Nasty Snacks
Posted by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Food, Humor on 31. Jan, 2006 | 8 Comments
One of the fun things about Japan is the wide variety of yummy snacks. We’re all familiar with Pocky and the like, but sometimes… The imaginative qualities of the snacks, seem to be more important than the actual taste…
This is no exception.
Behold. GENGHIS KHAN CARAMEL. (What is GENGHIS KHAN)
It’s a caramel. That is MEAT FLAVORED.
And [...]
Empty Train & Yumeji Images
Posted by harvey in Culture on 26. Jan, 2006 | 5 Comments
Just digging through my pics and came across these shots.
This one is actually, in my Tokyo/Osaka-jin opinion, a pretty rare picture of Japan. This train is empty! Usually the trains are so ridiculously crowded in the big cities of Japan, that it is very hard to get an image like this. I [...]
Giant Takoyaki
Posted by harvey in Culture, Food, Osaka on 20. Jan, 2006 | 3 Comments
We’ve covered Takoyaki on JapanNewbie before… But these are monster Takoyaki.
During Ebisu Matsuri in Osaka, which I’ll post about later… I ran across this vendor selling Takoyaki which must have been three times the normal size! Maybe four.
An entire mini octopus fits inside, rather than just a piece of leg. I didn’t try one [...]
Gengis Khan – Sapporo
Posted by harvey in Food, Travel on 17. Jan, 2006 | 11 Comments
As you may have heard, in Japan every location has some famous food. One of the famous foods in Hokkaido, maybe especially Sapporo, is Gengis Khan (ジンギスカン）.
We asked around and found a famous Gengis Khan shop called “DARUMA”. So famous we had to wait outside in the freezing Hokkaido winter for over an hour!
Gengis Khan [...]
Bilingual Newbie
Posted by harvey in Language on 14. Jan, 2006 | 8 Comments
これから気が向いたときに、英語はもちろん、日本語も書きます！ 言語を変えるに、右上にリンクがありますので、確認してみてください！ encodingのことがよくわからんけど、とりあえずUTF-8(たぶん)でやってみた。うまく使えなかったら教えてね。
From now on, when I feel especially motivated, I’ll be posting in Japanese and English! There is a link in the upper right fo the site you can click to change the language. Give it a try, let me know how it goes. I’m not exactly sure how the encoding should be set [...]
New Year, New Omamori
Posted by harvey in Culture on 11. Jan, 2006 | 3 Comments
On New Years in Japan, most people will head out to a Shrine or Temple for ‘hatsumode’, the first time out to a temple for the near year. During this visit people will pray, eat snacks from the food booths, pull omikuji (the fortune telling paper that you see tied on trees), and do [...]
Hizamakura China Version
Posted by harvey in Crazy Consumers on 06. Jan, 2006 | 9 Comments
Last year at Christmas time we brought you Hizamakura.
This Christmas season the hizamakura is back, but this time…
Hizamakura Chinese version!
In case you can’t read the sign, the price tag is 13,440 yen. In case you’re not in Japan, that’s over $100 US. You can buy an iPod for that.
Let me think. iPod… or a [...]
Nagoya-ben Lesson 1
Posted by harvey in Language on 02. Jan, 2006 | 2 Comments
Nagoya is a city about halfway between Tokyo and Osaka. Nagoya has things such as… Nagoya Castle, the recent Aichi Expo, and of course, it’s own local dialect.
Let’s learn Nagoya-ben together! We can talk about MISOKATSU, a famous Nagoya food. This is from the Nagoya restaraunt YABATON.
Frame 1 Point Pick-up!
The pig says うみゃ！
In Nagoya [...]
