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Tokyo Seafood Buffet's Conveyor-Belt Sushi Is Mesmerizingly Disappointing

Avocado. Avocado. Avocado. Spicy tuna? Avocado. Avocado. Avocado? I'm standing along the perimeter of the rectangular sushi station -- I'd call it the sushi bar but there's nowhere to sit -- at Tokyo Seafood Buffet (8004 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-991-1188), watching as plates of sushi, ... More >>

Japan Blossoming

New Tokyo Buffet to Feature Conveyor-Belt Sushi

Back in January, Gut Check told you about Tokyo Buffet, the new and apparently quite large restaurant that will open at 8008 Olive Boulevard in University City. (This is in the same strip mall that houses Seafood City Grocery Store.) Driving by the other day, I noticed that not only is the Tokyo Bu ... More >>

Peelander-Z

8 p.m. Wednesday, March 7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Soulard Parade Smashes World Record

​For years, Soulard has claimed to host the second-largest Mardi Gras celebration in America. Yesterday, the South City neighborhood definitively laid claim to actually having the largest Mardi Gras celebration in the world -- of a sort.With official counters on hand and a public notary verifying ... More >>

Sexy Japan

Amanda Palmer, Stephin Merritt, Moby and Neil Gaiman: Totally Tubular

​Well everyone, it's a rainy, poopy Thursday and we need all the awesome available to make it through the next few hours before the RFT's Best Of party tonight at the City Museum. (We'll see you there, right? Bloody well right.) The party theme is the Rapture, and (awkward segue alert!) here's ... More >>

Ten Japanese Food Ads Featuring Western Superstars

Advertising products they'd never endorse in the United States, American celebrities have always looked to Japan for extra income. Which is a shame, because Americans would have loved to have seen a post-prison James Brown shilling Cup o' Noodles in 1991.

Gavin DeGraw And The Five Best Reasons To Cancel A Tour

​Earlier this week, Gavin DeGraw was hospitalized after he was attacked during a walk home from his club in New York City, and, while staggering away, bleeding, was hit by a taxi cab. He canceled several upcoming shows, and for that we don't blame him at all. But on the grand scale, where King ... More >>

St. Louis Voltron Connection: Who Knew?

"Form feet and legs; form arms and body; and I'll form the head!" ​Don't know what your favorite cartoon of the mid-1980s was, but we here at Daily RFT we're definitely partial to Voltron. From 1984 to 1985, the animated series about crime fighters in robotic cats that could come together as a gia ... More >>

Nudie Foodies Bring Food Fetishism Mainstream for Japan Tsunami Relief

thenudiefoodies.com​Food and sex keep colliding all over the place, often in the name of doing good. The Loop had a couple of naked ladies promoting veganism for PETA yesterday. Elsewhere, food bloggers are losing their clothes to aid Japan. The Nudie Foodies are 18 "cover model-caliber ... More >>

Godzilla's Path Of Destruction

Burger King Introduces New "Meat Monster"...in Japan?

Image viaHave it your way, especially if your way is on the way to the cardiac-care unit.​Maybe I need to rethink all the snarky comments I make about us Americans gorging ourselves on ever more over-the-top fast-food creations. That picture above is an ad for Burger King's new "Meat Monster" Whop ... More >>

Radiation! It's In Your Food! Put Down the Geiger Counter, Poindexter.

Wikimedia Commons​ The truly horrible catastrophe in Japan keeps threatening people nearly two weeks after the initial earthquakes and tsunami. The nuclear power plants are damaged and there's radiation in the water, spinach and milk! Quick! Stop all exports of these products to the U.S.! Bec ... More >>

Fenton Drug Company in Overdrive After Japan Quake

​Amid panic about nuclear plants exploding after huge earthquakes hit Japan, a local drug manufacturer is seeing a run on a medicine that protects against radiation poisoning. The over-the-counter drug, ThyroShield, saturates the thyroid with potassium idodide so that it can't absorb radiation. "I ... More >>

Lake Effect

How Much Will the Last Bluefin Tuna Cost?

