Hokkaido Marimokkori
Posted by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Humor on 30. Nov, 2006 | 20 Comments
Thanks to a friend at school I was introduced to this interesting mascot from Hokkaido.
Marimokkori!
The name is a play on words. A Marimo, is a weird algae ball found in Hokkaido.
A mokkori, is another word for, well, a mound. However, it can also be used in a way described by our favorite dictionary, ALC. [...]
Kansai-ben Lesson 9 – moute
Posted by harvey in Language, Osaka on 28. Nov, 2006 | 3 Comments
Kansai-ben lesson Point 「〜もうて」
A-san is speaking standard Japanese
B-san is speaking Kansai Dialect
〜もうて Usage One (もらった)
A: 見てみて、これ母に作ってもらったの。
B: ええな、いろいろ作ってもうて。
A: Look at this, my mom made this for me.
B: Lucky, getting all that stuff made for you.
A: え！先輩がまたA子の宿題を手伝ってあげてる！
B: ずるい、あんなふうにまたやってもうて。
A: Hey! The the senior is helping A-ko out with her homework again!
B: That’s not fair, getting help again like [...]
Skinny Girls
Posted by harvey in Society on 26. Nov, 2006 | 27 Comments
The first thing I notice when I get off the plane when returning to America is how large the people are on average when compared to Japan.
Japanese people are thin. Especially females.
Here is some interesting data collected from the World Health Organization.
underweight
This graph has the percentage of underweight females on the Y axis, and the [...]
Horse Racing in Tokyo
Posted by harvey in Culture, Society, Tokyo on 24. Nov, 2006 | 4 Comments
What’s going on in this picture?
If the title of the post didn’t give it away, this is a shot of the inside of the horse racing track at Fuchu Honmachi in Tokyo.
The people in the picture are watching the score board which shows live video of the races going on outside, supplemented with data on [...]
Monjyayaki in Tsukishima
Posted by harvey in Food, Tokyo on 22. Nov, 2006 | 3 Comments
Monjyayaki. You can eat it in Tsukishima, as mentioned in a previous post.
It looks like… Well. I’ll leave that up to you.
When you order monjyayaki usually you’ll be given the prepared ingredients, and you’ll have to cook it and make the monjyayaki yourself. At the particular store we went to, we ordered three monjyayaki, and [...]
Tsukishima home of Monjyayaki
Posted by harvey in Food, Tokyo on 20. Nov, 2006 | 2 Comments
Looking for cheap fun in Tokyo I went to Tsukishima with some friends.
Tsukishima (月島) is known for Monjyayaki (もんじゃ焼き), a Tokyo specialty food which loosely resembles an okonomiyaki attempt which became buddah.
Once you get to Tsukishima station you go to Tsukishima nishinaka doori syoutengai, and you’ll notice a Monjyayaki shop…
And another, and another, and another. [...]
Tarako Revisited
Posted by harvey in Culture, Food, Media on 20. Nov, 2006 | 2 Comments
This is for everyone who has succeeded in getting Tarako out of their heads already.
This guy over at Salmon Sheets has done a bang up job collecting everything and anything there is going on regarding Tarako. He even quoted my translation!
Please don’t miss the Tarako Christmas version.
And please. Don’t miss the Tarako Figher Flash Game.
Oh [...]
Parasite Museum in Meguro
Posted by harvey in Tokyo on 18. Nov, 2006 | 5 Comments
I took a trip to the Meguro parasite museum! (目黒寄生中館)
The only parasite museum in the world, this place is a real gem for the Tokyo-ite looking for something different, or the Japan traveler with a “unique” idea of a good time.
Here you can see 8.8 meter tape worm specimens!
There are a wide variety of worms [...]
