Actor Hayami Mokomichi has produced his own original olive oil for his popular corner ‘MOCO’S Kitchen‘ on news program ‘ZIP!‘.
With a well-established farm in Spain called Catador, Hayami challenged himself to creating the perfect olive blend. He wanted “a taste that you come to like more the more you use it.” Hayami was also particular about the packaging design as …
On December 16, an event for the new menu at the “AKB48 Café & Shop” which was collaboratively created by 7 of AKB48 members including Oshima Yuko (24) and Watanabe Mayu (18), was held in Akihabara, Tokyo.
100 fans taste-tested two items – Mayu’s “Kinoko tappuri Tonjiru Udon,” which combined her favorite foods mushroom and pork miso soup along with Shinoda Mariko’s …
It’s been revealed that THE GOSPELLERS‘ member Kurosawa Kaoru will be opening a curry restaurant for a limited time in Tokyo!
Kurosawa is known as a “curry mania”, who has released books on curry in the past. He’s also produced his own retort curry (ready-to-eat curry), which has been sold as THE GOSPELLERS’ official product.
The curry restaurant, ‘Pon Curry Shokudo‘, …
On June 25th, actress Tamaru Maki (33) appeared at the opening event for the “Kirin Ichibanshibori FROZEN GARDEN Osaka” concept shop at BREEZE BREEZE in Umeda, Osaka.
At the shop, which will stay open until August 31, customers can taste a new draft beer called “Ichibanshibori Frozen <draft>” that has frozen foam (each cup is 570 ml and …
Two days ago, tokyohive reported that 16 high school students got food poisoning from eating at former Morning Musume’s Fujimoto Miki-produced restaurant Yakiniku Miki-tei. Regarding this recent trouble, Fujimoto Miki published an apology statement on her official blog.
This post, posted on the morning of June 9th, stated, “I pray from my heart that those …
On June 8th, it was reported that 16 third-year high school students from Kanagawa Prefecture suffered from food poisoning after eating at a yakiniku (Japanese fried meat dish) restaurant, “Sumibi Yakiniku Hormone Miki-tei”, located in Yamato city. Out of these 16 students, three female students were hospitalized (not life-threatening). Due to this incident, th restaurant in question is now …
On March 20th the grand opening of “AKB48 CAFÉ & SHOP HAKATA” took place in Fukuoka. To commemorate the opening, AKB48’s Kitahara Rie, Sato Amina, Katayama Haruka, Nakamata Shiori along with HKT48’s Kodama Haruka, Matsuoka Natsumi, and Sugamoto Yuko attended a pre-opening event the day before.
Last July an “AKB48 CAFÉ & SHOP” opened up in Harajuku and last September another …
New souvenirs of Tokyo, “AKB48 Tokyo Pastel Sand” which features idol group AKB48, has been on sale limitedly at JR’s Tokyo station and Shinagawa station since March 16th.
This product is a new sweet that includes fluffy marshmallows put between slightly bitter chocolate. The first flavor introduced was strawberry, followed by green tea, and orange chocolate. There’s only a …
On February 12th, actress Nagasawa Masami (24) and Takei Emi (18) attended Lotte’s ‘Ghana Handmade Valentine Classroom’ at a high school in Tokyo. The actresses worked with a handful of female high school students to create homemade chocolates.
Prior to the event, Nagasawa revealed that she received a handmade chocolate from Takei. “It was extremely delicious. I even though of boasting …
On January 28th, popular child actress Ashida Mana (7) attended a promotional event for Kagome’s establishment of “Aisai (=Mana) Day” (set for January 31st). Kagome is a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of tomato-based foods as well as fruit and vegetable juices.
Wearing an all-white dress and a vegetable-themed hat, necklace, and ring , she explained her thoughts on the creation of this day. …
On January 13th, singer Nishino Kana (22) attended an opening event for the ‘Mie Prefecture Restaurant Fair’ as a tourism ambassador for her hometown in that prefecture.
The singer came to promote hijiki (dark strips of edible seaweed), a regional specialty of Mie Prefecture. Since food plays an important part in our memories, Nishino felt inspired to describe a …
On January 10th, convenience store chain Circle K Sunkus began selling Hello Kitty versions of Chukaman (or steamed Chinese dumpling). The product became an instant sensation, and comments about the ‘Hello Kitty-man’ are spreading fast on social networking sites like Twitter.
“Hello Kitty-man” is a custard-filled steamed dumpling shaped like a Hello Kitty. The confectionery contains apples pieces and is easily …
Boring puddings are a thing of the past, thanks to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu!
The model/singer brought signature eclectic style to Pucchin Purin’s latest CMs by wearing a pudding-inspired outfit topped with an actual confectionery hat. If the puddings alone aren’t enough to brighten your day, try eating them while doing Kyary’s version of the twist.
On December 20th, popular unit DREAMS COME TRUE announced that they’ll be collaborating with popular doughnut chain, Mister Donut, for an event called (lengthily), ‘DREAMS COME TRUE X Mister Donut Kokoro wo Maoruku Project’.
For this project, this unit’s new song “Ai ga Tadoritsuku Basho” will play in the background in every single Mister Donut shop nationwide, starting on …
L to R: Taeyeon, Sunny, Yuri, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Tiffany, Yoona, Jessica, Hyoyeon
L to R: Taeyeon, Sunny, Yuri, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Tiffany, Yoona, Jessica, Hyoyeon
The January issue of ‘Popteen’ features a special segment called “Uwasa no Hallyu Diet Juseyo SPECIAL” (The rumored Korean diet please, SPECIAL); where popular K-Pop girl groups reveal their “thin menu”.
In this issue, Shoujo Jidai shared their ‘secret technique’ to maintaining their beautiful figures.
Many know SNSD …
