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Can you customise the Starbucks Snoopy Frappuccino to make it even more like Snoopy?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2023
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According to staff in Japan, yes you can! 

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• Japan
• (charlie brown • COK • cool • drinks • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • Peanuts • SNJO • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test • waffles)

Tokyo family serves totally non-traditional super old-school katsudon at century-old restaurant

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2023

The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • history • katsu • katsudon • Ningyocho • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • weird)

Cup Noodles Breakfast brings American morning meal taste of pancakes and sausage to instant ramen

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Even the distribution strategy is super-American.

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• Japan, USA
• (awesome • breakfast • cool • crazy • Cup Noodle • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • pancakes • weird)

Starbucks Japan’s first-ever Snoopy Frappuccino is here!【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2023

Taste-testing Starbucks’ Snoopy Frappuccino and Snoopy Waffle.

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• Japan
• (charlie brown • COK • cool • drinks • food • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • Peanuts • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • waffles)

Did Burger King just troll McDonald’s Japan with its new Big Bet burger?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2023

Move aside, Big Mac — the Big Bet is in town!

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cool • daifuku • fast food • food • ichigo daifuku • Japanese sweets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mochi • pies • review • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Starbucks Taiwan has a…melon pan burger?!?

• SoraNews24
  Mar 29, 2023

Famous sweet makes a surprise appearance at Starbucks.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (bread • buns • burgers • char siu • COK • cool • food • limited edition • Melon Pan • pineapple bun • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks limited edition • Taiwan • taste test • Yui Imai)

Locust crepes crunch on your teeth, melt in your mouth in east Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more startling at Yachiyo’s most unique sweets shop, this happened.

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• Japan
• (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • dagashiya • eating bugs • food • gross • locust • SNJO • sweets • weird)

Gundam metaverse’s Gunpla scan/share system plans to connect fans from all countries and angles

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2023

System allows you to show off your customized anime robot models as 3-D versions in online community.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • Bandai Namco • cool • Gundam • Gundam models • Gunpla • metaverse • plastic models • robots)

Japanese Penis Festival shrine distances itself from penis mascot

• SoraNews24
  Mar 28, 2023

The one penis not welcome at Japan’s Kanamara Matsuri. 

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• Japan
• (cool • culture • fertility • festivals • Japanese mascots • Japanese religion • Kanamara Festival • Mascots • penis festival • religion • shrines • temples • travel • weird • wtf)

Lush x Super Mario Bros. Movie collaboration is filled with surprises for Nintendo fans

• Oona McGee
  Mar 25, 2023

Slather your body in Mario and Luigi and immerse yourself in the game world…literally!

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• Japan
• (bowser • COK • cool • Luigi • Lush • Mario • movies • nintendo • Princess Peach • Super Mario • Super Mario Bros. • The Super Mario Bros. movie • video games)

Starbucks adds a Snoopy Frappuccino and Charlie Brown cappuccino to its menu in Japan!

• Oona McGee
  Mar 25, 2023

Plus a slew of new Peanuts goods, American waffles, and a Sally Brown mocha, only for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (charlie brown • coffee • COK • cool • cups • cute • drinks • drinkware • food • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • mugs • Peanuts • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • waffles)

McDonald’s Japan’s new daifuku pie: Is it as good as the Japanese sweet that inspired it?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2023

A limited-edition pie created specially for sakura season. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cool • daifuku • fast food • food • ichigo daifuku • Japanese sweets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mochi • pies • review • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Ito En releases drinkable cold ramen in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2023

Green tea specialists want us to drink spicy reimen this summer. 

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• Japan
• (awesome • canned drinks • cool • crazy • drinks • food • Ito En • Korea • korean food • Korean ramen • Nongshim • Noodles • ramen • reimen • spicy • spicy food • spicy ramen)

“Grandpa’s F**k it, Whatever Anything Best 3” gacha is today’s weird capsule machine find

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2023

Handwritten note from a Japanese granddad turns out to be heartwarming…and strangely heartbreaking at the same time.

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• Japan
• (capsule toy machine • capsule toys • COK • cool • gacha • gacha vending machine • grandfather • grandma • grandpa • grandparents • handwritten notes • Japanese grandmother • Japanese vending machines • lists • notes • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

Starbucks x Snoopy collaboration is coming to Japan for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2023

New limited-edition range reminds us what happiness is. 

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • cool • cups • cute • drinks • drinkware • food • limited edition • mugs • Peanuts • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition)

How would Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look with pixel art? Awesome. Japanese fan shows【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2023

And it’d sound great with the Nintendo DS sound suite too.

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• Japan
• (awesome • bitmap • cool • fan art • pixel art • Pokemon • Pokémon Black and White • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet • video • video games)

Starbucks Japan’s new parfait cake has to be seen to be believed

• Oona McGee
  Mar 18, 2023

W0w. Just…wow.

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• Japan
• (American • cakes • COK • cool • diner • food • limited edition • parfait • retro • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)

McDonald’s adds a Japanese daifuku pie to its menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Mar 17, 2023

It’s sweets over flowers this sakura season.

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• Japan
• (Ado • asmi • cool • deep fryer • fast food • food • french fries • funny • McDonald's • music • TikTok • weird)

Starbucks Japan now has its first-ever Cola Frappuccino, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 17, 2023

We find out if this retro American diner experience is all it’s cracked up to be. 

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• Japan
• (American • coffee • COK • cool • diner • drinks • food • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • retro • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)

Studio Ghibli celebrates Mother’s Day with special Totoro flower deliveries

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2023

Kiki’s Delivery Service comes along for the ride too. 

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• Japan
• (cool • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • flowers • Ghibli • gifts • goods • Jiji • Kiki's Delivery Service • Mother's Day • My Neighbor Totoro • My Neighbour Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

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