Posted 1 year ago at 4:47 am. 1 comment
I don’t think I have ever ordered a hamburger or cheeseburger at McD’s in my life. I just hate patties, except the ones from In n Out (U.S. only) and MOS Burger (East Asia only). Sometimes it is depressing to live in Canada.
I was not crazy about MOS Burger during the co-op days, but there was no MOS Burger nearby, let alone a Green MOS Burger. Next time you visit Japan, locate a Green MOS Burger ahead of time and make a trip to try their Takumi cheeseburger.
ニッポンのバーガー 匠（たくみ）チース
Japan’s Burger Takumi Cheese
Comes with soda, demi-glace and soya sauce, only at Green MOS Burger.
Enough blogging from me. I need to go into hibernation for the next few weeks.
Posted 1 year ago at 9:34 pm. 0 comments
I love in-flight movies, especially on JAL.
I saw “Baburu e Go!” (a.k.a. Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust) on my way to Tokyo and I recommend it. It is a wacky Japanese comedy about a girl going back in time, using a washing machine, to save the collapsing Japanese economy. Bubble refers to the economy in the 80’s, when everyone was blowing money like crazy.
Ryoko Hirosue (the Yahoo!BB girl) ’s role as a young bar hostess is very cute and convincing; even though she is not young in person and played the same type of character ten years ago.
Perhaps it was the parallelism I could draw between Japan and Hong Kong that made me fell for this film. I remember there was a time when getting a taxi was a challenge. Now I see long lineups of empty taxis with drivers bickering on the side.
Official website with trailers (Japanese) and its IMDB page.
Posted 1 year ago at 6:59 pm. 1 comment
Now for something less fatty.
Posted 1 year ago at 6:07 pm. 1 comment
Update 1: Wait, a menchikatsu is a deep fried ball of minced meat, not a korroke technically. Okay, it makes sense now. “Menchi”, minced.
I feel kind of silly blogging about fried beef balls, but this is no regular korroke; this is the famous メンチカツ(menchikatsu) made with 松阪(Matsuzaka) beef that people wait in line an hour for.
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Filed under: Tech
Posted 1 year ago at 3:29 pm. 2 comments
Should I include flickr updates in my feed? I have been turning it on and off in the past and I could not decide the right thing to do.
+ If they are in the feed, then I don’t need to blog about them.
+ People who aren’t subscribed to flickr can see the photos earlier and don’t need to wait till my post here.
+ My feed will still be active (with flickr and digg updates) even when I stop blogging.
- If I end up posting some of them on the site, it is like double posting.
- I sometimes upload 30+ photos at the same time, and that means some+ updates on my feed.
+ You can always “Mark all as read”.
Filed under: Life
Posted 1 year ago at 5:21 am. 3 comments
Hey! Hey! Hey! I am back from my mid-year trip, and I feel super energized right now at 5 a.m., jet-lagged.
The trip was nice and it felt very needed afterwards. Not that I got to visit more places than usual or did anything extraordinary, but it was a perfect balance of relaxation and relaxation. I went to places I wanted to see, took pictures I have always had in mind, ate enough for my summer hibernation, and met up with friends unexpectedly. The nicest part was it felt long, even though it only lasted two weeks. Long, as in I-had-enough-time-to-do-everything long, not I-bored-myself long.
I even got to be all Zen-ish about my life, thought about what I want to do, and what needs to be done to take myself to the glorious era of “25″. There is a big smiley face in my Zen garden.
Weather was fine in both places (have I mentioned I went to Tokyo and Hong Kong again?). It rained once in Tokyo and it was not steamy hot. I carried a jacket with me all the time. That said, I look like I haven’t showered for a few months because of the uneven sunburn on my arms. More about that later.
Speaking of Japan, every time I go there is a new buzzword. The current one (well, as of last week) is “eco”. There are eco cars (gas-saving), bottles (which are just overpriced water bottles), chopsticks (any non-disposables) and everything you can imagine. Kimura Takuya is running on a hamster wheel because Pocari Sweat has a new eco bottle (link).
Last time I went (in January), the buzzword was メタボリックシンドローム (me-ta-bo-rikku-shin-do-rou-mu). We call it metabolic syndrome here.
You know how this works. I visit Japan/HK every N months, blog about the trip two months after and finish posting all the photos one month before my next trip. If you know me, poke me in person before my snacks run out.
