JAP-On! - Filed under 'sushi'

I know Pigs can't fly, but Flying Sushi?

So here in Japan, in a dark back street just a minute away from JR Shimbashi station, you can find a place run by an 80-year-old man who likes to throw his sushi in the air... Why throw you ask? Apparantly it will make the sushi taste greater! So by taking the sushi chef to another location, such as the gymnasium, they revealed that he has the ability to throw it nearly 4 meters into the air as well as tasting good! Well let's drool at this video!

So anything willing to throw a block of wood in teh air next to your guest? I guess this needs the DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! :P

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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.

Now that's one restaurant I sure want to go to in Japan! ^_^

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Robots coming alive in...parts?

A visitor looks at Chef Robot, exhibited by Japanese food machinery maker Baba Tekkosho Co., placing a set of waxwork sushi one by one on a plate during a demonstration at the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Combining Japanese factory automation and robots makers, FANUC's food and pharmaceutical handling robot "M-430iA," and Scuse Co.'s robot hand type H, the Chef Robot can grip fragile items gently and move them from one point to the other without breaking them. (AP)

From Mainichi Daily News

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