This is an unusual way to make puffed rice but it works. Somehow they have this little cannon type thing that once it heats up you bang on it and it explodes and the puffed rice pops out into a basket.

This was one of the many interesting little things we got to experience at our reception at the University of Agriculture in Tokyo. It was also sake night but more on that later.

I’m disappointed in the fact that we’re in a city that is supposed to have the world’s best internet access, we’re on a working journalists event and we have no internet access. I’m feeding a machine in the lobby of our hotel some yen coins just to get this post out and check email. Our press room is not open this morning and we won’t be to our next hotel with access until this evening. Someone doesn’t get it.

So until we can get online somewhere . . .

IFAJ Congress 2007 Photo Album

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