Translation: Popolo January 2004・Friends of Breakfast! (Various)

I wasn't going to do this, and then Jun happened. But then, that's kind of the story of my life when it comes to Arashi.
The people in here are: Arashi, Coming Century, Kinki Kids, NEWS, Tackey and Tsubasa, TOKIO, various comedians/actors/musicians
(Moriuchi is in here; what is his first name, even??)


New serial!
Big survey of celebrity-like fads!

What is the source of the star's energy? We'll introduce you to the foods they love to eat every morning!!
Friends of Breakfast! These are the dishes they're obsessed about!
We've started at last. This is a corner where the stars we admire introduce things in vogue. In this commemorative first issue, what gives the stars energy, "Friends of Breakfast!" They've chosen mostly dishes you'd want to eat with bread or rice for us. These unusual people eat unusual things, and we learned of the harmonious breakfast scene!

Results of the Popolo Survey

●Do you eat breakfast?

Yes... 72.5%
No... 27.5%

Of 40 people, we established nearly 3/4 of them eat breakfast. It's hard work and unconventional, so breakfast is important.

●Something to eat or something to drink?

Food... 55%
Drink... 42.5%
Other... 2.5%

Opinions were dived down the middle on, "Is this staple meal food or drink?" There were also many people who said they take in liquids for their health.

●Japanese food? Western food?

Japanese... 50%
Western... 47.5%
Other... 2.5%

It was also apparent when many people said even if they don't usually eat breakfast, when they do it's Japanese food. It had the ideal image as breakfast......?


TOKIO
Nagase Tomoya

When I wake up a warm soup is good
The thing I can't do without at breakfast is......what. I guess I can't do without is some warm soup like green tea or miso soup. In the morning my throat is dry, and so it's got to be like a soup or hot beverage.


KinKi Kids
Domoto Tsuyoshi

If there's green tea of coffee, ◎
There are times I eat and times I don't, but I drink coffee or green tea. If I eat a meal, I guess I'm happy if there's natto, miso soup, grilled fish, and laver. If there's bread, then I like eggs sunny-side up. It's good if the yolk is only soft boiled.


KinKi Kids
Domoto Kouichi

I don't eat breakfast
I don't really eat breakfast, and not only breakfast, but I don't have a food I'm obsessed with. The one thing I do have is, I don't like boxed lunches without a main dish, like the maku no uchi kind. I like when it's easy to understand, like "This is the side dish!"


NEWS
Tegoshi Yuya

Even if I have no appetite I can eat
The thing I definitely want to eat at breakfast is yogurt. I feel like I'm energized if I eat yogurt. The ones I like have aloe or blueberry in them.


Tsukamoto Takashi

What goes with breakfast is green tea!
I like to eat Japanese food in the morning if I can. Rice and miso soup and natto, like that. But if you're saying something to go with rice, it's not good without green tea. I can't eat the rice (smile).


TOKIO
Matsuoka Masahiro

I basically don't eat breakfast!
I don't eat breakfast. I'm drinking every night, and so I can't eat in the morning (smile). If I do eat, it's natto or an omlette on white rice. But I basically don't eat it.


NEWS
Masuda Takahisa

It's the base of my energy supply for the day
I eat bread for breakfast. What I like to eat with that is yogurt and milk. And if there's an omlette or bacon and eggs, I can get and remain energized for the entire day.


Hanawa

It's the best if there's roe with my miso soup!
I'm basically in the rice faction, so I can't do without miso soup. It's the best if there's cooked rice and roe. But, recently I've been lacking structure, so there have been many days I haven't eaten breakfast.


Arashi
Ninomiya Kazunari

Because miso soup is the breakfast of Japanese people
Of course breakfast is miso soup. It's fine even it's just the instant kind you add hot water to. When there's miso soup, it feels like breakfast. The ingredients can be whatever, but if there's tofu it's even better.


NEWS
Nishikido Ryo

The basic Japanese food is this!
Recently, I've been having a lot of rice for breakfast. This morning as well I came on the new main line while eating tenmusu (smile). At meal times I like Oolong tea. I've always liked oolong tea.


V6
Morita Go

If there's a drink I'm fine
I don't really eat breakfast itself, but if I put something in my mouth when I wake up, ice cream or jelly, something to drink. It's hot in the summer, so at times like this it's dry, and stuff like that is just right.


NEWS
Moriuchi Takahiro

Starting with picked vegetables in the morning when I like Japanese food
There are always a lot of times I don't eat breakfast, but when I do I like rice. To go with it, definitely pickled daikon! If it has that, then it's a Japanese breakfast.


