I'm Matthew.

And I'm Molly.

And this is Spilled Melk, this show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and

you can't have any.

Today's episode is one that I am really excited about.

We are talking about Japanese rice crackers.

Also known as tembe in Japanese.

Mm-hmm.

And this episode was suggested by listener Andy.

Thank you listener Andy.

We've been wanting to talk about this for a while, so thanks for the push.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, so I noticed that in the agenda, you wrote down tembe as S-E-N-B-E-I.

Yeah.

But do I pronounce it as though it's an M?

Yeah, kind of.

Kind of.

So this is like, there's no like one right way to Romanize Japanese.

And so like the character that you would use if you were like writing out phonetically,

the word in Japanese is mm for that, for that if se, mm, be, e, but when you actually

say the word, the sort of turns into a m sound.

And so then the question is like, do you write that as an M or an M in English and either

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