aucklandista.com » tanuki http://aucklandista.com All about the 09 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:24:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Tanuki (for Jose) http://aucklandista.com/2008/02/02/the-tanuki-for-jose/ http://aucklandista.com/2008/02/02/the-tanuki-for-jose/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:37:05 +0000 Ryan Sproull http://aucklandista.com/?p=17 Informative video regarding Jose’s favourite restaurant, Tanuki’s.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzUFOI92H8]

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It currently resides outside the great Tanuki Cave on Queen Street (best Tanuki Cave memory: Peter Montgomery offering me squid rings).

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I do not know what it is, but I know it haunts my dreams.

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MY DREAMS.

Update: here’s a Japanese tourist poster explaining nearly everything you need to know about the Tanuki.

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No mention of the nipples and ball, but I quite like explanation of the stomach’s function: “Have calmness and daring.”

Yeah, that’s how it works for me too.

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