Tanpopo-chan, an elementary school student, lives with her grandmother, aunt, mother, and older brother in her mother's hometown of Hokkaido because her father is away on business. Nostalgic meals from the Showa era, introduced through that life... Takako Aonuma of "Mama Poyo" draws her first hometown gourmet manga based on her roots in "Hokkaido"!
Note: Luxury dishes and trendy menus will not be served! The setting is a ``Chinese restaurant'' that is sure to exist in your town. This book is about a foodie couple who visit Chinese restaurants in various towns and introduce the ``always that taste.'' Yuki Ozawa, who won the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award for ``Kasaju Mariko'', draws this comic essay about exploring the town's Chinese cuisine, the only one in Japan!
A popular author depicts the true happiness that exists amidst hardship and inconvenience. Miako is a 14-year-old girl who lost her parents and lives with her grandparents in Higashiyoshino Village, deep in the mountains of Nara Prefecture. One day, a young man in his 20s, Yu, comes from Tokyo next to her. He had given up everything, his job and his lover, and fled Tokyo. Umi Aoko cooks using seasonal ingredients from Higashiyoshino, based on her late mother's recipe book. The blessings of the earth, the warmth of home-cooked meals...the two slowly begin to connect with each other in their inconvenient but peaceful life in the countryside. A gem of a book in which a popular author uses food to explore the true happiness that exists amidst hardship and inconvenience!
Laughter is helping his brother today too. After all, most of Emichinchi's meals are made by his older brother. He also uses secret weapons (?) from time to time, such as the ``Osuke Ball'' and ``Battle Shumai.'' Dad always just eats, but he always shouts, "It's delicious!"
A biographical manga about the author's mother, who, in the late 80s, got pregnant with triplets and still had them even though the pregnancy was high-risk. The author is one of the triplets.