Entries tagged with 'japan'
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We found this video of a Japanese mother and son's speedy morning prep routine via Maki Itoh of Just Bento, who sifts through the wackiness to find the truly useful tips--like the use of a takoyaki pan to cook many items at once or using a jar to make onigiri. Peep the vid, after the jump....
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[Photograph: cabel.name] In Kashiwa, Japan, the mysterious Ogori Cafe had a unique way of filling your order. According to Cabel Maxfield Sasser: At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered. Sounds like a fun social experiment, and, indeed, the point of the cafe seems to have been to introduce surprise into an ordinary day and to encourage strangers to interact with one another. And I love what Sasser's friend ordered for the customer after him: Mike went up to the cafe, slapped down a couple thousand yen (~$25), and ordered a little bit of everything: some ice cream, some snacks, some candy, some drinks, a Japanese horn-of-mysterious-plenty intentionally set...
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My days of dreaming about a place where I can eat bunny-shaped foods and then cuddle with a bunch of bunnies are over. This place exists! ...In Japan! At this rabbit cafe, customers can eat plates of curry topped with bunny-shaped rice blocks and then go to a separate room of frolicking fluffy bunnies that you can pet and cuddle until your heart implodes with cuteness. You can also BYOB (Bring Your Own Bunny) so that your bunny can socialize with other bunnies. Food + cute cuddly animals = happiness. Watch the video after the jump....
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Now pigs don't have to be limited to grunts and snorts—at least in Japan, where these ceramic piggy speakers are available in different colors for ¥4,725 (about $50). [via Engdaget; Tip o' the hat to Nick] Related White Castle Amplifiers Pig Faced Cooking Lid Video: Adorable Pig in Boots...
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Photograph from karaponeyami.blog.so-net.ne.jp Pink Tentacle rounds up some amazing rice paddy art in Japan, made by "strategically arranging and growing different colors of rice plants." Pictured above is the depiction of a Sengoku-period warrior in the village of Inakadate. [via Boing Boing]...
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Mmm, a whopping 38 grams of hammy goodness. From Tokyo Damage Report. Single-serving packages of food can be convenient and good for portion control, but sometimes they go too far. Tokyo Damage Report documents some examples of excessive or atypical packaging for single-serving products in Japan. Individually wrapped waffles or dorayaki don't seem that strange, but single bananas, eggs, or slices of ham are a bit questionable. [via Peter Crackenberg] Related Individually Wrapped Cashew Is Full of Fail Photo of the Day: Individually-Wrapped Bananas, Freaking Us Out...
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I don’t know why we’ve never blogged about this video series before. You'd think Robyn would have been all over this—it's Japanese, it's cute, and it involves animals. And before you go there, it's about cooking along with a dog. A dog named Francis, who, as a friend pointed out, makes surprisingly sophisticated recipes. I mean, Cooking with Dog could easily have gone into superkitsch territory, in which the food was secondary to the talking-dog shtick. But, it doesn't. Probably because it’s from Japan and because the dog, a poodle, is of French origin. And, as you know, both cultures take their food very seriously. [Get cookin' with the video, after the jump.]...
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FX Cuisine François-Xavier of FX Cuisine shows some of the "culinary artifacts" he recently got from Japan, including the scissor-like doohickey above. What is it used for? See the answer after the jump....
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The moffle is a Japanese snack that's exactly what the portmanteau word adds up to—mochi plus waffle. Cubes of mochi (glutinous rice that's been pounded into a paste) are plopped into a waffle iron (or custom moffle irons in Japan). Panini presses apparently work or—just entertain the idea for a second—a George Foreman grill? The cubes flatten and grow waffle grooves and have a warm chewiness that's somewhere between a bread and a goo. Moffles have one of those textures where you have to chew the for length of the alphabet. They aren't the most flavorful thing in the world—I mean, it's rice paste—but part of the fun is jazzing up the crunchy surface with toppings, whether sweet or...
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Tofu and vegetables = vegan friendly! Maki Itoh of Just Hungry shares advice for vegans in Japan—first off, to be careful because many traditional Japanese dishes use dashi, which is made with dried fish. "Just about the only things that are fairly sure to be dashi-free are plain rice and homemade pickles," she says (although she does share a recipe for vegan dashi). Looking towards non-traditional Japanese cuisine for vegan dishes may not be much easier. She suggests cooking for yourself if your stay is long enough (she shares recipes on Just Hungry and Just Bento), eating brown rice and whole wheat bread, and shares links to other vegan resources in Japan. Don't miss the comments from her readers for...
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