V6
Miyake Ken

Natto with bonito flakes!
Of course it's natto. I like to put in egg yolk, onions, and bonito flakes all at once and mix it up. I'm imitating the way I saw the owner of a set meal shop near the studio of Marusa!! does it.


Arashi
Matsumoto Jun

Sweet breads raise your blood sugar level!
I don't really eat a lot in the morning, but in order to raise my blood sugar level I'll eat just some kind of pastry. I guess the ones I like are the ones with chocolate on them. And I'll drink coffee with sugar in it.


UNJASH
Watabe Ken

If I don't have this, breakfast is no good
For breakfast of course it's miso soup. In addition, natto and dried young sardines are essential. This stuff is already in my refrigerator for certain, and if I don't have them, I can't eat white rice.


Harigane Rock
Yuuki Rock

For sugar I use artificial sweetener
I'll definitely drink coffee. Depending on the season, either hot or iced. I thoroughly grind the beans, brew them, then drink. For sugar I use the hard to get fat from artificial sweetener (smile).


NEWS
Yamashita Tomohisa

I also want a refreshing taste~
In the morning I eat melon bread or other pastries a lot, so I also want to eat a little fruit. So, if there's an apple or banana or something, I'm happy.


TOKIO
Yamaguchi Tatsuya

Miso soup and grilled fish, eggs sunny side up!
I guess Japanese food is good for breakfast. With white rice, grilled fish, eggs sunny side up or something, and bacon is good. I like that kind of simple breakfast.


Harigane Rock
Ohue Kunihiro

It's black for sure
I'm a person who doesn't eat breakfast, or rather, can't eat breakfast. So, just cofffee. Hot or iced, I always drink it black.


NEWS
Uchi Hiroki

In the morning I have a kind of adult menu
I don't really eat in the mornings, but if I do, I guess it's bread. And to go with that, coffee. It's kind of grown up, right? (smile) For breakfast that's plenty.


Football Hour
Iwao Nozomu

Milk is my energy supply!
I guess milk. And of course bacon and eggs. But, of course, milk. When I drink cold things in the morning, I feel like my body is in better shape. Milk is my source of energy for the day.


Tackey and Tsubasa
Imai Tsubasa

First, soft-boiled egg whites
I like eggs sunny side up. Soft boiled is good. So, first I carefully eat all the egg whites around the yolk, poke a hole in the yolk and pour soy sauce in, and then eat with rice; it's tasty!


Arashi
Aiba Masaki

I like anything as long as there's eggs~
Breakfast is bread and eggs. Sunny side up, omlette, western-style omlette... I like anything as long as there's eggs, but my favorite is when one with mayonnaise spread on it is put into bread to make an egg sandwich! I like that.


Bikkiizu
Kibe Nobuhiko

It there's natto, it's OK!
Recently I've been eating natto again. Even though I hadn't eaten it at all since I started living alone. Natto has the feeling of the day, and it comes in various flavors, so it's the best.


NEWS
Kato Shigeaki

When waking up something sweet is good
At home we usually put cheese on bread to make a pizza-y thing. So, after I eat that, I like to eat pudding. After I eat pudding, my brain really works!


Okada Yoshinori

I've decided on cafe latte in the morning!
I don't eat anything at all in the morning. To say it goes well with rice, or rather, in place of rice is cafe latte. If I go out after drinking is and smoking a cigarette, I'm hungry just in time for lunch.


V6
Okada Junichi

Hot coffee blend
Coffee. I don't really eat breakfast at home, but once I get to work I drink it. I like blends with something bitter in them. When I drink it, I don't put in sugar but have it black, and even in the summer I drink it hot.


Arashi
Ohno Satoshi

The one thing I can't do without is yogurt
I eat the yogurt my mother buys every morning. Right now it's "with fresh milk from Hokkaido," but I like the "with lychee" I ate before that. I have to say, "Get lychee again" (smile).


TOKIO
Kokubun Taichi

Thanks to movies I eat natto
When I started filming a movie, I ate a lot of natto, tofu, and salad to stay healthy. Because of that, I still am eating natto all the time.


NEWS
Kusano Hironori

You can get plenty of nutrients from it!
I normally don't really eat breakfast, if I do eat, it's cornflakes. And to go with it first is milk (smile). Also I like a banana or some kind of fruit to go with it.


SAYAKA

Slow-boiled eggs are in vogue!
Slow-boiled eggs from the convenience store. When I'm busy, I often go buy rice balls. One time, I bought some slow-boiled eggs that were near them, and they were tasty. Since then, it's been my personal fad.


