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See all that mouth-watering Japanese-style karaage fried chicken? It only cost us 100 yen, and we could have eaten twice as much without getting charged any more.

Food & Drink, Japan
(all-you-can-eat • chicken • deals • food • fried chicken • izakaya • karaage • restaurants • Tokyo)

This Valentine’s Day tell your man how you truly feel — tell him with chocolate-covered KFC

Master Blaster
Feb 9, 2016

Looking for a way to revolutionize the stale traditions of Japanese Valentine’s Day, Mr. Sato believes he has found the ultimate gift.

Japan
(chicken • chocolate • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Mr. Sato • Valentine's Day)

We head to KFC in China to chow down on a pretty pink rose-flavoured burger【Taste test】

Evie Nyan
Aug 19, 2015

Here at RocketNews24, we’ll eat pretty much anything. But we especially love wrapping our smackers around limited edition burgers in a variety of hues and consistencies. We’ve eaten black burgers, red burgers, sloppy burgers, and crusty burgers, but what our little lives have been missing all this time is a pretty pink burger! Luckily KFC China has complied with our wishes and rolled out their brand-new rose flavoured chicken burger.

We sent our lucky reporter Meg all the way to China just to try one of these fancy and feminine chicken sammidges.

China, Internet, Japan
(chicken • fast food • KFC • pink • rose burger • taste test • video • wtf)

The Zenyaren restaurant in Otemachi offers water jelly for the summer … with chicken inside it!

Kay
Jul 20, 2015

In the mood for some cool, refreshing jelly to beat the summer heat? Well, that’s certainly what the clear, Jell-O-like item in the picture here looks like, right? But you won’t find this delicate-looking item in a cafe, or any regular restaurant for that matter, as a dessert. From the same folks at Zenyaren who brought us “cool yakitori” last year, which were basically chilled chicken skewers in collagen blocks, we now have the “water jelly yakitori“, another visually interesting dish that involves grilled chicken encased in a transparent jelly!

Japan
(chicken • jelly • yakitori • Zenyaren)

Korea’s Mexicana Chicken offers fried chicken in strawberry, banana, and melon flavors

Master Blaster
Jul 10, 2015

On 5 July, Korean chicken restaurant Mexicana Chicken unveiled their new selection of “Stoplight Chicken” which are small pieces of boneless chicken coated in flavored powders colored red, yellow, and green.

Apparently emboldened by the previous success of chicken nuggets coated in cheese powder, Mexicana has decided to go all out and add strawberry, banana, and melon to the available flavors for their fried chicken. However, according to online reaction, the result is not great.

Korea
(chicken • fast food • fruit • Mexicana Chicken • mukbang)

KFC Japan adds more breast to their chicken with ‘sexy’ new LINE character

Jessica
May 21, 2015

We all know Japan likes to have a character for just about everything, and we also know the country has a long history of sexualizing things that really don’t need to be. So KFC Japan’s new mascot character of a sexy anthropomorphized chicken with huge boobs should surprise no one. And yet, I confess myself surprised. Or maybe creeped out is a better way of putting it.

Japan
(chicken • KFC • mascot character • wtf)

“Akakara Cochin meatball pizza” is the latest collaboration pizza in Japan, actually looks pretty good!

Krista Rogers
Apr 22, 2015

Aoki’s Pizza, the Japanese pizza chain which brought you last year’s chocolate and pineapple-topped Black Thunder pizza, is teaming up with fellow Nagoya-based Akakara (a popular nabe chain) for another wacky yet oddly appetizing-looking menu item: introducing this year’s “Akakara Cochin [a breed of chicken] meatball pizza.”

Japan
(Akakara • Aoki's Pizza • chicken • collaboration • Nagoya • pizza)

C-Pop “Chick Chick” video takes the “weird” to a whole new level 【Video】

Audrey Akcasu
Nov 19, 2014

The Internet has seen some very entertaining music videos in the past few years that some people would call just down-right crazy. Remember when PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” or Ylvis’s “What Does the Fox Say?” first came out? Everyone thought they were nuts, but they went on to become worldwide hits.

But now a new Chinese music video has clucked its way into the international spotlight and has the potential to become the Queen of Weird. After watching it, all we can say is, “…”

China, Internet
(c-pop • chick • chicken • music video • viral • weird)

Worried about McDonald’s chicken in Japan? Don’t be! Free McNuggets ease your fears!

KK Miller
Oct 19, 2014

This summer, consumers in Japan were shocked by the news of “Chickengate”, the Chinese food scandal that revealed a dirty secret behind our favorite Chicken McNuggets. Since then, McDonald’s Japan has tried to win back customers with Tofu McNuggets, and more recently introduced the “Hiru Mac” or “Lunchtime Mac” to encourage patrons to come for lunch and enjoy great discounted prices.

But, the public still worries about where the chicken is coming from. The sales of McNuggets haven’t recovered since McDonald’s Japan revealed that the chicken comes from Thailand, so they’re trying a new tactic of…giving away free Chicken McNuggets.

Japan
(chicken • chicken scare • food • free • McDonald's Japan • McNuggets)

We try a “half-raw chicken cutlet” at Suda Shoten, it’s even rawer than advertised!

Master Blaster
Aug 18, 2014

Always on the pulse of new restaurant openings, Mr. Sato hit the streets of Kabukicho to try out a new grilled chicken (yakitori) establishment. It was opened in conjunction with Jiromaru, a barbecued beef place much loved by our reporter for its small portions but interesting variety of cuts.

Because of the association with Jiromaru, Mr. Sato’s expectations were high for Sumibi Yakitori Suda Shoten. However, as he approached the menu posted in front, one item in particular shocked the man whom we thought unflappable after attempting to eat a cheeseburger with over 1,000 strips of bacon.

It was a breaded chicken cutlet but written in parentheses was “half-raw.” Sure, steaks are often ordered in such a way, but chicken?! And so Mr. Sato, who doesn’t know the meaning of “salmonella,” went in to try some out.

Japan
(chicken • food • Kabukicho • raw • weird)

In the mood for a little meat? We try “manga meat” chicken from Family Mart!【Taste Test】

Kay
Aug 3, 2014

One of the manga/anime items that has long caught the fancy of the Japanese public is, interestingly, a kind of meat that has come to be known as “manga meat” (manga niku), or sometimes also as “primeval meat” (genshi niku). From the mammoth meat that appeared in the 1970’s anime First Human Giatrus (yes, the story was set in the stone age and it was supposed to be actual mammoth meat!) to meats appearing in more recent anime such as Dragon Ball and One Piece, the image of the manga niku has captivated us, making us fantasize about taking a chewy bite of the fictional fare.

Well, Japanese convenience chain Mini Stop is currently offering a product that to a certain degree lets you fulfill that fantasy. It’s the Hammer Chicken Primeval-style Meat with Bone (Hone-tsuki Genshi Niku fu Hammer Chicken) which went on sale just this week, and as you might expect, we hurried over to a Mini Stop to get a taste.