Food
The sushi served in the Jiro restaurant in Ginza is considered the best in the world; it was the first sushi restaurant to receive 3 Michelin stars! Unfortunately I have never been there; you have to make a reservation (there is only place for 10 people) and a normal meal costs between 30,000 and 40,000 [...]
Nestlé Japan usually releases different Kit Kat varieties depending on the year season. My favorite one is the green tea Kit Kat. Another marketing strategy is to sell certain varieties of Kit Kat only in some provinces. This way when people travel around Japan, they notice the specific varieties of the regions and even buy [...]
Last week, finally, I had the chance to go to the famous restaurant Nobu Tokyo. There are Nobu restaurants all over the world, here you have a list of all of them. Having dinner in Nobu Tokyo is quite expensive, but you can have a REALLY good meal at lunch time for around 20~30 euro [...]
My brother sent me the other day this reddit link that has videos with bizarre food in Japan. It’s not something you can find every day in Japan, but you can find it if you really look for it. I have seen and eaten the dancing squid dish sometimes, although my dish was not dancing [...]
Another weird vending machine coming from Japan, this time “fresh” (?) eggs are on sale. Other posts about vending machines in Japan: New solar-powered Coca-Cola vending machines with LED lights Umbrella vending machine Vending machine with a 47 inches interface Used panties vending machines Women vending machine Porn magazines vending machine Hamburger vending machine Book [...]
Source: Twinavi
The kit used to prepare the sushi candy seen on the video can be found in Amazon Japan. Source: Reddit
In the first auction of the year in the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo the most expensive tuna in history has been sold for 32.49 million yen (around 300,000 euros/390,000 dollars). The tuna weights 342 kg; however the weight nor the quality was what made it that expensive, but being the first tuna sold in [...]
