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Mos Burger mascot retires to make way for new character in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 16, 2022
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50-year-old burger character is traded in for a newer, younger, human model. 

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• Japan
• (burgers • characters • fast food • food • Japanese characters • Japanese mascots • LilMos • lunch packs • marketing • Mascots • Mos Burger • Mossan • sandwiches • Yamazaki)

Japanese fast food chain releases “high-protein” sandwich made of fried chicken, bacon, cheese

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 16, 2022

Lotteria takes accentuating the positive to a new extreme with the Hot Wild Chicken Sandwich.

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• Japan
• (crazy • fast food • food • fried chicken • Lotteria • weird)

McDonald’s Japan stuffs up our order for a New York burger

• Oona McGee
  Feb 14, 2022

A reminder that when you’re in New York, anything can happen.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • drinks • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • New York • SNJO • taste test • weird)

French fry rationing continues in Japan as Mos Burger suspends sales (with two exceptions)

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2022

Chain leaves two French fry avenues open, one sweet, and one oniony.

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• (fast food • food • french fries • French fry rationing • French fry shortage • Mos Burger • potato shortage)

KFC Japan releases official onigiri rice ball, miso ramen rice recipes to level-up fried chicken

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2022

Super easy ways to give your KFC takeout a mouthwatering Japanese twist.

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• Japan
• (chicken • cooking • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • onigiri • ramen • recipe • rice balls)

McDonald’s announces end of French fry rationing in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 4, 2022

Sound of cheers to mix with sound of deep fryers.

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • french fries • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • potato shortage • potatoes)

McDonald’s Japan introduces square burgers that take us to New York for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Feb 3, 2022

New “I Feel Like I Went to N.Y. Burgers” come with a touch of American comic book flair.

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• (burgers • COK • drinks • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • New York)

Lotteria gives us chocolate burgers for Valentine’s Day in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 2, 2022

No fancy frills here — just a whole bar of chocolate wedged inside a bun.

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• Japan
• (burgers • chocolate • COK • fast food • food • limited edition • Lotteria • marketing • promotions • Valentine's Day • weird)

Is McDonald’s Japan’s new Godiva hot chocolate worth the relatively high price?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 20, 2022

In a country where you can buy cheap drinks everywhere, expensive luxuries need to be worth the calories.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • coffee • COK • drinks • fast food • Godiva • hot chocolate • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • SNOJ • sweets • taste test)

French fry war escalates with a 300-percent larger Bucket Potato from Ministop convenience stores

• Master Blaster
  Jan 17, 2022

More salt in the very salty wounds of McDonald’s.

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• Japan
• (Bucket Potato • convenience stores • fast food • food • McDonald's • Ministop • potato shortage • potatoes • X Fried Potatoes)

McDonald’s Japan’s new winter menu exclusives: Hot pies and special chicken nuggets

• Oona McGee
  Jan 16, 2022

Canadian Maple Custard Pie is just the start of this limited-time flavour celebration.

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• (burgers • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • SNJO • taste test)

As McDonald’s Japan restricts French fry sales, rival boosts its fry sizes by 25 percent, for free

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 14, 2022

”We’ve got potatoes!” Yokohama-based burger chain wants everyone to know.

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • french fries • freshness burger • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • potato shortage • potatoes)

Hash browns disappear from McDonald’s Japan branches as country’s potato shortage continues

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2022

Supply line troubles between Japan and North America rob fans of breakfast bliss.

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • french fries • hash browns • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • potato • potato shortage)

McDonald’s Japan’s Samurai Mac series: which burger is the greatest warrior of all?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2022

Four valiant contenders battle it out on our taste buds. 

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • SNJO • taste test)

Burger King Japan doesn’t believe in a guilt-free New Year

• Oona McGee
  Jan 7, 2022

Fast food chain wants us to indulge in a buttery new Guilty Burger.

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• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • butter • croquette • fast food • food • limited • limited edition • marketing • new)

KFC Japan gives us a lucky bag that would make the Colonel proud

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2022

A finger-lickin’ good way to start the New Year!

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• Japan
• (fast food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2022 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • Japanese New Year • KFC • KFC Japan • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2022 • SNJO)

Mos Burger brings back sake shakes, business manga, and vintage websites all at once

• Master Blaster
  Jan 4, 2022

We’re gonna party like it’s 1999.

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• (Dassai • fast food • Geocities • Kosaku Shima • milkshakes • Mos Burger • web design)

McDonald’s celebrates New Year in Japan with a special lucky bag

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2022

Fast food fukubukuro is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach!

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• Japan
• (fast food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2022 • Lucky Bags • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO)

American businessman promises urgent flights of potatoes to Japan to ease French fry shortage

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2021

A golden ray of salty hope shines from across the Pacific.

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• Japan, USA
• (COK • fast food • food • french fries • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • potato • shortage)

Who made the tastiest gyoza in 2021? We decide on our favourite pot stickers

• Katie Pask
  Dec 26, 2021

Check out our definitive guide to the best gyoza 2021 had to offer — just make sure you’re not hungry first!

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Osaka Osho • pot stickers • ranking • taste test)

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