Another Bizarre Food from Japan: Mini Dog Pizza!

As I like to introduce interesting food, and like even more the ones from Japan, here is another one for you all: The Mini Dog Pizza!!!

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High Tech Ramen?!?!?!?

I found a really interesting food article on Danny Choo's website/blog or whatever you call it. Apparently you have to purchase a food ticket in front of the restaurant so they can custom build (cook in this case) you desired bowl of ramen. I would definitely try this place out if I can go to Japan. Check out the page at Japanese Food

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Personal Trip: Bairro da Liberdade (Liba)

During last week I went to São Paulo with my family, and I wanted to go specially because of a certain place: it's the Bairro da Liberdade (literally Freedom neighborhood in portuguese), nicknamed Liba by brazilians. Well, thing is, this place has many japanese people who came from migration decades ago, and is where they set up their homes. They currently use it to spread some of their culture of commerce, and that's the part I love.

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Interesting Food From Akihabara

It's not so long since I heard about Akihabara, the famous japanese place known as the Electric Town, full of anime, manga and video games stuff. I decided to research a bit on this town, and have been finding some peculiar stuff about it, but most of all interesting. So, everytime I can I will try to show something of Akihabara in here, and to not stand on the obvious since most people already know about it, I'll add the most different/interesting/original things from there. I'll start by posting some types of food that you can find there. Some of them look really yummy, some others are already familiar and known and a few others might border on the grotesque, so prepare your stomachs. XD

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Granny Shoplifting But Why?

I'm sure that my grandmother wouldn't steal products from the supermarket, but this granny seems to do it....  One must think, why do it?  Surely her family has to give her money or is it another reason?  Don't know whether to feel sorry or "Serves her right" on this until you get to the end... The growing number of elderly shoplifters in Japan is a problem that has been covered a lot in the international media, and, as you may have seen above, it also gets attention on hidden camera shoplifting reports. Why do people shoplift? Kyodo News has reported on a newly released survey form the Tokyo police:

Twenty-four percent of 204 people aged 65 and older charged recently with shoplifting by the Metropolitan Police Department said they were driven to do so by their feelings of loneliness. One said he was living alone after getting divorced and had just 21 yen at the time of his arrest in a supermarket. The police added that 8 percent of the elderly people surveyed — the second largest group — cited a lack of motivation in life and 7 percent said their crimes were prompted by frustration. Forty percent of the elderly offenders live alone and 53 percent said they do not have any friends. At the other end of the age spectrum, 27 percent of minors caught by the police said they felt that shoplifting was like a game, followed by 23 percent who said they just wanted the items they stole.

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Chimpanzee Eating, Toilet Sighing, and Zoom zoom!

So to round of this week, here are some odds and ends of what has been happening in Japan this week! First, we have a chimpanzee being taught how to eat various Japanese foods: Next we have a toilet that tells you how it feels after being flushed... And finally, one of Japan's major airports has introduced single seat electric tricycles that will be used to patrol the airport halls and information desks. The tricycles, developed by Toyota, can operate at a top speed of 15 kilometres per hour. Some of those used at Chubu Airport will also carry emergency medical kit and computers that will allow airport staff to check flight schedules for passengers. I soo want to have a ride on those!!! [JapanProbe]  [ BBC]

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Hi-Tech Sushi Conveyer Belt with Games!

I'm sure that you have been to a sushi restaurant where you are (Yo-Sushi in the UK) and you see these conveyer belts zooming along throughout the restaurant ladled with sushi for you to help yourself... And at the end you pay for the amount of sushi plates you have on your table. But what if, we use those plates to play a Fruit Machine Style game? And also make it a bit more hi tech?

Used plates are put into a slot, tallying the price of what you ate and sending the dish back for cleaning. For every 5 plates eaten, a little slot machine game is played. Kids love winning prizes. Each plate has an IC chip. When a plate has been going around the conveyor belt for too long, it is automatically classified as old sushi and dumped. When there are only a few customers at the restaurant, the length of the conveyor belt can be adjusted. A computer system keeps track of how many customers enter the restaurant, and it calculates the amount of sushi that chefs must make at any given time.

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XxxHolic: Chapter 179

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