Entries tagged with 'Japan'
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Crispy shrimp snack coated with mild chocolate!! Enjoy the perfect match of shrimp and chocolate. Weird food combinations found in Japan is not this week's theme for Photo of the Day, but I couldn't ignore Japundit's photo of a shrimp and chocolate snack. Oh, how my mouth waters!...not really....
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The above photo is not photoshopped—it really is a bowl of ramen topped with soft serve ice cream, cones and all. I love ramen and I love soft serve ice cream, but methinks the combination of the two would not placate my rumbling belly. Japan it UP! has more details about the ramen shop, which also offers yogurt ramen, hot cocoa ramen and coffee ramen....
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Japan's per capita consumption of rice—the symbolic staple of the Japanese diet—has dropped to half its 1960 level as bread, pasta, and other wheat-based goods have grown in popularity. Farmers and retailers find new ways to sustain its popularity—by offering designer rices, incorporating rice flour into baked goods, and marketing Japanese rice to other countries....
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Lori spotted this cute coffee shop on a recent trip to Yokohama. The potential to have a "delightful moment" and fill myself with "sweet flavor" even makes me—a longtime non-coffee drinker—want to go inside and order a cup of joe. Read more about Lori's trip to Japan in her blog, Dessert Comes First....
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Photograph from Tamaki on Flickr This is what rice looks like before it finds its way to your plate. This rice field happens to be in Miyagi Perfecture, Japan. Flickr member Tamaki lives nearby and has posted a beautiful set of photos of the rice field at various times of year....
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Photograph from Superlocal on Flickr This fine specimen of street food, the "tornado potato" or, if you prefer, the "tortato," was spotted on the streets of Seoul, South Korea. They can also be found in Japan....
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Pour some clear broth into this Japanese-designed topography soup plate, surround it with broccoli florets and you've got yourself a minimalist mountain scene that doubles as a meal. Just be careful to pick the right liquid so that it doesn't look like your mountain valley is full of mud (gravy) or blood (tomato soup). Blue Gatorade may look best. [via TasteSpotting]...
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If you find typical cooking shows are too boring, maybe a battle between "chefs" constructing fake food made of painted plastic will catch your interest. This clip from Japanese TV show TV Champion pits two fake food craftsmen together as they prove to three judges who has the better skills. Be amazed as a brown, craggly slab of plastic turns into a steak and a bumpy beige lump is turned into a piece of fried chicken! Is it sad that their food looks more edible than anything I can cook? [via TV in Japan] For those who don't know, the over ninety-years old fake food industry in Japan is pretty awesome. Fake food (also known as sampuru, the Japanese...
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Don't blame us, say U.S. ethanol makers, in response to the high price of food. [Washington Post] Meanwhile, European food prices surge, too. [Reuters] A new foot-and-mouth scare in England. [The Telegraph] French couple raises the country's only certified-organic snails. Vive le free-range escargot! [The Telegraph] In Japan, fast-food chains jump on the trans-fat–banning bandwagon. [Asahi Shimbun] And China and the U.S. reach a food-safety agreement while Chinese officials plan to use GPS to track and safeguard Olympic food shipments. [Voice of America; AP] Back to the U.S., and there are more recalls on canned food. This time it's green beans. [Detroit Free Press] File under "obvious": For pre-schoolers, flashy packaging more important than flavor. [Fox News] Your RDA of...
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I knew Japan was the birthplace of square watermelons, but the concept of watermelons vaguely shaped like human heads with bulging eyeballs is new to me. PingMag takes us into the world of strangely shaped watermelon breeding, where pyramidal watermelons will set you back $650 and the human head-shaped ones may cost you your soul. The heart-shaped cucumbers are much more accessible at around $2 for one cuke and probably taste more like their normal-shaped counterpart than the molded watermelons....
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