Kobe beef is the most known Japanese meat outside of Japan, it is considered by many the best meat in the world. To make the meat the softest possible the cows are massaged once a day and in some farms they are given beer to drink. Kobe beef tradition comes from long time ago, in [...]
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Inago means grasshopper in Japanese. It is a Japanese “delicacy” that is usually served in some restaurants in certain prefectures, most of all in rural areas where I suppose they can be captured and cooked while they are fresh. The other day I found a stall specialized in inago, いなご, in downtown Tokyo. The man [...]
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The other day I was in a sushi restaurant where they had this picture at the entrance:
Unfortunately that big sushi was not on the menu! However the sushi that we got was excellent. If you want to try some really good sushi, you can find the restaurant near Shinjuku 3-Chome.
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Giga Pudding is a kit commercialized by Takara Tommy to easily prepare gigantic puddings. This promotional video of the Giga Pudding is just… awesome!
You can buy Giga Pudding here.
Instructions on how to prepare Giga Pudding.
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Some time ago we came across this on the supermarket:
I had no idea what it was, but it turns out that it is a quite common marine animal. In fact, some weeks after seeing it at the supermarket, I was snorkeling in Thailand and saw many of them in their natural habitat. In Japanese language [...]
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When I arrived to Japan for the first time I was surprised to see whale meat cans in the supermarket, now I am totally used to it (which doesn’t mean I agree with it). What surprised me the other day was bumping into a shop where only whale meat is sold!! They are specialized in [...]
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A hamburger restaurant in Tokyo has decided to put a hamburger vending machine at the entrance of the restaurant. You put the coins and you get a hamburger right away. The problem is that there is only one hamburger available at a time, if you want a second hamburger you have to wait until the [...]
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One of my favorite ramen restaurant in Shijuku is Kamukura (exact location in Google Maps). The other day, at the entrance of the restaurant, I bumped into this photo of Wentworth Miller, the actor that plays Michael Scofield in Prison Break. I asked one of the cooks about it and he told me that Wentworth [...]
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A new sushi place has recently opened near my house. I share with you a couple of pictures of the set menu I ordered the other day. The sushi set was 1,100 yen (around 8 euro/12 dollar).
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I came across this interesting stuffed blowfish. Now you can see why it is called “blowfish” or “ballonfish”. Fugu or blowfish usually have this appearance when they are calm, but when they get angry they inflate themselves until they acquire quite a spherical shape. When they inflate themselves they turn into a balloon with spikes, [...]
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