Next Cup Noodle ad: Queen

First of all, Happy New Year! Hope 2011 will be great for everyone.

Since I posted two of them, might as well keep going: here's another recent Nisshin Cup Noodle ad using Japanese lyrics praising the sodium-packed carbohydrates. This one features Freddie Mercury singing on what would be I was born to love you. As in the other ads, lips were CG'ed to fit the lyrics.

I remember this song...

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Another Cup Noodle ad wonder: Bon Jovi

Remember when I mentioned the Cup noodle ad with Jamiroquai? Well, the Nisshin company is at it again, this time with Bon Jovi, with new lyrics for You give love a bad name.

Here's the video, although I bet the Japanese media will ask Youtube to pull this one down as they did with the video in my other post. I still don't get how an ad, that is shown on TV, is a no-go on youtube. Isn't more...

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Bottari in the wild

This is an interesting finding: I am aware that there's a car company in Italy called "Bottari", but to see my family name out there in the wild is pretty surprising. I'm sure anyone with a not-so-usual family (or first) name can relate.

The image was provided by a good buddy of mine and excellent photographer. You can follow him on twitter @fotoamater_com. His website can be found here.

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Cup noodle ads: funny lyrics of known music videos

I'm really digging the recent Cup Noodle commercial series in Japan. The commercial looks like a regular music video, but the lyrics are completely different and sung in Japanese. Check out this Jamiroquai gem:

Looks like the famous "Virtual Insanity" video, until Jamiroquai starts singing "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry... Oh Cup Noodle, I could eat about five!"

I only...

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Taking on the seven-patty Whopper

Oh boy, what a feast! Along with the Windows 7 launch, for which I'm psyched just for Internet Explorer 8 and the hopefully hastened death of IE6, Burger King in Japan was offering a seven-patty Whopper. The first 140 visitors or so could get the whopper for 777 yen (about 7 bucks), but since I got there late, I dished out the full 1420 yen. Worth it though, being my birthday and a rare...

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