Wierd food fads

Ah I love these food photos, so cool! Talking about food. Now "the wired sweets" are hot in Japan. I wrote before that Glico Pretz has funny local versions, but I heard that the trend sweets are terrible on purpose for joy, surprise, a penalty game.

The most famous one is Genghis Khan Caramel. I wrote about Genghis Khan pot, which was a boom in last year in Japan. Some reported that it's taste is terrible. They say it tastes of beast, ripe BBQ sauce with lard. It's very hard to eat even one. Beer Caramel is beer tasting caramel which has the label of Sapporo Black Label Beer. They say it tastes like heeltap sickly beer of last night....orz.

Do you know Saki ika? It's dried squid, nice when eaten with beer. Then this is a chocolate coated Sakiika. To be honest with you. I tried this before, well I must tell you that it wasn't that bad. Actually in Hawaii, you can buy it an American version named "Hawaiian Da-Kines", try it! But I can't think I will enjoy Chocolate coated Saki ika with curry powder. Chocolate with curry? Why?

Another crazy food is a series of "Yokan" (sweet azuki beans jello), usually Yokan has sweet beans, sweet beans, sweet chestnut, green tea tastes. But now there are Salmon Yokan, Crab Yokan, BBQ Yokan, Red Pepper Yokan, Ultra Sweet Beer Yokan, Shrimp chill sauce Yokan, Monjya-yaki Yokan (Monjya-yaki is?), Mayonnaise Yokan for Mayorer and more...... whoo I feel sick now.

The great site Kishoku no yakata (= The house of weird food) reports on Ramen Yokan and Curry Yokan. Needless to say, they are MAZUI! (too bad). Yeah why not? You may imagine, cook beans with sugar and make very sweet beans jelly. And then add onion soup to them or Curry power and make it harder. Hmm sound tasty?

By the way what you saw on his site are all crazy foods which he tried. I will write about it in the future. I hope he values his life.

Comments

[Alex]

I just got back from Japan a few days ago, and
I ran into your blog kind of by accident today. Fantastic! I try all kinds of new stuff and then I always hear about 50 other things I should try next time! Thank you.

[mgw]

Hello Mari-san. I just happened to visit your blog! We seem to have some mutual interests such as Tokyo, food, culture, etc. Why don't I leave my footprint here?

[Cath Lee]

I saw the bowls of ice shavings at the site Kishoku no Yakata. But I'm not sure what strange ingredient has been added. Over here in Singapore, we love ice shavings!
I think noodles with cream is horrible!

[Shay]

Oh yes, Genghis Khan Caramel. I have yet (and probably will not) try it. I have heard much about it though. How odd.

[Charles]

I have some saki ika in my house right now, I love it. I first ate saki ika in Hakodate, which is famous for ika, I think I've eaten every single form of ika ever made. But I don't think I'll ever try the chocolate saki ika, that is too crazy even for me, and I've eaten some really crazy ika dishes.

I followed your link, and was surprised to see Uwajimaya selling food through Amazon.com! This is great, I sometimes have my sister in Seattle go to Uwajimaya, buy my favorite tea, and mail it to me, but now I can order through Amazon and stop bothering her. And I have a $50 Amazon gift certificate I can use.
I'm going to celebrate, I'm going to have some tea and saki ika right now. Thanks, Mari!