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what have I find in food before?
Definitely had a curly hair in food at least twice (argh) one was in a ice cream dessert =_= the other was a club sandwich (both which they replaced...) the best one was a part of a baby cockroach in a fried vegetarian noodle :P I thought it was a mushroom at first but noticed it had too many "legs" to be a mushroom... upon closer look it's what I mentioned... The stall let me had other selection for free as a replacement =_= I never went back to it again ^^;

I also had a tiny (very tiny) baby frog in some veggie dish at the canteen of a school before :P I think it was alive too which was how I spotted it before I ate... I never finished my lunch ^^;

Sob... I miss Tokyo.... I miss Japan... Will go there again as soon as possible... TT.TT

lol at Mikuru's cosplaying, Mikuru went 'flat'!!!!

Saber definitely looks cute with the curly hair <3

There've been many a hair that I've encountered at some restaurants. I think the worse that happened to me was at a former restaurant that my boyfriend and I would frequent for its veggie cuisine. Unfortunately, before we could enjoy our milk tea, we found a booger in it --;;;;;

Never going there again.

Lovely pictures as usual! I really like Saber with curly hair :D Also, did you have a favorite cake from Cozy Corner? They all look so delicious~

Mikuru Shana looks lovely. ^^ about toilets, the most smelly one I had to go into was in a small province in China, folks there left loads of poop in the urinals. couldn't stand the stench that I had to go find myself a large pleasant smelling tree to do my business. ^^;

"Have been waiting to control two different Macs with the same pair of Keyboard/Mouse but have not been able to find an application that allows me to switch between two machines."

Is a KVM switch no good?

Those cakes look quite delicious! Same goes for the rest of the food, orz.
And I agree, Sabor definitely looks cute with her long, curly hair!
Lovely pictures as always! :)

Wow! totally awesome danny, im still so jealous of you :3

those 14 years could make yah or break yah XD

To control two macs using the same keyboard and mouse, try Teleport.
http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/

ahhaah ok i mainly read "this week in tokyo" for your food sections. makes my water melt whenever i see the food even though i can get the same stuff here. ahahahaha.

Congrats to Takerun! ^_^

Neat looking geothermal vents in the 1st photo. I have NEVER seen a Fish Pizza! Thanks thats a 1st. Eyelash isn't so bad really, could have even been your own as you turned sideways and as your face rubbed your arm it fell off. /shrug

Now that hamburger onion rings and french fries thats right up my alley I know what that is and I will take 2 orders right now! It really looks good. I recently ran out of tea and started mixing fresh lemon juice in water with no sugar and heating it as if I had tea. It is really good just like it is. Hope the video you all make from the balcony of that room turns out good the pictures give the air of humidity and the buildings are crystal clear. Thats a really cool total over all set of photos this time.

Congratulations to Takerun! XD

LOL at the 0 yen air. Isn't air supposed to be free?

Worst bathrooms (without getting too gross):

Was a baseball stadium (not sure if it was Seattle or Cleveland) that has trough style urinals where the men line up, expose their dolphins and let er rip all in a line without any barriers in between. Definitely not for the meek or those lacking confidence in their dolphins. I've heard of a version of this where not only it's not only a trough but a double sided trough, so not only do you pee next to someone, you're facing someone as well. I've used the non-double sided version, have only heard about the double sided one.

Grossest was probably a bathroom in South Korea (was told about this by a co-worker who had to use it) where the "bathroom" was angled slab of concrete that opened into a small grate. The angle of the slab is quite steep, so as you're doing your business, you're hanging on for dear life else you'd fall into the area of unpleasant looking water by the small gate. When you were done with your business, a lady from the kitchen (which unfortunately adjoined the bathroom area) came out with a water hose and "flushed" for you by squirting water at your chocolate sharks into the grate.

Finally, I've heard of a story in India (these exist in Korea too and I've confirmed this) of an outhouse that is just a hole that leads into a den of pigs below. Sometimes the pigs get rather excited about their "meals" and you'd see a pig snout poking from below.

