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T he Stripes community paper office has been empty since April. Yet, the designers who layout the ar-

ticles in the newspaper, the team who up-dates the websites, and your writing team are still as busy as ever.

Like you, our daily life and our daily work life have changed. Though our writ-ing team, spread out in Okinawa, Korea and in Japan, is used to working togeth-er, but apart, what we write about had to change quickly and drastically. Travel and restaurant reviews are our bread and

butter — but how do we write about plac-es we can no longer visit or are no longer safe to visit? It’s easy — we don’t.

Like you, we’re no longer dining out at restaurants. We’ve traded in our cubicles, travel assignments, and restaurant re-views for workstations at home, recipes in the kitchen with our families, and get-ting creative with bringing you a break from the hard news we’re constantly get-ting bombarded with.

We’re looking for ways to keep you (and ourselves, too) entertained. Some of us have taken our acting and camera skills

BY DENISSE RAUDA,STRIPES OKINAWA

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Yokosuka

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T he pandemic may have ruined the fun of dining at CoCo’s restaurants, but there’s no need to be disappointed. Try your hand at making CoCo’s curry on your own.

The recipe below is meant to replicate your favorite CoCo’s

curry sauce and, best of all, it can be personalized with whatev-er ingredients you enjoy. This recipe is adapted from Japanese comedian Saigen Daisuke, who is known for trying to replicate dishes from popular restaurants.

Give it a try and impress your family with your homemade CoCo’s! [email protected]

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MissCoCo’s curry?

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n Pork back ribs (50g)n Onion (100g)n Carrot (30g)n Salad or olive oil (15cc)n Water (600cc)n Chicken consommé (1 block)n Fried onion (30cc)n Curry roux block (spicy, 35g)n Curry powder (2.5cc) n Sugar (2.5cc)n Worcestershire sauce (5cc) n Vegetable and fruit sauce semi-sweet (5cc)n White pepper (1g)n Salt (1.5g)n Ground coffee (2 pinches)n Vinegar (2.5cc)

Ingredients (for two servings) Directions

6 Cook that on low heat for 10 minutes.

7 Finish up by adding ground coffee and vinegar. Mix well.

8 This curry sauce is now ready to be served over rice. You can add pork tonkatsu, fried boneless chicken and/or vegetables, etc. Itadakimasu!

2 Add sliced carrots and pork, then continue frying.

1 Fry sliced onions until they begin to brown.

3 Add water to the pan and let the ingredients simmer for 10 minutes.

4 Remove from heat and let the mixture cool down a little before blending into a puree.

5 Pour the puree into a frying pan and add other ingredients except ground coffee and vinegar.

Slice onion

Add curry roux and sugar Add white paper

Add salt

Add curry powder

Add fried onion

Add Chicken consommé

Vegetable and fruit sauce semi-sweet

Worcestershire sauce

Slice pork

Slice carrot

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I f asked about how I feel about my work-from-home days, I would have a hard time finding something posi-

tive to say because I like going to work. However, looking back at my life during the last five months, there were things I would not have done unless I had stayed at home.

Before the pandemic, I hardly cooked at home. I’d had enough of instant noodles, and that moved me to make something on my own. It was in early May and with Mother’s Day com-ing up, I chose Andagi, an Okinawan donut, for my first attempt at cooking a recipe in quarantine. As a child, my mother would make this snack for me often and making it for her around this special day was fitting.

Whether American or Okinawan style, a donut is a donut and the recipe seemed easy enough. Once I started rolling the dough into donut holes like Dunkin’ Donuts’ Munchkins, however, is where I ran

into difficulties. As I struggled with the sticky dough

that refused to budge from its amorphous state, my mother who had been watching me curiously, started to laugh. Her laugh became even louder when I struggled with frying the dough. Although my slap-stick cooking hardly failed to provide

comical relief, the doughnuts themselves turned out much better than expected. Taking a bite, my mother just said, “Wow, this is good.”

The donuts were just the start of try-ing new recipes. Since then, I’ve cooked at least once a week, trying my hand at Okinawan recipes like rafute, hirayachi, brown sugar crepes, and even an Italian restaurant classic — Pasta pomodoro.

