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Shocking discovery: Japan’s expensive Shine Muscat grapes can pair amazingly with cheap Pringles
- Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2025 - Tweet
Weird, delicious, and beautiful, this is everything we could ask for in the SoraKitchen.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • food hacks • fruit • grapes • potato chips • Pringles • recipes • Shine Muscat • SNJI • Sora Kitchen • taste test • weird)
Starbucks Japan releases a surprising new Frappuccino for autumn
- Oona McGee
Sep 10, 2025
Limited-edition beverage reveals the heartwarming story of a nearly extinct fruit.
- Japan
- (autumn • Chico • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • La France • La France pear • limited edition • pear • pears • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • younashi)
Frappuccino perfume from Starbucks is now available in Japan… but you can’t buy it
- Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2025
Select customers will be able to wear the peachy scent of this heavenly limited-edition beverage.
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- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • muscat • Peach • peaches • perfume • review • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Starbucks Japan releases new Shine Muscat grape drinks, but the Frappuccino isn’t the star
- Oona McGee
Jul 12, 2025
A surprise newcomer steals the show as this summer’s must-try beverage.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • grape • grapes • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • muscat • review • Shine Muscat • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Japanese-style strawberry sandwiches win mainstream fans in U.K., but aren’t quite like the originals
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2025
Sandwiches are a sell-out hit with a few key differences from how they’re made in Japan.
- Japan, UK
- (food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Marks & Spencer • sandwiches • strawberries • strawberry sandwiches • sweets • U.K.)
Starbucks Japan adds a Shine Muscat Grape Frappuccino to the menu for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Jul 4, 2025
Three Muscateers showcase a special Japanese fruit in a trio of ways.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • grape • grapes • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • muscat • review • Shine Muscat • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Starbucks Japan releases exclusive new Mango Au Lait for summer
- Oona McGee
Jun 16, 2025
A simple beverage that’s ripe for customisation.
- Japan
- (cool • drinks • fruit • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • mango • mangoes • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Starbucks Japan’s new Hot Frappuccino is almost too spicy to drink
- Oona McGee
Jun 15, 2025
This limited-edition beverage will be forever burned in our memory.
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- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • mango • review • SNJO • spicy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer • taste test)
Starbucks Japan releases a Joyful Mango Earl Grey Tea Latte at 7-Eleven
- Oona McGee
Jun 10, 2025
A summer drink that can only be found at select locations.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • chilled cup • COK • convenience store finds • convenience stores • cups • drinks • fruit • Japanese convenience stores • latte • limited edition • mango • mangoes • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • tea)
Starbucks Japan releases first-ever spicy Frappuccino for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2025
Exclusive beverage designed to make you breathe fire like a dragon.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • mango • spicy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • summer)
Starbucks Japan releases a new limited-edition drink that’s big on simplicity
- Oona McGee
May 21, 2025
We find out if simplicity equals perfection or a desire for more flavour.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • drinks • fruit • limited edition • limited edition flavors • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • strawberry • summer • taste test)
How special is Starbucks Japan’s new “Special Ver.” Frappuccino?
- Oona McGee
May 1, 2025
Join us as we find out if this is a decadent improvement or a sneaky cash grab.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese strawberry • K. Masami • limited edition • limited edition flavors • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • strawberry • summer • taste test)
Family Mart serves up Japanese nostalgia with new frozen choco banana that’s a sell-out hit
- Oona McGee
Apr 27, 2025
There’s more to this iced treat than first meets the eye.
- Japan
- (banana • bananas • choco banana • chocolate banana • COK • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • festivals • food • food review • fruit • japanese banana • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • nostalgia • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan launches new Chillax Soda drinks for summer
- Oona McGee
Apr 22, 2025
Starbucks and chill.
- Japan
- (Chillax Soda • drinks • fruit • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • news • soda • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • yuzu)
Japanese cafe serves up fruit sandwiches like nowhere else
- Oona McGee
Feb 20, 2025
There’s a reason these are some of the best sandwiches you’ll find in Japan.
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- (cafes • cakes • dessert sandwiches • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Japanese food • japanese fruit • Japanese sandwiches • Mariko Ohanabatake • Nagasaki • review • sandwiches • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
What’s the deal with akebi, the perfectly purple, alien-like fruit that’s in season now in Japan?
- Krista Rogers
Oct 22, 2024
We make a simple dish with the fruit that would make Crayola proud by cooking it with…pork?!
- Japan
- (akebi • bitter • chocolate vine • COK • cooking • fall • fruit • Ikuna Kamezawa • pork • purple • seasonal • SNJO • unusual)
Encountering the secret Starbucks Frappuccino that rarely appears in Japan
- Oona McGee
Sep 15, 2024
An exciting way to refresh your palate, but only for a limited time.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • pineapple • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Japan now has teriyaki pear burgers – Are they crazy good, or just crazy?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2024
While everyone else is rolling out tsukimi burgers, Dom Dom slips in a nashi burger.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • cool • crazy • Dom Dom • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • fruit • hamburgers • Nashi • pears • SNJO • taste test • teriyaki • teriyaki burger • weird)
Japanese police arrest Vietnamese man for stealing 3,000 pears in roughly 24 hours
- Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2024
Grand theft fruit.
Starbucks Japan releases a Sunset Frappuccino as a sayonara to summer
- Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2024
A bittersweet farewell with a Japanese twist that’s only on the menu for nine short days.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • pineapple • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
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