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Katie Pask
Originally from the UK, Katie Pask has been living in Oita prefecture since 2009. Nursery teacher by day and secret pop star by night, Katie spends most of her free time either performing on a stage or belting it out at karaoke. Despite enjoying travelling to new places and trying new things, she is still determined to find the perfect plate of fish and chips in Japan. (if you have any recommendations, hit her up on the links below. She’s willing to travel.)
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Don Quijote’s “Magic Powder” promises to make food taste mind blowingly delicious
- Katie Pask
Mar 7, 2023 - Tweet
The store’s “Premium Magic Powder to Make Instant Ramen Taste Amazing” can be used for all kinds of meals!
- Japan
- (cooking • Don Quijote • food • haruka takagi • instant noodles • magic powder • ramen • SNJO • taste test)
Easter Egg desserts sold in Tokyo’s Joel Robuchon stores are almost too cute to eat
- Katie Pask
Mar 3, 2023
Celebrate the season with these ‘eggcellent’ Easter treats.
- Japan
- (cute • Easter • easter eggs • food • Joel Robuchon • sweets • Tokyo)
Cat shaped seaweed can turn even the most unappetising meals into adorable works of art
- Katie Pask
Feb 27, 2023
Maximise how cute your meal looks with these time-saving seaweed sheets!
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • cats • COK • cooking • cute • food • japanese bento • nori • Nori Art • seaweed • SNJO)
Japanese candy company make tearful, heartfelt apology for raising their prices… by US$0.07
- Katie Pask
Feb 25, 2023
Puchi Puchi Uranai will raise their prices by an extra ten whole yen.
- Japan
- (candy • Chirin • COK • food • Japanese candy • Japanese sweets • price increase • puchi puchi uranai • sweets)
Learn about taxes from a talking piece of poop with the Unko Tax Drill textbook — only in Japan
- Katie Pask
Feb 24, 2023
Who had thought “being taught about taxes from a talking turd” on their 2023 bingo card?
- Japan
- (crazy • finance • funny • gross • Ministry of Finance • poop • Poop Kanji Drill • society • tax • Textbooks • werid)
Forever 21 returns to Japan with limited time pop-up event, online store also open
- Katie Pask
Feb 22, 2023
Forever 21 returns to Japan with Tokyo pop-up store showing its latest collection.
- Japan
- (clothes • COK • fashion • Forever 21 • pop-up store • Shibuya • Tokyo)
You can now buy Japan’s popular Yoku Moku Cigare cookies from a vending machine
- Katie Pask
Feb 21, 2023
Popular butter cookies can now be found in a vending machine, so we try some!
- Japan
- (Cigare • COK • cookies • food • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • vending machines • YOKU MOKU)
Korakuen’s Chocolate Ramen returns to restaurants, wins over our most cynical taste tester
- Katie Pask
Feb 17, 2023
Think that chocolate and ramen don’t go well together? Think again!
- Japan
- (chocolate • chocolate ramen • food • Korakuen • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • taste test • Valentine's Day • white chocolate ramen)
Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo’s gorgeous sakura-inspired drinks and sweets are back
- Katie Pask
Feb 13, 2023
Enjoy the upcoming cherry blossom viewing season in style with these beautiful-looking drinks and sweets.
- Japan
- (cherry blossom • cherry blossom sweets • drinks • food • sakura • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Tokyo)
Gacha gourmet — can we survive only eating meals that we pull a capsule toy replica version of?
- Katie Pask
Feb 13, 2023
May the odds (of getting a good gacha toy) be ever in your favour.
- Japan
- (capsule machines • capsule toy • challenge • fast food • food • gacha • Gacha Gacha no Mori • gachapon • Saya Togashi • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo)
We try Amazon’s lowest rated posing mannequin, but it wasn’t the doll that was one star
- Katie Pask
Feb 10, 2023
Can Amazon’s lowest rated posable mannequin turn our reporter into a skilled artist?
- Japan
- (Amazon • Amazon Japan • Amazon lowest-rated • art • funny • mannequin • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO)
Does Shinjuku’s unusual golden lion statue really roar when you ‘feed’ it money? We find out
- Katie Pask
Feb 7, 2023
Mysterious golden lion statue leaves us even more puzzled after we give it some money.
- Japan
- (art • golden lion • LION • Masanuki Sunakoma • Miraion • shinjuku • SNJO • Tokyo)
Burger King Japan’s Cheeseburger Gelände — exceptional in taste, size and… paper napkins?
- Katie Pask
Feb 3, 2023
Burger King’s latest offering leaves Mr. Sato stunned not once, not twice but three times!
- Japan
- (big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
7-Eleven’s new Ebiten tempura shrimp rice ball is premium in both taste AND cost
- Katie Pask
Feb 1, 2023
7-Eleven’s lastest onigiri creation is our reporter’s new favourite rice ball.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • Ahiruneko • fast food • food • onigiri • rice ball • SNJO • taste test • tempura • tempura shrimp • tenmusu)
Uniqlo collaborates with director Sofia Coppola to celebrate 25th anniversary of her debut
- Katie Pask
Jan 31, 2023
Uniqlo’s latest collection of apparel features quotes and images from some of Coppola’s biggest films.
- Japan
- (clothes • fashion • lost in translation • movies • sofia coppola • t-shirts • tote bags • Uniqlo)
Our toughest blind taste test yet — can our writers pick out the more expensive mochi?
- Katie Pask
Jan 29, 2023
This rice cake challenge proved tough for even our most experienced mochi eater.
- Japan
- (expensive food • food • Gourmet Writers' Rating Check • Japanese food • mochi • ranking • rice • rice cake • SNJO)
Shop in Tokyo’s Chinatown has TWENTY kinds of delicious homemade steamed buns
- Katie Pask
Jan 25, 2023
Hidden gem in Ikebukuro sells unique flavours of nikuman you’d never find in a convenience store.
- Japan
- (Chinatown • Chinese • chinese food • food • Ikebukuro • nikuman • SNJO • steamed buns • Tokyo)
We visit the only shrine in Japan where you can pray to the gods for good weather
- Katie Pask
Jan 22, 2023
Pray the rain away at special weather shrine in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • culture • Koenji • Mr. Sato • shinto • shrines • SNJO • Teru Teru Bozu • Tokyo • weather)
Japanese salted plum industry in dire straits, according to umeboshi company’s tweet
- Katie Pask
Jan 21, 2023
The average Japanese household is eating fewer pickled plums than ever.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • pickled plum • plums • society • umeboshi)
Japanese snack Umaibo asks fans to choose their favourite flavours in inaugural Umaibo ranking
- Katie Pask
Jan 17, 2023
Snack fans vote to decide once and for all which is the best flavour of Umaibo.
- Japan
- (COK • corn potage • food • japanese snacks • mentai • ranking • snacks • survey • takoyaki • umaibo)
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