Lamb Raisin Ice Cream

In your face Heston Blumenthal! My previous post pointed out that although Yamato’s new Soy Sauce for ice cream throws the taste convention book out the window, it can’t quite trump Heston’s bacon and egg ice cream. But this surely gives Heston’s creation a thorough drubbing in the wacky flavour combination stakes - Lamb Raisin […]

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Soy Sauce for Ice Cream

Like Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, Japanese food manufacturers are not afraid of mixing and matching food in seemingly unappetizingly bizarre ways. Yamato have certainly embraced this spirit of showing complete disregard for taste convention by creating Soy Sauce for ice cream.

Possibly not quite as odd sounding as the Fat Duck’s bacon and egg ice cream, […]

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Sapporo Space Beer

What wacky innovation will those industrious Japanese boffins come up with next? “Space Beer” apparently. Japanese brewery Sapporo has announced it’s planning to brew a beer made from third generation barley grains that have spent five months on the International Space Station in 2006.

It’s supposedly not being created to allow space station inhabitants to go […]

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Chocolate Pencils

This is genius - Japanese designers Nendo have created chocolate pencils to accompany desserts. The pencils come with a pencil sharpener that can then be used to grate the tasty chocolate filings over the dessert.

Delicious sounding stuff and available from Tokyo patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu.

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KFC Onigiri (Rice Ball)

You probably wouldn’t go all the way to Japan with the express intention of eating at KFC. However if for some reason you did, at least KFC in Japan offers the opportunity to eat a distinctively Japanese product that as far as I know you can’t get elsewhere - the KFC Onigiri.

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Edible plate, bowl and chopsticks

KFCs Mum’s Night Off advert promotes avoiding washing up and cooking by serving kids KFC in paper buckets for dinner which can then be thrown away. A noble time and effort saving idea, however why not go one better by eating the tableware once you’ve finished eating off it.

Japanese designer Nobuhiko Aikeawa of Rice-Design has […]

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