No real surprises with the most popular, but the second, third and fourth are in this list of what the Japanese rate as the tastiest carbonated drinks. Pictured is a special limited-time flavour of the number two drink.
Oronamin C Drink and others with medicinal-sounding names are indeed that; vitamin-laden foul-tasting drinks that might or might not be healthy.
Kirin Metz are “healthy” in another way; they coat your stomach with stuff that blocks fast absorption, but for me they just grease up my insides and poo just whizzes out…
I’m zero calories when it comes to fizzy drinks; I used to be a Coke Zero/Diet Coke, but now it’s just Wilkinson soda. What’s your favourite? Read the rest of this entry »
OK, a few words; goo Ranking looked at what theme restaurants or bars Japanese might want to visit. Some of these restaurants are also popular with tourists and foreign residents, so perhaps you can find a new favourite in the list? Also note that some of the places have other branches in other parts of town or other cities, but I’ll leave that up to you to explore! The order of the places correspond to the rank in the survey. Have you been to any of the places here?
Demographics
Between the 15th and the 29th of September 2019 1,396 visitors to the goo Ranking site and associated properties completed a public questionnaire. No further demographics were given.
Today we have goo Ranking looking at where Japanese rate as the tastiest family restaurant. “Family restaurant” is another example of Japanese English; it isn’t “family-owned”, but “family-friendly”.
Saizeria as number one (incidentally, it’s also the foreign traveller’s favourite) is a little surprising; their pasta is all dried pasta, and their pizza bases are just cheap pastry, not dough.
I’ve never been to Bikkuri Donkey, but Royal Host was quite bland the one time I visited, but in the restaurant floor of my local department store it’s always the place with the longest queues.
Bamiyan is the nearest famires to my house, so we go there when we can’t be bothered cooking and I have overtime, but it’s very greasy on the whole.
From the list, the tastiest in my opinion is Saint Marc. It’s slightly more expensive, but the food is less industrial and not overloaded with fat, sauces or salt, and the all-you-can-eat bread roll selection is rather good. Where is your favourite?
The photo here is of Saizeriya’s dessert offerings; this is my third most popular photo on Google Maps, with just under 100,000 views. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a very definite Tokyo-area bias in this survey from goo Ranking into which factory tours people would want to go on; the pictured food sample factory is not one of them, though.
The only factory tours I’ve been on in Japan were three times to the Yamazaki distillery tour and tasting and once to a Kirin beer factory. If you’re in the Kyoto or Osaka area, I can strongly recommend the distillery, or just the tasting room, although the tour is all in Japanese.
Looking at the list, the aeroplane hangers and the pencil lab look interesting! What catches your eye?
Note that I have linked to all the tour information pages, but all bar a handful are Japanese. Here’s a link to a map of the locations.
I think the Prius is a good car, although in Japan it seems every second car is one, but I do enjoy driving one, and it’s my first choice whenever I rent. Read the rest of this entry »
My first visit to a McDonald’s was in Germany to get a salad, then a cafe latte in a McCafe in Macau (McAu?) in lieu of going to a casino as part of a package tour. My first (and last, if I can help it) encounter with a burger was a chicken thing in Haneda airport; I was impressed by quite how nondescript they managed to make the bun, and the chicken was equally memorable…
I suppose if you eat enough McDonald’s you’ll have the body of an athlete from this sport…
For me it has to be Toy Story 3, although I’ve never actually seen Monsters University, and I only caught the last 15 minutes of Finding Dory in Japanese once, but it seemed more silly than moving to me!
Note that many of the names have words in uppercase, particularly STRONG and ZERO; the Japanese often had random English in product names, and it seems the rules for chu-hi state they must be in capitals! Men’s Plums sounds worse than it actually is; plum wine is a sweet drink marketed at women, but this chu-hi uses pickled plum imagery in the design for a more “masculine” appeal.
Here’s a little song about the foreigners’ favourite, Strong Zero:
I don’t have any regular crashes, and hardly even irregular crashes on my Android phone, so I find it very surprising that nearly half the sample reports weekly crashes, and on top of that certain genres of apps crash daily! Do any of my readers have such troubles?
Here’s an iPhone that has crashed into the pavement…
Nintendo is especially strong here, but since their various machines are more family-oriented I’m not really surprised. However, I’ve never actually played anything on a Nintendo, so I can’t really say how much I agree or disagree with the ranking. The first series I’ve played anything of is Final Fantasy, and I don’t think there’s any game there I’ve played more than one of the series!
I’ve tried to use the official English translations of titles, but there’s a few I may have missed, so please let me know of any errors.
Number 7, Nobunaga’s Ambition, is a title I’ve never heard of, but it looks like a complex strategy game based on Japan’s civil war period. Here’s an English-language review of the recent English-language release in the series:
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