Here are a few Keycam photos from a day's trip to the Japanese market in Edgewater, NJ, a while back. Yes, some people use their little cameras to take clandestine upskirt pictures of girls' panties. I use it to take clandestine pictures of shrimp shumai.


Pikachu invites you taste his custard filled cakes. Or, if you prefer, red bean. As long as it's all inside a tasty waffle emblazoned with a monkey or a dog or a warthog, it's good.


Wall of shining plastic food that looks good enough to eat. In Japan, these are indispensible ordering aides for the Japanese language impaired. Here, they're just sort of showing off. An entire neighborhood in Tokyo is dedicated to the manufacturing and selling of replica food.


I guess there's nothing particularly gross about squid legs, especially considering my favorite Japanese fast food restaurant has a menu that trumpets turkey testicles and bull penis. What I want to know is, what do they do with all the turkey penis and bull testicles?


Happy screaming beans demand you eat their brand of dried peas.


If you're not hungry, perhaps they can interest you in this wall of Godzillas, Ultramen, and Booskas.


Or a wall of Totoros, because no Japanese store is complete without a Totoro display. Except, I guess, a porno store, but maybe even there.


I have nothing to say. Giant Japanese robots speak for themselves.


Crab shumai I can dig, but sweet corn shumai? Can you get that on a stick at the county fair?


The closest I came to using my tiny camera the way most guys use it. Some things never change regardless of culture, and scantily clad beer models will one day bring us all together.


And of course, no trip to the Japanese market is complete without some Pocari Sweat, the drink that has actually turned its slightly disturbing name into a marketing advantage. Every gaijin has to try some. Next to it, however, is the less fortunate Calpico, which became Calpico after the previous name of "Calpis" didn't catch on.


Nothing says chocolate covered mushrooms quite like monkeys. Actually, I have no idea what he's gathering. Acorns, I guess.


My favorite item of the day was this candy emblazoned with uplifting motivational slogans like "Go for it! Take a chance!" and a buff gorilla telling a frightened looking girl raccoon to "Do me a favor."

Labels: Food, Travel