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Drinks

Chocolate-flavored soda by Suntory

Japan is home to the weirdest drinks in the world, like for example the Pepsi Cucumber. A brand new chocolate-flavored soda has been recently launched to the market by Suntory. Today before coming to work I stopped by at the conbini (abbreviation of “Convenience Store”) and bought a bottle of Suntory’s newest product called Sparkling Chocolate.

Chocolate-flavored soda

The thing that disturbs me the most is that it has almost no bubbles and looks like still mineral water, but when you drink it… Here is an early morning video (in Spanish), where I try it, make some comments (it’s yellowish, it smells like chocolate…) and arrive to the final conclusion that… it tastes like chocolate 🙂

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Society

Valentine's Day in Japan

Like almost everywhere in the world, Valentine’s day was celebrated two days ago in Japan; here the tradition says that girls have to give presents to boys, specially chocolate.

In a shop in Tokyo where chocolate was being sold, a curious machine was set up so that girls could use it to “telepray” in order to have good luck in their romantic relationships. The machine “transports” the user to the Jishu temple in Kyoto, a temple dedicated to the Shintoist god of love Okuninushi.

Valentine's Day in Jishu temple
Photo by Mainichi

Jishu temple is somewhat hidden behind Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto. It is dedicated to the god of love Okuninushi and legend has it that visiting it will help you find true love (according to the instructions of the machine in Tokyo, the “televisit” will provide the same results). In the center of the temple there are two “love rocks” that are 18 meters separated from each other; if you are able to walk from one rock to the other with your eyes closed it means that you will find love in the future.


My friend Albert was able to go from one love rock to the other with his eyes closed.

Jishu temple
The God of love welcomes you to the temple.

Jishu temple
Girls dressed with yukata searching for the love of their lives.

Categories
Food

Giga Pudding

Giga Pudding is a kit commercialized by Takara Tommy to easily prepare gigantic puddings. This promotional video of the Giga Pudding is just… awesome!

You can buy Giga Pudding here.

Gigapudding

Gigapudding
Instructions on how to prepare Giga Pudding.