It has finally happened, America has once again taken the Mustard Yellow Belt from the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. Joey Chestnut ate 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes beating the six-time consecutive champ, Takeru Kobayashi by three hot dogs. I watch the Nathan contest just to seee Kobayahi in action, this was sad news to me for I am a Kobayashi fan. I believe its great that some non-fat person would be able to do that and still keep in shape like Kobayashi. Over the past couple of years Joey has entered the contest and lost to Kobayashi but really came close to beating him, every time getting closer and closer until he finally beat Kobayashi. To be fair, Joey isn’t some fat dude and might have a build similar to Kobayashi which led to his victory. My hopes go out to Kobayashi’s victory in the 2008 contest. Maybe this girl should enter, I believe she has a good chance of taking the belt back to Japan. Info taken from Mainichi News.
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Anime is actually pretty trendy. If an anime becomes popular it no doubt will have some kind of icon associated with it, including snacks. I have seen many snacks eaten in anime that seems to be picked up by a lot of otaku. You have chocolate coronet from Lucky Star, melon-pan from Shana and Dears, and you have the infamous pocky from Onegai Teacher. It’s amazing what can be picked up and passed on as a trend, I went out to try these snacks just because I saw it in the anime lol. Tell me if you know any other popular food out there that became famous just because of an anime or maybe even your favorite anime snack ^-^.
Well this will be my last post on my first and hopefully not last trip to Hong Kong. My final reflections will be in this post. Hong Kong is a great place to travel to, if you don’t mind the humidity and really chemically induced air from garbage, cigarette smoke, and car fumes. My cousin told me it might be best to visit Hong Kong from November-February which is the winter season that will help with the humidity which is on the extreme side when I visited Hong Kong, worst in the summer. It’s a great place to shop, eat, play tourist, and more….did I mention eat? Yes, food…that was one of the highlights of the trip, to me anyways, for everything is super cheap when you eat there. About 3-8 USD will get you a great meal that will leave you feeling like you don’t have to eat for the rest of the day and most likely a drink to go along with it, usually tea or coffee. They have tons of food everywhere, expect most to be Chinese related though lol, but its definitely better than the Chinese I eat here in the U.S. lol. Here’s the interesting thing, you can eat like an American in Hong Kong with all the big meals but you burn it off walking everywhere that will leave you hungry for another great meal.
Well I kind of just came back from Hong Kong, fell asleep due to jet lag ^-^;. Well first of all, I went to JAPAN (pump fist in air), which this post is going to be about. I finally made it, I was in the Osaka airport the whole time though lol. I went first class to Japan, the only way to go…they stuffed me so much I was afraid of going to the bathroom constantly, turns out it was only a few times. Even though it was just an airport there were many different things for me there. I’ll explain with the pics.
Apparently studies have shown that sushi in the U.S. isn’t all that healthy. In this article is short summary of how U.S. sushi is bad due to the process of “Americanization” where we in the U.S. take items from other countries and make them supposedly to “our” style, case in point those heavily mayoed California rolls and some unagi rolls I have eaten lathered in that sweet sauce. In this case its a food item so you know we got to make it fattier, sweeter, whatever to appease our appetites. I don’t really have anything against this method but apparently its already well-known just ignored, like how the U.S. moon landing is fake(Just kidding, I know Martians video-taped themselves with U.S. astro suits and sent it down to us as a joke lol ;p). Japan’s sushi is supposedly healthier than ours in America which is why theres isn’t as bad, although too much rice which is carbs will result in weight gain if you sit around and do nothing. Well we in America just accept our ways and live life according to the “freedom” granted to us. So, I will continue eating sushi and be happy about it because it is sushi, which is one of my favorite foods, maybe I just won’t eat as much, maybe….
The juicy, succulent, slightly heavy melons you wish to wrap around your lips and suck on constantly to get the juices out. I am of course talking about the fruit, which is really popular in Japan and is known to produce the most expensive melons in the world. Case in point, a company wishing to celebrate its 135th anniversary decided to buy two melons for 2 million yen, about 19,800 USD, and sell it as well. I mean come on, worst I pay is like four dollars for a melon and its pretty big already and juicy too. I notice that Japanese melons tend to retain their stem, usually in a T shape, weird to me but normal to the Japanese. I will never buy a melon at that price unless I seriously felt like wasting money.
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