revealing that there were wonders of taste she had never before experienced. She'll never be able to forget the wonders of that very first meal. Though Mai can make many other more complicated dishes which exhibit her skills as a cook, Mikoto's first choice for dinner is always Mai's ramen. It's never quite the same thing twice - there are always different ingredients on sale, after all!

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 Japanese cuisine is highly seasonal, with many dishes using ingredients only available at the right time. Modern technology has eased this burden, but it is still traditional to eat certain foods at certain times of year.
-''Special thanks to Kuniko Saito's player for contributing the Winter entry of this guide!''
+''Special thanks to Kuniko Saito's player for contributing the Winter entry of this guide!  Special thanks to the playerbase of Battle Fantasia for contributing to the Summer entry of this guide!  And more character (un)favorite foods are always welcome!!''
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 * '''Dango''' -- Dumplings made of rice flour called Mochiko and served on sticks with many regional varieties of the sweet treat(or savory in Gifu where they’re served with soy sauce!).  The Japanese have been eating dango since the Jomon period and how they’re served has evolved over time.  Offerings of dango are made during special festivals to the kami for purification purposes before taking them home and eating them for good luck.  It’s referenced in the odango hairstyle(o- is honorific) which in Japan can be conflated with any variety of bun.  Just watch out calling anyone sporting this kind of hairstyle odango-atama(bun-head or dumpling-head) unless you’re charming enough to get away with it.
 * '''Jaga bata''' means butter potato, and it's pretty much exactly that -- potatoes, steamed in wood ovens, and stuffed with butter, salt, and soy sauce.  It's especially popular to use the smaller 'reject' potatoes for this purpose, turning them into a nearly bite-sized street food, but the paper boats they come in sometimes just have one big potato instead.
-* Karumeyaki
+* '''Karumeyaki''', or grilled caramel, is a mixture of egg whites, sugar (brown or white), baking soda and water. It's similar to French and Italian meringues, and has a taste and texture similar to honeycomb and meringue cookies. It's often sold in Japanese festivals (matsuri), where it can be cooked on portable burners or simply sold in packets. There are other flavors as well, such as coffee or vanilla. Freshly made Karumeyaki ends in a ball with a crispy crust that melts in one's mouth when eaten.
 * '''Castella''' (or kasutera) is a fairly simple sponge cake, made with sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup. Their creation dates back to Portugese merchants in the 16th century, and the modern Japanese castella cake is a specialty of Nagasaki owing to this connection. Full-sized castella can be bought year-round, but the bite-sized '''baby castella''' (bebi kasutera) is a popular festival snack. Besides the plain recipe, there are varieties made with powdered green tea, brown sugar, honey, etc.
 * '''Wata-ame''' or watagashi is cotton candy, usually very similar to the Western version, also known as fairy floss or candy floss in various parts of the world. Sugar which has been melted into a liquid state, and flavorings and/or colorings added, is spun into tiny strands, and gathered on a stick to serve, sometimes covered with a decorative plastic bag (usually adorned with anime or other artwork) for protection until it's eaten. Wata-ame dissolves quickly in contact with water and readily melts again in high heat, so it's not something to save for ''much'' later!

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 * [[Marinette Dupain-Cheng|Marinette]] is particularly fond of '''macarons'''.  A French cookie delicately formed from meringue and almond flour, these delicate treats come in a wide variety of flavours and colours.  Marinette is admittedly biased in the source, as her family's bakery makes them frequently.  In addition to being light, sweet, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious, macarons lend themselves well to an artistic flair.  The batter is very easy to colour, and the little puffs can easily be adorned with bits of icing.  Just picture a cute little kitty-cat, or a deceitful hamburger, or a ridiculously elaborate replica of the Discworld - the sky is as ever the limit.
 * [[Mikoto Minagi|Mikoto Minagi's]] favourite food is Mai Tokiha's '''ramen noodles'''! Ramen is a common Japanese dish - wheat noodles, served in broth which is typically meat- or fish-based, with a variety of toppings. Many regions of Japan have their own variation of ramen: Tokyo's own spin on the recipe involves curly noodles and chicken broth with a little dashi, though perhaps Mai's own tendency to use chicken in her ramen is also because chicken is cheaper than some of the other meats in the market. Mai's ramen noodles were Mikoto's introduction to the fact that food could taste /good/ instead of just being plain sustenance, and she is forever grateful to her friend for revealing that there were wonders of taste she had never before experienced. She'll never be able to forget the wonders of that very first meal. Though Mai can make many other more complicated dishes which exhibit her skills as a cook, Mikoto's first choice for dinner is always Mai's ramen. It's never quite the same thing twice - there are always different ingredients on sale, after all!
