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To remember Tokyo [118] (16 lines)
To remember Tokyo
He places
shellfish
next to soy sauce
with shiitake on the side
adds seaweed and wilted spinach
sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
He fills a bowl with miso
and pours green tea.
He savors his umami1 bomb
restful on a table —
until his chopsticks
interrupt in haste
to consume whatever pleasure's
in his sight,
but never never
Vegemite.
Footnotes 1 Umami 旨味 taste is common to foods that contain high levels of L-glutamate, IMP and GMP, most notably in fish, shellfish, cured meats, meat extracts, mushrooms, vegetables (e.g., ripe tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, spinach, celery, etc.), green tea, hydrolysed vegetable protein, and fermented and aged products involving bacterial or yeast cultures, such as cheeses, shrimp pastes, fish sauce, soy sauce, nutritional yeast, and yeast extracts such as Vegemite and Marmite.
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