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Dumplings and Roadkill
Two good links today: One for the Road: West Virginia’s Roadkill Cookoff Bitter cold spurs dumpling madness
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Mongolian Mustard-seed Antagonism
I’m back, after a five-day stretch being tortured by Koga ninjas in their secret lair under Lake Biwa. Fortunately, I survived by using my wits and took them all out…
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Chicken Mayonnaise
Nam just sent me this photo of a chicken-mayo nigiri. Guess it gets boring on that bus to Osaka.
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The Other, Other White Meat
Go check out the Evil Sandmich’s continued writings on his adventures in Japanese cuisine last year: LINK Excerpts: One morning they had a little hit of ketchup with the Japanese…
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Fishing Log
Here I will post what we, as a collective, have caught on Awaji up until now, and maybe it will turn into its own updated page. A baby kawahagi (trigger…
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This is a Zebra
English school or stationery store?
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Don’t Be Evil
This is an interesting read: Scraping and ad-stripping Google’s results I liken it to a brave little ant picking a fight with an elephant. You applaud the little guy’s tenacity,…
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What the hell…
I’ve decided to see how long it takes Adam to see the blogpet thing to the left. This should be a fun experiment.
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“This is Method.”
So you expect us to believe that a man used to get mistaken for O.D.B. all the time and didn’t fully take advantage of it? Seriously, if tricking “drunken admirers…
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Woeful Branding
Recent tragedy aside, “Typhoon” is just a horribly unimaginative name for an (albeit yuppified and second-rate) rice rocket. “The new wave of bold style,” indeed. (Note: I’d like to suggest…
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Water wheels
Outside of an udon shop in Tokushima.
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Lorraine Hahn Interviewing PM Thaksin on CNN’s TalkAsia
So what about this chunami? It gets funnier every time she says it, and I swear Thaksin is trying just to ignore it. He keeps saying “wave” and “disaster” in…
