Expressing gratitude for hosting Japanese Ayumi and Hinata

I am very grateful to the China Economic Research Institute for helping me arrange to receive two Japanese foreign students, Ayumi and Hinata, who love nature. I have been to their hometown of Hakone and Kanagawa, where the Kamakura Great Buddha is located.

Influenced by her parents who studied mechanics, Ayumi studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Have studied Chinese for one year. During her holidays, she participated in various seminars organized by the organization that organized this exchange event, preferring indoors. On the other hand, Hinata was inspired by a children's song about space in elementary school and became interested in astronomy. Interested, she is majoring in earth science and physics at Ibaraki University. Hinata, lives in the dormitory and has her own refrigerator and the habit of cooking and makinf tea. On holidays, she likes to go to nature alone to photograph dragonflies and other natural materials, and participate in the school's hot earth club activities. . They said that the university does not allow food to be brought into the classroom to eat while attending class.

Eating fresh ingredients for three meals is the best way to understand the nature of Taiwan. I tried my best to choose ingredients that they have never seen or eaten in Japan. Not only have Japanese students never eaten silky chicken, but they have also never seen or eaten sweet potato leaves. Sweet potato leaves are abundant in Taiwan now. In the past, pig farmers would boil sweet potato leaves and feed them to the pigs. The pigs would grow strong. Recommend to eat more of them.

I was really happy that the two of them had great appetites. They said it was delicious and ate almost all of it. They said, "It turns out, fresh ingredients are delicious as long as only add salt and oil. They only use clay pots to cook rice in Japan. This time they saw Taiwanese people using Japanese clay pots to cook rice, vegetables, and soup. It is not only energy-saving but also delicious, and they also cook it when they go home for Mom and dad to eat.”

3/22 Dinner: Taiwanese No. 9 rice + aboriginal millet, Ginger's own sun-dried rice, natural farming Tainan Indica 18 original cake and stir-fried vegetables

非常感謝中華經濟研究院幫我安排接待兩位喜愛大自然的日本外籍生亞由美、日陽，我曾去過她們家鄉~箱根、鎌倉大佛的神奈川。

亞由美受到學習機械的父母影響就讀東京大學機械系、有學習一年中文、平常假日參加安排這次交流活動的組織各種研討活動、比較偏向室內，日陽則是國小受到一首有關太空兒歌的啟發，對天文有興趣，就讀茨城大學地球科學、物理雙主修，住在宿舍的日陽有自己的冰箱、動手煮食、泡茶的習慣，假日喜歡獨自去大自然拍攝蜻蜓等大自然素材、參加學校熱地球社團活動。他們說大學是不准攜帶食物進教室一邊吃一邊上課。

三餐新鮮食材是認識台灣大自然最好的方法，我盡量選日本沒有看過、吃過的食材，日本學生不僅烏骨雞沒吃過，地瓜葉沒看過也沒吃過，現在台​​灣地瓜葉盛產。過去，養豬戶將地瓜葉煮沸後餵豬。豬會變得強壯。建議多吃一些。

真高興她們兩個食慾超好，說很好吃，幾乎全部吃光，說：「原來新鮮食材只要加鹽、油就很好吃，他們在日本只有用砂鍋煮飯，這次看到台灣人用日本砂鍋煮飯、煮菜、燉湯，不僅節能又美味，回家也要煮給爸媽吃。」

3/22 晚餐 台梗九號米+原住民小米、如貞自己種的日曬、自然農法台南秈18原味糕炒蔬菜

After dinner, help wash dishes and rice ~ Kaohsiung 147 brown rice, time management ~ spend 10 minutes before going to bed to cook tomorrow's breakfast

吃完晚餐幫忙洗碗、洗米~高雄147糙米，時間管理~睡覺前花10分鐘煮明天早餐

Get up at 6 o'clock for breakfast, breakfast on 3/23, brown rice milk (traditionally, in the era when there was no milk powder, many children were raised by drinking rice milk), purple yam brown rice porridge, Yilan rice sauce and ginger pickled kohlrabi, sweet potato leaves, bitter tea Fried local eggs, sun-dried shredded radish, Tainan sesame sauce mixed with ugly beans

6點起床吃早餐，3/23早餐，糙米漿(傳統沒有奶粉的年代、許多孩子是喝米槳養大的)，紫色山藥糙米稀飯，宜蘭米醬和老薑醃大頭菜、地瓜葉、苦茶油煎土雞蛋日曬蘿蔔絲、台南芝麻醬拌醜豆

After breakfast, I helped wash the dishes. The vegetable cloth used was naturally made from the aging of the summer vegetable loofah.

