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KFC Japan releases crazy new music video featuring cross-dressing star Ladybeard
- Oona McGee
Oct 6, 2016 - Tweet
KFC comes out with their candidate for a viral web video, filled with ninja maids, crazy visuals and a storyline that’s so insane it hardly makes sense!
- Japan
- (fast food • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Ladybeard • music • videos • viral video)
McDonald’s Japan set to release new Sanrio character-themed menu item
- Oona McGee
Oct 4, 2016
Which of these cute items do you think will really be appearing on the menu?
- Japan
- (fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pom pom purin • Pompompurin • Sanrio)
KFC adds caramel macadamia frozen dessert drinks to menus in Japan to celebrate autumn
- Casey Baseel
Oct 1, 2016
Now menu item comes hot on the heels of McDonald’s Japan’s caramel shakes.
McDonald’s Japan set to reinstate Bacon Potato Pies on its menu, delight former idol singer【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 30, 2016
Pies! They’re not just for dessert anymore!
America’s Panda Express Chinese fast food chain is coming to Japan
- Casey Baseel
Sep 29, 2016
Is orange chicken about to take Tokyo by storm?
- Japan
- (chinese food • fast food • food • Panda Express • restaurants)
Chocolate fries return to McDonald’s in Japan with an all-new pumpkin flavour for Halloween
- Oona McGee
Sep 29, 2016
Hot potato chips covered in pumpkin and chocolate sauce? According to our taste test, it’s like a delicious McDonald’s pumpkin pie!
- Japan
- (chips • chocolate • fast food • french fries • fries • halloween • McChoco • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pumpkin)
Foie gras hamburgers being added to the menu at Japanese fast food chain
- Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2016
”And would you like duck liver on your burger today?”
Taste-testing McDonald’s Japan-exclusive caramel shakes【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 23, 2016
We’ll take any excuse to drink shakes, but was this new temptation, over a century in the making, worth the wait?
- Japan
- (caramel • fast food • McDonald's • shakes • sweets • taste test)
Get into the Halloween spirit with a bit of purple sauce in your cheeseburger!
- Kay
Sep 22, 2016
Fast food chain Lotteria’s Halloween promotion inlcudes a cheeseburger … with bright purple sauce!
McDonald’s Japan to sell caramel shakes in partnership with centuries-old confectionary brand
- Casey Baseel
Sep 16, 2016
As the leaves start to turn brown in Japan, it’s time for its desserts to do so too.
McDonald’s Japan releases hilarious Funassyi Happy Meal sets for limited time
- Oona McGee
Sep 14, 2016
With three unique box designs and eight toys to collect, this is one of the cutest character collaborations we’ve ever seen!
- Japan
- (anime • burgers • characters • cute • fast food • Funasshi • Funassyi • funny • Happy Set • McDonald's • only in Japan)
Burgers and beer! Japan’s most popular domestic burger chain sells beer, wine at select locations
- Casey Baseel
Sep 7, 2016
Mos Burger gives us one more reason to love it as we visit the Mos Bar in Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • burgers • fast food • food • Mos Burger • restaurants • wine)
Kentucky Fried Sukiyaki? Japanese-style hot pots now on the menu at KFC Hong Kong
- Casey Baseel
Sep 1, 2016
These deviations from KFC’s three core principles still look incredibly delicious.
McDonald’s Japan gets into the spirit of the games with new Tokyo 2020 Olympics tumblers
- Oona McGee
Aug 16, 2016
The three new designs give us a sneak peek at what McDonald’s has in store for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
- Japan
- (2020 Olympics • collectables • drinks • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Olympics • Tokyo 2020 • Tokyo Olympics • tumblers)
Pokémon GO can wait while we play with these new Happy Meal toys from McDonald’s Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 18, 2016
While people in other countries are already enjoying the mobile game, Japan is celebrating the local release of the latest Pokémon movie with exclusive toys from McDonald’s.
- Japan
- (fast food • Happy Set • McDonald's • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokémon the Movie XY&Z • toys)
We stuff our faces with Wednesday night all-you-can-eat fried chicken from KFC Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 15, 2016
How many pieces of finger-lickin’ chicken do you think our Japanese reporters will be able to finish by the end of the 45-minute feast?
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • deals • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Mr. Sato)
KFC now sells sauce by the bottle in Japan!
- Casey Baseel
Jul 14, 2016
You can now stock your pantry with a supply of the chain’s famous honey maple sauce.
We made the biggest burger possible at McDonald’s Singapore’s “Create Your Taste” kiosk!
- Joan Coello
Jul 12, 2016
Because the “Create Your Taste” service isn’t available at McDonald’s Japan (yet).
- Food & Drink, SE Asia
- (Burger • fast food • McDonald's • Singapore)
Which is the real winner of McDonald’s Japan v. America burger throwdown? Here’s our taste test!
- Mike
Jul 8, 2016
McDonald’s Japan recently introduced two new burgers representing Japan and the U.S. in a sandwich showdown. We conduct a taste test with our Japanese sister site to see which takes burger supremacy.
- Japan
- (fast food • food • McDonald's • Seiji Nakazawa • taste test)
KFC offering all-you-can-eat fried chicken in Japan every Wednesday starting in mid-summer!
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2016
Count us Kentucky fried in!
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • deals • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentuky Fried Chicken • KFC)
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