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Kanazawa Curry Cola lets you have your fried pork and curry on the go!
- Master Blaster
Apr 1, 2016 - Tweet
Finally, the great taste of a fried pork cutlet drenched in thick curry that you can slip in your coat pocket without getting wet!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (Cola • curry • Ishikawa • Kanazawa Curry • tonkatsu)
Newly opened restaurant in Osaka boasts a new evolution of okonomiyaki
- KK Miller
Apr 1, 2016
Your mind will say, “How beautiful,” but your stomach will say, “Let’s eat!”
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (okonomiyaki • Osaka • restaurants • teppanyaki)
McDonald’s Japan is unleashing the Giga Big Mac, with 2.8 times the beef of a regular Big Mac
- Casey Baseel
Apr 1, 2016
New sandwich is part beefy indulgence, part sandwich-based challenge.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (big food • Big Mac • burgers • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's)
Forget cups and cones – Krispy Kreme Japan is sandwiching its ice cream inside doughnuts!
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2016
Just think of all the time you’ll save with delicious dessert multi-tasking!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (donuts • doughnuts • food • ice cream • Krispy Kreme • sweets)
Novel way to dice onions quickly may reduce time and tearing up…but may increase bleeding
- Master Blaster
Mar 31, 2016
A new way to dice an onion is said to be trending online and with good reason. It looks a little dangerous but chances are you’re going to want to try this too.
Tokyo and Osaka’s Sailor Moon Crystal Cafes to feature new Outer Senshi drinks and desserts!
- Jamie Koide
Mar 31, 2016
For a short period starting next month, anime cafe Anion Station will be celebrating the new season of Sailor Moon Crystal with another round of drinks and desserts, this time in honor of Sailor Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto!
- Anime & Manga, Food & Drink, Japan
- (Anion Station • cafes • events • limited time • Osaka • Sailor Moon Crystal • Tokyo)
We try the new matcha McFlurry from McDonald’s Japan【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Mar 30, 2016
The green tea-flavoured sweet dessert is filled with traditional Japanese flavours.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (desserts • green tea • ice cream • matcha • McDonald's • McFlurry • sweets • taste test • video)
Cup Noodle to release “Luxury Shark Fin” and “Softshell Turtle” flavors
- Master Blaster
Mar 30, 2016
Nissin, the maker of Cup Noodle, is about to unroll a pair of “Luxury” flavors of instant ramen. And one of them is “shark fin”…
New illy matcha coffee drinks combine green tea with espresso for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 30, 2016
Move over, **matcha lattes—**it’s time to enjoy real coffee in your green tea with illy’s new cappucino and mocha beverages.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (cafes • coffee • drinks • espresso • green tea • Illy • matcha • mocha • taste test)
Twist-cap matcha is the freshest bottle of tea you’ll ever get at a Japanese convenience store
- Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2016
Clever design lets you easily prepare a cup of tea just before you drink it.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (bottled tea • cool • drinks • green tea • gyokuro • matcha • tea)
Starbucks is giving Japan alcoholic “Frappuccinos”
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2016
Tokyo location’s new blended ice beverages have a kick, but not from caffeine.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (alcohol • drinks • Frappuccino • Starbucks • Starbukcs Evenings • wine)
Promotional event convinces us Kyoto’s Uji City is an area worth both exploring and tasting!
- Kay
Mar 29, 2016
We learn a little about Uji City and its famous tea and also try green tea sweets by Uji-born celebrity pastry chef Toshi Yoroizuka!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (green tea • Kyoto • promotion • sweets • Toshi Yoroizuka • Uji)
Japan’s “camellia crepes” look blooming delicious 【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2016
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a “flower” that’s actually a crepe tastes a lot better.
Eat your way back to school with adorable randoseru Japanese backpack cakes
- Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2016
What better way to start the new school year than with a cake shaped like a Japanese elementary school student’s backpack?
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (backpacks • cakes • cute • Imperial Hotel • randoseru • school • sweets • taste test)
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- ロケットニュース24
Mar 28, 2016
Were you one of the thousands of people who entered our epic KitKat giveaway? Find out if you’ve won here!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (contest • giveaway • japanese snacks • KitKat • TokyoTreat • winners)
Matcha green tea cheesecake pretzels are now on sale in Japan, courtesy of Auntie Anne’s
- Casey Baseel
Mar 28, 2016
Soft pretzel chain embraces the matcha sweets boom for the first time.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (Aunite Anne's • cheesecak • drinks • green tea • matcha • pretzels • sweets)
We try the new full-sized matcha Oreo cookies from Japan
- Oona McGee
Mar 28, 2016
The full-sized Oreo sandwich cookie now comes filled with a delicious green tea matcha cream centre.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (cookies • green tea • matcha • Nabisco • Oreo • Oreos • sweets • taste test)
Green tea continues to go alcoholic with new matcha liqueur from Suntory
- Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2016
Stronger beverage has almost double the alcohol content of last year’s version.
Lindt Japan brings out matcha iced drinks for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 26, 2016
It’s the closest thing yet to a green tea-flavoured Lindor ball.
New cafe in Japan serves up salads in the form of gorgeous colourful cakes
- Oona McGee
Mar 25, 2016
Complete with pretty layers of vegetables, you won’t ever have to feel guilty about eating these slices of “cake.”
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (cafes • cakes • cool • cute • food • restaurants • salad)
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