Ah, sorry to hear you had a cochroach experience in Japan as well. I've still been staying away from sushi places because of that. Might go back later, but to a different restaurant of course.

DD Saber looks way better with that new hair.

I see you like Kua'aina too. So far I've found one in Kamakura and Yokohama. Wish they had one in Yokosuka. After being seperated from the states for a while, you start to crave a good hamburger.

Speaking of hamburgers, good to hear Shibuya got itself a Burger King. I had been going to the one in Akihabara. Love their Terriaki Whoppers. Wish they had them in Texas.

Great pics!

hey danny how did you get your itouch to show time like that?

Yummy cakes look yummy. I wanna head to Secret Recipe now xD

Saber with curly hair reminds me of Char O_O

So how does it feel like to have figma for lunch? Thats gotta be the most expensive lunch evar ^^;

I did something similiar for a schoolproject and let my windows take pictures every few seconds -> store it in a folder -> autosynch the folder with my server.

I found a similiar project by a guy for the mac maybe it will help you

http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/11/how-to-automatically-take-photos-using-your-macs-webcam/

Bathrooms are generally fine here - unless you walk into a sketchy eatery, in which case it's not so nice. Sadly, many such sketchy eateries are Asian. I can't deny that. ><

Haha, Matt's black Macbook is showing rather severe symptoms of constant use - you can tell where the matte paint has been worn down under his palms.

public toilets here = you can't imagine it >_<

They want the toilets in that place to be super clean~!
YAY VI EDITOR~! Cool Mug he has there. Would surely love to have one of that.

Thank you tenrou, NGEunit01, Danny, and so many other people who wished all the competitors luck. I was very surprised when I saw the results and think I just got very lucky because a few other people had very close answers.
I would also like to mention ornehx for answering so quickly in the last few rounds and I know that his final answer was also very close. Keep that up, then you’ll have a great chance at the next giveaway. ^^

Final pieces of advice for future contenders:
If you want it, go for it. Copy/paste kanji names if you can’t type it out. Don’t be discouraged by Japanese sites – use a translator if you need to.

May I post the process to my answer?

nice set of photos for this week. Really enjoyed it :)

The toilets here are pretty decent. People seem to control their dolphin just fine, but washing hands seems to be a rare sight, and if you're lucky, you get to see the poor imitation of washing hands, which includes no soap, and minimal amounts of water (This is actually only done so your fingers get wet enough for you to need some tissues. This way it looks like you actually washed your hands, tragic)
The food simply looks too delicious, although I've had some really bad incounters with Japanese pastery. This might be because I'm from Scandinavia, where "Danish" comes from, LOL^^

Heh, I love that "Thank you for keeping the toilet clean" signs all over the toilet. I don't know if that will actually work here though... Some people are just too inconsiderate. Like people just take a whiz when the seat's down. I usually kick the seat up before I have to take a whiz. Another one of my pet peeves.

I hope Kagami didn't get grilled along with the meat there ^^:

Nice pics again this week. Looking at the food made me hungry, thnx for that ^^;

I had a good time checking every picture of your "quest" Danny.
The more I see Tokyo at night the more great city I think it is and the Shibuya terminal in a rainy day still looks great.
What to say about the japanese food, I'm starving right now because of it hahaha... and with Kagamin alongside of you, things couldn't be better.
Thank you very much once again for sharing this great pictures of places that, maybe, I'll never be able to visit during my whole life... Y_Y.
Greetings.

For the webcam you could use a digital camera like a canon powershot G10 which has a timelapse mode, you would need to buy the adapter that allows you to plug it into the mains and should be able to configure it to take the photo and immediately transfer it via USB.

GAH!!!!
i was a whole ¥3,455 off T___T
I also visited kakaku.com also.....

that vi mug is a miracle - i definitely need one. i can never seem to remember commands properly, i usually end up punching one that is simillar but does a whole other function. Not good when i'm debugging...

