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Zunda Shake vending machine lets you taste samurai culture in milkshake form

• Oona McGee
  May 7, 2026
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Edo-period specialty gets a modern makeover in the heart of Tokyo. 

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• (dessert vending machine • drinks • edamame • Japanese vending machines • milkshakes • Sendai • shakes • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • soybeans • specialty • sweets • Tokyo • unique vending machine • vending machines • weird • weird drinks • zunda • Zunda Shake)

New Japanese KitKat flavour lets you eat a zunda milkshake

• Oona McGee
  Sep 26, 2025

Sweet edamame paste gets the KitKat treatment for a limited time.

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• (chocolate • COK • edamame • food • Japanese chocolate • Japanese KitKats • Kit Kat • KitKats • limited edition • Nestle • new • sweets • zunda • zunda mochi • Zunda Saryo)

Tomato tarts from Japanese dessert shop will make you rethink what a tomato is

• Master Blaster
  Jun 17, 2025

Psycho filler, Qu’il Fait Bon.

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• (desserts • edamame • food • OSMIC • Qu'il Fait Bon • soybeans • tarts • tomato)

Edamame fans unite! Zunda-flavored Meiji Super Cup ice cream is here

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 24, 2024

Meiji unveils its newest crowdsourced flavor inspired by a delicacy of northeastern Japan.

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• (30th anniversary • dessert • edamame • ice cream • Meiji • new flavor • super cup • sweets • zunda)

Edamame potato chips appear in Japan, made with the king of edamame, dadachamame

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2024

Calbee adds edamame royalty to its chips for extra summertime appeal.

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• (Calbee • chips • dadachamame • edamame • food • Kataage Potato • potato chips • snacks)

Edamame lovers! Take part in the World Edamame Speed-Eating Championship preliminaries in Tokyo

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 2, 2024

This year, the preliminaries are part of a larger edamame festival showcasing a popular style of serving soybeans from Niigata Prefecture.

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• (Cocoti • contest • edamame • food • Niigata • preliminaries • Shibuya • soybean • speed-eating • Tokyo • Tokyo Culture Culture • world championships)

Bonten Kaoru green soy beans win 2nd National Edamame Championship in Ehime

• Master Blaster
  Jul 24, 2023

The judges were full of beans for this event.

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• (agriculture • beans • competitions • edamame • food • Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association • National Edamame Championship)

Mos Burger’s new “Tobikiri Avocado Croquette Burger” teaches us how great potatoes are

• Dale Roll
  Nov 19, 2022

Lots of vegetables are all well and good, but when it comes to a burger, it’s gotta come with potatoes!

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• (avocado • burgers • croquette • edamame • fast food • french fries • hamburgers • K. Masami • Mos Burger)

Japanese KitKats now come in edamame milkshake flavour

• Oona McGee
  Nov 27, 2019

New Zunda Shake variety perfectly blends chocolate with sweet soybeans. Read More

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Häagen-Dazs new zunda mochi ice cream gives us a lot of delicious things to think about

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2019

Japan’s mysterious “hazy-tasting” confectionary joins the Häagen-Dazs ice cream team.

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• (COK • edamame • food • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • mochi • SNJO • sweets • taste test • zunda)

Häagen-Dazs Japan releases mochi rice cake covered ice cream with green edamame soybean topping

• Oona McGee
  Aug 10, 2019

Two new ice creams feature soybeans as their star ingredient this summer. 

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• (desserts • edamame • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • ice creams • limited edition • mochi • soybeans • summer • sweets)

Just looking at these beautiful edamame and beer candles will make you hungry and thirsty!

• Kay
  Apr 1, 2016

Who doesn’t love beer and edamame? But you can’t eat or drink these … because they’re candles!

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• (beer • candles • crafts • cute • edamame • Kameyama • offerings)

Eat your beans the doubly delicious way with this mushiyaki edamame recipe 【RocketKitchen】

• Fran W
  Feb 6, 2015

Edamame – young, green soybeans and (in this writer’s opinion anyway) the food of the gods – are usually prepared by boiling the beans in the pods, before draining and sprinkling with salt. While some people might think of edamame as an appetiser, or a side dish to sushi, in Japan the mighty green soybean has a special purpose – edamame’s best friend and soulmate is a cold beer.

And the writing team over at our Japanese sister site Pouch have their own special method of cooking edamame that they swear is doubly delicious. All you need is edamame, salt, and a lot less water than you might think.

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• (cooking • edamame • food • recipe • RocketKitchen • soybeans)

Google’s three most-searched Japanese foods in other countries surprises Japan

• Master Blaster
  May 5, 2014

Last December, while conducting a study on the number of characters input into Google’s search engine, the company compiled various statistics on people’s search habits between January and November, 2013. Among them were the most-searched Japanese foods outside of Japan.

We’ll get number one right out of the way because it’s not really a shocker: “sushi.” Number two, however, was a little more unexpected. Can you guess what it is?

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