For North Koreans, Human Excrement a Top Seller

Everyone knows North Korea is one of the more…weird countries out there. It’s ruled by the diminutive and utterly insane Kim Jong-Il and is fiercely militaristic, ensuring the world that you best bring your A-game if you want to challenge it to a game of RISK. What people don’t know, however, is its love of human excrement.

(Read also: http://jitlim7.blogspot.com/2011/06/japanese-scientist-makes-delicious.html)

Yes, human excrement. Poop. Feces All of this and more is apparently a hot commodity just north of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)

According to Professor Kim Young-soo of Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, interviews with a number of North Korean defectors revealed that skinny jeans (Hipster couture), adult films, and yes, human excrement are selling like “hot cakes.”

When I first read that I pictured pancake-shaped feces sold in a Denny’s. Clearly North Korea isn’t that weird.

Of course, there is semi-logical reason for all of this. Everyone loves pornography, regardless of country of origin, and “fashionable trousers” were banned, making skinny jeans a hot ticket item for North Korean women. But what of the human excrement?

According to Kim, households used human waste as fertilizer. Since the average human probably doesn’t produce enough waste each day, some shops have begun selling it to deal with the shortage.

This is all well and good – you gotta do what you gotta do to survive – but makes us ask: where do they get it, and how much do they pay for it?

A tasteful 4th of July

4th of July was known world wide as the Independence Day of the United States. But for me,it means even more. It is my dear's birthday!

I've always wanted to give her the best I can during her birthday,but somehow 2011 I really ran out of ideas...She's just back from Spain and Italy (company incentive trip),and have been enjoying the food there. So I had a tough time to plan where to have her dinner when she's back to Malaysia...hmmm...no western food,no Italian or Spanish food...

Finally Tao came into my mind! TAO is actually not a Japanese restaurant serving Japanese buffet, despite always being referred to as ‘TAO Japanese Buffet‘. Actually the dishes served at TAO are Asian specialties including mostly of Japan, Thailand and Chinese.

My first experience with TAO at E-Gate a few years back was a good affair. Although I have been to Tao Sunway Giza a few times, I still have fond memories of eating here.

The entrance of Tao Sunway Giza.

As soon as we were seated our waiter greeted us and helped us to order some suggested items from the menu, so that we won’t need to waste time going through it. The Spicy Mayo Scallops is the must order dish at TAO. The scallops are grilled then topped with generous mixture of Japanese Mayonnaise and spicy sauce, which is then blow-torched later. Definitely a dish that would tingle your taste buds and leave you asking for more.

The scallops!

This soup is quite nice

My favorite: The sashimi.

  Among them are salmon, tuna, ika, mackarel. I love their salmon the most because of the freshness and thickness is just nice!

The lamb teriyaki: is only so-so in my opinion

The salmon ball: but no salmon taste..

This is recommended!

 Their mix mushroom is tasty!

I don;t really enjoy this.

The teriyaki squid: very very nice...juicy and fresh!

Unagi and tofu

The soft shell crab hand-roll...quite nice

This is a must try...

Edamame

Tuna slice with onion

The ice cream dessert.

fried clam- but their size is too small

I really enjoy the food and environment there and I still miss the sashimi everytime I went back home. But most importantly...my dear like the food as well!

McDonald's GCB burger is BACK!!!

Finally it's back...the McDonald's GCB burger! Starts from today and only for limited 


time (while stock last)...go check it out. But no special McValue promotion for GCB burger, 


too bad.