Most disgusting thing in food? Cockroach in a museli bar. Wasn't mine though. He bit half of it and then immediately spat it out when he looked in. IT WAS AN ENTIRE/WHOLE COCKROACH EMBEDED IN THE BAR. Girls screamed, guys laughed - Normal students reactions

I Notice on the Sony Vaio video, when the models placed the laptops on their back pocket it seemed a little bit "bigger" as compared to the commercials they are showing on TV wherein the girl just pushes the laptop back in her pocket as she walks - you can clearly see that she stuffs at least 1/3 of the unit in her pocket. Just an observation! lol!

Signs in washrooms here....there aren't that much...but I see at least 2 or 3 in a stall...
The worst toilet I've seen...was a hole (and it really smells) when I was in Hong Kong...Also don't go to Mcdonald washrroms in Hong Kong as they are really poorly cleaned...
I might try that burger when I go to Japan in the summer...yum yum...

Danny if you i know of a way to control both your macs with one keyboard. its an open source software called synergy. i use it with multiple PCs. Synergy basically uses TCPIP to relay information for mouse and keyboard movement.so in essence it allows your keyboard and mouse to span across all screens. the nice thing about synergy is its compatible with mac OSX, windows, and linux. i have 2 computers setup. the OSX is a 24" and the windows is a 22 portrait and i can move the mouse back and forth between the monitors. keyboard works about 90% of the time. if you find the keyboard not responding you just have to drag it back over to the server computer then back. overall i'm quite happy with it cause it actually works like its supposed to and its free :) i still havent tweaked it to the point where it will auto start everything. (i'm not sure how to write scripts in OSX yet.) but if you know you can script it so that the server and the clients start up when your OSX starts up. the only negative thing is the fact that in windows they have GUI built, while in OSX and linux you have to manage everything through the terminal and config files. take a look at it. i think its the only thing of its kind on the market. oh yea and last plus. you can copy and paste clipboards between computers :)

Syaoran

holy crap i just realized i screwed up on the first sentence lol.... its 3am :(

You look like a tour guide in the first photo Danny xD 'And over here is where *insert random event*'

Lots of photos of lights and building, and food~ All the dishes look so yummy~ The bento selection looks quite nice, and cheap, have to pay about double around here u_u~

Saber's hair looks really nice on her, any luck finding more outfits? By the way, what are her 'stats' so to speak?

As for public toilets, hrmm, generally not so bad that you can't use them... though my friends say that the toilets in internet/LAN cafes are the worst since sometimes there's only one toilet, and the guys are the only ones to use them =/

Public toilets here are usually a 50/50 chance of being usable. They usally smell but for the most part are okay. Hm the only thing I've found in my food before is hair and that was twice. Also a bone in my supposedly boneless patty, never eat the school chiken patty again.

I didn't know Japan had an Isetan store! I only know of one here in the Philippines and it's in Quiapo, Manila. Very old store. 'was there before I was born. I know because before I move to where me and my family currently lived, we used to stay there at Quiapo. 'tis a big surprise for me.

Just like in the previous article, I try to avoid doing #2 outside the house. If I would do #2, I would do it before I go out OR whenever it's in a day where I know I'll be staying all day inside. I can't remember the worst public toilet I've been but what I remember is that there was brown EVERYWHERE!!! DX

I don't mind if it's only hair that's on top of my food. I'd just remove it and continue eating. Never had any questionable foreign objects on my food/drinks yet.

I wanna live in a place similar to Mr. Matt's mansion.I wanna wake up every morning with the sight of a big city below me! I also love high places.

The overpasses here are mostly made out of steel and are colored blue and PINK (thanks to MMDA). Not the best place to pass through because some beggars sleep, eat and do their business there. No wonder people choose to violate the law and jaywalk O_o

i LOVE the way you still say 'Gaff' danny!
nice one! ^~^
xd

Since you are looking for a good skyline camera...what do you think of rigging a Nikon D90 or a Canon 5D mkII to shoot HD video via a constructed program? That, or just have a DSLR hooked to USB and programmed to trigger autonomously.