Arashi
Sakurai Sho

Balanced nutrition, okay!
I've been a bread person since I was a child. So, if sometimes~ there's ham and eggs, it's like "That's my other dish!" and I'm kind of happy. I like the feeling of the nutrition not being biased.


NEWS
Koyama Kei'ichirou

Ketchup is important!
Breakfast is my mother's specially made vegetable juice or bread. When I eat bread, I like to put ketchup on scrambled eggs and put that on the bread. If there's no ketchup, it's no good! (smile)


Football Hour
Gotou Terumoto

My mother's rolled up omlette is number one
My mother's rolled up omlette. Ive always been a rice person. As long as there's rolled up omlette with onions, just that is enough. I'm able to enjoy the rice then.


UNJASH
Kojima Kazuya

Of course in the morning it's miso soup
Breakfast is Japanese food. And with white rice, there's got to be miso soup. And then if there are eggs sunny side up or something that's good. Ah, it's also better if there's laver. Is 3 a lot?


Tackey and Tsubasa
Takizawa Hideaki

I'm happy if there's regular natto
Since I'm a rice person, I guess I'm glad if there's natto. Soy sauce and mustard, and if there's onions I'll eat it with those too. Those kind of normal side dishes are good. That's happiness.


Ojin Ozborne
Takamatsu Shinichi

Leftover baby cheese
I basically don't eat breakfast. So, I guess I eat about the baby cheese left over from the previous day. I buy it to go with alcohol. I eat that in place of breakfast.


Bikkiizu
Suchi Hiromasa

I started cornflakes
I've only eaten it once yet, but I started cornflakes (smile). And then, like a French person putting in orange juice. I'd like to try that someday.


TOKIO
Joushima Shigeru

Miso soup with laver is number one!
When I eat, of course it's miso soup. Whatever ingredients are okay, but what I especially like is laver. That is, laver that seems like it could come out of a sushi restaurant. Know what I mean?


Ojin Ozborne
Shinomiya Akira

I love the way natto can adapt to anything!
Definitely natto! It's good if you eat it just like that, and it's good if you put it on rice, and isn't it good if you put it in miso soup? No matter what it's good, I like the way it can adapt to anything (smile).



Special thanks to tomo_p who is the originator of these scans.



Breakfast in Japan
Instead of doing individual notes, I decided to give this informational note on how breakfast in general works in Japan!

Breakfast is not a "special" meal like it is in the Western world. You eat for breakfast the same dishes you would eat at any other time of day (like the oft mentioned miso soup, rice, grilled fish, etc.), although there is a certain set form to Japanese breakfasts that most follow.

That said, there is also the "bread group," by which they mean people who eat Western style breakfast foods. This is misleading, however, because aside from the appearance of eggs and bacon/sausage, it's not *breakfast*, not really. What I ate in Japan every morning: egg, two sausages, plain yogurt with cranberry yogurt, salad/green beans, piece of Texas Toast, grapefruit juice. (Not kidding about the toast; a loaf of bread is six slices (no ends).)

So, the general thesis of the Japanese breakfast, be you on the side of rice or bread, is to create a meal with many small dishes adding up to one breakfast (kind of like what cereal commercials try to get you to eat, only with more vegetables).


●Natto - Fermented soybeans. I would advise avoiding any and all contact with this food, although some people swear by how healthy it is. Like Vegemite in that you will probably think it is the grossest thing ever if you did not grow up eating it. (Also said to be despised in Kansai.)
●Omlette - this is just the egg, nothing inside of it. It's usually square (special square pans!) and they omlette is rolled so you end up with this thick stick of egg.
●Roe - The roe mentioned here is tarako, which is a certain kind of roe.
●Tenmusu - A salty rice ball that uses shrimp tenpura as an ingredient
●Pickled Daikon - Takuan, picked daikon, is bright yellow and has a pretty strong taste. Japanese cuisine is kind of known for its pickled vegetables (they pickle everything). This particular thing, a mainstream tsukemono, is named for a famous monk who is said to have loved it. (He also features prominently in Musashi and is way awesome. Can I just say, read the book! By Eiji Yoshikawa, not Hummingyay.)
●Bonito flakes - THEY MOVE. It is *way* creepy, dudes, so if you ever want to freak someone out, just put some bonito flakes on top.
●Slow-boiled eggs - These are apparently eggs with a hard yolk but runny whites. They're traditionally cooked in a hot spring.