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Shaved ice? No thanks – we’re having a shaved milkshake at this Japanese cafe instead!【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2022 - Tweet
And naturally we’re getting a fist-sized purin pudding as a topping.
- Japan
- (big food • cafes • COK • crazy • food • milkshake • purin • restaurants • shaved ice • SNJO • sweets)
Say hello to the Big Bomb Onigiri, a beast of a Japanese rice ball
- Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2022
Famous rice-producing region goes big with a huge offering to attract customers.
- Japan
- (big food • COK • crazy • food • koshihikari • Niigata • onigiri • rice • rice ball • rice balls • SNJO • takeout • taste test • Tokyo)
Newest branch of Japan’s oldest burger chain serves up some crazy huge sandwiches in Ginza
- Casey Baseel
Aug 1, 2022
Dom Dom Burger goes big as it comes to Tokyo’s fanciest neighborhood.
- Japan
- (big food • COK • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • Dom Dom Hamburger • food • Ginza • hamburgers • restaurants • sandwiches • SNJO)
Hokkaido potato growing town sets Guinness World Record for world’s biggest croquette【Video】
- Dale Roll
Jul 29, 2022
This little town easily eclipsed the previous world record by about 54 kilograms (119 pounds)!
- Japan
- (big food • cook • cool • crazy • croquette • food • Guinness World Record • Hokkaido • huge food • potatoes • video • world record)
We try the Home Run Burger, available at only one Freshness Burger outlet in Japan
- Oona McGee
Oct 6, 2021
A special treat for baseball fans.
- Japan
- (baseball • big food • burgers • COK • fast food • food • freshness burger • hamburgers • Jingu Stadium • new • review • SNJO • sport • taste test)
We tackle a titanic bowl of pork cutlet katsudon and (just about) live to tell the tale
- Katy Kelly
Sep 20, 2021
When you begin to suspect that your bowl is a portal to the pork dimension…
- Japan
- (big food • fried pork cutlet • K. Masami • katsudon • Kokkyo Shokudo • Nara • Restaurant • rice • SNJO • tasty • tonkatsu)
Could you eat 50 beef cutlet refill pieces? If so, this Japanese restaurant will let you eat for free
- Casey Baseel
Aug 28, 2021
We take on the 50 Challenge of Kyoto gyukatsu chain Katsugyu.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • big food • COK • crazy • cutlet • deals • free • gyukatsu • katsu • Katsugyu • Kyoto • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO)
Mr Sato goes head-to-head with a giant cream soda parfait in a Tokyo cafe
- Oona McGee
Aug 16, 2021
Enormous dessert’s clown-like face belies the monstrosity that lies within.
- Japan
- (big food • cafes • COK • crazy • food • ice cream • melon soda • Mr. Sato • parfaits • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Japan’s Super Colossal Mega Parfait is so freakishly huge it comes in a beer pitcher【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 22, 2021
A dessert big enough for you and a couple friends…or one Mr. Sato.
- Japan
- (awesome • big food • COK • crazy • food • ice cream • Mr. Sato • parfaits • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Extra-meaty yakiniku burger makes us feel seriously old with its Japanese slang
- Master Blaster
May 24, 2021
This burger is both maji and gachi.
- Japan
- (big food • burgers • COK • Japanese language • Jyu-Jyu Karubi • Jyu-Jyu Karuburger • linguistics • meat • SNJO • takeout • taste test • Tokyo • yakiniku)
Man vs. Steak: We band together to eat 4.5 kilograms of beef at Ikinari Steak
- Dale Roll
Feb 19, 2021
Will the power of four of our reporters be enough to vanquish 10 pounds of meat?
- Japan
- (beef • big food • food challenge • Ikinari Steak • meat • Mr. Sato • P.K. Sanjun • steak • Takashi Harada • Yuichiro Wasai)
Mr. Sato orders a 5-kilogram, 12,000-calorie rice bowl with a pile of meat on top
- Dale Roll
Feb 16, 2021
Kitchen Origin’s “Meat Castle” is not something that can be easily conquered–but by Jove, he’ll try.
- Japan
- (awesome • bento • big food • COK • crazy • food • karaage • Kitchen Origin • meat • Meat Day • Mr. Sato • SNJO • tonkatsu • yakiniku)
What’s for dinner? A US$113/3.3-pound sushi bowl from one of Japan’s favorite cheap restaurants
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2020
Kappazushi is usually a friend to our budget…and maybe it still is with the Mega-size Crab and Salmon Roe Sushi Rice Bowl.
- Japan
- (awesome • big food • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • crab • crazy • expensive • expensive food • food • ikura • Kaitenzushi • Kappazushi • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • taste test)
Legendary Tokyo bento shop offers free food 24 hours a day for one month if it meets Twitter goal
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2020
Kitchen Dive’s craziest, most generous offer yet.
- Japan
- (bento • big food • boxed lunches • crazy • deals • food • free • Kitchen DIVE)
Yoshinoya’s new Super-Special-Large Bowl: A gigantic three-animal 1,700-calorie fest【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2020
Three meals at once sounds like a perfect lunch to us.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • big food • COK • crazy • fast food • food • gyudon • omori • SNJO • taste test • Yoshnoya)
50 centimetres (20 inches) of unbridled beefy joy! Eating Tokyo’s extra-lengthy yukhoe sushi
- Katie Pask
Apr 25, 2020
And of course, we got the ‘extra meat’ topping, because the only thing better than meat is MORE meat.
- Japan
- (awesome • big food • COK • crazy • food • restaurants • Shin-Okubo • SNJO • sushi • Tokyo • yukhoe)
Bigger is definitely better with this monster cheeseburger in Yokohama
- Katie Pask
Mar 10, 2020
Get your hands on this beast of a burger!
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (big food • Burger • cheese • cheeseburger • delicious • food • huge food • Restaurant • SNJO • supersize • Tower Burger • Yokohama • yummy)
Akihabara bar’s secret menu beer is a massive treat in the world’s biggest otaku culture center
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2019
An ura menu treat for those in the know.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • awesome • bars • beer • big food • COK • crazy • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo • ura menu • Yodobashi Camera)
Mega meat noodles in Tokyo: 2.6 pounds of meat, one bowl of soba, no regrets【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2019
An extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-large order.
- Japan
- (big food • COK • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • meat • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • video)
Tokyo tapioca tea takeover continues with a new massive boba drink stand in Shibuya【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2019
Mr. Sato refuses to back down from gigantic sweet tea challenges.
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