Archive for the category Drinks

Matcha

Por kirai el 04 de December de 2008 en Drinks

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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Asahi Beer girls

Por kirai el 14 de October de 2008 en Drinks

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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Oldskool Sprite

Por kirai el 17 de March de 2008 en Drinks

First Oden-kan vending machine

Por kirai el 05 de March de 2008 en Drinks

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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Alcoholic vending machine

Por kirai el 26 de February de 2008 en Drinks

This a vending machine filled with alcoholic drinks (Mostly beer). It has an electronic driver’s license reader that checks if the customer has the age of majority or not. Not all these vending machines have the driver’s license checking system, but the government wants to introduce the system in all of them. It’s a cool [...]

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Energetic drinks

Por kirai el 16 de January de 2008 en Drinks

Japanese, and also Asian people are pretty addict to energetic drinks. There are zillions of different kinds of beverages. Here, there is a picture with energetic drinks and similar potions in a simple convenience store, if you go to a pharmacy there is even more variety. “Red Bull” is trying to enter this competitive [...]

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Yakult and lactobacillus casei

Por kirai el 22 de September de 2007 en Drinks

Yakult (ヤクルト) is the name of the first company in the world that commercialized products with “Lactobacillus Casei”. It was during 1935 (Much much before Danone made their L.Casei products popular in Europe and USA) when a Japanese scientist called Shirota discoverd the “L. casei Shirota” and created a company that would become the current [...]

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Water bar

Por kirai el 19 de June de 2007 en Drinks

Last weekend I saw for the first time in my life a water bar, a place where the only thing you can order is water! Here are some pictures:

You can choose two types of water, the “red” one and the “blue” one. The Matrix?

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It seems to be a company called Ogolife. [...]

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Cucumber Pepsi

Por kirai el 13 de June de 2007 en Drinks

Today’s featured talk among my workmates was the new cucumber flavored Pepsi available in Japan. Gave it a try and it tastes as cucumber, it’s nasty!

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Sapporo beer

Por kirai el 10 de June de 2007 en Advertising, Drinks

I’m not a beer fan but looking at this ad made me think about drinking a cold Sapporo beer and try to imitate those guys faces

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