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Food

Gyoza – 逃子

“Gyoza” is one of my favorite Japanese/Asian food. And I say “Asian” because this food comes from China where Gyoza is called “Jiaozi”.

Gyoza/Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping. – Wikipedia

The Chinese “Jiaozi” are usually filled with meat or vegetables and they are prepared boiled or steamed, in the case of the Japanese “Gyoza” the preparation is very similar but they are fried and usually have more garlic.

Gyoza
Japanese style fried “Gyoza”.

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Funny

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Toilet for human beings seen in Shimokitazawa.

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Architecture Various

The biggest indoor swimming pool in the world

“Ocean Dome”, located in Miyazaki, it’s the biggest indoor swimming pool in the world. It’s 300 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it’s located 500 meter from the sea. The temperature inside the pavilion it’s always around 30 degrees and the roof is sky-blue and it has even “clouds”. It has an artificial volcano and also an artificial waves generation system. “Unfortunately” it seems that this world guinness record swimming pool closed this year, I guess they where not making enough money.

Piscina

Piscina

Piscina

Searching on The Net I found this interesting picture. It’s supposed to be the first swimming pool in Japan, almost 100 years ago. Even before the war it seems they already had space problems πŸ˜‰

Piscina
Picture from Oldtokyo.com

The biggest outdoor swimming pool is located in Chile, here there are some pictures.