In Real Life

Turning Video Game Food Into Real, Delicious Food

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.


September 16, 2011
In Real Life

What’s On The Menu At This Remote FarmVille Restaurant In Turkey?

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.


September 5, 2011
In Real Life

Blue Slime You Can Eat. But Will You?

Everyone loves the Dragon Quest slime. Meat buns are incredibly popular, too. But a meat bun Slime? More importantly, a blue meat bun?


September 2, 2011
In Real Life

Pac-Man Dumplings Make For Adorable Dim Sum

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.


August 3, 2011
In Real Life

Neon Genesis Fried Chicken

Colonel Sanders gives Neon Genesis Evangelion a makeover to the bewilderment and delight of Japanese netizens.


July 18, 2011
In Real Life

Eat Curry. With Your Plastic Girlfriend.

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.


June 17, 2011
In Real Life

The Japanese Earthquake’s Unexpected Impact On Pokémon

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.


May 20, 2011
In Real Life

How To Eat Minecraft For Breakfast

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]


May 18, 2011
In Real Life

Let’s Check Out The Resident Evil Restaurant

To mark Resident Evil‘s 15th anniversary, Capcom turned Tokyo airsoft gun shooting bar EA into a S.T.A.R.S.. It’s kind of pricey!


May 17, 2011
In Real Life

4.5kg Of Gummy Bears Seems Fun

YouTube user blankchip18 used 4.5kg of Gummy Bears to make a stop motion tribute to Tetris, Breakout, Pac-Man and more.