Food
How did hotdogs came to Japan?
A new photos exhibition reveals that the Germans have taught the Japanese how to make hotdogs. It wasn’t part of a cultural exchange, but during World War I, where the German prisoners showed their guards how to prepare Germany favorite food.
It seems it all started in June of 1918, when the prisoners showed their [...]
Meet the Flower Fire Extinguisher
Let’s suppose that you are in the kitchen, cooking some great noodles and suddenly a fire bursts out. What do you do? Of course, you take out the Flower Extinguisher!
This $21 unique flower is not just an ordinary plastic flower. It is covered with special chemicals that “choke” the fire instantly. The logic behind [...]
Crazy Cream Puffs from Japan
A new bakery in Tokyo has started selling Totoro Cream Puff, based on the lovely character of Totoro, in the movie “My friend Totoro”. Totoro is a friendly forest spirit which is weird combination of a cat and an owl.
The new bakery calls itself Shirohige no shou cream kobo, which is translated into White-bearded’ [...]
The Smallest Noodle Bowl in The World
Japanese scientists are probably don’t eat so much. That’s why they focus their research on creating nanofood - food that is so small it can be seen only in a microscope.
The scientist have create a bowl of noodles or ramen (the Japanese version for noodles) in the size of 1/25,000 of an inch. the [...]
Buy a Watermelon for $6,100
Food prices are climbing all over the world and Japan has to be the most outstanding country again.
A 17-pound (8 kilograms) black jumbo watermelon was sold in Japan for $6100, which makes it possibly the world most expensive watermelon.
Another watermelon on the same sale ended up being sold for $5,945, and weighs 24 [...]
Hummus in Japan
As I was stumbling around, I’ve found a nice site about hummus in Japan. Hummus World features restaurants reviews from around Japan and New York. There is also a nice recipe for hummus.
Unfortunately, the owner of Hummus World no longer operates the site. So we are left with only old reviews, but the recipe [...]