For me, it’s been a learning experi-ence. And while it’s been the source of

laughter for my mom, it’s also seemed to make her happy. Cooking has also become a topic I can turn to when I struggle with my writing assignments or finding something to share with the audience. As I tried different recipes, it started feeling like a fun

hobby for me. Now I say to myself “Why not continue cooking beyond COVID-19?”

Although my feelings to-ward work from home stays the same, cooking showed me there’s always a way to have fun. And it would be great if the audience feels the same.

These days, I often think about tour-ing big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, taking photos of skyscrapers and streets lined with Izakaya. Most likely, it will be a while before that becomes possible. However, it seems to be fun at least to wait for the time to come while cooking oden or takoyaki. [email protected]

View video!Okinawan doughnuts

As COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the country, I began teleworking just after I had taken

a stroll around Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, Ueno Park and other sites seeking out photos and material for a story on the gorgeous cherry blossoms then at full bloom in late March.

My cherry blossom story would have to wait until next year, as I was working from home and all of our readers were also limited on leaving their bases or off-base homes.

Teleworking has saved me from my twice-daily 2.5-hour commute on packed trains from Yokosuka to Tokyo and back. Being out of the office, away from my co-workers and the hustle and bustle from Tokyo, however, has been a challenge on my daily rou-tine and in finding story ideas.

The state of emergency earlier this year meant most popular annual spring events were canceled, while restaurants and attractions were closed or had limited hours. My focus (and my writing) had to shift to other activities, so I turned to Japanese cul-ture and traditional crafts, seasonal top-ics and spending time with my wife and daughter.

In April, as face masks began to sell out in stores, I observed as my wife used instructions she found online to hand-stitch masks for our family. So, I wrote about that. I also turned the camera on

STORY AND PHOTOS BYSHOJI KUDAKA

STORY AND PHOTOS BY TAKAHIRO TAKIGUCHI

Patience, family and technology Cooking brings humor, happiness


seriously and started creating fun vid-eos to teach you Japanese and Korean phrases. We’ve found online activities for you to try and used our Netflix time wisely to figure out what recommenda-tions you might have missed on Korea or Japan’s streaming services.

For a while, our paper stopped print-ing and relied on our four community sites to make sure you never missed a beat and there was always something interesting for you to read or watch.

Every day, as the situation is changing in the Pacific both on base and off, you can trust that we’re looking out for what informa-tion you need. Ev-ery day, we’re mon-itoring what the parameters are and how we can get out and enjoy the nice weather, all while doing it safely and within the regula-tions set forth by leadership.

D e s p i t e the chang-es, know that our mis-sion remains the same, CO-VID-19 or not. This is your pa-per you’re hold-ing, (or your web-site, if you’re reading online) and all of our publications, including our Welcome to the Pacific, Best of Pa-cific and Destination Paradise maga-zines, are yours. Have a story you want to see in the paper? Send it to us! That hasn’t changed. We’re here for you and because of you.

So, read on and learn about what your writing team is doing to make sure these pages are filled and you’re still getting the information you want. And, if you have a story idea or want to write something, drop us a note! We’re in this [email protected]

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Shoj i fromOkinawa

COVID-19: Looking for ways to keep you entertained

T hough there are only a few months left in 2020, I can still say this will probably the year that started with

a virus and will end with one. What started as a faraway virus over in China that we all thought wouldn’t be a big deal, quick-ly spread to South Korea, then onto other countries and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Despite how COVID-19 came into in-trude on all of our daily lives, my fellow writers and I remained focused on con-tinuing to provide the stories you want to read. From disaster, we drew inspiration and from all the things we wished we could do — like travel and go out to eat at res-taurants — we figured out ways to not let go of that feeling. Our team had to work in a new way, and we had to get creative.

A new project we started was our Virtual Vacation se-ries, which allowed me to take you on my previous trips and through some of my travel photos. We also started shar-ing some easy phrases in our native languages. I started and continue to share use-ful phrases on our Facebook page in my Speakin’ Korean videos.

