YeinJee's Asian Journal

Kikuya, a ramen shop in Tokyo offers a bizarre menu of ramen dishes, including vanilla ice cream ramen, yogurt ramen and chocolate ramen…

Ice cream ramen (Image courtesy of Ramentheater, via Japanitup)

A Chinese pear was sold for 66,000 yuan (~ USD8,800) in Beijing, China. The 1.505kg pear was crowned the ‘King of Pear’ in a Chinese pear and fruit festival in Beijing last weekend (September 8), and was auctioned off with the astonishing price.

The King of Pear (Image courtesy of Xinhuanet)

Biscuit-maker Jacob’s had created some ‘biscuit sculptures’ which were exhibited at Junction 8 Shopping Centre, Singapore in mid-August.

The sculptures were made by stacking their famous crackers into models of famous buildings around the world, including the Eiffel Tower (France), Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), Tower Bridge (England), Esplanade (Singapore), Petronas Twin Towers (Malaysia), The Great Wall (China) and Taj Mahal (India).

Biscuit sculptures at Junction 8, Singapore (Image courtesy of Shadyone)

First the F-Cup Cookies, here comes the tea… the same manufacturer is now offering a similar type breast enhancement substance beverage.

Want some tea? (Image courtesy of Tokyotimes)

The tea has a breast enlarging herb pueraria mirifica (a plant found in Thailand and Myanmar) that might enhance boob size. I believe ladies (or some guys?) would need to drink a lot of tea to see any effect though.

A cool Japanese commercial featuring young Japanese star Erika Sawajiri, for food manufacturer Meiji.

A giant mooncake is baked in conjunction with a bakery food festival in Shenyang, China. The mooncake is weighed over 10 tonnes, has a surface of 52 square metres and is stuffed with 10 different stuffings.

Gigantic mooncake (Image courtesy of Xinhuanet)

Mooncake is a Chinese pastry traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (15th day of the 8th lunar month in Chinese calendar); a normal mooncake is around palm-size.

A conjoined watermelon was found at a village near Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province in China. A watermelon farmer that has been in business for a decade found the watermelon in his field on Monday (August 13).

The watermelon breeder and the unusual watermelon (Image courtesy of Jxnews)

A 300-year-old wild ginseng was sold for 3 million yuan (~ USD400,000) in Jilin, China.

The $400,000 wild ginseng (Image courtesy of Xinhuanet)

The 366 grams wild ginseng was found in Changbai Mountain (Changbaishan) in July 2007. The value of a wild ginseng is often determined by its age, shape and ‘completeness’.

Ginseng is a widely use herb in Chinese and Korean medicine for centuries. The popularity of ginseng is growing worldwide in recent decades, as studies have proven its medical value.

Most of the ginsengs these days are cultivated, but wild ginseng is commonly believed to have better medical value. A good piece of wild ginseng could worth thousands of dollars, and in this case… a whopping $400,000!

What would you do if you have $400,000?