Last week we brought you the anti-loneliness ramen bowl, a ramen bowl with an iPhone holder integrated into the side so you could slurp noodles and use your phone at the same time. Clearly that wasn’t enough for some people because a company has just launched a Indiegogo campaign fund…
The Spot: Downtown Phoenix Farmer’s Market, Saturday mornings until 1 p.m. See Also: – Ten Favorite Metro Phoenix Farmers’ Markets – Slade Grove: Caramelpalooza Candymakers – The Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market: Grilled Breakfast Burritos, Public Market Fresca, and Calendula Flowers By The Bundle…
It’s safe to say that Kick Ass Kakes’ designer and owner, Jay Murphy, is a big Lady Gaga fan. How big? Big enough to lovingly render a slightly larger than life in cake, frosting and fondant. See Also: –Lady Gaga, US Airways Center –Do Your Cakes Look as Incredible as…
Chin-up lonely college students, now you don’t have to endure your nightly bowl of bachelor chow alone, you can enjoy it basking in the light of your iPhone! MisoSoupDesign is a small company that recently unveiled a ramen bowl with a smartphone holder integrated into the rim of the bowl…
A Los Angeles-based entrepreneur has introduced a “ReviewerCard” which designates a person a prolific writer of reviews on sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. The purpose of this card is simple: To extort local businesses into providing better service or face the wrath of the dreaded 1-star review. Presumably having a…
As Wake Up Call has frequently highlighted, the Japanese and Asia on the whole are fearless culinary travelers, nomnauts if you will. But even by the most generous of standards, miso ramen flavored ice cream is pretty strange and apparently not exactly delicious. See Also: –Wendy’s Japan Presents: A Lobster…
Yelp has just announced plans to integrate health inspection information directly into restaurant reviews and they’re starting with New York City and San Francisco. According to their blog post, the new system will be called Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES) and was co-developed with the assistance of local heath authorities…
The BBC is reporting that inspections of preformed hamburger patties sold at supermarkets throughout the UK and Ireland have turned up evidence of horse meat. Of the 27 products analyzed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, 10 contained horse DNA and 23 contained pig DNA. See Also: –Japanese Flying…
When a 23-year-old researcher at MIT blacked out at a party and ended up in the hospital for slamming drinks down too quickly, he didn’t nurse his hangover with a homebrewed cure, he nursed it with engineering. What he came up with is Cheers, an ice cube embedded with enough…
Remember those “Got Milk?” and “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner” ads? Well Norway is apparently trying to convince its people to eat more fish and to that end they’ve introduced a series of truly horrifying awesome advertisements promoting sushi. See Also: –Watch This: Someone Eating Little Baby’s (Ice Cream) –Watch…
The Hapifork is a bluetooth enabled phone fork that vibrates when it detects you’re eating too quickly. No word as to whether it also yells at you to get your elbows off the table and we like to think that it vibrates so hard that it causes you to fling…
First off, if you eat shark, you’re a bad person who should feel bad for contributing to the decline of a species that helps keep our scallops and lobster plentiful. Also, here’s another reason why you probably shouldn’t eat it: In China it might not actually be shark fin and…
The New York Times is reporting that a Tokyo sushi baron, Kiyoshi Kimura, dropped the equivalent of $1.76 million on a 488 pound bluefin tuna in what is likely the most expensive bluefin ever sold. We’ll spare you the math, it works out to roughly $3,600 a pound for a…
Humanity has accomplished a great deal in its relatively brief time on this planet. So it’s refreshing to see we’ve even managed to wield technology so advanced that we can properly simulate the act of walking around and drinking a soda. See Also: -Colbert Struggles With NYC Soda Ban, Conan…
Reuter’s has an interesting video that gives viewers a look into the world of Momofuku’s kitchen test lab, where chefs and microbiologists team up to create novel tastes and textures using humble common bacteria in interesting ways. Momofuku’s chef David Chang is pretty adamant about his desire to use scientific…
As was noted in a previous story, one of the most hazardous parts of the holiday season for Japanese are the days directly after New Years when pounded rice cakes known as mochi are consumed in great quantities. The Tokyo Fire Department is reported to have transported more than 17…
The news often reports on how scary or hazardous eating in China seems to be. Adulterated milk sickens babies, rival restaurants poison the eggplant, that sort of thing. In light of all of that people may ask why anyone even bothers going to China for the expressed purpose of eating…
Just when you thought watermelon radishes were the pinnacle of heirloom radish weirdness, McClendon’s brings lime radishes to the market. With their tubular shape, lime radishes may look more like turnips or parsnips at first glance. However, the spicy, crisp flavor places them easily in the radish category. These bright…
Watching competitive eater Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi slam 12 hot dogs in under 60 seconds is a bit like watching National Geographic footage of great white sharks in a feeding frenzy: It’s chaotic and slightly creepy at first, but if you slow down the footage, it turns almost balletic. See…
It’s being reported that a 26-year-old man in China, with no previous history of gastrointestinal problems, checked into a hospital after eating a hot pot that supposedly burned a hole in his stomach lining. The problem with that story is that it’s been shown that the consumption of spicy foods…
This holiday season, Chow Bella asked some of our favorite writers to regale us with tales of the holidays — and food. What do you eat on New Year’s Day? For many that’s a trick question — it’s not a day you want to think about food, except perhaps greasy…
When we reviewed “The Hobbit” menu at Denny’s, it should be noted that it took two reporters, including one who writes a column called “Guilty Pleasures,” and we still didn’t eat everything on the menu. Yet here is a man who single-handedly polished off everything on the special menu in…
