The market for limited edition soft drinks and sweets in Japan is truly staggering. Kit Kats alone have had more variations in this country than all others put together (see here), and now, just in time for summer, we have cucumber-flavoured Pepsi.
In truth, the only thing cucumbery about this particular drink is the colour, although [...]
Staring into other people’s shopping baskets while queuing at the supermarket checkout. Everyone does it, in fact it’s almost impossible not to have a sneaky peak. I mean, what else is there to do? Read the ingredients label on your Sharwood’s Tikka Curry sauce jar?
You can learn a lot about someone from the contents of [...]
This week, chilblains, we will be talking about kaiten-zushi, otherwise known as conveyor belt sushi. Kaiten-zushi restaurants have a conveyor belt running around the counter table upon which plates of sushi are placed. You can choose to either shout your order to one of the sushi chefs, or simply take whatever you like from the [...]
Yes indeed, after eighteen months of teaching at A Big university I will finally be moving on to pastures new come the end of December. Learning some Japanese seems to have paid off and I’ve managed to secure a job in central Tokyo doing interesting stuff (well, interesting for me, at least). My new company [...]
Everyone in Japan was eating yakiniku this weekend, or so it seemed, thanks to an all-you-can-eat for ¥1500 (that’s 7.50 British scrotes) promotion from one of the largest yakiniku restaurant chains in the country. The queue for our local branch tonight stretched all the way down three flights of stairs, along a hallway and into [...]
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