For a short while in the summer, while South Korea seemed to have a grasp on coronavirus cases thanks to lessons learned from previous SARS and MERS outbreaks, I was able to write travel stories again. Mil-itary families could travel again, while tak-ing necessary precautions and I was happy

to return to some form of normal. But my happiness was short-lived when, in July, the numbers started to go up and bases around the peninsula retightened restric-tions. Once again, I’m experiencing deja vu in March due to mass infection in Seoul.

On a personal level, my life has changed as I turned towards my fitness and started cycling in my apartment. Originally, this was supposed to get me ready to cycle around Korea for some stories I wanted to write, but as staying at home was looking like a longer-term necessity, indoor cycling on my home setup has become a way to keep social distance and a stress relief.

I also started cooking at home more. I tried recipes of foods that I like to eat when I go to restaurants or even ramdon, a rec-ipe from the award-winning film Parasite. These were challenging but the results

were delicious, and I used these to write stories for the audience who, like me, were stuck at home trying new recipes.

And also, like many of you, when I was bored, I turned to Netflix. In May and June, I wrote a few lists of Korean films and dramas you should check out. I recommend tak-ing a look at these lists, espe-cially if you’re over re-watch-ing The Office or Friends.

Truth is, I am trying to overcome this situation with joy by looking at the bright side of being safe and still being able to write with a different goal in mind. I don’t know when this will end, but don’t forget that Stars and Stripes is always with [email protected]

View video!Speakin’ Japanese

Let’s try on-nomi

View video!Free fallin’

Let’s jump out ofa perfectly fine airplane!

As COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the country, I began teleworking just after I had taken

a stroll around Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, Ueno Park and other sites seeking out photos and material for a story on the gorgeous cherry blossoms then at full bloom in late March.

My cherry blossom story would have to wait until next year, as I was working from home and all of our readers were also limited on leaving their bases or off-base homes.

Teleworking has saved me from my twice-daily 2.5-hour commute on packed trains from Yokosuka to Tokyo and back. Being out of the office, away from my co-workers and the hustle and bustle from Tokyo, however, has been a challenge on my daily rou-tine and in finding story ideas.

The state of emergency earlier this year meant most popular annual spring events were canceled, while restaurants and attractions were closed or had limited hours. My focus (and my writing) had to shift to other activities, so I turned to Japanese cul-ture and traditional crafts, seasonal top-ics and spending time with my wife and daughter.

In April, as face masks began to sell out in stores, I observed as my wife used instructions she found online to hand-stitch masks for our family. So, I wrote about that. I also turned the camera on

myself and began, along with my fellow writers, to film short videos to teach Japanese phrases for our Speakin’ Japanese arti-cles online. I began to sort through travel photos and, using my iPhone, began producing travel videos for

our Virtual Vacation series.With the help of my family, I wrote

about the crafts we were making to-gether, like origami and tanabata deco-rations. My daughter, whose hobby is photography, helped illustrate some of my stories and videos with great images.

STORY AND PHOTOS BYCHIHON KIM

STORY AND PHOTOS BY TAKAHIRO TAKIGUCHI

Looking at the bright side of lifePatience, family and technology


SEE FAMILY ON PAGE 6

ChiHonfromKorea

HirofromYokosuka

COVID-19: Looking for ways to keep you entertained


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My work quickly became a family affair. I also noticed how, despite being far apart, technol-

ogy was helping us stay together. Besides our weekly Skype work meetings to discuss what the staff is working on; I have connected with my coworkers for on-nomi (online drinking party) after hours several times throughout this work-from-home period.

Other events moved online for us, too. Like Moth-er’s Day. My wife sat down in front of her computer and celebrated the special day with her 100-year-old mom and two sisters in the Philippines, as well as her two other sisters on Guam and in the States. Cakes were eaten, wine was tasted and laughs were

plentiful. They weren’t physically together, but it was a wonderful celebration. Now, online chatting with her mother and sisters in the morning has be-come a part my wife’s daily routine. These events inspired me a lot and gave me some nice story ideas.

