Habanero snack

Is your image of Asians close to this? :-)

This is the official site of artist Tetsuya Ishida. He died from an accident two years ago. His arts are fantasy but tell something very real.

Here is the ranking of press freedom 2007 by Reporters Without Borders. North Europe countries ranked very high. Canada is 18, Germany is 20, UK is 24, France is 31, Italy is 35, Japan is 35. USA is 48.

"Scovies award" is the food industry's top award recognizing hot and spicy foods in the world. Here is the official site. I didn't know that Tohato Bokun Habanero got the top awards in the snack category last year. Tohato released new Habanero snacks. They are "2 times hotter Bokun habanero" and "Mao Jolokia," Bhut Jolokia is the hottest chilli peppar confirmed by Guinness World Records. Japanese town magazine made "Japanese scovie awards". In the snack category, of course the winner is the Bokun Habanero. In the instant curry part, "Gluco LEE" won. This is the local shop category. Hmm, since I love hot foods, I want to try every food. Look at this fried rice! Violent... only 17 people could finish this dish in one and half years after the shop opened.

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But there's no reason you couldn't measure wasabi in Scovilles: it's simply a measure of how many times it must be diluted before it can no longer be tasted.

The decibel is for measuring sound, but we still use it, for example, in describing the attenuation of the electrical signal in a satellite cable.

[Chris Kuan]

Oh, by the way Heidi...

The "hotness" of wasabi is not measured on the Scoville scale. It does not contain capsaicin, which is the "hot" component of chillies, and that is what the Scoville scale measures.

[macboy]

this is pretty cool. I ate some of this when I visited!!

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[www.celebslamer.com]

I love this food!! Hollywood in Japan!

[Chris Kuan]

Yes, Juan. That is the joke. "All look Same", as one might put it :-)

[Juan]

I hope this doesn't come out the wrong away, and I know that some Asians tend to look alike to us Westerners, but aren't the people in that photo the same person? It looks like someone took an original, and simply cloned it, changing the hairstyle a bit.

They all have the same distance between their eye pupils, same nose, same lips, and even the same fuzzy light mustache (including the "girls").

[yamo]

I love this habanero snack. A friend brought it from japan almost 2 years ago and I've been addicted since!

[Heidi McCalla]

Where does wasabi rank in Scoville units?

I can't eat ANY spicy food - I'll stick to my snickerdoodles thank you! ;)

[Esther]

Wow! I can't even get past "medium spicy" at my local Thai restaurant.