As Wake Up Call has frequently highlighted, the Japanese and Asia on the whole are fearless culinary travelers, nomnauts if you will. But even by the most generous of standards, miso ramen flavored ice cream is pretty strange and apparently not exactly delicious. See Also: –Wendy’s Japan Presents: A Lobster…
Yelp has just announced plans to integrate health inspection information directly into restaurant reviews and they’re starting with New York City and San Francisco. According to their blog post, the new system will be called Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES) and was co-developed with the assistance of local heath authorities…
The BBC is reporting that inspections of preformed hamburger patties sold at supermarkets throughout the UK and Ireland have turned up evidence of horse meat. Of the 27 products analyzed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, 10 contained horse DNA and 23 contained pig DNA. See Also: –Japanese Flying…
When a 23-year-old researcher at MIT blacked out at a party and ended up in the hospital for slamming drinks down too quickly, he didn’t nurse his hangover with a homebrewed cure, he nursed it with engineering. What he came up with is Cheers, an ice cube embedded with enough…
Remember those “Got Milk?” and “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner” ads? Well Norway is apparently trying to convince its people to eat more fish and to that end they’ve introduced a series of truly horrifying awesome advertisements promoting sushi. See Also: –Watch This: Someone Eating Little Baby’s (Ice Cream) –Watch…
The Hapifork is a bluetooth enabled phone fork that vibrates when it detects you’re eating too quickly. No word as to whether it also yells at you to get your elbows off the table and we like to think that it vibrates so hard that it causes you to fling…
First off, if you eat shark, you’re a bad person who should feel bad for contributing to the decline of a species that helps keep our scallops and lobster plentiful. Also, here’s another reason why you probably shouldn’t eat it: In China it might not actually be shark fin and…
The New York Times is reporting that a Tokyo sushi baron, Kiyoshi Kimura, dropped the equivalent of $1.76 million on a 488 pound bluefin tuna in what is likely the most expensive bluefin ever sold. We’ll spare you the math, it works out to roughly $3,600 a pound for a…
Humanity has accomplished a great deal in its relatively brief time on this planet. So it’s refreshing to see we’ve even managed to wield technology so advanced that we can properly simulate the act of walking around and drinking a soda. See Also: -Colbert Struggles With NYC Soda Ban, Conan…
Reuter’s has an interesting video that gives viewers a look into the world of Momofuku’s kitchen test lab, where chefs and microbiologists team up to create novel tastes and textures using humble common bacteria in interesting ways. Momofuku’s chef David Chang is pretty adamant about his desire to use scientific…
As was noted in a previous story, one of the most hazardous parts of the holiday season for Japanese are the days directly after New Years when pounded rice cakes known as mochi are consumed in great quantities. The Tokyo Fire Department is reported to have transported more than 17…
The news often reports on how scary or hazardous eating in China seems to be. Adulterated milk sickens babies, rival restaurants poison the eggplant, that sort of thing. In light of all of that people may ask why anyone even bothers going to China for the expressed purpose of eating…
Just when you thought watermelon radishes were the pinnacle of heirloom radish weirdness, McClendon’s brings lime radishes to the market. With their tubular shape, lime radishes may look more like turnips or parsnips at first glance. However, the spicy, crisp flavor places them easily in the radish category. These bright…
Watching competitive eater Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi slam 12 hot dogs in under 60 seconds is a bit like watching National Geographic footage of great white sharks in a feeding frenzy: It’s chaotic and slightly creepy at first, but if you slow down the footage, it turns almost balletic. See…
It’s being reported that a 26-year-old man in China, with no previous history of gastrointestinal problems, checked into a hospital after eating a hot pot that supposedly burned a hole in his stomach lining. The problem with that story is that it’s been shown that the consumption of spicy foods…
This holiday season, Chow Bella asked some of our favorite writers to regale us with tales of the holidays — and food. What do you eat on New Year’s Day? For many that’s a trick question — it’s not a day you want to think about food, except perhaps greasy…
When we reviewed “The Hobbit” menu at Denny’s, it should be noted that it took two reporters, including one who writes a column called “Guilty Pleasures,” and we still didn’t eat everything on the menu. Yet here is a man who single-handedly polished off everything on the special menu in…
Let’s face it, you’ve looked at what people do with the Japanese lunchbox meal known as bento and you’ve died a little on the inside. You’ve fawned over the adorable nori covered pandas, the Angry Birds and even the freakishly accurate Piglet bust. You repinned all of these things knowing…
We’re roughly pretty sure that Pizza Hut Asia has the Epic Meal Time guys on permanent retainer because the ideas hitting the market out there are pretty amazing. The latest over-the-top creation is from Pizza Hut Singapore which introduced a “Double Sensation Pizza” just in time for the holidays. See…
A fast food burger chain in Brazil has released a burger with a completely edible wrapper, and the video is both fascinating and horrifying — without context. According to Comunicadores, the stunt was meant to demonstrate that the the burgers were so very delicious that people simply couldn’t stop themselves…
The Book: Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant The Sell: A cookbook presented as a comic book with vegetarian recipes good enough to intrigue even the most diehard omnivore. “Dirt Candy: A Cookbook” is a cookbook about vegetables told through comic book…
Earlier this week we talked about McKenna Pope, a 13-year-old girl who launched an online petition for Hasbro to market their Easy-Bake Oven in a more gender neutral manner so it would appeal to her younger brother, Gavyn Boscio. Now Hasbro has addressed those concerns directly, inviting the family to…
