Food
474,048 is the number of restaurants and cafeterias in Japan. It is the country in the world with the highest density of restaurants/cafeterias in the world with one restaurant for each 266 people. The second place is for United States with 566,020 and a density of one restaurant for each 547 people. Notice that in [...]
Onigiri (お握り – おにぎり) are rice balls filled with different ingredients, although in shortage time (at the end of the war) they were simple rice balls without anything else. Usually they are filled with tuna, salmon, some vegetable, ume (fermented plum), fish eggs, etc. The other day I found a new kind of onigiri being [...]
Wasabi is a very popular Japanese culinary ingredient. It is of greenish color and you usually eat it as a paste/sauce to accompany raw fish plates. Maybe it is so well known because it’s very hot, although its spiciness is quite peculiar and it doesn’t stay on the tongue, but rather “goes up” straight to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
