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Muji releases ice creams with special ingredients for summer in Japan

Muji is known for its high-quality products, but are its ice creams worth buying? 

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Muji’s locally sourced Yamatomaru pizzas are some of the best frozen pizzas we’ve ever had

Regional produce makes for a very special pizza that you can only get in certain parts of Japan.

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Did you know you can make jam from eggplants? Here’s how【SoraKitchen】

Surprisingly, it doesn’t even taste like eggplants.

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We tried eating a raw “mizu nasu” eggplant, and it tastes like a weird fruit【Taste Test】

This eggplant is supposed to be sweet like fruit…so we ate it like a fruit!

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Eggplant found with naturally grown-in accessory holder

In Japan “straps” can be found everywhere. They’re like key chains, but with an elastic band. People primarily attach them to their mobile phones, but you can also spot them on anything else under the sun like gym bags or sleep apnea machines.

Now it seems that mother nature is getting in on the action by creating an eggplant with a loophole just right for attaching straps to. And attach straps is just what the lucky owner did.

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It’s that time of year again; when people in Japan make eggplant tanks

For many parts of Japan, this week is the Obon season. This is the time when several generations of family members all come together in one house for a visit. Luckily for the hosts, the vast majority of these relatives are ghosts so don’t take up a lot of space.

But even though they’re ghosts it’d be rude not to lay out some food for them, and so it’s not uncommon to place some snacks or beverages on graves or family altars in the home. Among these you might find shoryo uma, little animals made of cucumber and eggplant meant symbolize animals which carry the spirits to and from the otherworld.

Traditionally these tiny animals are made by jabbing four sticks into the vegetable for legs. The result is quaint but kind of looks like something I’d slap together for my third grade art project so I could get back to playing Dragon Warrior – hardly something fit for the people who paved the way for your existence to ride in on! As such some people in Japan have begun pimping their shoryo uma to make sure their ancestors’ rides are safe, comfy, and in some cases kind of epic.

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