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Enjoy the world’s oldest gyoza chain hidden just outside Shinjuku Station

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 23, 2026
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Serving up dumplings with almost 200 years of Chinese history.

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• Japan
• (China • Chinese cuisine • chinese food • COK • dumplings • food • gourmet • gyoza • Laobian • Laobian Dumpling • Restaurant • Rouben Gyozakan • Seiji Nakazawa • Shanghai Great World Guinness • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • SNJO • Tokyo)

Lawson convenience stores selling drinkable mapo tofu, spicy meat and tofu

• Master Blaster
  Jan 25, 2026

But just because you say something is “drinkable…”

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• Japan
• (chinese food • COK • convenience stores • crazy • Drinkable Mapo Tofu • drinks • food • Lawson • mapo tofu • Mr. Sato • SNJO • spicy • spicy food • taste test • tofu • weird)

Discovering Paapo, the secret flavor behind the happosai enjoyed by Osakan families

• Elliot Hale
  Aug 31, 2025

It tastes just like what mom used to make.

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• Japan
• (chinese food • COK • cooking • food and drinks • happosai • Osaka • Paapo • seasonings • SNJO • Takuya Inaba)

Kyoto’s famous Chinese dish karashi soba can now be found in Lawson

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 12, 2024

Restaurant quality food from a convenience store.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Cantonese food • chinese food • Chinese noodles • COK • convenience store food • food • karashi • karashi soba • Kyoto • Lawson • Lawson Japan • mustard soba • Noodles • SNJO • taste test)

Fortune cookies come to Japan via Panda Express

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2024

Japan has lots of Chinese restaurants, but fortune cookies are much harder to find.

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• Japan
• (chinese food • COK • fast food • food • fortune cookies • Panda Express • restaurants • sweets)

Osaka Ohsho Chinese restaurant chain serves curry? We try it out, then find something crazier

• Dale Roll
  Oct 30, 2023

Osaka Ohsho is really branching out with these new dishes. 

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• Japan
• (chinese food • curry • gyoza • Osaka Ohsho • taste test • Yuuichiro Wasai)

Let’s try making the Kyoto-style Chinese dish mustard soba【SoraKitchen】

• Master Blaster
  Oct 24, 2023

Does our reporter’s attempt cut the mustard?

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• Japan
• (brown mustard • chinese food • Chinese mustard • food • karashi • karashi soba • Kyoto • mustard soba • Noodles • recipes)

This newly opened spot in Shizuoka might be the ramen restaurant with the best views in Japan

• Dale Roll
  May 5, 2023

Great views and delicious food make this rural restaurant worth visiting. 

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• Japan
• (beautiful places • chinese food • great views • Kakegawa • Noodles • ramen • restuarant • Shizuoka • Sichuan • Szechuan)

Tasting trending Taiwanese castella at a Chinese chain restaurant in Japan: yum or no?

• Shannon
  Apr 18, 2023

Finding a taste of Taiwan in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Bamiyan • castella • cheap eats • chinese food • desserts • Taiwanese food • trending now)

We tried a Korean brand of ramen that has a black broth, and it caused our brains to malfunction

• Dale Roll
  Apr 16, 2023

What kind of flavor IS it?!

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• Japan
• (chinese food • Chinese noodles • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • korean food • Korean noodles • ramen • SoraKitchen • Takashi Harada)

We eat Chinese food inspired by Demae Itcho instant ramen to celebrate its 55-year anniversary

• Dale Roll
  Feb 17, 2023

The idea of incorporating this classic ramen flavor into Hong Kong-style street food sounds delicious!

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• Japan
• (anniversary • Cantonese food • chinese food • collaboration • Demae Itcho • Hong Kong • Instant Ramen • Masanuki Sunakoma • Nissin • Shofukumon • Yokohama • Yokohama Chinatown • Yum cha)

We eat some crazy delicious Chinese food outside of a U.S. Air Force base in Tokyo

• Dale Roll
  Feb 5, 2023

Huge portions and a unique, original manju make this restaurant a must-visit in the area!

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• Japan
• (chinese food • COK • food • Fussa • manju • restaurants • SNJO • steamed buns • Tokyo • U.S. military bases • Yokota • Yokota Air Base)

Shop in Tokyo’s Chinatown has TWENTY kinds of delicious homemade steamed buns

• Katie Pask
  Jan 25, 2023

Hidden gem in Ikebukuro sells unique flavours of nikuman you’d never find in a convenience store.

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• Japan
• (Chinatown • Chinese • chinese food • food • Ikebukuro • nikuman • SNJO • steamed buns • Tokyo)

Lucky Chinese dumpling sushi rolls coming in February

• Master Blaster
  Jan 13, 2023

Confused? You should be.

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• Japan
• (chinese food • dumplings • Ehomaki • ehoshumai • food • Kiyoken • setsubun • shumai)

We go to an old, hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant to eat Indonesian fried rice

• Dale Roll
  Sep 29, 2022

Yes, even we wondered, “Why?”

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• Japan
• (chahan • chinese food • fried rice • Indonesian food • nasi goreng • Shin-Okachimachi • Tsukuba Express)

We eat “pork floss sweets” that confuse our senses, stimulate our minds【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Jun 10, 2022

We’ve never tried sweets with meat on them before…

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• Japan
• (chinese food • meaty sweets • Mr. Sato • Nanatea & Tsutsumi • pork • pork floss • sweets • unusual food)

Giant “mini” shumai full of normal shumai dumplings sold at Kiyoken

• Master Blaster
  Jul 5, 2021

We heard you like shumai….

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• Japan
• (big portion • chinese food • dumplings • food • Kanto • Kiyoken • shumai • SNJO)

Free food awaits those who finish “Spicy Mapo Tofu of Hell,” but it isn’t easy

• Master Blaster
  Apr 12, 2021

“This isn’t a meal. It’s a weapon.”

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• Japan
• (Chen Mapo Dofu • chinese food • mapo tofu • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • spicy food • Spicy Mapo Tofu of Hell)

YouTube video about home-grown, home-cooked, traditional Chinese food causes major controversy

• Dale Roll
  Jan 25, 2021

One dish created in the video has some people angry that it was included when it’s not Chinese food.

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• China, Korea
• (Asian food • China • chinese food • controversy • food • kimchi • Korea • korean food • Lixiqi • YouTube)

Chen Mapo Dofu restaurants across Japan offering one free bowl of dandan noodles a day for a year

• Master Blaster
  Dec 7, 2020

And the offer is good until 13 December only, so hurry up!

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• Japan
• (Chen Mapo Dofu • chinese food • dandan noodles • free food • mapo tofu • Mr. Sato • SNJO • spicy food)

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