Cold Stone Creamery, an ice-cream parlor franchise from Arizona, USA, is known for its mix-ins and lively service culture where the workers would sing a tune or two when tipped by the customers.
Tipping is not common in Asia though; so I guess the staff would probably sing along whenever they feel like it. Sharing some videos of the staff in action from Cold Stone Creamery outlets in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan…
Japan – Forget ice cream, the girls are champs…
Shigeo Obara, a Japanese farmer found a clover with 21 leafs last week in his garden. It’s a new Guinness record, beating his own previous record that was set in 2002 when he found a 18-leaf clover.
In Europe a 4-leaf clovers symbolize lucky but in Japan they symbolise happiness, 5-leaf clovers symbolise wealth and 6-leaf clovers are fame. [Hector]
I wonder what a 21-leaf clover would symbolise… lots of wealth, fame and happiness?
Hippocamp, or Hippocampus, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology which supposedly looks like a seahorse.
In Greek mythology, Hippocamps were the mounts for Poseidon (the god of horses and sea); whereas for the Romans… Neptune (Roman version of Poseidon) was often described to be riding on a sea-chariot pulled by hippocamps.
Hippocamps were often used in the artworks and sculptures in Roman’s fountains and public baths; some of these ancient arts can still be seen in famous tourist sites like the Roman Baths in Bath, UK and the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy.
The mythological creature still has its influence in modern days; hippocamps are featured quite often in fantasy story books, including Harry Potter; and also in various fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons etc.
