Yakiniku Sauce Vending Machine
Yea, indeed i suck at this blogging thing. You may wonder where the deuce postings have been recently. True, i am still living out in the sticks, with my beer supply running dangerously low, and grueling work, but i did manage to post something last night. it was a really good post too, about robots and czech beer and such. But i have no idea where it went. Oh, well.
We all know by now that vending machines are plentiful in Japan. Everyone, especially those new to Japan comments on this, as if vending machines don’t exists elsewhere in the world. But, i suppose, it’s the sheer variety of goods you can buy that excites some people. I’m sure there’s even a Japanese blog dedicated to this subject.
Even so, this one took me by surprise. Do you all like yakiniku, AKA Korean BBQ Japanese style? I know I do, and what’s really different about Japanese style grilled meat is the sauce, called “tare”. it’s simply a dipping sauce, usually sweet, that you dip your cooked meat and shove down your gullet.
Thanks to a friend of mine who’s tipped me of this unique vending machine, I learned about a butcher shop in Kobe that has installed a tare sauce vending machine, and only tare sauce. Apparently, they have a pretty good sauce going at the shop, and they bottle the stuff, and sell it from the vending machine. This machine does pretty good business, selling about 3000 bottles a year.
From IZA (in Japanese)
March 11th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Surprising !
You know Japan much more than me.
March 12th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Hahaha… do I? i’m lucky to have friends in Japan that send me interesting links…