Despite eating this egg-shaped tofu each and every day,
its purported properties have so far failed to materialise…
(click image for added allure)
Charismatic cuisine
Food and Drink
Humongous hooters
The news that busty beach-themed restaurant chain Hooters is set to open for business in Japan this year has led to lots of speculation in regards to possible costumes and the curvaceousness of company staff.
Yet whilst the hugely popular race queen look is a distinct possibility, the smart money appears to be on the operator aiming for the ever-growing anime/otaku crowd — the leaked picture below an apparent gland guideline for would-be waitresses.
For more figures with unfeasibly large features you can simply click here, with how carefree your company is in regards to massive man-made mammaries dictating how safe for work it is.
Canned convenience
Whilst oden (a Japanese winter dish) has been around in canned form for quite some time now, and rather bizarrely earned itself a bilingual charter in the process, there does appear to be several versions of the terrific little tinned treat available.
For starters, there’s the more common, rather blandly designed variety.
But there is now also an anime inspired reworking of the soup-like snack.
Its Akihabara availability arguably making it an otaku-friendly hors d’oeuvre.
Of sorts.
(click images for oversized oden)
New Year nibbles
For those still feeling a little queasy after some overly exuberant end-of-year excess, indulging in the delicacy of Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, probably wouldn’t be the best of ideas. As quite bizarrely, the mollusc loving maniacs have mind-bogglingly decided to create kaki soft — a heady mix of an ice cream cone topped with two fried oysters.
Whether vanilla, strawberry or even the slightly more daring mint choc chip flavour goes best with the soy sauce drizzled oysters wasn’t disclosed, although on a good day around one hundred of the concoctions are apparently consumed.
Tempted?
Food for thought
Extensive research involving quickly flicking through the freely available terrestrial channels, found that 99.8% of Japanese television programmes are food related — whether creating, consuming or simply going cock-a-hoop over the stuff.
A sorry state of affairs that leaves those not exactly obsessed with food somewhat starved of entertainment, although thankfully there is the odd exception.
Cleverly combining cooking and scantily-clad young ladies, the far from comatose contestants have to try and keep track of how each tasty little dish is made, rather than greedily feasting their eyes on the far more fruitier offerings on display.
An approach that if embraced by all the channels would surely fail to go stale, the endless variations of recipes and raiment keeping customers more than happy.
Such a bold move perhaps also causing cooking fans to conjure up very different images whenever the name of famed TV chef Fanny Cradock is banded about.