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Do cold noodles from a Japanese vending machine fill us with joy or regret?
- Oona McGee
Nov 24, 2024 - Tweet
Find out if Morioka Reimen is a famous specialty worth canning.
- Japan
- (canned food • canned noodles • COK • cold noodles • crazy • food • Iwate • Japanese vending machines • Morioka • Noodles • ramen • ramen in a can • reimen • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)
Rice cooker recipe: 7-Eleven Japan’s Miso Mackerel Butter Rice is as tasty as it is easy
- SoraNews24
Dec 10, 2023
Minimum effort doesn’t mean minimum flavor.
- Japan
- (canned food • canned mackerel • COK • cooking • food • mackerel • recipe • rice cooker • rice cooker recipe • saba • SNJO • SoraKitchen)
Famous train station bento boxed lunches, but in a can? Taste-testing canned ekiben【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2023
There’s only one station in Japan where you can find these canned versions of famous boxed lunches.
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • canned food • COK • Ekiben • food • kochin • SNJO • stations • Tajima beef • taste test • trains)
A foray into canned food with Jasmine Rice & Thai Curry in a can from Japan’s Inaba Foods
- Dale Roll
May 18, 2023
Canned curry: love it or leave it?
- Japan
- (canned food • COK • curry • food • green curry • Inaba Foods • SNJO • spicy food • taste test • Thai curry • Thai food)
We try canned oyster okonomiyaki, a food we didn’t even know existed【Taste Test】
- Krista Rogers
May 10, 2022
Savory seafood pancakes from a can don’t exactly sound appetizing, but will we eat our words?
- Japan
- (canned food • Mr. Sato • Okayama • okonomiyaki • oyster • shimbashi • specialty store • taste test • Tokyo)
Is Japanese canned sushi everything we ever dreamed of? We try it out
- Shannon
Dec 13, 2021
Of all the things that can be canned, is canning sushi worth it?
- Japan
- (canned food • canned sushi • delicious • Mr. Sato • Shugei • sushi • weird)
Kyoto’s newest Shinkansen souvenir: Canned cakes filled with matcha and cherry blossoms
- Oona McGee
Nov 12, 2021
A beautiful way to cap off a trip to the ancient Japanese capital.
- Japan
- (cake • cakes • cakes in cans • canned food • canned sweets • COK • food • fruit • Kyoto • parfaits • shinkansen • souvenirs • strawberry shortcake • sweets)
We buy chocolate fish in a can from a store in Akihabara
- Oona McGee
Sep 9, 2021
Sweet mackerel! This is going to be one helluva taste test.
- Japan
- (canned food • canned mackerel • cans • chocolate • COK • crazy • fish • food • mackerel • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)
Beautiful cans of cake become a viral hit in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jun 26, 2021
We lift the lid on a rare beauty that everyone wants to try right now.
- Japan
- (cake • cakes • cakes in cans • canned food • canned sweets • COK • food • fruit • parfaits • review • Shibuya • SNJO • strawberry shortcake • sweets • taste test • Tokyo)
We eat hoya sea squirts out of a can, enjoy a tasty regional delicacy from the comfort of home
- Dale Roll
Mar 12, 2021
Sea squirts, also known as sea pineapples, are a rare find in most parts of Japan, but now they come in canned form!
- Japan
- (canned food • COK • food • hoya • sea pineapples • sea squirts • seafood • SNJO • taste test)
Eat like a samurai from the warring states period with new range of canned meals from Japan
- Oona McGee
Nov 17, 2020
Meals of military commanders faithfully reproduced for the modern era.
- Japan
- (Akechi Mitsuhide • bento • canned food • COK • food • historical food • Japanese food • Oda Nobunaga • samurai • Sengoku)
Coca-Cola debuts drinkable dashi delicacy for diners on the dash
- Katy Kelly
Oct 16, 2020
Vending machine gourmands rejoice! Coca-Cola’s Go:Good line has a new meal you can buy in a can and gulp down.
- Japan
- (canned food • Coca-Cola • dashi • food • Go:Good • hot soups • soup • tasty • vending machines)
Gourmet Japanese hamburger steak in three-year-shelf-life can: Genius or madness? Let’s find out!
- Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2020
Because we’ll try anything before actually doing any real cooking ourselves.
- Japan
- (canned food • COK • cool • food • hamburger • hamburger steak • meat • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Canned bento?!? We try out a cheaper alternative to canned Yoshinoya【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 6, 2020
But there’s one unexpected problem with this series of takikomigohan in a can.
- Japan
- (bento • canned food • COK • food • SNJO • takikomigohan • taste test)
Cat lovers can now put a canned ring on it with new line of capsule toys
- Krista Rogers
Jun 19, 2020
Because who can judge what high fashion is?
- Japan
- (accessories • canned food • capsule toys • cat food • cats • cool • cute • fashion • gacha gacha • gachapon • pets • rings • toys • weird)
New edition canned fish rings in capsule machines nationwide, now with tuna!
- Master Blaster
Feb 16, 2020
It’s never been a better time to be a tuna can enthusiast.
- Japan
- (accessories • canned fish • canned food • canned tuna • capsule toy • COK • fashion • gachapon • Hagoromo Foods • rings • SNJO • vending machine toys)
Beyond miso soup – You can get miso bear in a can in Japan, and we’ve tried it【Taste test】
- SoraNews24
Nov 18, 2019
Hokkaido brown bear, stewed in miso and shipped to our door.
- Japan
- (bear • canned food • COK • crazy • food • Miso • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Do you know shabu shabu? Salt Bae thinks he does but he clearly doesn’t【Video】
- SoraNews24
Nov 13, 2019
You’ll have to do more than make it look sexy to convince people in Japan this is shabu shabu.
- Japan
- (beef • beef bowls • canned food • COK • crazy • expenive • food • Matsuzaka beef • Matsuzakagyu • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)
Does US$50 canned wagyu beef make for a great beef bowl? We find out【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2019
Just because it’s canned doesn’t mean this beef is cheap.
- Japan
- (beef • beef bowls • canned food • COK • crazy • expenive • food • Matsuzaka beef • Matsuzakagyu • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)
Japan has canned fried chicken, and we taste-test two types of no-cook karaage
- Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2019
A revolution in fine, lazy dining, or a concept too good to be truly delicious?
- Japan
- (canned food • COK • Family mart • food • fried chicken • karaage • SNJO • taste test)
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