Shepherd's pie. Yum!

For exchange students, living with a host family is a good chance to exchange food culture.

Let me show you my favorite English foods. The first is shepherd's pie, which you can see in the picture above. It's a delicious and traditional English food. From the bottom, there are tasty bean sauce, mash potato, and cheese. It's cooked for long time in the oven, so the cheese is very crispy and delicious!

Scones

Here you can see scones, another of my favorite English foods. From the bottom, there are kinds of bread, jam and cream. Scones are very sweet and tasty.

Now, my turn: miso soup

I could enjoy English food culture, so I wanted my host family to eat Japanese food. I cooked two Japanese dishes in the host family's kitchen.

The first was miso soup. I brought Japanese miso and dashi powder with a fish flavor from Japan. I used many vegetables, so the soup was very healthy and tasty.

Japanese curry has its own flavour.

The second was Japanese-style curry. Most people may think curry is Indian food, not Japanese food. However, Japanese curry is very different from Indian curry because Japanese curry's soup is strong rather than spicy. Even though both are called curry, people in many countries recognize Japanese curry as a different food entirely. Actually, my host family liked Japanese curry a lot and they were very happy.

Through exchanging our own food culture, I could communicate with my host family in many ways! I think it's important to know food culture to communicate with people from other countries.