Category — Cuisine
Chinese Female Chef Twirling Knives – Don’t Mess With Her!
I hope this young female chef’s cooking is as good as her knife twirling. You seriously don’t wanna mess with her down a dark alley. Watch the video below to see her quick-fingered twirling action…
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November 6, 2009 No Comments |
Strange Shaped Japanese Watermelons in Hong Kong
The branch of Taste Supermarket in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong Festival Walk shopping mall has a display of these strange shaped watermelons from Japan. They’re super expensive! (Prices in Hong Kong dollars)



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October 21, 2009 No Comments |
National Geographic Video Feature on the Durian Fruit
Below, a National Geographic video feature on that most putrid smelling of fruits, the durian, also known as the king of fruits, common in parts of East Asia. If you come across this spiky object, you would most likely have smelt the pong first.
Like the buses in Singapore (where they’re banned), the durian fruit is not for me.
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October 18, 2009 No Comments |
Superb Watermelon Carvings
These are the superb watermelon carvings by Hotel chef Takashi Itoh from Tokyo. He began carving melons in 2001 after being inspired while on holiday in Thailand. It usually takes him one hour to carve, though simpler designs can take only twenty minutes.





Thanks Lilian!
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October 6, 2009 No Comments |
How to Use Chopsticks – Become an Expert in 90 Seconds
Four-Hour-Work-Week guru Tim Ferriss turns his attention to using chopsticks as he explains in his short video below on how to get to grips with your food.
Read more on Fourhourworkweek.com
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September 16, 2009 No Comments |
Where to Eat Cheap Fabulous Food in Hong Kong
The Michelin Guide has arrived in Hong Kong but the UK’s Guardian newspaper picks up on all the cheap places to eat where the food is just as good.
Click to read their top ten pick of the country’s best, cheap Chinese food

Via the British-Born Chinese blog
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September 13, 2009 No Comments |
Korean Designed Combined Table Dish Cover – A Silicon Table Cloth
Korean designers Maezm created the Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon table cloth with integrated dishes. Looks like the sizes are perfect for kimchi with your main meal!

The flexible, injection-moulded silicon product is spread over a table at meal times and then removed and washed afterwards as a complete unit.

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September 9, 2009 No Comments |
Ice Cream Gyoza
An Evil Mad Scientist came up with the not-so-evil creation of ice cream gyoza. The typically fried potstickers are given a new take by using ice cream filling and frozen dough.
Visit the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to find out how to make them!

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September 5, 2009 No Comments |
Spider Pizza
Argh – there are some thing I wouldn’t even try once and this is one of them. Real spiders used as pizza toppings!

Mr. Matsuba of the Insect Cuisine Eating Association, owns the pizzeria in Okinawa that sells these arachnopizzas. You can see him preparing the dish in the video below as well as a tough-looking dude sampling it.
Apparently, Matsuba also makes beetle pizza too.
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September 4, 2009 1 Comment |
Epic Super Mario Wedding Cake
We’ve posted some pretty amazing Mario Cakes on OneInchPunch in the past, but this one has to top the lot! It’s got epic proportions and superbly-balanced design!
Check out more photos of the Super Mario Wedding Cake on supersizedmeals.com

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August 29, 2009 No Comments |
