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We are a wooden furniture maker and always trying to reduce the waste of wood, but we can’t make it zero. A large amount of wood chips and dust are produced every day. We collect them in our factory and send them to a coffee roaster in Sapporo, and they smoke their coffee beans.

There are so many hidden gems in Hokkaido. You can see beautiful scenery e.g.; lakes, mountains, forest, sea and so on. I would like to share some gems in Hokkaido. Today, let's talk about "Three Must Eat major cuisines in Hokkaido." 【I...

The king of mashrooms in Japan is definitely pine mushrooms, Matsutake in Japanese. They are very expensive, like about 300 USD for one piece, but funnily enough, it's not popular at all outside Japan. Let's see the long history of eating mushrooms in Japan.

Japan and India seem to have their own unique box lunch cultures: Japanese bento and Indian dabba. Among other things, the tidy content arrangement of Japanese bento is one of a kind, while the lunch delivery system (dabbawala) in Mumbai is unequaled in the world.

Instant noodles were invented in Japan in 1968. The inventor's name was Momofuku Ando, the founder of Nissin, the top instant noodle brand in Japan. Let's see the background story of how he invented instant noodles and his company has been improved them.

Hokkaido is famous for delicious seafood like sushi and sashimi because it's surrounded by the bountiful sea. My hometown Asahikawa is located in the very middle of Hokkaido, surrounded by mountains, far away from the sea, but you can have the best sushi because the town is the central distribution base of Hokkaido.

The number of deer has increased up to about 700,000 in Hokkaido, Japan, which causes problems such as car accidents and deforestation. About 100,000 deer are hunted every year, but that's not enough to stop them from increasing too many. There are many good restaurants serving deer meat dishes here. Let's eat more!

Have you ever eaten mochi? If yes and you're still alive, you're blessed. Do you know how many people have lost their lives by choking on mochi in Japan? It's 300 averagely every year. We probably should prohibit or at least impose a heavy tax on mochi like narcotics and alcohol, but there has been no such momentum in the National Diet of Japan so far.

Why do bees and hornets build hexagons? If we try to fill a plane surface with a single kind of polygons, there are three options: equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons. Bees and hornets go with regular hexagons because regular hexagons are best in space-efficiency and second best in strength. This is the core point of the theory. What do you think?

Do you think you can tell good rice from not-so-good one? If you think "Rice is just a foil to the main dish, and there is not much of a difference," that's completely wrong. Today, I'm going to introduce a restaurant famous for good rice in Hokkaido.