I have watched every single clip from a Japanese prank TV show. Every single last one. This is what your humble Takeout editor does when he returns home at night after dinner and a shower: He wastes his time on YouTube and Dailymotion watching those sadistic Japanese mf’ers give each other PTSD. It’s a testament to…
As a child of Seattle, I’m fond of my hometown’s relationship with chicken teriyaki, which is to the Emerald City what cheesesteaks are to Philadelphia and po’boys to New Orleans—a carb-heavy, meat-unabashed, working person’s lunch.
Japan is in the grips of an unprecedented heat wave, with temperatures soaring past 100 degrees Fahrenheit in an island nation that rarely experiences that level of warmth.
To say that Japanese whisky (no ‘e’) is having a moment would be inaccurate, as it’s been having a moment for quite awhile now and at a certain point, a moment becomes a mainstay. But while the buzz surrounding the spirit has extended beyond the realm of whiskey nerds, it’s still not found on all that many bar carts,…
If this was an American commercial, there’d likely be a happy multi-racial family eating noodles around the dinner table to jaunty ukulele-xylophone music, and the ad would be market-researched to death.
Crab is delicious. It has a delicate, smooth texture that offers one of nature’s most intoxicating sweetnesses. For this premium experience, consumers are charged up the wazoo. Thus began the search for a cheaper crab, a search that landed upon an interesting alternative: a crab product that contains not a shred of…
