Showing posts with label weird food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird food. Show all posts

2015-03-26

Raw Horse Meat, Kanda, Tsukemen and more | 7 Days, 7 Minutes (2015-03-09)



Published on Mar 26, 2015
Music By DJ Russel CrossFire https://soundcloud.com/russellcrossfire

00:00 Kanda Dusk (Kanda, Tokyo)
00:58 Horsepower (Aoyama, Tokyo)
01:58 Spring Skies (Kawasaki, Kanagawa)
02:58 Spring Projections (Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo)
04:04 Ishii Tsukemen (Ginza, Tokyo)
05:04 There's always room for one more (Shibuya Station)
06:03 Scrambled (Shibuya Crossing)

2014-07-29

It's Not Sushi - Science Experiment Candy (ねるねるねるね nerunerunerune)



The first of 2 videos where I look at some kids' candy where the prep is as fun and important as the candy itself.

Thanks to The Cat for doing the science.

2014-03-08

It's Not Sushi - Sasadango



Over the new year when I went home to Nagano with the cat, Her mom gave us Sasadango. What's Sasadango? Watch the video to find out :p

Yes there are subtitles. Make sure you have them enabled :p

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.

2013-02-01

10 Patty Tower Cheese Burger of DOOM! - (It's not Sushi 03)

in 2010 Lotteria (A Japanese fast food chain) had a 10 patty tower cheese burger. Some mates of mine manned up to the challenge.
It is old footage to be fair but since there are frequently big tower burger specials from many of the chains in Japan, It is still pretty relevant today.

WARNING! It's not for the faint of stomach.

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!

2010-12-25

Omlette Cake

No shit… that's what it was called. Needless to say I was a little skeptical.IMG_0700

Upon closer inspection it was just a foldover cake of sorts. had nothing to do with omlettes aside from maybe the shape. It could just as easily have been a Calzone cake.

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2010-10-11

Of Meat and Men

As those of you who knew me when I left SA two and a tiny bit years ago, I have undergone  drastic body reform. I have lost 30 odd kg and have almost doubled my  physical strength. The Kanashima Training room has been an instrumental part of this transformation.

Last night the men of the gym went out and ate some good meat grilled over coals  together. It was a rather manly night.

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The gym is one of the best in Gunma. Its only 5000 yen a month and it only has the bare minimum of equipment that is needed to get and stay in shape. There is no bling like the JOYFITs and GOLD’S GYMS and there is no posturing of posers. people who go there train hard and train properly. 

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Suzuki Sensei himself is a physiotherapist, ex GSDF (soldier), 3 time Kanto arm wrestling champion and a Kanto power lifting champion. The training credentials of some of the other members is also pretty impressive. Olympic Judo, National karate, Pro baseball, lots of power lifting, and one professional Piano mover… oh and a banker.

We also have a few mechanics, a VERY strong and buff Gyaru-o, Physiotherapy uni students and a number of High school athletes (the ones who are likely to be scouted) In fact one of our High-schoolers lives all the way in Takasaki but comes to our Gym cos the training advice is better than any gym there. You think that’s good, Our National Karate athlete comes in from Saitama, not every day but he gets training advice from Suzuki sensei and applies it where he is.

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And the training advice is unbelievable. Apart from Suzuki sensei himself the simple fact that you are doing squats in the same room as actual athletes means if your feet are off by a cm (and I really do mean a cm) you will be corrected. Which is great. I have learnt an un believable amount about the mechanics of human motion and how to train just about everywhere (and how to recover from it) just by chatting with the guys.

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Many of you will be thinking yeah whatever. and I can think of SOME of you who will probably accuse me of just talking out of my arse.

Look at my results. the proof is in my body. Yeah I know I still have a bit of a fat jacket but if you can look at me then and look at me now and still talk shit you are a bitter jealous fool.

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The night itself was an unbelievably good time. Manly men eating Meat… I daresay the meat in Japan doesn’t look all that manly, but it was an eat as much as you like affair… and wow did we ever. Most yakiniku nights I have had (even the eat as much as you like ones) are slow. people don’t actually do a lot of consumption, but we were eating through plates of meat faster than Pink Salon workers eat through cock.

It was a never ending stream of sizzling protein and talk about strength and training.

There was a whole bunch of arm wrestling too. It was a very manly night in what as up till today been a very manly weekend.

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2010-09-18

Blue Goo

What do you doo
They take 200 from yoo
Hand you chopsticks with goo
The colour of bloo
Too sticky to choo
Too tasty to be troo
Can't be good for yoo
Could possibly colour your poo
At least it won't give you the floo
I think.


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-- Blogged in the field.

 

*edit~ pic fixed!

2010-08-08

The station, The clock and the Pudding.

So in japan on amoeba blogs and .fc2 you get these random "blogged from the phone" posts. And to be fair I have done a few of those myself. But I tend to stick to the pretty photos piste from my PC type posts for the most part.

Now. I know there are quite a few of you reading this random collection of japan experiences hat I have managed to accrue over the last 2 years despite the woeful lack of comments.

I have been thinking. That in addition to the usual stuff I can make a point of filling in the blanks with these random Cellphone musings.

If you want.

Well how about it.

Let me know.

By the way. It's now 10 to 4 in the morning and I am just about finished my milk pudding.


-- Blogged in the field.

2010-02-02

Squid Biltong

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I shit you not… Baby squid biltong. It wasn’t unpleasant… Hell it was even a little tasty… but I wont be in a hurry to consume any more anytime soon.

2009-11-29

Update~ KONYAKU!

No, I didn't sneeze… No, its not Japanese for cognac… No, I didn’t insult your your mother…well maybe I did but that has nothing to do with this.

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Konnyaku is a jelly like substance which is made using this weird ass root that grows underground for 2-3 years. It is supposed to have 0 calories and is supposed to be good for you. I dunno about that but it does taste pretty decent.

I was invited to the konnyaku making shindig at the Shimogo (My Neighbourhood) community centre. I figured that it was free food and i got to meet the community… uberWIN.

 

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I was essentially there for 2 hours speaking to the grandmothers of the community about various things while they made the konnyaku (men don't make konnyaku it seems) They were fun and cute as most old people are and It was a refreshing change. I particularly enjoyed the way the 2 eldest  talked about their days in nursery school together and used each other’s nicknames from back then.

After that it was time to eat. It was akin to a feast. All in all it was a good day.

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If any of you are ALTs or just Foreigners in Japan, How do you interact with your community? Do you also get invited to these events? and do you accept the invitation?

2009-09-28

Update – Kyoto Omiyage

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A few weeks ago the 3rd graders at my JHS went to Kyoto on a school trip.

A friend and fellow teacher who went on the trip brought me back these souveniers.

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amazing packaging for an amazing product.

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small sugary sweets with little pockets of sake inside each one.

Most amazing.

2009-08-28

Holy SHIT! JAPAN!

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Yes… This is a shaved dried shrimp. Shrimp biltong. It tastes most bizarre. crunchy and insect like. Kinda made my skin crawl somewhat.

So the ultimate question…

Can we eat it?

IMGP4478 yup… Just like he said.