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Dale Roll

Dale is a world traveler, but her heart will always be in Japan, and not just because she had to sell it to get enough money to FINALLY get that giant Lapras plushie from a UFO catcher. She spent her youth devouring East Asian pop music and dramas, and her student days with her nose in books about the Heian period and the history of Chinese medicine in Japan, so when she moved to Japan it was like a dream come true. She loved her life there and everything that Japan had to offer, but after grudgingly admitting that she loves her husband, whom she met there, even more, she moved with him to Spain. When she isn’t writing or struggling to speak Spanish that isn't mixed with Japanese, she likes to spend her free time eating tasty food, playing Pokémon, rewatching Sailor Moon, and annoying her husband with impromptu karaoke solos.

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What happens to Cup Noodle Mystery Meat when you cook it in a rice cooker?

• Dale Roll
  Apr 14, 2024
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We try it to find out!

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• Japan
• (cooking • Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Mystery Meat • mixed rice • mystery meat • P.K. Sanjun • rice • SoraKitchen • takikomigohan)

This northern Tokyo capsule hotel is cheap, clean, comfortable, and has amazing amenities

• Dale Roll
  Apr 13, 2024

Consider staying here on your next visit to Tokyo!

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• Japan
• (accommodation • Budget Hotels • budget travel • capsule hotel • hotels • Sugamo • Tokyo accommodation)

Tokyo restaurant offers “DIY Tempura Bowls,” so of course we had to go check it out

• Dale Roll
  Apr 8, 2024

Do you cook it yourself? Put it together yourself, buffet style? What does it mean?!?!

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• Japan
• (COK • DIY • food • Oimachi • restaurants • SNJO • tempura • Tokyo)

What’s it like traversing Tokyo using only wheelchair accessible routes?

• Dale Roll
  Apr 7, 2024

Inspired by a family member’s recent need for a wheelchair, our reporter tries to see Tokyo from their perspective.

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• Japan
• (accessibility • commuting • disabilities • Japanese subways • mobility issues • society • Tokyo • wheelchair access • wheelchairs • Yamanote line)

We try super rare Shizuoka food souvenirs in the form of blue gelato and purple baumkuchen

• Dale Roll
  Mar 30, 2024

There’s only one place you can get these…and it’s nowhere on land!

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• Japan
• (baumkuchen • boats • butterfly pea • ferries • food souvenirs • gelato • Izu • Izu Peninsula • Japan travel • Shizuoka • sightseeing • souvenirs • Suruga Bay • taste test • travel)

Love Sugar Butter Sandwich Trees? There’s a flavor limited to Haneda Airport that you must try!

• Dale Roll
  Mar 30, 2024

Browned Fermented Butter has to be full of buttery goodness, right?!

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• Japan
• (cookies • food souvenirs • Haneda Airport • sandwich cookies • souvenirs • Sugar Butter Tree • sweets • taste test)

What are the top 10 most popular shrines among international tourists? Study reveals…

• Dale Roll
  Mar 27, 2024

…that the top shrine is probably the one you think it is!

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• Japan
• (atsuta shrine • Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine • Fushimi Inari Shrine • Itsukushima • Japan travel • kanda shrine • Meiji Jingu • Nambayasaka Shrine • ranking • shinto shrines • shrines • sightseeing • tourism • travel)

We found a giant slab of konnyaku jelly and tried turning it into a giant slab of steak

• Dale Roll
  Mar 24, 2024

When we see big food, we just can’t help but see it as a challenge. 

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• Japan
• (big food • cooking • diet • food • Gyomu Super • Konjac • konnyaku • low-calorie • recipe • SoraKitchen • tasty)

What’s it like living with an unusual name in Japan? We talk with a super-rare Mr. Heianzan

• Dale Roll
  Mar 22, 2024

This Okinawan singer has a last name so rare, only 1 every 90,000 people in Japan have it! 

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• Japan
• (family names • interview • Ishigaki Island • Japanese musician • linguistics • names • Okinawa • rare names • society • unusual names)

We try to strike it rich with a tour of an Edo-era gold mine and a gold panning workshop

• Dale Roll
  Mar 16, 2024

Okay, so the mine might be closed…but maybe we can make bank on gold dust!

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• Japan
• (gold • gold mine • history of japan • Izu • Japan travel • Japanese history • Shizuoka • sightseeing • tourism)

We try our luck by spending 100 yen at a mystery capsule machine in a Chiba souvenir shop

• Dale Roll
  Mar 14, 2024

How much will we spend to get the top prize this time?

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• Japan
• (capsule machine • capsule machines • Chiba • Kashiwa • luck • lucky • souvenirs)

Do gohan no otomo, Japan’s traditional easy white rice toppings, work with toast?【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Mar 11, 2024

Exploring the culinary boundaries of bread. 

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• Japan
• (bread • COK • food • gohan no otomo • rice • rice toppings • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • toast)

We channel our inner Osakan auntie with a lucky bag full of animal-print clothes

• Dale Roll
  Mar 10, 2024

Nothing exudes confidence like being covered in leopard print. 

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• Japan
• (animal print • clothes • COK • crazy • fashion • fukubukuro • funny • leopard print • lucky bag • Masanuki Sunakoma • Osaka Oba-chan • SNJO)

It looks like fish, but does it taste like it? Imitation tuna almost breaks our minds 【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Mar 3, 2024

Try this fish substitute if you’re trying to cut back on seafood!

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• Japan
• (diet • fish substitute • meatless • plant-based food • plant-based meat • taste test • vegan • vegetarian)

How many married people with children in Japan admit to cheating on their spouse? Survey says…

• Dale Roll
  Mar 2, 2024

A recent survey aims to find out who cheats, and why. 

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• Japan
• (affairs • cheating • children • extramarital affair • families • marriage • relationships • romance • survey)

Is Lotteria’s new meat sauce burger a challenge to the reign of Mos Burger’s Japanese classic?

• Dale Roll
  Feb 24, 2024

We taste test to find out!

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Lotteria • meat sauce burger • Mos Burger • SNJO • taste test)

Need a taste of spring before the cherry blossoms? Try this Osaka park with over 500,000 flowers

• Dale Roll
  Feb 23, 2024

Harvest Hill has you covered with spring this year! 

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• Japan
• (beautiful • broccolini • COK • flowers • garden • nature • Osaka • outdoor • park • parks • Sakai • spring)

House hunting? Here are some tips that might prevent headaches and frustrations

• Dale Roll
  Feb 20, 2024

Here’s what our reporter learned to avoid being led in circles by dummy listings. 

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• Japan
• (house hunting • Japan • Japanese apartments • moving • real estate • Tokyo)

Celebrate cherry blossom season with a wine-and-dine bus tour of Tokyo’s best spots

• Dale Roll
  Feb 17, 2024

Why settle for picnicking in one spot when you can dine while cruising around all of them?

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom season • cherry blossoms 2024 • course menu • French food • gourmet • Japanese food • sightseeing • Tokyo Restaurant Bus • Tokyo sightseeing • tour bus • Willer Travel)

We test out slippers from a company whose couch makes its users “useless human beings”

• Dale Roll
  Feb 13, 2024

Will these Yogibo slippers also make us useless? 

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• Japan
• (COK • fashion • roomwear • shoes • slippers • SNJO • style • yogibo)

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