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Ramen-bot, robots make noodles in Tokyo restaurant

August 12, 2009 by Yein Jee

A Japanese ramen restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, is experimenting with two robotic-chef to cook the noodles; would be really cool if the whole restaurant’s operation is automated, with robots serving the dishes as well…

Filed Under: Offbeat Tagged With: Asian Food, Asian Traditions, Bizarre Food, Japan blog, Japanese Food, Japanese Traditions, Robotics, Tokyo Metropolis

Heart-shaped watermelons in Japan

May 13, 2009 by Yein Jee

Perfect heart-shaped watermelon in Fukuoka, JapanHiroichi Kimura, a farmer from Kumamoto, and his wife, have found a way to cultivate heart shaped watermelons.

It took the Kimuras three years to create the perfectly heart-shaped fruit; the couple managed to ship out 20 of the watermelons for the first time this year.

Five of those were for sale at Fukuoka’s Iwataya department store at 15,750 yen (160 USD) apiece [news and image from Asahi, via Japanprobe]

Filed Under: Offbeat Tagged With: Asian Food, Bizarre Food, Japan blog, Japanese Food, Unusual and weird

Chocolate ramen for Valentine’s Day?

January 24, 2009 by Yein Jee

Japanese chocolate manufacturer Lotte is teaming up with popular ramen shop Menya Musashi to create a chocolate flavoured ramen (chocolate as garnish to be precise).

Ghana Miso, Japanese chocolate ramen by Lotte and Menya Musashi

The name of the dish is Ghana Miso and will be available until February 15th in honour of Valentine’s Day, where Japanese women would give give men chocolate as an expression of love or friendship [via Cscoutjapan]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Offbeat Tagged With: Asian Food, Asian Traditions, Bizarre Food, Japan blog, Japanese Food, Japanese Traditions, Rice and Noodles, Unusual and weird

The Testicle Cookbook – Cooking with Balls

October 10, 2008 by Yein Jee

Serbian chef Ljubomir Erovic has released an e-book which is hailed as the world’s first testicle recipe collection, which includes testicle pizza, battered testicles and barbecued testicles with giblets. Video below, from Telegraph.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Offbeat Tagged With: Asian videos, Bizarre Food, Republic of Serbia, Unusual and weird

Eat kangaroo, save the planet

October 1, 2008 by Yein Jee

Dr Ross Garnaut, a professor of economics at the Australian National University, has urged Australians to ditch beef and lamb for kangaroo steaks to help save the planet in his recent climate study commissioned by the Australian government.

Picture of a French kangaroo dish
Image by Shoreline, who said the kangaroo meat was so amazingly GOOD!

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Filed Under: Lifestyle, Offbeat Tagged With: Animals and pets, Australia Blog, Bizarre Food, Environmental Movement, Global Warming, Unusual and weird

Rat meat in demand in Cambodia

August 29, 2008 by Yein Jee

The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, according to Reuters.

Cambodians buying rat meat at a market in Phnom Penh

A kilogramme of rat meat increased to around 5,000 riel (USD1.28) from 1,200 riel last year. It’s still cheaper than other meat though… beef for example costs about 20,000 riel a kilogramme.

Some communities in Asian and South American countries have long history of eating rats or other rodents, but food shortages and inflations have pushed others to try rat meat in recent years.

Earlier this month, a state government in eastern India encouraged its people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.

Sometimes it’s hard to relate to poverty around the world. Here we are, using high tech gadgets and surfing the web while at other corners on earth people are eating rats because they can’t afford other meat… and it’s far from being the worse scenario yet. It’s kinda sad actually.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bizarre Food, Kingdom of Cambodia, Unusual and weird

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