I do enjoy living Shanghai. Well, for the most part at least... Just the other week, I tried to catch a taxi on a Friday night (quite a feat) - finally flagged one down and an elderly lady rushed ahead of me. I politely told her that I was actually standing there first, and she looked at me and yelled "but I have children!" and proceeded to slam the door in my face. Just note that her children . . .
Salt Art
With a creative mind and a whole lot of patience, Motoi Yamamoto created a sculpture named “Forest of Beyond”, solely using grains of salt. The massively intricate installation resembles the roots of a tree and was displayed at the Hakone Open Air Museum. Attendees were asked to help dissemble it bit by bit, by taking the salt with them and returning it to the sea to create a complete . . .
Jumping Art
That moment of time where the phrase runs true, and where something (or someone) feels so close, yet so far. That's probably how these cards felt in this situation: Japanese artist Yuki Matsueda is a recent graduate from the Tokyo University of the Arts and holds a PhD in design. Instead of deciding to take the ordinary route of using a flat canvas, he used his love for art to do something a . . .
Sushi Giants
I seriously need to get myself to this place. Pronto. Umewaka. A sushi restaurant in Nagoya, Japan that is known to create insanely large sushi. The super-sized Anago sushi uses several slabs of eel fillets and could feed 6-8 sushi lovers. This is not a solitary sushi, feeling lonely in its giant-sushi world. You could also get order the 6kg jumbo Futomaki roll stuffed with 20 types of raw fish . . .
Apple the Apples
You might remember the Apple Pie that was featured awhile ago. Well, there has been yet another Apple occurrence, this time created by an unnamed Japanese Fuji apple orchard owner. This is it... How did he do this? The Fuji apple man designed special 'tan-toos' that prevented the stencilled areas from ripening as fast as the rest of the apple, thus creating the Apple-ised apples. Sometimes I . . .
Cute Kitty
Whenever I say the word kitty, Sheldon's song automatically pops into my head: Soft kitty, Warm kitty, Little ball of fur. Happy kitty, Sleepy kitty, Purr Purr Purr... Not. Good. (Like I said previously, too much Big Bang Theory). Anyway. There's always the dog-people and the cat-people. I've always been a loyal dog lover but when I saw this, my heart couldn't help but melt a little. How could . . .