“Don’t play with your food!” I don’t remember how many times I heard this sentence when I was a child. Every time when I finished lunch, but my plate was not totally empty and I started pushing around the meat…
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Don’t play with your food!
Tagged with: Facebook, Fast food, food, Food and drink, French fries, Japan, McDonald's, Twitter
Posted in Food, Japanese
Posted in Food, Japanese
The Hajmola challenge
I thought I have eaten a lot of awful things, but it seems that there is still stuff outside which makes you wonder if such products were created for humans to be eaten. One of these infamous products came into…
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Kurukuru nabe
What? くるくる(KURUKURU) means “turning around, rotating” and 鍋(NABE) is the Japanese word for saucepan or pot. By putting together these two words, Dentist Hideki Watanabe started marketing his invention – a self-stirring saucepan. The pot which causes its contents to…
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Tagged with: Amazon, Convection, Cookware and bakeware, Dentist, Hideki Watanabe, Japan, Whirlpool, Youtube
Posted in Food, Japanese
Posted in Food, Japanese
Spicy recommendation XXX
Here’s spicy recommendation number thirty. Yesterday I was in Tachikawa area during lunch time and thus looked for a restaurant close to the station. Like at any other locations close to Japanese train stations you can find an almost endless…
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Spicy recommendation XXIX
After a longer time of visiting more or less average restaurants that serve spicy food I had the chance to go to Tachikawa area today. A 15 minutes walk south(-east) wards from Tachikawa station brings you in a less crowded…
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Tagged with: Curry, Food and drink, Indian cuisine, Naan, spicy food, Tachikawa station
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
Tirol in Japan
Tyrol (spelled “Tirol” in German) is a federal state in western Austria located between Germany in the North and Italy in the South. The state is famous for its beautiful and scenic mountains, traditional folk songs and leather breeches. Well,…
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Oktoberfest times eight
Oktoberfest is a two week festival held annually in Munich, Germany, running usually from late September to the first weekend in October. Millions of people are attending this event, which does not only attract locals but is also visited by…
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Nashi
Nashi(梨) or Japanese Pear, also known under the genus name Pyrus pyrifolia, is a pear tree species which can be found in Eastern Asia, mainly in China, Japan, and Korea. Other than the European pear fruits, nashi have a high…
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Super Size It
Junk food has not always been as big as it is now. The chart below compares the sizes of soda, french fries and hamburgers between 1950 and now. It’s amazing to see that since 1950 the volume of an order…
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Square watermelons
When temperaturs are climbing towards the upper 30ies in Japan and school holidays are almost at their peak, supermarkets are well equipped to provide any kind of goods for the families who are enjoying their summer holidays. This includes an…
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