Wednesday, October 22, 2008

two really interesting articles

i've blogged about it before, and i'm doing it again. Tokyo Mango is this awesome blog that has lots of interesting and well-written articles, and 2 great ones have recently been posted.

everyone knows how japanese men somehow have the most amazing hairstyles - and i think you have to come to japan to realise just how many of them have wonderful (or perhaps, more like crazy) hair - but guess what? there are actually wigs that can give you "boyband hair"!! check it out here. (actually i lied. this article was posted long ago, but linked to this recent one featuring one very lucky man whom i agree has hair that guys spend ages in front of the mirror to achieve. have i also ever mentioned my JET friend who has a male student who uses 7 different hair products every single morning? unbelievable.)

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namba in osaka has this street called doyasuji, where you can find kitchen utensils, takoyaki machines, lanterns to hang outside your shop (with the appropriate words like "okonomiyaki" and "udon"), hanging curtains that are placed above your shop entrance and so on. the shops in that place also sell plastic food - the kind you find on display outside japanese restaurants.

i was there about two weeks ago, and you'll never guess that those plastic displays actually cost more than the food that you buy! tokyo mango has a post and a brief introduction to this great article on the making of plastic food. read it and be enlightened!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You think CTHD is a bad wuxia film? as far as films generally go it's one of the best! People like you wait for something genuinely great to come along so you can slate it and go on about how it doesn't fit your preferences. idiot!!! You clearly know nothing about films

jo~ said...

You're entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine. But you are simply being rude and offensive by calling infantile names and resorting to attempts to assert your supposedly superior appreciation of films. Get lost and grow up.