romaji

Relying too much on romanji is bad, try to read using furigana (which is a hiragana transliteration on top of Kanji).

Have you ever read subtitles (日本語字幕) without pausing? Whenever I watch a non-Japanese movie, I just enable JP subs and you need a very good grasp on reading Kanji in real time since you’re reading translated dialog, and sometimes you can notice translation mistakes if you know where to look based on visual context within the scene. For Japanese movies: I sometimes enable closed captions to understand clearly what they’re saying.

food

It’s not even food at all, more like chemicals (i.e. “beef” injected with hormonal drugs) or bread that never gets moldy.