Making its way around the food blogosphere today is news of a record-setting auction price for a bluefin tuna in Japan: approximately $400,000. The AP report below, via Eater, showcases the beast.The price tag should answer any question as to why the bluefin tuna is on the brink of being wiped out - ... More >>

KFC Does Christmas Right ... in Japan

What do people in Japan eat for Christmas dinner? KFC, of course. Laos News reports that the American chicken chain has created a Christmas tradition of eating fried chicken in Japan. Their catchy marketing slogan is, "At Christmas you eat chicken."If it's a KFC in Brazil, they'd better get ready to ... More >>

Netherlands 2, Cameroon 1; Japan 3, Denmark 1: Multitasking at the Post Sports Bar & Grill

Ian FroebToo. Much. Action. at the Post Sports Bar & Grill​Keegan is out of town for a few days. I will try to fill his boots.Why are the final matches in each group played simultaneously? Not for the entertainment value.In 1982, unheralded Algeria finished group play with two wins and one los ... More >>

Tonight In Ear-Bleeding: Slang, Mind Eraser, Migraine and Ecoli at Fubar

If you're looking for ear-splitting hardcore tonight, look no further than Fubar (3108 Locust Street) in Midtown when bands from California, Boston and Japan take the stage floor on the lounge side of the venue. Mind Eraser, which has played St. Louis three times in the past (all in basements, her ... More >>

Beware the Insidious Asphalt-Destroying Asparagus

Image viaAsparagus, lookin' all tasty. Don't be fooled.​Gut Check warned you yesterday that vegetables weren't as benign as you've been led to believe. Already, via Gawker, we have another example.To the right, you see a picture of regular, everyday asparagus. You know, arrives every spring, taste ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 4.21

Foot-and-mouth disease is back. Three cows were found with the condition's mouth sores, so Japan has banned the export of beef for three months, according to Forbes. It's the first case of foot-and-mouth reported in Japan in ten years. Jack in the Box has introduced self-service kiosks. Slashfood ... More >>

The Seal Deal

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 1.27

In today's news: a bad history at the source of the salmonella outbreak, caterpillars in Liberia and deadly fugu in Japan.

The Morning Brew: Friday, 12.19

In today's news: more countries need food aid, Mexico protests U.S. labeling laws, eating cats in china and brewing beer in space.

The Morning Brew: Monday, 9.22

The Morning Brew: Friday, 5.23

Anime-niacal

You'll Laugh, and You'll Laugh

The Morning Brew: Friday, 2.8

The Top Ten Dishes (and the Absolute Worst) of 2007

Melt Banana

7 p.m. Saturday, October 27. 2 Cents Plain, 1114 Olive Street.

Random Weblinks, Here, There and Everywhere: Sonic Youth, the Verve, So Many Dynamos, Girl Talk, Japan, more!

Gimme Five (from Japan)

Hunger

(Madame Butterfly, The Touhill Performing Arts Center)

Cooking dinner for your mujer could pay dividends in the sack.

Week of October 12, 2006

Travelers' Tales

A soda called Pipi Bubble, Austria's last wandering shepherd, a boat made of 164,321 wine corks: It's all here

Gekeikkan Sake (warm)

Little Tokyo, 16 South Central Avenue, Clayton, 314-721-0100

Kamata Shoten lychee-flavored ramune soda

Central Trading Company, 8150 Olive Boulevard, 314-993-4303

Eat Me

The only thing keeping the Japanese from buying the Midwest's finest beef is the USDA

Eire Japan Thinks Globally

And plays locally

Best Comic Book Store

All American Collectibles

Various Artists

Black on Black: A Tribute to Black Flag (Initial Records)

Japanese Cuisine

Robata of Japan

Japanese Cuisine

Robata of Japan

Drum and Drummer

Japan's celebrated Kodo drummers thunder into St. Louis

Full Bore

Turning Japanese