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We try Starbucks Japan’s first Christmas Frappuccino for 2020
- Oona McGee
Nov 3, 2020 - Tweet
A holiday dessert drink worth celebrating.
- Japan
- (Christmas • drinks • festive • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)
Starbucks Japan unveils its first Christmas Frappuccino for the festive holiday season
- Oona McGee
Oct 26, 2020
Yes, it’s that time of year already.
- Japan
- (Christmas • drinks • festive • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)
Enjoy the taste of fire-roasted sweet potatoes in a bottle with new “You Yaki-imo” liquor
- Dale Roll
Oct 26, 2020
A Japanese fall favorite in alcohol form!
How to make craft cola with all natural ingredients【SoraKitchen】
- Oona McGee
Oct 22, 2020
A recipe so easy you’ll never need to buy cola from the store again!
Pepsi Japan teases new limited-edition flavour with clever marketing
- Oona McGee
Oct 22, 2020
Eagle-eyed fans solve the mystery of the new Japan Cola before its official release.
- Japan
- (COK • Cola • crazy • drinks • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • pepsi • Pepsi Japan • weird)
Starbucks adds pumpkin to its autumn Frappuccino for Halloween
- Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2020
Slowly inching closer to Japan’s first pumpkin spice Frappuccino.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • halloween • Japanese Frappuccino • potatoes • pumpkin • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets)
Energy Milk from Japan is the new way to power up your day
- Oona McGee
Oct 15, 2020
Move aside, energy drinks, there’s a new mother in town.
- Japan
- (BOSS • canned drinks • COK • Don Quijote • drinks • energy drinks • marketing • milk • SNJO • Suntory • taste test)
First-ever foot-operated vending machine appears in Japan during pandemic
- Oona McGee
Oct 7, 2020
Revolutionary new system aims to keep your hands clean but people aren’t entirely sold on the idea.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • drinks • Dydo • health • Japanese vending machines • pandemic • technology • vending machines)
Hey! You Can Drink Sweet Potatoes, says Japanese beverage maker with new drink
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2020
Yakiimo-style drink is just the thing for autumn in Japan.
Japanese vending machines now sell pandemic goods
- Oona McGee
Oct 1, 2020
Welcome to the new normal.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • drinks • Dydo • face masks • health • Japanese vending machines • masks • vending machines)
New Dassai sake parfait crashes reservation system in Japan
- Oona McGee
Sep 29, 2020
There’s a reason why they call this the “phantom sake”.
Class is in session with Starbucks’ new college sweet potato Frappuccino【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2020
A traditional autumn treat arrives as its star ingredient comes into season.
- Japan
- (COK • daigaku imo • drinks • Frappuccinos • potatoes • SNJO • Starbucks • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
Mysterious eyes found in Japanese vending machine coin slot
- Oona McGee
Sep 24, 2020
There’s something living inside this machine!
- Japan
- (animals • Beverages • cute • drinks • frogs • Japanese vending machines • photos • strange • twitter • vending machines • weird)
DyDo is offering Japan’s first “reverse” vending machine of drinks for a very limited time
- Krista Rogers
Sep 21, 2020
New vending machine prioritizes nutritional information over product packaging.
- Japan
- (Beverages • drinks • Dydo • Parche • reverse • Shizuoka Station • vending machines)
Eevee evolves into the latest Pokémon dessert with an adorable, drinkable “apple pie”
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2020
Pikachu Sweets cafe also offers unnecessary yet must-have accessory.
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • cute • drinks • Eevee • Pikachu Sweets by Pokémon Cafe • Pokemon • restaurants • sweets • video games)
Is the end nigh for tapioca? Tokyo tapioca shops suffer closures in the midst of COVID-19
- Ingrid Tsai
Sep 20, 2020
Will this be the nail in the coffin, the last boba straw through the lid?
- Japan
- (boba • bubble tea • coronavirus • COVID-19 • drinks • pearl milk tea • store closure • sweets • tapioca • tapioca bubble tea • Tokyo)
New sweet potato/college potato Frappuccino joins the roster at Starbucks Japan
- Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2020
Classy new drink has its roots in Tokyo university student life.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccino • potatoes • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweet potatoes • sweets)
We splurge at the new Blue Bottle Coffee vending machines in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Sep 18, 2020
Mr Sato tells us what he thinks of US$6 canned coffee.
- Japan
- (Blue Bottle Coffee • chocolate drinks • coffee • COK • drinks • SNJO • vending machines)
New Japanese craft gin from Edo-period sake brewery contains the essence of “wa”
- Oona McGee
Sep 8, 2020
Unique blend of botanicals includes seaweed, tea, wasabi, and Japanese cedar, as a nod to the wood used in red shrine gates.
- Japan
- (craft gin • drink • drinks • gin • Japanese gin • saga • Sakagura Dori • sake • sake brewery • shrines • torii)
Japan now has blue sake that changes colour in cocktails
- Oona McGee
Sep 8, 2020
Seilan is one of the most unique tipples in Japan, making sunsets appear like magic in “Blue Samurai” drinks.
- Japan
- (blue sake • butterfly pea • COK • drink • drinks • food and drink • japanese drinks • review • sake • sake brewery • SNO • taste test • wine)
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