In Japan there are zillions of different energy drinks. The other day in a mysterious pharmacy in a Shinjuku alley I found this magic potion called “Dynamite Sex Gold” that costs 3,150 yen (around 25.5 euros/34.5 dollars). Next to the “Dynamite Sex Gold” there was two other drinks of the same kind but “less powerful”. [...]
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It still amazes me the amount of different weird drinks that are sold in vending machines on the streets in Japan. It’s also astounding the rate at what new drinks appear and disappear on the market; it seems like the competition is really stiff. For example, Pepsi, in a desperate movement released the Cucumber Pepsi [...]
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Japan is home to the weirdest drinks in the world, like for example the Pepsi Cucumber. A brand new chocolate-flavored soda has been recently launched to the market by Suntory. Today before coming to work I stopped by at the conbini (abbreviation of “Convenience Store”) and bought a bottle of Suntory’s newest product called Sparkling [...]
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Sapporo has put on sale 250 six-packs of beer produced in space. The six-packs, holding 330-ml bottles, are available at a price of ¥10,000 each (around 75 euros, 110 dollars). What makes the beer special is that the original barley seeds were stored for five months in the International Space Station. It is the first [...]
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This is the cheapest drink being sold on a vending machine that I’ve ever seen in Tokyo. On of the drinks in the picture costs only 50 yen! Sometimes, in Japan it is cheaper to buy a drink in a vending machine than in a supermarket, I guess it is because here there are much [...]
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Strictly talking it is not beer, it is an alcoholic beverage that it looks like black beer but it tastes like chocolate! I’ve never seen it yet, but if I find it somewhere I’ll give it a try. I guess it has to taste really weird! Japanese beverage companies like to invent new drinks continually, [...]
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Matcha is a powdered green tea variety used in the traditional Tea Ceremony. It is also used to flavor sweets, cakes, ice creams etc. It is easy to recognize since its color is the darkest amongst green teas. The first time I drank matcha I didn’t really liked it, but the more I drink it [...]
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One of the first things that shocked me when I arrived to Japan was finding tons of posters in my dormitory dinning room with bikini girls holding a big beer mug. After the first shock I learned that it was not a weird thing of my dormitory, it is a pretty normal thing, it is [...]
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Oden is a Japanese soup with many different ingredients floating in it. An “oden-kan” (おでん缶) is a can filled with oden, nothing special, you could find something similar in a supermarket almost anywhere in the world.
Roy explained in his blog that around ten years ago a little computer shop in Akihabara had a brilliant idea, [...]
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