 * [[Steven Universe|Steven Universe's]] favorite food will of course always be '''hot dogs'''! A packaged meat in a tubular shape, generally pork, beef or turkey with seasonings, is grilled until plump, then served on a bun with an assortment of condiments and toppings such as diced onions, chili, cheeses, peppers and pickles. They hold great significance besides great flavor, such as fond memories, or recalling the times of Beach City. They even help use alien technology*! Whenever he bites in to one, it all comes back to him in the best way possible.
 * [[Utena Tenjou|Utena Tenjou's]] favorite food is '''rose tea''', especially as prepared at her favorite tea shop on Southern Cross Island, Magnolia Cafe.  There's just something noble about the way it tastes!  Rose is a more popular flavor in Japan than it is in Western cuisine, and there are both green tea and black tea versions (plus a heavily sweetened rose milk tea!).  It is not uncommon to blend a rose tea with sakura flavor as well.
 * [[Westar|Westar's]] favourite Earth food is '''donuts'''.  These sweet treats are made of dough, cut into rings and deep-fried to a crispy puffy perfection.  There are a thousand and one variants on the simple donut, with as many flavours to try as one might imagine.  Common additions to the dough are spices, fruit, or chocolate.  Many donuts, after frying, are subsequently dipped into glaze, coated with icing, or dusted with sugar.  Amid all these choices, though, Westar's preference is for simple and familiar.  An uncoated plain donut, whose ring contains a heart shape as its hole, the hallmark of Kaoru-chan's stand.
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 * [[Madoka Kaname]] claims that her least favorite food is '''inago no tsukudani''', a Japanese dish featuring locusts that are boiled in soy sauce and sugar, but it is a fairly safe bet that she named it as, like, the least offensive possible choice.  It's said this dish originated from famines suffered because of locust swarms; after locusts ate all the crops, there was nothing left to eat but the pests themselves.
 * [[Mikoto Minagi|Mikoto Minagi's]] least favourite food is the '''super spicy curry bun'''. Curry buns, or kare pan, are a popular Japanese snack: curry wrapped in doughnut-like dough which is coated in bread crumbs, and deep-fried or occasionally baked. Toyofuku, in Asakusa Traditional District, claims it's been making its own version - with prime cuts of wagyu beef and handmade panko breadcrumbs - for over a century! While many curry buns are made with relatively mild curry, the super spicy curry bun is a pre-packaged pastry of death, hot enough to keep people awake when they're working long hours. Mikoto happened to steal a pack when she first came down from her mountain home, totally unaccustomed to the fact that spicy food existed. Her heightened senses and complete inexperience with hot food combined to make it a horrible, painful experience, which left her rampaging through the school as a dark blur which led students to talk about the Fire-Mouthed Cat Demon which haunted Ohtori's grounds ever since. On that day, Mikoto learned a painful, awful lesson: ''food can be an enemy, too.'' While Mikoto hates all types of spicy food, she has never forgiven the super spicy curry bun for its transgressions.
 * [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi Tsukino’s]] least favorite food are '''carrots'''.  Usagi in Japanese means bunny or rabbit and as such one might think this is the result of one too many jokes or puns being thrown her way.  That’d only be half-right.  The rest of the truth is that Usagi has a palate that's still a little like a child's and just doesn’t like the taste or the texture of carrots, going so far as to not request them in her curry dishes.  So you read it here first, the bunny on the moon just does not like carrots.
 * [[Utena Tenjou|Utena Tenjou's]] least favorite food is '''sausage'''.
-* [[Nori Ankou|Nori Ankou's]] least favorite dish is '''very sweet things'''. This category does not include all desserts or sweet flavors, but candied fruits or similar treats were not a point of appeal for her. Some of this is that she does not have much of a sweet tooth - but most of it is that her mother, who was to Nori's understanding a lower-upper-class home-maker without strong responsibilities, thanks to the family business, was a dedicated SWEETS HUNTER. Nori would often be brought along to these places and associates sugar and dessert confections, to some extent, with the presence of a distant but controlling maternal figure.