Seem like you have a nice week. If I get some 'extra' add-on on my food that I'm gonna eat I will just call the waiter and tell them to change it or else. I had a friend have eaten a curry mee in the school canteen and you know what? He dig up a cockroach below and suddenly stopped eating and try to vomit it all out. Euuh!~

The new 007 is dull nothing really new but the character in the movie is well developed. Talk about toilet in my country it's dirty and stinky sometime you can even see poop laying around.

Cool picture's ^^ I would love to have a place like Matt some day =p View looks great!!!

Does the overpass really bounce up and down when a lot of people cross it?

Oh, I was so close to give the price of your new tel (by 6,000 yens). You got a cool bargain.

I see (probably its just me, but) Danny, dont you think you eat some oily food?? Maybe next time you order only a salad..hehe

That was an extremely long post! But the pictures were great. Renewed my feeling of wanting to go to Japan!

Lucky YouTubers got advertised here in DC. Some of the toilets here are pretty clean but some are really dirty one example would be the ones in gas stations. And about having foreign objects on my food. I've experienced having a cockroach in my noodles, the sad thing is that it was underneath so I didn't saw it until I almost finished the meal, really unforgettable I must say.

All the foods make me hungry xD

Something that really bugs me in the mall I work is that people keep leaving the faucet leaking, how could one be so thoughtless, for the rest yes you can also find pee here and there ^^; I guess it can't be helped since the soccer stadium is next to the mall so imagine the kind of people I've to deal with ^^

You don't really like Shana's head do you, Mikuru looks good though ^^

Bathrooms...ones at university are fine becuase douchbags who defile them are almost non-existant here. Back at highschool the stench of urine was considered normal, toilets are clogged with poop 80% of the time, and my highschool was one of the better ones. (I'm not sure about the girls' rooms though, I've heard a teacher complain about them when he was forced to use the student bathroom ^^;

Ones in public are quite random. There were lots that were really clean and others where there are human droppings under the toilet bowl.

I always like to read your A Week In Tokyo. Especially like looking at photos of the food and which always make me hungry. ^^

Once again the pics of tokyo are simply amazing Danny(specially the country side pic). I haven't found any objects in my food (yet) and hope I don't, cause that restaurant will never get my business again, toilets here are mixed some clean and some really gross, food looks yummy like always.

It always depends on location.

I think the more I see Saber Dolfie the more I'm falling in love with her

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannychoo/3249089341/sizes/o/

Toronto (TTC) Uses GMC buses too

About your MAC problem...
this might help, but I didn't try it though...
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!

synergy is nice one. works greate on windows and mac ... it's fun to move mouse from one screen to another :D

I rarely use public baths, only on work, these ones are always clean.

What an article, Danny!

"Have been waiting to control two different Macs with the same pair of Keyboard/Mouse but have not been able to find an application that allows me to switch between two machines."

Have you tried using those KVM switch devices? Maybe there are some for Macs

I must remember to bring a wad of cash and an umbrella when I go to Japan *kick'd*

The James Bond movie cam out ages ago here |D;;
I guess Japan is slow when it comes to movieslol

ahh no VI! i am having problems memorising those commands at the moment arghh!

About the food, how can a Gajin see when the food is out of date, i bet it's in japanese :P ?

I do miss my Kua'Aina burger. . . Have you gone down the left side of that intersection in Shibuya to the "kujira" restaurant? It was surprisingly tasty!

grossest bathroom I saw was in mexico where there was a long stone thing installed into the wall where you had to pee along with everyone else and you could clearly see each others stuff.

>"Unix users will know of a text editor called VI - .."
Actually, I use it's decendant vim for my everyday studies, for example for writing python scripts (over console/putty) on some powerful linux machene and running the scrips there. Vim is a very powerful tool on a command line. And some users use it faster than I use MS Word.

>"Matt and I are working on bringing you a live webcam from this spot. "
That would be awesome:)

>"Mr Bond back in action. How is the new movie?"
Hmm, good, but different. More killing, less the usual Bond stuff.

