Tongba: Himalayan Beer

Tongba is the traditional and indigenous drink of the Limbu people of eastern Nepal. To Limbus, Tongba is analogous to what vodka is to Russians, wine to French, Guinness to Irish and saké to Japanese.

-Wikipedia

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Japanese Pizza

Pizza in Japan is treated much like most other foreign concepts: it’s kind of the same but brow-beaten to fit Japanese cultural kookiness. It certainly looks like pizza, but closer examination shows the Japanese are the Jackson Pollacks of pizza …

Conveyor Belt Sushi (回転寿司)

Easily my favorite place to eat is my local kaiten zushi, or conveyor belt sushi. Its quite a novel yet simple concept. You sit at counters and tables and the food rolls by on little plates at 8 centimeters …

Dr. Pepper Imitations

Ummmm….. Dr. Pepper. Especially that old timey Cherry-Vanilla Dr. Pepper (which I can actually buy in Japan at a curiosity shop). It’s so good that its often imitated: the surest form of flattery or failure?. Some of these imitations achieve …

Samurai Sanders

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Eating Whale

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Since I have been in Japan, I have been lucky enough to work at just one school everyday and every Tuesday and Thursday the art teacher …

Move Over Turducken

Move over Turducken, theres a new king of multi-animal conglomerate foods.

British TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstallmerate has stuffed a turkey with 48 different birds.

He [once] stuffed an 18lb turkey with a goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant,

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Thanksgiving

My friend close by over in Kitsuki, Kelly, decided that she would bring a little bit of America to Japan and cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner. All by herself. There was turkey (of course), cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, …

Thai Ronald McDonald

Following the same vein as KFC’s Colonel in a kimono and …

Popcorn at 5,400 FPS

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