The past five months where COVID-19 upended our lives were definitely a struggle for me, but it also gave me the great opportunity to rediscover the importance of warm hearts, love, affection and con-sideration amongst family and friends. Among them and by far the most, I feel it was my family that kept me alive, enabled me to work at home and have kept me in good shape, both mentally and [email protected]

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take on okonomiyaki

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Finding a mask and hand sanitizer

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Be typhoon-ready!

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goes online

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COVID -19 useful phrases(printable sheets)

Japanese Korean

FAMILY: A team effort at home

by Takahiro Takiguch iby Shoj i Kudaka by ChiHon Kim

Biweekly Sudoku - Week of 9/28/20

SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke

Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate

Difficulty: Medium HOW TO SOLVE:

Answers to Previous Sudoku:

Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must

contain the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3 by 3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

2 7 94

9 7 55

2 9 46 3 88 1 37 91 3 5

2 8 1 9 5 3 4 7 65 7 3 6 2 4 9 8 19 6 4 8 7 1 2 3 54 9 2 3 6 7 5 1 87 1 5 2 4 8 3 6 98 3 6 1 9 5 7 4 21 2 8 7 3 9 6 5 43 5 9 4 8 6 1 2 76 4 7 5 1 2 8 9 3

ACROSS1 Sailor's stop5 Take for a ride9 Strong suit

14 Bryce Canyon locale

15 Meal in a shell16 Trim, as an

alpaca17 Wreath adorn-

ments19 Cowboy's com-

panion20 Backward, on a

boat21 Trim, as a tree23 "Are we there

___?"25 Database

command26 Oscar-winning

Emma31 Navy clerk35 Metal fastener36 Retirees' org.38 Fix up DOWN 29 Unwritten 50 Thrills39 Pizzeria appli- 1 Insect stage reminder 52 Mitchell mansion

ance 2 Elevator man 30 Aquatic nymph 53 Alien crafts40 It may be bid 3 Carry on 32 Kind of raise 54 Defeat 41 "Fiddlesticks!" 4 What you used 33 Words of decisively42 Flippant to be wisdom 55 Strike site43 Tom Clancy hero 5 Lapidary's 34 Well-known 57 Combines

Jack wares 37 Extend, as a 58 Meadowlands 44 Hose hue 6 Preserve, in a lease pace45 Heir's concern way 40 Circus site 59 Alleviate47 No longer with 7 Got a perfect 44 Scout's award 60 Great deal

us score 46 Nervous giggle 63 Tetley product49 Chain segment 8 Exodus leader 48 Female fowl51 Tie the knot 9 On dry land52 Skedaddle 10 Like some cooks56 Playing marbles 11 Medical fluids61 In progress 12 Vane direction62 Notre Dame, for 13 Grove growth

one 18 HBO series, 64 GPS suggestion "Tales from the 65 Kind of socks ____"66 One teaspoon, 22 Orange-toothed

maybe rodent67 September 24 Bootlicker

bloom 26 Figure of speech68 John and Yoko's 27 Homes for

son drones69 Hearty dish 28 Blatant

Biweekly Crossword - Week of 9/28/20

Crossword by Margie E. Burke

Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate

Answers to Previous Crossword:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

35 36 37 38

39 40 41

42 43 44

45 46 47 48

49 50 51

52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63

64 65 66

67 68 69

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A L L A N I N K A G OE N R O U T E C A I S S O NM I N U S N A S A LI C E D T E A F I D G E T YT E D E R R A T E A M

P R E T E N S E B A DG O G O C L E F P O L A RU N I L A T E R A L P A R ES C R I P S I R I A G O GH E L O T S E E P L E N S

DID YOUKNOW?

Language Lesson

Kanji of the week

Stripes Sports Trivia

Answer

Y ou may have noticed small wooden plaques with drawings of horses and Japanese characters hanging in the

gardens of Shinto Shrines. These “ema,” or horse icons, are used as prayers or wishes for good luck in certain endeavors. Japa-nese believe that their wishes and prayers will come true if they write them on these plaques and hang them as offerings to the Shinto gods.