You made me hungry. I want some of those cakes too...

I think the worst toilets I've been to was in high school where someone tried to do a number 2 but missed the toilet bowl entirely and left a pile on the floor...

Can't you connect the two laptops together and make it onto dual monitor?

Danny, whats in your cup in your office!? It has stuff on the bottom XD!

Lol at the Youtubers advertising.

Saber does look lovely with her hair like that. My mom's never gonna stop bugging me to buy her a dollfie now. >_<

Toilets here are indeed a mixed bag. Course I always try to go before I go out anyways. I've seen some real horror stories....

Congraz to Takerun ^_^

Yakiniku~~~ *drools~~~~*

LOL @ overkill toilet sign ^^;

Mikuru Shana~~~~~~ adorable

eyelash is actually the new topping for pizza nowadays, give it a try ;-)

I had extra topping in my beverage from time to time, I just kindly tell the waiter & have them change FOC.

Can't wait for the live webcam input ^_^

Yakiniku always reminds me of a famous Bill Murray quote from "Lost in Translation":

What restaurant makes you cook your own food?

lol. tyres are good for you!

I want a Shana figure too!

Grats Takerun on the Nao, hopefully I'll be qualified for the next giveaway that Danny will be hosting. ^^;

As for foreign objects on my meal, I found a baby roach on my order of pork fried rice. Funny thing was that it happened on the grand opening day of the restaurant. My dad didn't want to give them bad publicity so we decided to do nothing about it; ended playing with the little critter for the rest of the meal (yes it was alive). XD

ohhhh Vaio P

all the planet is waiting for it, Japan already has it ! ;)

Gah, I used to find stuff in my food all the time in the US, it's really gross. Nowadays, I don't really see it too often, but when I travel or go on vacation- Uuuugh...

those views from Matt's mansion are most drool worthy. Yowsa! ^^

At a local chain Chinese takeout place i found a slug in my food, unfortunately I had already had it half swallowed, i kept wondering what the crunchy bit was from and picked through my food until I found the other half of it. It made me sick but it was too late, I had already swallowed the half in my mouth before I found the other half. At US Chinese places they get real aggressive with the metal spatulas in the woks and the cook must have chopped it in half as he tossed the food around. I had already eaten half so I just pushed the plate away and walked out. Didn't get sick or anything amazingly.

Dirtiest toilet I have ever had the dubious pleasure of using was at a pizza joint owned by a friend's father, it stank and looked like they cleaned it once a year. There was just enough clean area to sit down without touching something slimy. ick. Icould not really say much about it because the it was his parents' restaurant and they were selling it anyway. They knew how bad it was and simply didn't care.

The best features of a webcam IMO are a high frame rate, and the ability to move and zoom in on things. Exploration is really what makes a webcam fun to me, high resolution is nice but not very interesting after awhile and it's hard to track anything moving with a low frame rate.

@.@ Surprising people let you take pictures everywhere. Sometimes we don't have that freedom >.>.
Those bentos' look yum.

About the unwanted stuff in the food...
Thankfully, I've never had anyone spit in my milkshake or anything like that, but I remember one time that my boy scout troop picked up some cheap pizzas to snack on... While I was eating, I felt a hair brushing against my face and grabbed it. As I pulled it away from my face, the piece of pizza that was in my mouth popped out... I was pretty disgusted.

you know danny, everytime after i finished reading your posts about japan.. I really want to go to japan once T_T which is to say, i haven set foot in japan even on for this whole 20 years of my life *bawls*

Have no experience with webcam hacks, but this is what I've found in 5 minutes (sorry):

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=631646 (lol)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1000d/discuss/72157610493658105/

The DSLR hacks could significantly lower the expected lifetime of the equipment, but who knows.

You might want something more along the lines of this, as a rough guide.

http://webcams.bsch.au.com/setup_your_own.html

That dude Matt as a great place, and it kicks even more ass when you see the view! I'd consider sleeping in a closet if it came with a view like that!