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 * [[Utena Tenjou|Utena Tenjou's]] favorite food is '''rose tea''', especially as prepared at her favorite tea shop on Southern Cross Island, Magnolia Cafe.  There's just something noble about the way it tastes!  Rose is a more popular flavor in Japan than it is in Western cuisine, and there are both green tea and black tea versions (plus a heavily sweetened rose milk tea!).  It is not uncommon to blend a rose tea with sakura flavor as well.
 * [[Westar|Westar's]] favourite Earth food is '''donuts'''.  These sweet treats are made of dough, cut into rings and deep-fried to a crispy puffy perfection.  There are a thousand and one variants on the simple donut, with as many flavours to try as one might imagine.  Common additions to the dough are spices, fruit, or chocolate.  Many donuts, after frying, are subsequently dipped into glaze, coated with icing, or dusted with sugar.  Amid all these choices, though, Westar's preference is for simple and familiar.  An uncoated plain donut, whose ring contains a heart shape as its hole, the hallmark of Kaoru-chan's stand.
-* [[Plagg|Plagg's]] favorite food his cheese.  His most beloved kind is camembert, but he loves any kind of cheese.  Old, string, stinky, cheese sticks, marbled, blue, etc Just set any kind of cheese out and he'll devour it, just be careful you don't lose a finger as a result.
+* [[Plagg|Plagg's]] favorite food is cheese.  His most beloved kind is camembert, but he loves any kind of cheese.  Old, string, stinky, cheese sticks, marbled, blue, etc Just set any kind of cheese out and he'll devour it, just be careful you don't lose a finger as a result.
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 * [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi Tsukino’s]] least favorite food are '''carrots'''.  Usagi in Japanese means bunny or rabbit and as such one might think this is the result of one too many jokes or puns being thrown her way.  That’d only be half-right.  The rest of the truth is that Usagi has a palate that's still a little like a child's and just doesn’t like the taste or the texture of carrots, going so far as to not request them in her curry dishes.  So you read it here first, the bunny on the moon just does not like carrots.
 * [[Utena Tenjou|Utena Tenjou's]] least favorite food is '''sausage'''.
+* [[Nori Ankou|Nori Ankou's]] least favorite dish is '''very sweet things'''. This category does not include all desserts or sweet flavors, but candied fruits or similar treats were not a point of appeal for her. Some of this is that she does not have much of a sweet tooth - but most of it is that her mother, who was to Nori's understanding a lower-upper-class home-maker without strong responsibilities, thanks to the family business, was a dedicated SWEETS HUNTER. Nori would often be brought along to these places and associates sugar and dessert confections, to some extent, with the presence of a distant but controlling maternal figure.
 For more information, please see: [[Holidays and Events]], [[Culture]]
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 ::#Melon collectively devoured after break is made for bonding between friends.
 * '''Kakigori''' is shaved ice covered in flavored syrup like strawberry, lemon, melon, bubblegum, or a variety of other festive flavors, along with actual toppings like mochi, sweetened red beans, fruit slices, or even ice cream. Unlike a snow cone Kakigori is soft, cloud-like, and without much texture. Kakigori is a popular dessert when on the go, and many summer festival food stalls can be found shaving gigantic blocks of ice into this cool, fluffy treat.
-* '''Garigari-kun''' is a particularly popular brand of Japanese ice pop.  At a glance, they are similar enough to any other ice cream bar, coming individually packaged (at a reasonable price!) with a large-mouthed mascot.  Within is a slab of ice milk on a stick, notable for having bits of ice intentionally included to give it that gari-gari crunch.  The most notable aspect of these treats is the variety of flavour - while fruit and soda flavours are commonly available, Gari Gari Kun is infamous for limited-time flavours such as Onsen Manju, Cream Pull, Rare Cheese, or Spaghetti Napolitan.  Yes, really.
+* '''Garigari-kun''' is a particularly popular brand of Japanese ice pop.  At a glance, they are similar enough to any other ice cream bar, coming individually packaged (at a reasonable price!) with a large-mouthed mascot.  Within is a slab of ice milk on a stick, notable for having bits of ice intentionally included to give it that gari-gari crunch.  The most notable aspect of these treats is the variety of flavour - while fruit and soda flavours are commonly available, Gari Gari Kun is infamous for limited-time flavours such as Onsen Manju, Cream Pull, Rare Cheese, or Spaghetti Napolitan.  Yes, really.  And if your stick says Atari (winner), you can get another one for free!
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