Things tend to be smaller in Japan when compared to the US and soda cans are no different. This is the typical size of a soda in Japan.
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Here is another example of the bento boxes I love to eat when visiting Japan. I have actually found these bento boxes for sale in the US in areas with large Asian populations as well. They make for a nutritious and easy lunch.
This is your typical Japanese bento box that can be bought in convenience stores in Japan. I live off these things when I am in Japan because they are so cheap to buy. A box like this costs only about $4 to $5 range. Definitely an affordable way to eat in Japan.
This is what my wife and I were drinking this past weekend:
We both love Penfolds wine even a cheaper wine like their Rawson’s Retreat line. Rawson’s Retreat is named after Christopher Rawson Penfold’s original stone cottage, which still stands among the vines at Magill Estate, in Adelaide, South Australia. These wines are affordable, everyday, easy-drinking wines that can be found for sale here in the US. This particular bottle I actually picked up at Albertson’s. I have more expensive vintages from Penfolds that are part of my wine collection I brought over from Australia, but Rawson’s Retreat is a good, cheap, sipping wine to eat dinner with.
So is anyone up for a Whopper and beer?:
Gimme a Whopper, fries — and a beer.Those words are no longer wishful thinking. Friday, Burger King (BKC) will unveil plans to sell beer and burgers at a Whopper Bar — a new BK concept to compete with casual dining restaurants — in Miami Beach’s tourist-heavy South Beach. The South Beach Whopper Bar is scheduled to open in mid-February.
Don’t look for beer at conventional Burger Kings. That’s not in the plans. But more Whopper Bars — which offer an assortment of burgers, toppings and beer — could be on tap in tourist hot spots such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, says Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King North America.
A brewski at the new Whopper Bar — served in special aluminum bottles to keep them extra cold — fetches $4.25. Or, order beer as part of a Whopper combo and your bill will be $7.99 — roughly $2 more than the same combo meal with a fountain drink. [USA Today]
I don’t each much fast food or beer so I won’t be eating here any time soon.
The last time my wife and I drove up to La Mesilla outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico we stopped by a store selling locally made chile and salsa. We picked up this bottle of chuck wagon salsa. We appreciated the fact that the salsa did taste fresh, but we were not overly impressed by the salsa.
I brought back with me from Australia quite a robust wine collection, however I was at Albertson’s the other day and saw this imported Australian wine for sale. I haven’t heard of Cockatoo Ridge before so I decided to pick it up. This cabernet merlot was mediocre and not quite as good as Yellow Tail, which is average in its own right. Australia has many fine wines, but these cheap exports like Cockatoo Ridge have been accused of ruining the Australian wine industry.
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