The UConn women’s basketball team doesn’t do much losing on the court. The Geno Auriemma-led Huskies hold countless NCAA records among the all the National Championships they’ve won. In 2017, an overtime loss in the Final Four ended the Huskies 111-game winning streak – a record, of course. What team beat them?

Mississippi State

Ki/moku/boku (tree)木Let’s eat.

Tabe mashoo.


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O ne of the hottest games on the market these days is League of Leg-

ends, or LoL, which garnered as many as 8 million people played in 2019 alone.

The eSports game, which first appeared in 2009, is cate-gorized as an MOBA, or multi-player online-battle-arena. Each player picks a “cham-pion” and forms a group for 5-on-5 battle in a squared field. The goal is to destroy oppo-nents’ “Nexus,” or stronghold, while navigating the lanes of the playing field and “jungle.”

Picking my teamI recently decided to try my

hand at this popular game as it seemed that stay-at-home or-ders were making people turn to this 10-year-old game for entertainment. I started my journey into this new world with “Darius” as my lead champion. Darius is a tough-looking character with a huge Thor-like axe as his weapon.

The game randomly grouped me with other players. LoL also has a chat function so you can communicate with your team during the battles. My teammates included a kung-fu master with a pigtail, a girl wizard in a scanty costume, a blue frog, and a chubby robot. My team’s odd faces were a mix looking like part Guard-ians of the Galaxy, part Wizard of Oz.

Let the battle beginSoon the battle was under-

way, and Darius advanced through the top lane of the playing field towards the op-ponent’s “minions,” which are foot soldiers taken into battle along with the five champi-ons. Fighting the small guys seemed to be an easy job, but next thing I knew, my cham-pion was lying on the ground, ambushed by a sword-wield-ing enemy that approached via the surrounding jungle.

Despite Darius’ tough ex-terior, he was the first one to go down. Soon, my cham-pion regenerated back at the

stronghold to continue the game. In this initial attempt, as I grew accustomed to the game, my champion suffered around 5 to 10 kills, despite efforts to readjust my strat-egy every time. The enemies, who outnumbered my team, approached and gained my stronghold with ease.

Adjusting strategyI played several times, and

although I managed to kill sev-eral minions and score some points, the results were more or less the same every time. From my attempts, I figured out the three factors making the game difficult to play.

First, following and track-ing one’s champion on the screen is difficult, even on my large desktop PC screen. This is especially more com-plicated when the battlefield is crowded with other players. It was hard to even locate my champion before he was taken down.

Maneuvering a charac-ter or champion was another challenge as it didn’t come

naturally to me. Unlike a con-sole game with a controller, gamers control LoL characters movements with the mouse and right-click button. Using the mouse was difficult when trying to get my champion to move quickly and to make small adjustments. More often than not, I led my champion into the center of enemies or other bad spots. The Q, W, E, R, D and F keys on the key-board are also used for special attacks and moves.

Using both the keys on one hand and the mouse in the other was awkward and I mistook one key for another, choosing wrong moves or wast-ing character energy.

The game terminol-ogy was also some-thing I needed to get accustomed to. Fur-thermore, players can earn money by killing enemies for purchas-ing new weapons and items. There were so many items in the store to choose from and I wasn’t sure which would help

my champion in battle. For an old Nintendo gamer

like me, LoL was not effort-lessly fun like the video games I played growing up. It would require patience, a lot of thinking and a steep learning curve before I’d win a battle in LoL. Here, any impatience or aggressive movement was immediately punished, and I’d have to start again.

After my initial tries, I did some homework and learned that I am not the only one who struggles at the beginning. Some articles and reviews note

it takes some players a few months of play to start enjoying it.

I continue to try my hand at LoL despite my struggles. This game has millions of players and yet I still can’t figure out why. Maybe it’s stubborn-ness or a desire in me

to be like Darius and slay LoL. Whatever it is, I’ll keep try-ing and someday I might be an League of Legends fan, [email protected]

STORY AND PHOTOS BY SHOJI KUDAKA,

STRIPES OKINAWA

Patience key to learning League of Legends


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