Ah, good ol' Shibuya. I really love the atmosphere there :)

Well, the cockroach is pretty common.

The weirdest thing I found in my food was a piece of gold. I found it really strange. Then I woke up because it was a dream. No wonder I thought it was strange. ^^;

But seriously, I had a band-aid in my sandwich. Good part was I didn't take a bite yet. I had requested no mayo and inspected it to make sure (since people sometimes forget). There was no mayo alright, but their was a nice surprise replacement.

0 yen air! What a bargain!

your A Week In Tokyo posts are making me want to go, well i plan to in a few years ^0^
btw i plan to get myself one of those sony vaio type p laptops - i just need something compact and simple for grade 12 and university ^0^

Another batch of nice stuff this week I see! Horrible toilets here...TxT''

I think this is my first comment. XD

The pictures you take of food make it all look delicious.

I especially love the pictures of Shibuya. I spot a Matsujun AU advertisement and one for the RESCUE drama! :D

Was this picture taken in Ikebukuro? It looks a bit familiar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannychoo/3249089681/sizes/o/

The worse thing I've ever found in my food was a bug, but it was a take-away meal so there was nothing I could do about it. I never ordered from that restaurant again. I've found hairs occasionally- once in food that my friend's mom cooked, but I just took it out. Hairs don't really bother me too much unless it's a curly one. -_-;

I want to comment on Image ID #24442 concerning bathrooms. I agree American public bathrooms are "less than desired" in terms of privacy. Having been to othher countries like New Zealand and Japan, the oublic bathrooms are conducive to taking a dump in peace and quiet !

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3409/3252542042_e1006328bf.jpg" border=0> is an example of the lack of privacy. This was on the Westbound side of I-64 on the IL side of the IL/IN state border. Not a place to take a dump at unless you are desparate. There is a gas station a few miles away near the I-64/IL 1 exit.

Back in high school a friend had a cockroach in his fries once. Wonder how he's doing now?

The hotel that you can "pretend" to be a guest at is the Mark City Building. The hotel's name is Excel Tokyu. I stayed there the last 2 weeks of 2008. New Years at the crossing was the most surreal thing I had ever seen. So many people. It was pandemonium.

Meant to contact you, Danny. But I was there for an interview (on Dec. 25th), and after that I was trying to enjoy myself yet I had the interview still on my mind, haha. Can't wait to head back (hopefully one way) in July. We'll do lunch!!

Your pics made me shed a tear, LOL...I say that in the most manliest way possible...yea...

image ID#24467 lol C.C lemons, never seen that before ^^

Hey Danny, you can use teleport (http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/) to have one mousekeyboard setup control multiple macs.

I've read about time-lapse photography from <a href="http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-your-point+and+shoot-into-a-super+camera">here</a>, it's a little guide on how to hack a canon point-and-shot camera to a super camera. then, the super camera can be loaded with <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/UBASIC/Scripts">Interval Shooting script. </a>

Another article about <a href="http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/ultimate-guide-to-time-lapse-photography/">time-lapse photography.</a>

Nice post Danny! =)
Thanks for the hotel tip in Shibuya. Gunna head over and take some overviewssss.

Lovely pictures as always.

Havent had any gross food or toilet experiences until now.
Im quite amazed that so many people are shocked about urinals without seperation /Dolphin Looker Scurity.Its totally comon thing here.It varies from one long urinal to several small ones next to each other

Some fine examples:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/1863/Copenhagen-pissoir.jpg
http://www.planet-wissen.de/pics/IEPics/intro_werbung_klo_g.jpg

And these are the nifty ones that are used in areas with alot public urination

http://www.wall.de/assets/0002/6358/pissoir_div_big.jpg

Great pics DC. Wish there were some high places I could shoot photos from too! So do you get permission before shooting in the shops...?

That new Sony VAIO's too small for my tastes and, wuld like to have some hot beverage machines here too!

