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Salad Pizza
Now that we’re deep into the dog days of summer, doesn’t the very idea of nomming down a hot slice heaped with stomach-bombing meats kind of make you shudder? Enter…the Salad Pizza! Sure to please the...
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It Looks Like a Burrito. It Says It’s a Burrito. But…
Okay, even though it claims in English to be a HOT & DELICIOUS BURRITO, I should have known that anything resembling a slightly overgrown packet of saltine crackers was going to deliver nothing but...
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The $20 Pancake, With A Strawberry On Top
Okay, to be fair, those popular flapjacks are the trendy underpinnings of a colossal sundae-thing. For twenty bucks, you get: • Three (count ‘em, three) pancakes • Two chocolate waffle-rific ear-like...
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Breaded Deep-Fried Bacon On A Stick
So you know how people are always going on about how super healthy Japanese food is, and that’s why nobody is Japan gets heart attacks or is fat, etc. etc. bla bla bla? Well, put this in your pipe and...
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Squicky Cow Parts Chowdown
Hey, are you ready to grill up some tasty fourth stomach of cow tonight? Or maybe you’d prefer first stomach? Let’s get one of each, to compare! Then for chasers, how about a nice plate of diaphragm?...
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Swiss Cheese Chocolate
Why are Japanese sweets makers so unclear on the concept? Is it really that hard? Cream cheese + white chocolate = YES PLEASE. Swiss cheese + white chocolate = NO NO NO NO NO NO NEVER PUT THESE TWO...
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Spooky Sushi
Vampire-maki. Bwahahaha, you’d better bite this sushi before it bites you! But if you think that’s the scariest food you might encounter this Halloween season, think again… Arachno-futomaki The Goth...
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…And A Pitcher O’ Dessert, Please
What the whating what? Is this even a dessert? Cornflakes, whipped cream, fruit cocktail, bananas, ice cream and a choco-sauced brownie, served up in a jumbo crowd-pleasin’ pitcher. Eek doesn’t even...
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Dessert Sandwich!
In the land where “anything in a tortilla is a taco” and “anything on a crust is a pizza,” why am I not surprised that there’s a cafe playing fast and loose with the word “tart,” serving up what...
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What’s Wrong With This Picture…?
Luscious strawberries…succulent peaches…flaky pastry…fresh whipped cream…all topped off with…PARSLEY. Yes, the fluffy little herb that rocked the 1950s sits inexplicably atop this otherwise...
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All You Can Eat Whoppers!
In Japan, an all-you-can-eat buffet is called a “viking” GO FIGURE. (Why don’t they call it a “vegas”? Then this promo could awesomely be called the Bi-Gas!) Apparently, however, while the “Bi-King”...
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Traditional KFC Christmas Dinner, Now With Seaweed!
Lines stretch around the block at every KFC in Tokyo on Christmas Eve, as household minions are dispatched to pick up the traditional holiday fare, but this year they have a choice between regular and...
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Breakfast For Dessert
In Japan, fish, rice and a shot of slimy mozuku seaweed are what appear bright and early on the breakfast table, and the dessert menu is where you’ll find french toast-flavored ice cream and pancakes...
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More Extreme Pancakes
Food stylist challenge-o-the-year: how to make blobs of vanilla pudding sitting on top of a pancake look like anything but giant swadges of Butter, Butter & More Butter, with extra butter on top....
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Wait, Seriously, You Can Eat That?!
In case you were wondering if there is such a thing as too much information, take a look-see at this handy chart I spotted recently, hanging outside a “Don’t Waste Anything!” restaurant in Tokyo....
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Obscure Snack Flavor Of The Day
What do you mean, you’ve never heard of a bean and butter sandwich? It’s late, and you’re jonesing for your favorite midnight snack, but someone ate the last of the red beans and then they left the...
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Beer Engineering
Better than a cherry on top. Three to seven. That’s the ideal ratio of foamy head to actual beer, according to the experts at the Ebisu Brewery. And how do you achieve this perfect glass of brewski?...
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Now I Can Die Happy
Best. Coffee. In. The. World. You’re lookin’ at it. Let me ask you this: how often can you get something that’s the best in the world for less than ten bucks? Because today – score! – I had the BEST...
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Cherry Blossom Flavored Ice Cream
Naturally, it being the Pink Season, all things must be as one with the almighty sakura. Including…ice cream. And what does this marvel of food engineering taste like? Hmm, good question....
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So, What DO Cherry Blossoms Taste Like?
Around cherry blossom season in Japan, the shelves suddenly fill with “sakura”-flavored food. But what does cherry blossom-flavored food actually taste like? I investigate. Cherry blossoms taste...
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