The Annual Annals of Peculiar Valentines

Games, toys, delicacies of the sea…this year’s gift selection for Happy Heart Day doesn’t disappoint. After making the annual search for weird and wondrous love bombs, four seemed to rise to the top, with a few honorable mentions not far behind. Trying to Connect Photo via Etsy Romantic but probably more annoying than the original: … Continue reading The Annual Annals of Peculiar Valentines

Fry Me to the Moon

Moon-inspired fast-food shines during Japan’s Tsukimi season In Japan, fall festival season starts with Tsukimi (月見), celebrating and honoring the autumn moon. Like most festivals, food is a big component with some long-held, traditional dishes, including Dango rice balls, Kenchin-jiru (a fall-vegetable soup) and virtually any dish modified with an ironically sunny-side-up egg meant to … Continue reading Fry Me to the Moon

The Japanese Have It: Weird Food 2016

I didn't set out to have all of my 'weird food' options for 2016 be from Japan. I've done that kind of list before, you see, so I hoped for another direction this year. I tried and tried. I checked out Scandinavia. I looked for Indonesian oddities. I even scoured the darker nooks and crannies … Continue reading The Japanese Have It: Weird Food 2016

Japan: Random Observations

A Blogtoberfest Guest Post by Max Hartshorne, editor of GoNomad.com I arrived in Japan on Thursday, and here are some of my observations so far after touring around Tokyo, and a town in the suburbs called Kanto. First, Japan is crowded, it becomes the most clear when I stood at an intersection in the Ginza … Continue reading Japan: Random Observations

The Fearsome Five: 2014’s Weird October Food Post

Every year, I compile a list of Octobery foods, be they weird and wacky or healthful and harvested. Each item may not be brand new, but has somehow infiltrated the headlines, and made its way to my Google-searching fingers. I've shied away from the Halloween-ized foods that otherwise aren't so different from their year-round counterparts, … Continue reading The Fearsome Five: 2014’s Weird October Food Post