I'm pretty sure we had this toilet discussion before but... They're pretty clean here and don't have gaps in the cubicals. Some do have blue lights though to discourage the drug addicts from visiting because they can't see their veins that way.

Worst I've been to was in China which were the traditional toilets and there were "land mines" around the edges. One even had a giant hairy spider nested in it! Others were a few in the Mong Kok arcades in HK. Poorly maintained and you practically have to fight to use to them. Also think they had gaps there.

On a side note, did you catch sight of any volcanic ash in your area? Saw on the news a volcano erupted and spewed some ash over Tokyo.

Great post Danny as usual, thx for all these nice pics ^^

I'd never notice that there is a recession going on there.

I really like the country side pic (image ID#24434)! One of my favorite places in Japan was the small back street/alleys in Kyoto. Very cozy.

Looks like Matt have a nice apartment, wonder what it costs :)

No comments about foul toilets or undesirable 'extras' in restaurant meals.
I ate at the Burger King in Shibuya. Again, it was OK. I am still uncertain if the beef was imported from Australia or the U.S.A. (Tokyo Metro subway trains almost always had a display ad for the marketing board of U.S.- processed meats [beef & pork]: americanmeat.jp.)
For the basic difference between McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King: McDonald's makes burgers - fried - and french fries *before* anybody orders them; Wendy's makes burgers - fried - _when_ somebody orders one; and Burger King makes burgers - broiled - _when_ somebody orders one.
You can sense what is the hazard here at McDonald's. Prepared food gets discarded; or you could be the _unlucky_ one who orders the sandwich and | or fries *seconds* before it would have been discarded. At Wendy's or Burger King, a sandwich is not waiting for someone.
I also went to the Kua'Aina in east Shinjuku [1-10-4]. The hamburger lunch set cost me ¥1,270. The shop must have a broadband internet connection because it was playing KSSK-FM 92.3 from Honolulu (in English) in the background.
I didn't want a beer so early in the afternoon, but let me tell you that the beers from Kona Brwg. Co. of Hawaii [the _big island_] are quite good. The Longboard Lager is a balanced beer that goes well with red meats.
Now if a new "organic" burger restaurant which we have here in Chicago ['Epic Burger'] opens there, _that_ would be the one for which to stand in line. Everything it serves is supposedly certified organic {I have a mild distrust of how an object is certified "organic". I think if you give enough money to the organization which gives you the certification, you're going to get the certification.}. You can get a beef burger with a choice of two buns and three cheeses, french fries, and a soda for $10. A fried egg atop your burger is an extra 60¢. Even the ketchup & mustard is "organic".

Does Danny knows how to tie back the orginal Saber hairstyle? ^^;

There was once I seen a cubicle with little bit of blood on the floor and whats inside the bowl is blood perfectlty mixed with toiletpapers and its even more perfect with the flush spoilt. I thought I was in some horror bloody bowl movie ;_; Its a girls toilet, take it easy lols. But still...

nice week

Matt's room looks like a movie set...

Nice!!!

The toilets here are DISGUSTINGLY TERRIBLE! I would like to know - are the food portions in Japan often small?

Danny you only have get a flip switch for the usb right?
If so u can make one urself^^

hey danny,

try that: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

works just fine.

jya

"Overpass is made of concrete but it bounces up n down when a load of people are crossing it."
Er, you're just joshing, right?^^;

This weeks' post seem to NOT start off with food^^; Yay! Not so hungry right now...

Anyway, really nice pictures, wish I were there...

I wanna go to japan soo bad. Love this segment you do lets me see what its like

Looks like some amazing views from Matts building there. Sweet.
I giggled at 0円　air for some reason. Surely they would just say "Free" air XD

nice life your living there i wish mine was that fun .___.

Found in food.
Metal clip ring used to seal plastic bag such as in commercial produce bags ( broke a tooth on it).
Various types of hairs.
Plastic sandwich bag clips.
Bandage.
Tiny pebbles.
Sand.
Twigs.
Bones that shouldn't have been there.
Pellet from shot gun.
Various insects.
Rubber band.
Paper.
Plastic.

