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Wendy’s Japan goes big with new limited-edition Mega Wendy’s, but is it worth the calories?

• Oona McGee
  2 days ago
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Sometimes Japanese portion sizes are small… and sometimes they look like this.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • First Kitchen • food • meat • Mega Wendy's • SNJO • Wendy's)

“New York-style” tsukimi mochi burgers to appear at Wendy’s Japan this fall

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2026

A fusion of Japanese and American influences is converging to kick off moon-viewing burger season.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • First Kitchen • food • hamburgers • mochi • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)

We tried six Japanese burger chains’ coffee to test the state of fast food coffee in Japan[Taste test]

• SoraNews24
  Feb 18, 2026

In a rare twist, we headed to McDonald’s Japan, Mos Burger, and more without buying a single sandwich, because today we’re all about the beans.

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• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • coffee • COK • drinks • fast food • First Kitchen • food • hamburgers • KFC • KFC Japan • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Mos Burger • SNJO • taste test • Wendey’s Japan • Wendy's • Zetteria)

Wendy’s Japan’s mochi moon-viewing burger don’t just have mochi, they are mocchi too

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2025

Another part of tsukimi traditions gets drawn into the gravtional pull of moon-viewing burgers.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • First Kitchen • food • hamburgers • mochi • moon-viewing burgers • tsukimi • tsukimi bugers • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)

Wendy’s First Kitchen to sell octopus ball burgers to celebrate Osaka

• Master Blaster
  Mar 25, 2025

Where’s the octopus?

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• Japan
• (2025 Expo • fast food • First Kitchen • mix juice • Osaka • takoyaki • Takoyaki Burger • Wendy's)

Tsukimi Burger season-viewing starting soon with moon-viewing sandwiches from Wendy’s Japan/First Kitchen

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 22, 2024

Fast food partners team up for moon-viewing mix of Japanese and American flavors.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • First Kitchen • food • fried chicken • hamburgers • mochi • moon viewing • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)

The two best Tsukimi Moon-Viewing burgers in Japan for 2023

• Oona McGee
  Sep 29, 2023

Find out which two chains are the ones to visit when the moon rises on this special festival day.

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• Japan
• (autumn • Egawa Tasuku • fast food • festivals • First Kitchen • limited menu • Lotteria • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • review • seasonal menu • SNJO • taste test • tradition • tsukimi • tsukimi burger)

Trying out First Kitchen’s tsukimi mochi burgers for a taste of Japanese autumn

• Shannon
  Sep 15, 2023

Unique burger is in the running for SoraNews24’s Best Tsukimi Burger.

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• Japan
• (autumn • Chicken Tatsuta • First Kitchen • limited menu • seasonal menu • tsukimi burger)

Mochi burgers with Japanese seasonings on the way to expand rising moon-viewing burger genre

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 2, 2023

Tsukimi season continues to get tastier and tastier with two new sandwiches from First Kitchen.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • First Kitchen • food • hamburgers • mochi • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers)

What happens when you combine fries from 8 different fast food chains in Japan?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 2, 2023

Playing God with French fries can have some unexpected consequences.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • COK • Dom Dom Hamburger • fast food • First Kitchen • food • french fries • freshness burger • fries • KFC • Lotteria • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Mos Burger • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese burger chain adds mochi sticky rice to its moon-viewing sandwiches

• Oona McGee
  Aug 31, 2022

Fast food chain throws caution to the wind by adding a deadly ingredient to its menu.

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• Japan
• (burgers • cool • eggs • fast food • First Kitchen • food • mochi • moon viewing • Moon Viewing Burger • rice cakes • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers)

The Wendy’s Pretzel Burger returns to Japan for a limited time!

• Oona McGee
  Sep 15, 2021

New and improved version promises to be more delicious than ever before. 

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• Japan
• (beef • burgers • COK • fast food • First Kitchen • food • meat • pretzels • Wendy's)

Canada’s Bacon Mushroom Melt is coming to Wendy’s Japan!

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2020

Two Mushroom Melts will be available, only for a limited time. 

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• Japan
• (bacon • beef • burgers • canada • COK • fast food • First Kitchen • food • limited edition • meat • Wendy's)

Japan’s French fry sundaes are here, but which one should you try? We find out【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 13, 2018

”What’s the best flavor for a French fry sundae?” is a question we never had to answer…until now!

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• Japan
• (azuki • COK • crazy • fast food • First Kitchen • food • french fries • ice cream • SNOJ • sweets • taste test)

Japan now has French fry ice cream sundaes thanks to fast food chain First Kitchen

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2018

Oft-forgotten burger joint now has our full attention with its decadent Western and Japanese-style combinations of fried food and ice cream.

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• Japan
• (azuki • crazy • fast food • First Kitchen • food • french fries • ice cream • sweets)

Wendy’s Japan replaces bun with meat in new sandwich, touts its low-carb nutritional merits

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2017

For those times when you want two burgers’ worth of meat and zero burgers’ worth of bread.

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• Japan
• (burgers • crazy • fast food • First Kitchen • food • meat • SNJO • Wendy's)

We try the world’s first Kit Kat sandwich at First Kitchen, find out it’s like a bad date

• Scott R Dixon
  Mar 23, 2015

Japan is a country serious about its Kit Kat candy bars, treating them with the respect of gourmet chocolate and putting them on top of pizza. Now the Japanese fast food chain First Kitchen has brought the world its first Kit Kat sandwich, so we of course had to try what seemed like a delicious idea. Click below for our review of the dessert and why our Kit Kat taster compared it to a bad date

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• Japan
• (chocolate • First Kitchen • food • Kit Kat • sweets • taste test • weird)

A Fast-Food Joint to Visit Before You Die

• Jessica
  Jan 1, 2012

First Kitchen is a Japanese fast-food chain that has been rapidly expanding in the Kanto and Kinki areas. Readers in Japan have probably been to a First Kitchen at least once, but did you know that there is a branch with phenomenal views that rival high-end resorts and skyscraper restaurants?
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• Japan
• (First Kitchen • food • hamburger • Kamakura • travel)

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