expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun:

• tilapia (freshwater fishes native to Africa, introduced to many areas worldwide as a food source) - From Latin

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard - idiom

expression / noun:

• the most one can do; as much as one can; as hard as possible

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a topic of conversation; to be made much of
• to be taken in

noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• living in another person's house without paying for food and lodging; sponging on other people for accommodation

noun / ~する noun:

• breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.); pulmonary aspiration; mis-swallowing; swallowing down the wrong pipe - Medicine term

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by overindulging in food and drink (as a fabled tendency of the people of Osaka) ➜ 京の着倒れ・食い倒れ

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

noun:

• light Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and marinated food, also now served in restaurants ➜ 惣菜【そうざい】

noun:

• dietary education; nutrition education; food education

noun:

• oxygen absorber; oxygen scavenger; small packet placed in packaged food to absorb oxygen and prevent oxidation

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• angel food cake; angel cake ➜ エンゼルケーキ

noun:

• fast-food

noun:

• helping oneself to (food or other objects); arranging things to suit oneself

noun / adjectival noun:

• oily (of face, hair etc.) - slang
• oily (of food) - slang

noun:

• desalting (drawing salt) from salted food; salt used for desalting

noun / ~する noun / expression:

• asking for the moon; asking for too much; asking for the impossible

noun / suffix noun:

• part; segment; share; ration ➜ 分の
• rate
• degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot ➜ 身分

suffix noun:

• relationship; connection; correspondence

noun / suffix noun:

• in proportion to; just as much as

noun / ~する noun:

• feel (i.e. tactile sensation); touch; feeling; sensation; texture (e.g. food, cloth)