Having been in Japan for over a month, I am pretty well set up with things to get around town; a car, (more importantly) car insurance, a Shichinohe town map and an atlas of Aomori prefecture for all the times I try to drive somewhere and end up...somewhere else to say the least, and of course a cell phone in case I get so lost I need to call someone to guide me home.
However, this blog post looks back before this time of bliss, when I was still phone-less, lacking car insurance and afraid that if I left my apartment after 6 I wouldn't be able to find my way back and would end up sleeping in a Jusco shopping cart outside of the Circle K convenience store.
All this to say that the first few weeks of August, when I wasn't out with other people, I spent many an evening hour inside my apartment watching Japanese television and consequently viewing a lot of commercials that tried to convince me to purchase various products and travel to Jamaica and so forth.
This is a link to what was probably the strangest kind of cute television commercial I've seen in quite a while. There are two different versions of the commercial, and I am not sure which one is more endearing/creepy. Feel free to pass along your thoughts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aiyy-W4wg
Ookina ookina yaki onigiri means something like "big big grilled (or fried? I'm not sure) onigiri." Onigiri is a ball of rice that often is filled with something like fish, mayo or other such things. It is usually delicious, and though I have not tried the ookina ookina yaki onigiri I imagine it is probably pretty great and would make almost as good of an after school snack as cheese sticks and pizza bagels. Almost.
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Another wonderful Japanese food product that I must try the next time I am over there.
ReplyDeleteI think that the first version of the commercial was the most creepy . . . though, the Onigiri character reminds me of the large, talking Cool-Aid pitcher . . .
Japan is so awesome and scary at the same time! I love stuff like this, Val!
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ONIGIRI! Feed it to me, please.
ReplyDeleteI played that video for my roommate and she loved it.
I am always finding new crazy delicious food products here, as well as some crazy videos. Glad you enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteAaron, as a kid I always thought that huge talking Cool-Aid pitcher would be a great friend to have around (he always seemed so cool in the commercials). I am not sure what I would have thought of the large Onigiri if I saw it at age 7...