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Try a bag of freshly handmade “Craft Cola” served from Iyoshi Cola at Tokyo area farmers’ markets
- Master Blaster
Oct 11, 2018 - Tweet
Iyoshi Cola is bringing cola back to the streets, back to the people.
- Japan
- (COK • Cola • Cola Kobayashi • craft cola • drinks • food • Iyoshi Cola • SNOJ • Tokyo)
We try the viral “McAffogado”: Does adding espresso to a Vanilla McShake really make it good?
- Dale Roll
Oct 9, 2018
A brilliant idea shared by British police officers spread all the way to Japan, so we had to give these milkshakes a “shot”.
- Europe, Japan
- (affogado • coffee • COK • drinks • espresso • McAffogado • McDonald's • McShake • SNOJ • sweets)
McDonald’s Japan’s matcha dessert family grows with the new strawberry green tea Frappe
- Casey Baseel
Oct 8, 2018
The more (matcha dessert drinks) the merrier, right?
- Japan
- (drinks • fast food • green tea • matcha • McCafe by Barista • McDonald's • strawberries • sweets)
Japanese pumpkin steps into the autumn spotlight as the newest Starbucks Japan Frappuccino flavor
- Casey Baseel
Oct 2, 2018
Kabocha, one of Japans favorite fall foods, arrives just as we enter the month of Halloween.
Totoro beer? Hayao Miyazaki draws new version of anime icon for Japanese craft beer label
- Casey Baseel
Oct 1, 2018
Two of Studio Ghibli’s co-founders team up for stylish microbrew promotion.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • beer • drinks • Hayao Miyazaki • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki • Totoro)
We’ve fallen in love with this quirky but yummy Okinawan rice “soul drink”
- Koh Ruide
Sep 27, 2018
Why bother eating rice when you can have it as a thick and scrumptious beverage instead?
Japan’s famous Great Buddha of Kamakura, Shirakawa village grace beautiful new Coca-Cola bottles
- Casey Baseel
Sep 26, 2018
Six new designs unveiled in continuing series that salutes Japan’s natural beauty and cultural legacy.
Want to French kiss anime Joan of Arc and drink her spit? New beverage lets you do just that
- Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2018
Free drink promoting new anime series has cleverly designed bottle that could become new way for otaku to express their love for their 2-D crushes.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • anime • crazy • drinks • funny • Tokyo • Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemy Knights • water • weird)
McDonald’s Japan adds purple shakes to their menu, but they’re not grape-flavored
- Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2018
Grimace would approve of these eye-catching dessert drinks made with one of Japan’s favorite seasonal foods.
- Japan
- (drinks • fast food • McDonald's • McShakes • purple food • shakes • sweet potatoes • sweets)
U.S. soldier’s failed attempt to give Japanese policemen some cool drinks melts Internet’s heart
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2018
”This is what I hate about Japan” remarks commenter as regulations prevent kindhearted gift.
- Japan
- (drinks • military • moving • police • society • touching • U.S. Air Force • U.S. military in Japan)
We crunch into autumn with Starbucks Japan’s new Crispy Sweet Potato Frappuccino【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2018
The Japan-exclusive dessert drink is topped with a traditional snack that’s been loved by Japanese people for generations.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
KitKat Bar opens in Tokyo, serves new Japanese Umeshu Plum Sake KitKats with cocktail pairings
- Oona McGee
Sep 17, 2018
First-ever KitKat-cocktail pairings are part of a range of special offerings to celebrate the new alcoholic chocolates ahead of their nationwide release.
- Japan
- (chocolates • CITAN • drinks • Heiwa Shuzou • Hidetoshi Nakata • hostels • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • L'Effervescence • Nestle • restaurants • sake • sweets • Tokyo • travel • umeshu)
Starbucks new CRISPY Japanese sweet potato Frappuccinos have us ready to fall in autumn love
- Casey Baseel
Sep 13, 2018
The crunch doesn’t just come from the ice in this dessert drink made with traditional Japanese imo kempi sweets.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • Starbucks • sweet potatoes • sweets)
New marvelous McDonald’s matcha dessert drinks have more Kyoto green tea powder than ever before
- Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2018
Beverages are packed with Uji matcha and other tempting stars of Japanese dessert world.
Japan’s Coca-Cola Plus Coffee is here to keep you both bubbly and caffeine-charged
- Casey Baseel
Sep 7, 2018
Best-of-both-worlds beverage has more caffeine and fewer calories than the classic soda’s ordinary version.
Manga delves into the connection between McDonald’s Japan’s milkshakes and breast milk
- Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2018
Claims that when you’re drinking a McShake, it’s supposed to feel like you’re nursing, but that can’t be right…can it?!?
- Japan
- (anime • crazy • drinks • McDonald's • McShakes • milkshakes • sweets • The Idolmaster • video games • weird)
Coca-Cola gears up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with crazy tall vending machine in Japan
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2018
Want a bottle of coke? You’ll have to jump for it!
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • Coca-Cola • cool • drinks • Olympics • sports • Tokyo • Tokyo 2020 • Tokyo Midtown Hibiya • vending machines)
The best way to drink Japanese sake? From an edible squid bottle!
- Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2018
After this taste test, you’ll never want to go back to using regular drinking vessels again.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • drinks • food • ika • Iwate • Japanese rice wine • sake • Sanriku • SNOJ • squid • taste test • weird)
The real star of Starbucks’ new Matcha S’more Frappuccino is its huge matcha powder boost
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2018
Starbucks amps up both the Japanese and American elements, and makes us fall in love with green tea Frappuccinos all over again.
Japan to stop brewing Budweiser beer this year…Wait, Japan makes Budweiser?!?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 25, 2018
Here’s your last chance to taste made-in-Japan Budweiser.
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