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Oona McGee

Half-Japanese Oona McGee hails from Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a journalist and copywriter before making the move to Japan over a decade ago. Now she spends her days exploring the streets of Tokyo with her laptop and camera, always in search of new cafes, restaurants, events and stories to share with our readers. As an experienced food and travel reporter, Oona has travelled extensively through all 47 prefectures of Japan, and is constantly researching new destinations and drawing up itineraries for her next adventure.

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World’s first Ikea veggie dog specialty store opens in Shibuya

• Oona McGee
  Dec 3, 2020
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The only place in the world where you can try 10 different Ikea veggie dogs. 

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• (COK • food • homewares • hot dogs • ikea • ikea japan • new opening • news • photos • Shibuya • shopping • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vegan • vegetarian • veggie dog)

Face-mask-themed park “Tokyo Mask Land” opens in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 3, 2020

Where you can buy a gold face mask for one million yen. 

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• (COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • face masks • masks • Mr. Sato • shopping • SNJO • Stars Inc • Tokyo Mask Land • Tokyo Tapioca Land • Yokohama)

Samurai’s severed head moved in Tokyo, earthquake occurs at his body in Ibaraki

• Oona McGee
  Dec 2, 2020

“More care than a nuclear weapon” required to restore the burial mound dedicated to Japan’s most vengeful spirit.

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• Japan
• (ghosts • Ibaraki • legends • Masakado • Otemachi • real estate • samurai • scary • shrines • society • spirits • Taira no Masakado no Kubizuka • temples • Tokyo • urban landscape)

Train otaku say this is the narrowest train station platform in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 2, 2020

Where commuters have less than 40 centimetres (16 inches) of foot-space between safety lines.

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• (COK • cool • Hankyu • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Osaka • SNJO • stations • train stations • trains • travel • unusual • weird)

Yakiniku sneakers from Japan let you wear your love for meat on your feet

• Oona McGee
  Nov 28, 2020

With clever design details and only 50 available, these kicks are a hot commodity.

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• Japan
• (beef • collaboration • cool • design • fashion • food • Japanese food • meat • product • shoes • sneakers • yakiniku)

Kanji T-shirt seen on U.S. TV show makes Japanese viewers giggle

• Oona McGee
  Nov 27, 2020

According to his shirt, this guy isn’t just “huge in Japan”, he’s huge somewhere else too. 

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• Japan, USA
• (Chuck • Engrish • fashion • Japanese language • kanji • LOL • lost in translation • t-shirts • translation • translation mistakes • TV • TV shows)

Combining two of Burger King’s one-pound beef burgers for an extreme fast food challenge

• Oona McGee
  Nov 26, 2020

Like eating more than five Big Macs in one sitting.

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• Japan
• (beef • breadless • bunless • Burger King • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • food challenge • gluten-free • keto • meat • review • SNJO • taste test)

Kill Bill actor stars in a very 2020 commercial for McDonald’s Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 26, 2020

Zoom meetings, home haircuts…and a new beef stew croquette burger oozing with cream.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • drinks • fast food • Issey Takahashi • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • sweets)

Mos Burger’s new luxury burger contains 0.18 percent alcohol

• Oona McGee
  Nov 26, 2020

Limited-edition burger promises to give diners a “charge” for winter.

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• (burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • MOS • Mos Burger • red wine • review • SNJO • taste test • tobikiri • weird)

Starbucks celebrates Christmas in Japan with a festive matcha Frappuccino

• Oona McGee
  Nov 25, 2020

But will the green tea gift taste as good as it looks?

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• (Christmas • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • green tea • Japanese Frappuccinos • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)

Drinking wine made from the only train station platform vineyard in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 25, 2020

This Shiojiri Station Merlot has a terroir as unique as its taste. 

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• Japan
• (farming • grapes • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • Japanese wine • Merlot • Nagano • red wine • Shinshu • Shiojiri • SNO • tourism • train stations • trains • vineyard • wine)

Pokémon Tokyo Banana haul: Will we find the rare Pikachu tail?

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2020

We buy stacks of the new limited-edition sweet souvenir to see if we can snare all six cute Pikachu designs. 

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • limited edition • omiyage • Pikachu • Pokemon • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana)

We try Burger King’s first-ever bunless burger in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2020

One pound of beef with no bread turns out to be a very extreme experience.

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• (beef • breadless • bunless • Burger King • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • gluten-free • keto • meat • review • SNJO • taste test)

Cosplay as a flying squirrel with new wearable blanket from Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2020

Stay as warm as a momonga with winter loungewear designed to make you look cute and cosy at the same time.

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• (animals • beautiful • blankets • clothes • COK • cool • cute • cute animals • fashion • flying squirrel • loungewear • momonga • roomwear • shopping • Village Vanguard • wearable blanket)

Kyoto’s Fire Ramen restaurant expands overseas with first location outside Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2020

Menbaka Ichidai serves up its fiery ramen abroad for the first time ever.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (awesome • COK • cool • crazy • fire • Fire Ramen • food • Kyoto • Menbaka Ichidai • Noodles • restaurants • scary)

Botched art restorations become Japanese gacha capsule toys

• Oona McGee
  Nov 23, 2020

Restoration fails remind us to keep our own mistakes in perspective.

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• Japan
• (art • botched restorations • capsule toy • COK • cool • funny • gacha • gacha toys • gachapon • Monkey Christ • paintings • SNJO • Spain • vending machines • weird)

Japan now has a banana hammer made from a real banana…that’s not frozen

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2020

It’s a “good banana” according to its price point. 

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• (banana • banana hammer • bananas • bronze • Castem • hammer • Hiroshima • iron • metal • shopping)

Croissant gyoza: Pie-like dumplings take Japan by storm

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2020

This gyoza with a flaky croissant crust is so sought after it took a year for our order to arrive.

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• (cooking • croissant • dumplings • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Kagawa • pastry • pot stickers • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese green tea vending machine has a puppet show that tells the story behind the drink

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2020

The Oi Ocha Karakuri machine is something you have to see to believe.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cute • green tea • Haneda Airport • Ito En • Japanese vending machines • Karakuri • karakuri dolls • Kawaii • ocha • Oi Ocha • SNJO • tea • tourism • tourists • vending machines)

Woman in Japan “can’t forgive” Starbucks after their hand sanitiser left her with chemical burns

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2020

Abiding by the rules left this customer with burns on her hands that lasted two weeks.

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• Japan
• (accident • antibacterial • COK • disinfectant • hand steriliser • news • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Tokyo)

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