Categories
Books

Books about cats

Japanese people, speciallly Japanese women, love pets. The more kawaii (cute) they are, the better. When you meet a Japanese woman the first thing they often do is to show you a picture of their pet, which they usually have as a wallpaper on their cellphones. Apart from the usual dog books section, the other day I saw a special cat books section. The incredible thing is that most of the books only include pictures of one cat posing and doing different activities.

gatos cat gato neko

gatos cat gato neko

gatos cat gato neko

Categories
Videos

Human Tetris

They have been popular online for a while but the other day I came across again one of the Human Tetris videos. It is one of the events in a popular Fuji TV show that began three years ago. The events
in the show are similar to those in the popular Takeshi’s Castle. In fact many of the producers of Takeshi’s Castle work now in this new show in Fuji TV.

Categories
Food

Stuffed blowfish

I came across this interesting stuffed blowfish. Now you can see why it is called “blowfish” or “ballonfish”. Fugu or blowfish usually have this appearance when they are calm, but when they get angry they inflate themselves until they acquire quite a spherical shape. When they inflate themselves they turn into a balloon with spikes, its poison is one of the most dangerous in the world.

Fugu

Blowfish

If you travel to Japan and want to try fugu there are a lot of specialized restaurants that only serve fugu cooked in different ways. To recognize a fugu restaurant is quite easy because they usually have an aquarium plenty of blowfish at the entrance to the restaurant:

Fugu
One of the restaurant waiters fishing a fugu for one of the clients.