Worst bathrooms.

Original Detroit Tigers baseball stadium in the 70's when I was a kid.

Actual rural outhouse on my grandparents old property again when I was a kid.

Military style latrine when I was a boy scout in the 80's, preteen and teenage boys have no concept of bullseye aim.

A few truck stop / rest stops across the country, if it looks like a dive and smells like a dive then run like hell.

Various customers homes during my time as a field technician working for a DBS provider, I have horror stories I could tell you about the way people live.

And the worst by far is where I work at now with people 18 years old all the way up, you would think that adults would have good bathroom hygiene but alas that is not the case and there have been several times that I have went to use a stall only to find a beached whale resting on the shore line and several times have found the dried remains of an orange sweaty butt print indicating that someone I work with does not bath and sweats heavily.

Theres a company that makes what is best described as an A/B switch that allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse to control to computers and use one monitor as well. The device is made to work with vga computer monitors so your looking at an ibm based device but if you have an lcd monitor then you should be fine.

i have a bubblegum one time in my burguer i remember my friends face like OMG LOL XD!!!!!! when i say om"#%&g... lol!!!!! but burguers here in mexico are nice and cheap jiji i think ill have one right now cuz im hungryyy !!!!

Neat photos as usual. But dude, how comes you consider that cake serving a small one? I can't imagine you eating a bigger piece with just a coffee.

Great view from that living room, it looks pretty nice. The apartments look really nice, I wonder how much they cost, and the area seems well connected.

love this segment. lets me see japan even though i cant go there.

A nice collection of photos Danny. Interesting to see how many umbrellas there were when it was raining. Where I live people are hardly ever prepared and resort to all sorts of alternatives to keep dry

Oh and the food, looks NICE!!!

Wow that guy has a great view of the city, also the food made me really hungry now lol

Oh and that new Vaio looks cool but really small ^^

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but this will let you connect up to two external monitors to one Mac. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/solutions/mac/choice/

I just found your site through Boing Boing. I can tell I'm going to be sticking around for awhile.

Ha a while ago I was in a restaurant in Thailand and I found a fried cockroach in my dish, yum.....

While in Ginza spring of last year I was in a chain restaurant and under the rice in the rice bowl was a live cockroach! I was very surprised and I showed the staff and the manager came and apologized but wow. I figure it was in the bowl and then they quickly put rice on top without even noticing.

toilets at my region is the worst especially those public toilets.. sometimes the flush cant even work, which explains why we always have pee and poo left in the toilet bowl.

i went to that black egg place when i went to japan about 2 years ago. I ate an egg, i think it realy smelled over there if i can remember right..
One thing i really regret was not having a camera when i went there.. T_T

Most public toilets over here smell like pee.. but it depends on where you go

Lol, there arent really any public restrooms around my area, so I can't answer that poll. ^^;

What I found in food:
Going to my boyfriend's house and got offered a paper bag of peanuts. Ate some and later decided to tip the rest out into the bowl and to continue eating. Then I noticed out of the corner of my eye, something wriggling! @_@ It was full of maggots. The bag of peanuts had been sitting in the cupboard for some time and there was a bit of a moth problem.

Worst toilets are probably in Malaysia, with the exception of New Zealand (will get to that). I remember as a kid going to the coffee shops for lunch and needing to pee. So you get taken to the back of the shop to a dark, wet and smelly room and told to pee down the drain hole.

Went to one of the national parks on the South Island of New Zealand (apparently they filmed part of Lord of the Rings there) and wanted to use the toilets at the car park. It's a hole in the ground, but to give you something to sit on they cut one of those giant concrete pipes to the height of a toilet, then put a toilet seat on it. What hits you is the smell, then the sight of brown stuff around the toilet, on the seat, on the walls...

Food *_* *yummy* :P
nice pics ;)

Mouth watering :O

I choked (not find) on a piece of steel wool in my Fried rice. :|