There is also a torrent link for the avi files on that main page. So feel free to download those. I have my torrent seeding as we speak and will try to keep it up as much as I can.

Sorry again to all the old fans… I shouldn’t have taken so long to do this! But it is getting done, albeit slowly. Makes me wonder when I’ll actually get around to digging out the old footage for the lost episode(s). Hmmm…

[Update] Hmmm… comments don’t seem to be showing up for the pages… I’ll have to fix that. ><;

[Update] Comments work! Now to import the comments from the old site!

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1. The dough – The base for the whole endeavor. It’s a simple dough recipe my mom gave me years ago. Water, salt, oil, yeast, and flour. Let it rise in a dark, warm spot for at least an hour. I put it on top of the preheating oven wrapped in a towel.

2. The sauce – I’m using mabo tofu as the sauce. Basically it is this Chinese savory sauce with meat and tofu that you usually eat with rice. It’s popular in Japan, so I’m just using a package mix.

3. Cantonese-style BBQ pork – Also popular in Japan, so I got it at the market.

4. Beat sprouts – aka moyashi in Japanese.

5. Shanghai Bok Choi – A nice dark leafy vege stir-fried in sesame oil. Called chingensai in Japanese.

6. Cheese?! Yeah, I put cheese on them (admittedly, I don’t know what kind… Japanese white melty cheese…). It was yummy, but so against the rules of Asian cuisine. But in Japan, they put cheese on curry and okonomiyaki, so hell, may as well! Plus, after tasting, the more cheese I put on, the more it seemed like pizza rather than stir-fry on focaccia.

Anyway, so you know how pizza goes. Flatten out the dough (no, I can’t spin it, but Gregg can!), put on the sauce, put on the cheese, put on the toppings and throw it in a preheated oven at 233 degrees Celsius. But, there’s also one important thing! You have to put a stone, or as Alton Brown calls it, a thermal capacitor, in the oven! That makes it all crispy and good.

So, after 15-20 minutes, this is the result. Yummy! I gotta say the ingredients go well together. Maybe next time I would leave the tofu out and just use the mabo sauce. But the spicy and sour flavor is just awesome. This was a fun experiment!

[Originally published @ The Revecess Blog: http://www.revecess.com/index.php?p=64]

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Growing up, brain freeze (which is a registered trademark of 7-Eleven, ice cream headache being the more colloquial term) was a coming of age ritual. Having that pain swell up was like going into some sort of religious ecstasy.

Brain freeze is caused by Slurpees. Slurpees are an essential part of 7-Eleven. You couldn’t have one without the other, right?

Well, that’s what you think until you move to Japan, walk in to that familiar green-red-orange facade and find out that there are no Slurpees in Japan.

Yes, you heard me. There is an entire nation on the planet where the 7-Elevens do not have Slurpees. It’s mind boggling. Seeing as there are a lot of familiar things in Japan, I’d consider that my first real hit of culture shock.

Now for the kicker. A Japanese department store company (well, actually, since 7-11 has become so popular, the company is now known as 7 & i Holdings) owns a large portion of 7-Eleven. What? So, Slurpees are owned by a Japanese company, but are not available in Japan. Um… Sounds fishy to me!

In any case, there’s unsubstantiated rumors there were Slurpees at one point in the land of the rising sun. And every once in a while, I’ll meet a Japanese person who claims they have them and that I’m just not looking hard enough. So, I always hope that maybe the hundreds of stores I’ve been to in Japan are the exception and someday I’ll walk in to one and see those swirling windows of blue, orange, and cola staring back at me…

…but I’m not holding my breath.

[Originally published @ The Revecess Blog: http://www.revecess.com/index.php?p=27]

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The only reason I post about it is their subtitle on their logo. It reads “Nihon Car and Bike: The latest Car and Bike news from Mario Kart’s home country” Pure Genius.

So, in 2008, when the new Skyline GT-R (R35 BABY!) and NSX (or do I mean HSC) come out, I guess they’ll be all over it.

I wish you guys luck!

[Originally published @ The Revecess Blog: http://www.revecess.com/index.php?p=26]

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