kebab
When a restaurant stops selling your favorite menu item, sometimes you have to roll matters into your own hands.
Moses was the first person to sell kebabs in Japan, and you can buy them in Shibuya until three in the morning.
Our otaku reporter loves kebabs and wants the food to end up in his mouth, not on his shirt and anime merch.
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