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Five Leaves Opens

Heath Ledger’s Five Leaves, the bar and restaurant is now open. This was Heath Ledger’s pet project before his death. To convert a tiny bar and restaurant in Brooklyn the hipster enclave was Heath’s passion project.

Five Leaves look like an urban hotspot, with handmade light fixtures, a massive steel door on the bathroom and walls covered in steel alltogether give it cool look of a tiny corner bar. The coffeehouse/oyster bar loves greenmarket gnoshes like Sliced Radishes on Toast with Evans Farmhouse Butter. [ More]

Watermelion Art

Fruit carving has a long tradition in many Asian countries, people use different fruits for carving but the watermelon remains the most popular because it give good shape and it has color variations of the cut fruit is highly attractive. Takashi Itoh is an amazing fruit carving artist and can carve just about anything from portraits (Van Gogh) to intricate flowers, various sports like skiing, animals both real and fantasy. Inspired through participation in Thai Food Festival in Tokyo, he develop passion on this art, his work on Michelangelo’s La Pietra is superb. He has more than hundred designs on his website.

 Watermelion Art

Jumbo Hostel- Airplane Hotels

You could have mile-high experience without leaving the airport, the Jumbo Hostel would be best destination at the entrance to Sweden’s Arlanda Airport. The 25-room hotel features three bunk beds beside a café that offers breakfast, coffee, cookies and basic meals.

Jumbo Hostel also features luxury accommodations suitable for even discerning travelers. All rooms are well furnished to provide luxury and feature a flat screen TV and wireless broadband, you get 5 star service at the lowest rate. The plane’s cockpit has even been converted into a deluxe private suite with panoramic windows, which you will find one of the best feature to maintain your privacy.

Fuchun Resort- The Luxury Retreat

Tranquil Fuchun Resort near Hangzhou, China is the best place for those who want to go outside rather than enjoying their holiday in jammed big cities, this holiday spot let them enjoy each live moment with absolute luxury.

The Tranquil Fuchun Resort ( 70 lakeside rooms and 12 Villas, which start at US $293.) look like different planet compared to the peacefulness found at Hangzhou, which is Just three hours away from Shanghai, Jean-Michel Gathy offers luxurious five-star lakeside hideaway near the Hangzhou mountains which the travelers may won’t like to miss.

McBakeries from McDonald

McDonald’s set to provide customers with tasty bakery items like “Melon Bun,” “Choco Danish” and “Sugar Croissant.”, the bakery products sells for 100 yen, which is the same price of a McDonalds premium roast coffee. It will go along with that coffee. The McBakery bread products are offered throughout the day with no time restrictions. The new McBakery line launched on 16 July, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. [ Video ]

 McBakeries from McDonald

Takeshita- The Street of Fashion

Takeshita Street

Takeshita-dori is one of the famous street best known for its fashion boutiques,  Restaurants &  cafes lined up shops all around the street.  Takeshita-dori is the cutting edge of Tokyo fashion – the Asian center for the trendy,  it became a pedestrian-only street which is renowned as “The Cutting edge of Tokyo fashion” at Harajuku in Tokyo,  Japan.

There are a number of fashion Stores at Takeshita Street which includes major tourists spots to hang out. There are several Body Shops which carries traditional cultures of styles & fashion from generation to generation since many years. If you’re a tourist you may not find this place in the guidebooks but now you’ll definitely not miss to visit this fashion street.  [ Video ]

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Beirut’s -”Buns and Guns” fast food restaurant

With the bullet-shaped menu you can order “Kalashnikov” sandwich at “Buns and Guns” fast food restaurant in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the dishes prepared by chefs with the roar of explosions as background music. As reported to Reuters the co-owner Ali Hammoud said, his idea is nothing political and the war theme was a novel concept that had nothing to do with Lebanon’s bloody recent history. The menu features sandwiches and burgers with names such as “Terrorist meal” and “RPG”, as well as “Kalashnikov” is becoming quite popular among the teenagers.

Find Best Dine-Urban Spoon

Urban Spoon is an application for the iPhone that helps you find a place to eat. It consist Part Magic Eight Ball, part slot machine which will show in the bottom of the screen will be your choices that are close to your search. You need to just put your location via the GPS and it let your mobile pick your food for you. for more results just go on shaking the phone… :)

Shabu shabu & Sukiyaki Buffet

You can enjoy the delicious food at Akiyoshi especially if you would like to taste the shabu shabu or sukiyaki buffet, which is a popular dishes served at Akiyoshi in Japan. Shabu shabu is prepared by submerging a very thin slice of meat or a piece of vegetable in a pot of boiling water or dashi (broth) made with kombu (kelp) and swishing it back and forth several times. The most of the typical feature of the menu, it contain also the cooking instructions on the back of it. The dish related to sukiyaki are served in style, where both thinly sliced meat and vegetables are used, and usually served with dipping sauces. Each dishes comes with a portable gas stove to keep the recipes hot and fresh, the dishes include a large plate of mixed vegetables and noodles along with a jug of soup and the raw meat of your choice.

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Also you may be fond of to taste the pork shabu shabu, which is also striking as the beef suki. Depending on the specific time you can get ice cream with buffet menu too, which are generally a complimentary dessert for all diners before 2pm. Akiyoshi’s staffs are very friendly and quite efficient to help you during your stay at Akiyoshi.

Soi Vacharapol- Huntsman Pub, Bangkok

Soi Vacharapol is one of the destinations for restaurant huntsman in Bangkok though it is not so much popular however you can enjoy a place away from the city centre in a pollution free environment for a halt. On the meadow you will find ‘Mae Chee Sansanee’ the meditation centre, which is one of the noted landmark. You will enjoy shopping at small shopping mall at Sathira-Dhammasathan a stunning stop for shopping.

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There are many independent restaurateurs & establishment with a big central bar, small dance floor, stage and booths along the restaurant and food chain at Sathira-Dhammasathan where you can enjoy your trip and delicious food though the menu features include a couple of organic vegetarian dishes, king oyster mushrooms with oyster sauce, stir fried Japanese mushrooms and spicy mixed mushrooms with sweet basil fried rice.