We’re not going to say that the staffs of Doritos or Taco Bell imbibe in mind-altering and appetite stimulating chemicals but their latest joint venture seems to provide some circumstantial evidence that this might be the case. Doritos has announced plans to release a Taco Bell flavored chip for a…
The Spot: Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket in Chandler, Open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. See Also: – Downtown Phoenix Public Market: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still Lusting After – Owners of Lee Lee International Supermarket Talk History, Journey, Future in New Video -…
Here’s a video documenting the frankly insane level of dedication specialty coffee producers put into each cup of their brew. Think of it as “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” but with coffee beans instead of fish and about half as pretty because giant roasting machines aren’t nearly as attractive as a…
File this under things that should have been obvious but were not: Chinese takeout boxes can be teased apart and turned into a handy platter. That’s right up there with “ketchup fanning,” the practice of deforming your paper ketchup container so as to accommodate a larger volume of ketchup and…
The Awl has proposed in great detail something America has been waiting for, nay, something America is ready for: McWorld, a sprawling flagship McDonald’s that serves menu items from across the global McDonald’s empire. Their modest proposal also stipulates that this McWorld be built at the crossroads of the world,…
Fellow adventurous eaters: There is now an app called Waygo, specifically designed for translating Chinese menus on the fly.That’s right, now you can ask for the “real” menu at your favorite Chinese joint and be certain you’re ordering something more interesting than chow mein. See Also: –Chow Bella’s 5 Favorite…
Last week we brought you the anti-loneliness ramen bowl, a ramen bowl with an iPhone holder integrated into the side so you could slurp noodles and use your phone at the same time. Clearly that wasn’t enough for some people because a company has just launched a Indiegogo campaign fund…
The Spot: Downtown Phoenix Farmer’s Market, Saturday mornings until 1 p.m. See Also: – Ten Favorite Metro Phoenix Farmers’ Markets – Slade Grove: Caramelpalooza Candymakers – The Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market: Grilled Breakfast Burritos, Public Market Fresca, and Calendula Flowers By The Bundle…
It’s safe to say that Kick Ass Kakes’ designer and owner, Jay Murphy, is a big Lady Gaga fan. How big? Big enough to lovingly render a slightly larger than life in cake, frosting and fondant. See Also: –Lady Gaga, US Airways Center –Do Your Cakes Look as Incredible as…
Chin-up lonely college students, now you don’t have to endure your nightly bowl of bachelor chow alone, you can enjoy it basking in the light of your iPhone! MisoSoupDesign is a small company that recently unveiled a ramen bowl with a smartphone holder integrated into the rim of the bowl…
A Los Angeles-based entrepreneur has introduced a “ReviewerCard” which designates a person a prolific writer of reviews on sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. The purpose of this card is simple: To extort local businesses into providing better service or face the wrath of the dreaded 1-star review. Presumably having a…
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…
