This year, Genghis Khan has become very popular in Japan. What do I mean? Genghis Khan is a Mongolian Guy who founded the Mongol Empire. In Japan, Mongolia is well known as the birth place of ASASHORYU.
But I did not mean him, I meant the Mongolian Barbecue called Genghis Khan hot pot (nabe). As far as I found on the Internet, the Mongolian BBQ is called "Genghis Khan" in foreign countries too. Genghis Khan nabe isn’t A new food. We always had it, but it was a kind of Hokkaido Special food. Actually two years ago, there were only 13 restaurants in the Tokyo area. But last year there were 33 restaurants and guess what!? As of last july we had 133 restaurants in Tokyo! The reason for this big boom was due to the health & wellness TV show AruAru Daijiten saying that mutton is healthy. They said Mutton is rich in carnitine which works very well at burning fat. (You can see how that TV show has some real influence.)
This KURO-HITSUJI (Black Sheep) is a very popular Genghis Khan restaurant chain. I ate there three weeks ago or so in Nishiazabu. It was pretty good and we can enjoy mutton and bean sprouts. But thinking about the price of mutton and bean sprouts (40yen or so for one package at a regular store), 1500yen for one is expensive.
And one more! Another popular Genghis Khan is A German music group. I wrote about them in this post for world football team". Genghis Khan's other song Moscow was big because of this Soramimi Flash. It was completely the same boom as Miahi. Here is a report site. Here are some different kinds of flash, type A, type B. I like first flash, the first phrase could be heard as "strange ! hair comes out?"
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