Iris Festival

Today we went to the Iris Festival in Kakuda. Iris is a big manufacturer of plastic stuff, kind of like Rubbermaid in North America. Well they have a huge factory on the outskirts of Kakuda city. It seems like most of the big companies here have annual festivals. This one was an international food festival.

The had all kinds of foods, like Indian…

Korean…

And most importantly kebabs!!

I was very happy to see kebabs, since it’s been well over a year since I had a shawarma, gyro, or any kind of meat in a pita. It was delicious. Some of the other countries they had food from were Italy, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, America, and Malaysia.

Homemade Liquor

Today we made some homemade liquor. It’s pretty easy. All you need is white liquor, fruit, and rock sugar. I didn’t want to make normal old plum liquor, I wanted to make something a little different. We noticed that you could make mikan (a Japanese tangerine) or lemon flavored liquor. I thought it would be an even better idea to make a citrus mix. So we put mikan, oranges, grapefruit, and lemon.

Whether this mix will taste good or not will not be revealed for at least a month, so stay tuned for a future post on the final results.

Veggie Chicken

Here’s the new thing at KFC. It’s a “Veggie Chicken Wrap”.  Don’t misunderstand this is not a dish for vegetarians, it does have real chicken in it. The vegetables are just the stuff thrown in with the chicken. The flavour was not bad, but I think I like the normal Twisters better. I miss the crunchy chicken.

New Games!!

Today my latest shipment from Play Asia arrived. I got two games for PS3. The first being Demon’s Souls, which is a action RPG. You walk around these dark ominous environments and fend off demons and gigantic monsters that attack you. It’s quite fun, and also quite hard.

The other is called “Hakuna Matata”, otherwise known as “Afrika” on most websites. It is you are a photographer for National Geographic, and you are given task to take wildlife photos. The graphics are really nice and look prttey real. Both these games are available in Japan, but strangely don’t have English available. The versions I got are from Hong Kong and Korea. Why is it Sony isn’t putting all of the languages on every disk if they are coming out at the same time? It’s bewildering.

Doughnut Burger

Mos Burger has a special promotion tie in right now with Mister Doughnuts. The created a “special” burger as a tribute to the doughnut king of Japan. It’s the doughnut burger!

Basically it’s a clever way to get you to spend the same amount of money to get less meat. You can’t even see the doughnut hole when it’s all put together. Mister Doughnuts has returned the favor and made some hamburger shaped doughnuts using chocolate instead of beef. You can see them in the picture below.

They even have doughnuts that look like french fries.

The Man

Who’s the most bad-ass guy in Japan? Easy, it’s Sonny Chiba! Star of tons of karate movies, and samurai dramas. This is a video showcasing some of his finest moments on film. See why Tarantino put him in the “Kill Bill” movies. Warning this video contains scenes of extreme bad-assness, bear punching, bull fighting, skull crushing, eye popping, and other 70’s karate movie violent nonsense (generally not safe for children).

Goonies R Good Enough

I haven’t only been buying video game T-shirts, I also scored this really cool “Goonies” shirt! It’s also available at Uniqlo.

UT X JAPAN GAME

For the past couple months Uniqlo has a special line of game inspired T-shirts called “UT X Japan Game”. This has led me to buy a ton of new T-shirts. I thought I would share some of the ones that I’ve gotten so far. You can click on each picture to get a slightly better view. Enjoy!

Sticks

Here’s yet another new type of Doritos. This time it’s in stick form. Unfortunately the Doritos scientist are getting lazy, because they taste the same as the plain old normal Doritos. The only new thing is their stick shape. Work harder Doritos scientists!

Whiskey….Expensive Whiskey

The other day I was going to buy a cheap bottle of whiskey at the liquor store, but the wife said not to. The Father in-law has tons of whiskey so she said to ask him. So she asked for a cheap bottle of whiskey, and he returned with this.

A over 5000 yen bottle of Suntory Royal 15 year aged whiskey. You know it’s expensive when it comes in a shiny golden box, and has medallion tied on to it.

I just wonder, if this is what he thinks is cheap, what is an expensive bottle?