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McDonald’s captures the sweet flavour of Japan with new Ramune milkshake
- Oona McGee
May 14, 2020 - Tweet
The Japanese soda with a glass marble steps out as a McShake for a limited time.
- Japan
- (drinks • fast food • McDonald's • McShake • milkshakes • Morinaga • Ramune • ramune candy • sweets)
Yoshinoya’s Pokémon beef and curry bowls return and bring Pikachu along for the fun【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 13, 2020
The Pokémori is back!
- Japan
- (anime • beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokemori • rice bowls • video games • Yoshinoya)
Yoshinoya’s new Super-Special-Large Bowl: A gigantic three-animal 1,700-calorie fest【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2020
Three meals at once sounds like a perfect lunch to us.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • big food • COK • crazy • fast food • food • gyudon • omori • SNJO • taste test • Yoshnoya)
Make a Burger King Whopper at home with new CooKING Burger @Home delivery set
- Oona McGee
Apr 30, 2020
In Japan, Burger King doesn’t just give us the Whopper recipe, it gives us the ingredients to make it too!
- Japan
- (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • fast food • gourmet • hamburgers • limited time • recipes • whopper)
Japanese restaurant chain shows us how to make katsudon in three minutes【SoraKitchen】
- Oona McGee
Apr 28, 2020
Easy recipe behind this tonkatsu rice bowl uses just eight simple ingredients.
- Japan
- (cooking • fast food • food • Fuji Soba • Japanese food • katsudon • recipe • rice bowls • SoraKitchen • tonkatsu)
Japanese McNuggets now come with creamy corn sauce, we attempt a potage with it
- Master Blaster
Apr 28, 2020
A new creamy delight for your next box of “McNugg.”
- Japan
- (corn potage • cream of corn soup • fast food • McDonald's • McNuggets • sauce)
McDonald’s Japan finally bans eat-in dining at over 1,900 locations in Tokyo, elsewhere in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 21, 2020
New policy goes into place ahead of Japan’s spring vacation period.
- Japan
- (COK • coronavirus • fast food • food • McDonald's)
New Kyoto green tea dessert drinks join McDonald’s Japan menu with ichigo and shiratama assists
- Casey Baseel
Apr 7, 2020
Matcha McCafé menu tempts us to skip the burgers and double-down on desserts.
- Japan
- (Asahi Soft Drinks • cafes • drinks • fast food • green tea • matcha • McCafe by Barista • McDonald's • shiratama • sweets • Uji)
Samurai Mac burgers arrive at McDonald’s Japan
- Oona McGee
Apr 3, 2020
Which warrior faction do you belong to?
- Japan
- (Big Mac • burgers • cheap eats • fast food • food and drink • limited edition • McDonald's • samurai)
Man orders nothing but a free smile from McDonald’s Japan using Uber Eats
- Master Blaster
Mar 28, 2020
Delivery charges applied, of course.
- Japan
- (cool • customer service • fast food • food delivery • free smile • funny • McDonald's • twitter • Uber Eats • weird)
Japan’s most popular domestic burger chain adds 100-percent vegan burgers to menu
- Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2020
Mos Burger’s burgers are still moss-free, but this new one doesn’t use any animal products either.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mos Burgers • vegan • vegetarian)
Mos Burger poster ad looks curiously more like a Furby than actual food
- Oona McGee
Mar 14, 2020
Once you’ve seen it, you won’t be able to unsee it ever again…
- Japan
- (advertising • burgers • cute • family • fast food • funny • Furby • marketing • Mos Burger)
Domino’s, Pizza Hut introduce “Zero Contact” delivery service in Japan amidst coronavirus fears
- Oona McGee
Mar 13, 2020
Delivery drivers will stand two meters from your front door and watch as you pick up your pizza.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • delivery • dominos pizza • fast food • food and drink • pizza • Pizza Hut)
McDonald’s worker tests positive for coronavirus in Japan, branch closes for sanitation
- Oona McGee
Mar 5, 2020
Infected staff member served food to customers at the register without wearing a mask.
- Japan
- (burgers • coronavirus • COVID-19 • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kyoto • McDonald's • novel coronavirus)
What happens when you accidentally put a gyudon beef bowl meal through the washing machine
- Oona McGee
Feb 18, 2020
Sad tale of a Japanese Uber Eats delivery gone wrong.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • Japanese food • laundry • Sukiya • twitter • washing machines • Yoshinoya)
KitKat Mcflurry comes to McDonald’s Japan with commercial starring Japanese idol
- Oona McGee
Feb 7, 2020
After a seven-year hiatus, the popular chocolate brand is teaming up with the fast food giant for a limited time.
- Japan
- (chocolate • desserts • fast food • food • Kit Kat • KitKat • McDonald's • McFlurry • Nestle • Nestle Japan • sweets)
Tokyo Burger King removes snarky message to out-of-business McDonald’s branch, posts new sign
- Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2020
Less salt present in sweeter message to defeated Akihabara rival.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Burger King • burgers • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • McDonald's • moving • touching)
Out-of-business Tokyo McDonald’s gets brutal but kind sendoff from rival Burger King branch
- Casey Baseel
Feb 1, 2020
Akihabara competitor’s goodbye is as sweet and salty as French fries dipped in chocolate sauce.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Burger King • burgers • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers • McDonald's)
McDonald’s Japan’s first-ever rice burgers are here, and we try them before they go on sale
- Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2020
We weren’t sure if a bacon cheese rice burger was a good idea, and now we know if our fears were justified.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • rice • SNJO • taste test)
McDonald’s releases new rice burgers in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 28, 2020
Three of the fast food chain’s popular burgers get a rice overhaul for a limited time.
- Japan
- (burgers • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • rice • rice burger)
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