Daniella Zelli is making me hungry. She runs a website called Gourmet Gaming, which exists solely to take the food found in video games and bring it into the real world.
I recently travelled to the Cappadocia region of Turkey to get away from work and to enjoy the area’s amazing, exotic geography. Hundreds of rock formations called “fairy chimneys” fill the terrain. In the early morning, dozens of hot air balloons take to the sky.
Newly opened dim sum joint Red Farm, in New York’s West Village, is serving “Pac-Man Dumpings”. Sweet potato Pac-Man is cute! (And the Katz’s pastrami spring rolls sound kind of amazing, as well.) The decor has a spiffed up tin-roof-rustic thing going on, too, as well as one of those big long common tables that driver out-of-towners insane with intimacy.
Some people have flesh and blood girlfriends. Others have pillows. And some have plastic toys. One curry restaurant in Tokyo’s geek district is sensitive to this.
March 11′s earthquake has impacted car companies and electronics makers. That’s expected. But it’s also had an unforeseen effect on Pocket Monsters, namely Pokémon branded noodles.
You can’t eat a downloadable game. But you can eat weird food crushed and packed into cubes that look like Minecraft terrain blocks. On the menu are french toast, sausage, cereal (with milk!) and blueberry yoghurt. [Instructables]