After the epic Oden, The Germanator and I went crawling around Akabane in search of whatever we happened to find.
Showing posts with label drink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drink. Show all posts
2016-02-17
Sweet sweets and cheap grog (赤羽 Akabane, Tokyo part 2) | Japan How It Is - ft. The Germanator.
Music by MANNY MARX. http://manymarx.com
2016-02-14
Hail Oden! Maruken Suisan 丸健水産 (赤羽 Akabane, Tokyo part 1) | It's Not Sushi ft. The Germanator
Music by MANNY MARX. http://manymarx.com
The Germanator and I went out one last time before he headed back. We hit up Maruken Suisan, thus far, the best oden shop I've been to in Japan.
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2016-01-20
Coming of age, Sangenjaya, crows and more #7Days7Minutes (2016-1-11)
First #7Days7Minutes of 2016. Let's see how long I can keep these regular this year :p
2015-11-08
Halloween 2015 - Bar PSY #BecauseJapan
A halloween party night wouldn't be a party night if I didn't make a turn at my favourite bar in Tokyo. Good people, good booze and good times.
you can see more pics here (DARC facebook) or here (DARC flickr)
you can see more pics here (DARC facebook) or here (DARC flickr)
2015-05-16
Yoyogi Park, Tequila, DIONYSUS & more | 10 DAYS // 10 MINUTES (2015-05-01)
because April was a full month backlog, I needed to add an extra 3 days to the beginning of May to get back to a weekly vid.
music:"Amari wakaranai kedo" by kulimu (feat. irish4t, Tsurutin)
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2015-05-07
Epic BMX, Pixellated Sushi, Tokyo cats and more | 7 Days. 7 Minutes - April 2015
April just got away from me so I decided to stick all the best clips into one video and bring things back on schedule.
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Music by:
DJ Russel CrossFire
Manny Marx
2015-03-16
Subscriber Meetup - Chevy | Random Japan
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2014-11-16
2014-04-20
Monsters on the prowl
I took a long ass walk across Tokyo not too long ago (Video coming soon... I promise). Anyways at the end of the trek, rolling down a hill from Aoyama-dori toward Shibuya Station i spotted these 3 cool kids handing out free monster energy drinks...
So I took a can and shot the kids!
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2014-03-31
7 Days 7 Minutes (2014-03-17) 日本語でがんばりました
00:00 月曜日MONDAY 夜露死苦 (its a wordplay joke... if you get it, you get it.)
01:00 火曜日TUESDAY 銀座の交差点 (Crossings in GInza)
02:00 水曜日WEDNESDAY 新しいおもちゃ (New Toy)
03:00 木曜日THURSDAY 渋谷首都高火事の余波 (Fire on the expressway in Shibuya, the aftermath)
04:05 金曜日じゃないnotFRIDAY 渋谷 (Shibuya)
05:00 土曜日じゃないnotSATURDAY マニー・マークス(Manny Marx) http://mannymarx.bandcamp.com
06:00 日曜日じゃないnotSUNDAY 新しい友達 (New Friends)
2014-03-07
Shots #106 DOOK!
I took this in 2013 in a more working class suburb of Yokohama. In Japan, many of these old school, single owner bottle stores have these bizarre yet awesome and well detailed mascots. They also often have great selections of Japanese booze.
This shop doesn't exist anymore. I spoke to the owner who was in the process of packing up and selling off the last of his wares, he told me that the shopping centre that opened at the station a few hundred metres away broke him. The generic chain stores within buy in massive bulk and can undercut the local sellers. While they generally don't stock some of the finer and more unique varieties of alcohol from smaller sake and shochu producers in favour of the cheap mass-market pigswill from bloated businesses like Kirin and Suntory, they do let the customer get drunk for cheaper. As a result the friendly old man at the corner liquor store was forced to close down and that cute duck perched atop it's barrel has probably been melted down or is rusting in a scrap heap.
This is a double blow because without outlets to sell their sake, smaller producers get hit too, and while they have some government assistance, that very government is trying to put them out of business with the TPP.
Tokyo masses are to busy slaving away in their offices and watching the happy lies on NHK, too insulated by the city's wealth to the realities outside, all the Otaku fap away to their pre-pubescent idols, all the overseas dreamers look at pictures of geisha, sakura, and mt. Fuji and think everything is idyllic and wonderful. But the true heart of Japan is being hollowed by greed to turn a quick profit.
This is the side of Japan that nobody sees. This story is being replayed at every single family owned retail business in every single small town and suburb in the country. Sadly, these bizarre yet awesome mascots, like so many amazing and unique things in Japan, will likely disappear as a result.
2014-02-25
Shots #105 Habu-shu (Snake Booze)
Habu (The most venomous land snake in Japan) fermented in Awamori (Okinawan booze). Fancy a drink?
2013-07-14
7 Days 7 Minutes (2013-07-01)
2013-03-19
Snake Booze [Mamushi Zake] (It's not Sushi 05)
While in Nagano I learned about a medicine (that is also sometimes drunk) of which the key ingredient is the Japanese Pit Viper.
2013-01-16
Toyama Black Cider (It’s Not Sushi 01)
Starting a new video Project where I look at the weird and wonderful food and drink that Japan has to offer. As you may have guessed… It’s not sushi!
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