Dango – だんご３兄弟

Posted on 01. May, 2008 @ 10:41 am by in Crazy Consumers, Food Views: 1,156

Mmm…. Dango.

Three individually flavored balls of sweetness.

There was a Dango 3 Kyoudai (The 3 brothers Dango) song made popular years ago in Japan. Thanks to the wonders of youtube, you can enjoy it over and over again today!

Check out the Dango 3 Kyoudai video on YouTube.

Also, if you are into cute school supplies, you can get a dango shaped eraser set from The Japan Shop.

dango eraser set

You know. I just noticed that even the eraser set has the dango in order, pink, white, green. It just occured to me that all dango with these flavors all over Japan are ordered the exact same way… I wonder how that got started…

- Harvey

  • http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

    花より団子だね。

  • http://www.joepetrow.com Joe

    Dango sankyodai actually ticked off a lot of dango makers, because a normal dango has four balls on it, and a lot of kids complained because they weren’t “real” dango.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Hahah, that’s hilarious! Now that you mention it I do remember seeing a lot of four dango in the past. Funny funny.

    Even funnier is that a spoof of Dango 3 kyoudai was released called dango 4 kyoudai!

    Leave it to youtube. You can hear it here.
    http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=wZTAiz_IBXA

    ほんとうは団子は４兄弟！♩

  • http://www.joepetrow.com Joe

    ぼくはくま、くま、くま、くま。
    くるまじゃないよ。くま、くま。

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Are you talking about that cheesy ultra-cute song by Aiko or something?

    What does that have to do with anything!? The subject is dango! DANNGOOOOO!!!!

  • http://stephenshores.org Stephen

    If that stuff tasted half as good as it looks, you must’ve had a great time. Yum.

  • Joe

    No, I’m talking about the brilliant, ultra-cute song by Utada Hikaru.

    They were both NHK Children’s songs that went big.

    Dango -> Dango 3kyodai -> Boku ha Kuma -> ??? -> Profit

    If you’re ever gonna have kids, you’d better build up your tolernce for songs like that!

  • http://www.anime-source.com xeno

    when it comes to songs about dango… there is only one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4k6HWcf6jM

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