{"slug": "jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary", "title": "Jensen Huang hands out red bean buns to Tokyo crowd in his latest culinary adventure", "summary": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo to announce AI and robotics partnerships, including a joint AI factory with Noetra Corp, and handed out red bean buns to a crowd outside a local izakaya. The trip also included a stop at a former Sega arcade and a dinner with top Japanese tech executives.", "body_md": "Jensen Huang came to Tokyo bearing gifts: a slew of AI and robotics partnerships for Japan's tech industry, and red bean buns for the crowd.\n\nOn Wednesday, [the Nvidia CEO](https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-settles-fights-over-nvidias-ai-chips-auto-chief-2026-7) visited a red-lantern izakaya, a traditional Japanese bar, in Tokyo's Kanda district, where a crowd gathered outside hoping to glimpse \"kawa-jan\" — [\"leather jacket\"](https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-wardrobe-black-leather-jackets-signature-look-2024-3) — as he's affectionately known in Japan.\n\nThe trip's centerpiece, announced Thursday, is a partnership with Noetra Corp, the state-backed AI developer formed by SoftBank, NEC, Sony, and Honda, to build a 27,500-GPU \"AI factory\" billed as the world's first national AI infrastructure for robotics.\n\nHuang also swung by a former Sega arcade in Akihabara to thank the gaming giant whose $5 million lifeline he said saved a struggling Nvidia in the 1990s, and visited the chipmaker's Build-a-Claw event.\n\nHowever, it was the after-hours itinerary that stole the show. Huang was spotted having dinner at Yakiton Sankichi, a chain bar popular for after-work drinks, where Japanese outlet Diamond Online reported the CEO of the world's most valuable company tucked into offal hotpot and a \"baka-mori\" — roughly, \"stupidly big\" — mountain of fries.\n\n米半導体大手、エヌビディア\n\n— ダイヤモンド・オンライン (@dol_editors)\n\nジェンスン・フアンCEO来日\n\n「東京での1日」を追う！\n\n東京・神田のやきとん三吉で取引先と懇談\n\nフアン氏が食べたのはもつ鍋や山盛ポテトフライ\n\n（写真はお店の許可をいただき撮影しました）\n\nダイヤモンド編集部が密着したシーンを順次お届けしていきます。…[pic.twitter.com/6IN9fUYxyH][July 15, 2026]\n\nHis tablemates: the top execs from Kioxia, Tokyo Electron, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Sumitomo Electric, Taiyo Yuden, and Ajinomoto, per Bloomberg.\n\nWhen dinner finished, Huang emerged to the waiting crowd and pressed red bean buns, a popular Japanese snack, into outstretched hands.\n\nFor Huang, eating like a local has [become a tradition](https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-street-food-influencer-taiwan-china-korea-2026-5) on his business trips. In May, he was spotted eating fried bean sauce noodles [on a Beijing sidewalk](https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-china-trip-noodle-market-trump-xi-nvidia-2026-5) after accompanying President Donald Trump on his state visit to China. \"It's so good,\" he told a crowd of onlookers.\n\n真接地气！网友于北京南锣鼓巷，偶遇世界首富黄仁勋正在吃面。\n\n— 作家崔成浩 (@cuichenghao)[pic.twitter.com/XEJScDAYBG][May 15, 2026]\n\nOver the years, Huang has been photographed at street food spots in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and South Korea, where [his fried chicken dinner ](https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-jensen-huang-nvidia-fried-chicken-samsung-hyundai-crowd-fame-2025-10)with the heads of Samsung and Hyundai was crashed by photographers last year.\n\nWherever Nvidia announces its next AI factory, the local restaurants should probably start prepping now.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-tokyo-street-food-red-bean-buns-japan-nvidia-2026-7", "published_at": "2026-07-16 12:20:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 12:37:28.307741+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy", "robotics"], "entities": ["Nvidia", "Jensen Huang", "Noetra Corp", "SoftBank", "NEC", "Sony", "Honda", "Sega"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jensen-huang-hands-out-red-bean-buns-to-tokyo-crowd-in-his-latest-culinary.jsonld"}}