吃完早餐幫忙洗碗，使用的菜瓜布是夏天蔬菜絲瓜老化後天然而成。

Growing up in the city, they had never been to a traditional market in Japan. It was their first time in Taiwan to pay, buy vegetables, select by hand (oranges with dark skin are more delicious), and keep accounts. The vegetable seller was 70 to 80 years old. The aunts and uncles were very happy to see foreign young people coming to the market. The petite baby faces were thought to be high school students. The aunt gave them mulberries to eat. The total shopping cost for three meals a week including bento was NT 1,620 yuan, about 7,688 yen. Buy by yourself. and cook by yourself,  can not only eat better and healthier ingredients, but also save more money.

Supplement: Inflation continues in Japan and Taiwan. On March 25, Japanese news reported that olive oil prices have increased by more than 60% due to continued drought in European production areas.

都市長大的她們在日本沒去過傳統市場，在台灣第一次到傳統市場付錢、買菜、動手挑選(橘子外皮黑黑的更好吃) 、記帳，賣菜的70~80歲伯阿姨們很高興看到外國年輕人來市場，嬌小的娃娃臉被認為是高中生，阿姨送給她們桑葚吃，一周三餐含便當的買菜錢總共1620元，約7688日圓，多自己買自己煮，不僅可以吃到較好的健康食材，同時省下較多的錢。

補充：日本和台灣持續通膨，3/25日本新聞播報橄欖油受到歐洲產地持續乾旱，價格上漲60%以上

The fresh ingredients they bought were used to make lunch together. The Japanese students fried pork liver with their own fried lard, jicama and other vegetables, and dried kidney beans and black bone chicken soup.

將買到的新鮮食材一起做中餐，日本學生自己炸豬油、豆薯等蔬菜炒豬肝，還有菜豆乾烏骨雞湯

After lunch~Sensory evaluation of rice, indica rice, japonica rice, rice in Japan is stickier than in Taiwan

吃完中飯~米飯官能品評、秈稻、稉稻，日本的米比台灣更黏

Let’s make delicious Tainan Indica 18 sweet potato pancakes and Tainan Indica 18 red bean cake together

一起動手做好吃的台南秈18地瓜煎餅以及台南秈18紅豆糕

Spring hot spring surrounded by green trees

綠樹環繞的泉源溫泉

Japanese-occupied buildings such as the Presidential Palace and the Supervisory Yuan

總統府、監察院等日治時代建築

Hope Square Farmers Market (Exit 6 of the Shandao Temple MRT, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00, pesticide-free farmers’ specialties from different counties and cities every week), it was the first time to eat Taiwanese lotus root and dates, and also A farmer explained the nutrition of brown rice. Japanese agricultural products with rich nature are also very delicious. Ayumi and Hiyo can visit more Japanese farmers' markets.

希望廣場農民市集(善導寺捷運6號出口、星期六日10:00~18:00、每周有不同縣市無農藥的農民特產)，第一次吃到台灣蓮霧、棗子，還有農民解說糙米的營養。擁有豐富大自然的日本農產也是非常好吃，亞由美、日陽可以多逛日本農民市集。

Paddy fields have ecological value and can produce food/provide biological habitats/conservate groundwater/regulate climate. It is important to eat more good local rice, vegetables and fruits.

水田具有生態價值能夠生產糧食/提供生物棲地/涵養地下水/調節氣候，多吃本土好米和蔬果很重要

The organizer said that the host families regard the foreign students as their own family members. Because they are really great, so here is a reminder:

1. Go to bed early and get up early for good health. Don’t stay up late.

2. Cook more healthy food by yourself

3. Leave the room to take a shower and turn off the light

4. Wash the leftover medicine on the spoon after eating it. After washing the dishes, clean the sink

主辦單位說，接待家庭把外籍生當自己家人，因為她們真的很棒，所以提醒如下

1.早睡早起身體好、不要熬夜

2.多自煮健康食材

3.離開房間去洗澡，隨手關電燈

4.湯匙上的剩飯藥吃完再拿去洗，洗完碗，順手清流理台

I have received many blessings from Japan, and I have gained a healthy and rich life. I am really happy to have the opportunity to receive Japanese foreign students and tell them about the influence of these Japanese people on Taiwan, and sincerely express my gratitude. Ayumi and Hinata said that they would share my gratitude stories with more Japanese people after returning to Japan. I am really happy that more people are healthier and hope that through exchanges, a new rice culture can be created.

我自己受到許多日本的恩惠，獲得健康和豐富的人生，真高興有機會能接待日本外籍生告訴她們這幾位日本人對台灣的影響，真誠表達我的感恩。亞由美、日陽說回國後會把我這些感恩故事與更多日本人分享，真高興更多人更健康，希望透過交流能創造新的米文化