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Japanese pasta dish ranked 24th worst food in the world, but does it deserve that dishonor?
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2023 - Tweet
List shows no love for the pasta dish that’s loved by many in Japan.
Putting popcorn in your brownies is a great way to liven them up while skipping the nuts【Recipe】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2023
Japan’s most popular popcorn brand gives us a great dessert that only takes a few minutes in the microwave to make.
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- Japan
- (brownies • chocolate • COK • cooking • food • Mike popcorn • popcorn • recipe • SNJO • sweets)
The top 10 most surprising rest stops in Japan, as picked by a Japanese “Rest Stop Maniac”
- Dale Roll
Feb 15, 2023
Yes, there are otaku for highway rest stops, too!
- Japan
- (driving • Japan travel • michi no eki • rest stops • road trip • shopping • sightseeing • travel)
Osaka man arrested after paying phone bill in the middle of crime spree
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2023
Crime doesn’t pay.
- Japan
- (convenience stores • crime • Osaka • phone bill • robbery • strange)
Our Japanese language reporter gets lucky with Vietnam McDonald’s Prosperity Beef Burger
- Shannon
Feb 14, 2023
Live long and McProsper, at McDonald’s Vietnam.
Restaurant-quality frozen ramen that doesn’t need water added to go on sale 20 February
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2023
Water isn’t added, but the taste of Kitakata Ramen Bannai is.
- Japan
- (frozen ramen • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Kinrei • Kitakata Ramen Bannai • Omizunai • pork • ramen)
Stylish green tea “chablets” from Shizuoka are our new way favorite way to grab a cuppa
- Krista Rogers
Feb 14, 2023
The tablets are made of 100-percent tea leaves and feature seven varieties of tea grown near the base of Mt. Fuji.
- Japan
- (beverage • chablet • convenient • green tea • Kyo no Go-Yo Tea • Maro • rokucha • Shizuoka Prefecture • tablet)
We try the “longest ramen in history”【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Feb 14, 2023
What’s it like to eat noodles that are over half the height of an average human?
- Japan
- (COK • food • longest noodle • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • unusual food • weird • weird food)
Using the power of cosplay and friendship to stay warm this winter
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2023
Co-workers that hair together stay together.
- Japan
- (Amazon Japan • cold weather • cosplay • long hair • Seiji Nakazawa • wigs • winter)
Rub-a-dub-dub and relax in a tub: Survey reveals wintertime bathing habits across Japan
- Krista Rogers
Feb 13, 2023
Regional bath habits lead to clear preferences for baths vs. showers and longer times soaking in the tub in certain areas of the country.
Tokyo popup shop sells Japanese indigenous Ainu-inspired tableware for limited time
- Shannon
Feb 13, 2023
The collaboration also involves a steel maker in the business for 107 years.
- Japan
- (Ainu • collaboration • cultural heritage • Hokkaido • indigenous people • interior • Japanese interior • Japanese traditional crafts • Nibutani • tableware)
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)
Mister Donut turns one of its most popular doughnuts into an ice cream for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Feb 13, 2023
Iconic Japanese doughnut gets the ice cold treatment.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • conbini • conveniece stores • donuts • doughnuts • food • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Mister Donut • new • sweets • taste test)
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)
Giri? Tomo? Gyaku? A guide to Japan’s many different kinds of Valentine’s Day chocolate
- Casey Baseel
Feb 12, 2023
There’s more to Valentine’s chocolate in Japan than the infamous “obligation” type.
- Japan
- (chocolate • COK • giri choco • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • obligation chocolate • SNO • society • sweets • Valentine's • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)
Lindt blends sakura with pistachios for cherry blossom season in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 12, 2023
Swiss chocolatier’s take on the cherry blossoms includes a new macaron that captures the scent of spring.
- Japan
- (cherry blossom • cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • drinks • food • hanami • lindor • Lindt • macarons • pistachio • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)
We buy adorable chick-shaped sugar cubes in Nagoya, realize the horror of using them
- Dale Roll
Feb 12, 2023
Making food cute is not always a good thing…
Student in Japan misses week of class after school won’t let him wear sweatshirt on snowy day
- Casey Baseel
Feb 12, 2023
Student suffers fever after being told to take off extra layer on coldest day of the year.
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- Japan
- (COK • dress code • education • school rules • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms • youth)
Unstaffed frozen gyoza stores are now selling frozen ramen…but is it any good? We find out
- Dale Roll
Feb 11, 2023
It turns out this ramen has a special cooking method too…
- Japan
- (Japan Ramen Research Institute • Noodles • ramen • takeout • taste test • unstaffed store • Yukimatsu Gyoza)
For-adults PreCure novels get re-release for grown-up fans of magical girl anime series
- Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2023
Just because you’re not a girl anymore doesn’t mean you have to leave the magical girl adventures behind.
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