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Japanese burger chain adds crazy new fruit teriyaki burger to its menu for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Aug 23, 2024 - Tweet
A unique burger you won’t find anywhere else.
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Candy apple cafe is an oasis in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station dungeon
- Oona McGee
Aug 17, 2024
A new place to revive and replenish your energy levels.
- Japan
- (apples • cafes • candied apples • candy apples • COK • cool • drinks • fruit • shinjuku • Shinjuku Station • shopping • SNJO • stations • sweets • trains)
How salty is Starbucks Japan’s new limited-edition jelly Frappuccino?
- Oona McGee
Aug 6, 2024
Inspired by a day at the beach, with a jelly that tastes like salty sea waves.
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- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • pineapple • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Is McDonald’s Japan’s new watermelon frappe worth your yen?
- Oona McGee
Aug 6, 2024
We find out if this new limited-edition drink tastes as good as it looks.
- Japan
- (COK • desserts • drinks • frappe • fruit • ice cream • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • SNJO • taste test • watermelon)
Starbucks Japan adds a salty limited-edition Frappuccino to its menu for summer
- Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2024
New yellow-and-blue beverage is designed to look and taste like a day at the beach.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • pineapple • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
McDonald’s adds new watermelon frappe and fruity macaron to its menu in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 26, 2024
Yamapi and Suzu Hirose get the anime treatment in a whacky new commercial for the summertime treats.
- Japan
- (commercials • drinks • fast food • food • frappe • fruit • Japanese commercials • macarons • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • news • pineapple • Suzu Hirose • sweets • Tomohisa Yamashita • watermelon • Yamapi)
Starbucks Japan adds a new Love & Peach Frappuccino to its menu for summer
- Oona McGee
Jul 11, 2024
Spreading peach and love to the masses, but only for a limited time.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Peach • peaches • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)
Starbucks Japan adds a Love and Peach Frappuccino to its menu for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Jul 4, 2024
A new summertime drink, designed to look and taste like a ripe peach.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • Peach • peaches • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets)
Is Starbucks Japan’s new Frappuccino better than the 7-Eleven smoothie?
- Oona McGee
Jun 30, 2024
Two icons go head-to-head, but one is a poor man’s strawberry.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • bananas • COK • convenience stores • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)
Starbucks Japan’s new limited-edition Frappuccino tastes great, is good for the planet
- Oona McGee
Jun 23, 2024
A fruity dessert beverage that’ll make you feel good while you drink it.
- Japan
- (bananas • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • ugly bananas)
We go bananas for Starbucks Japan’s new bananas range
- Oona McGee
Jun 2, 2024
Saving the planet, one banana at a time…
- Japan
- (bananas • COK • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test • ugly bananas)
Starbucks Japan adds a Banana Brulee Frappuccino to the menu, with a bunch of new treats as well
- Oona McGee
Jun 1, 2024
B-grade “Mottainai Bananas” get a new lease on life, but do they make for a B-grade Frappuccino?
- Japan
- (bananas • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japan unveils new Banana Brulee Frappuccino to save ugly fruit
- Oona McGee
May 22, 2024
Limited-edition drink and sweets will save three million bananas from the reject bin.
- Japan
- (bananas • drinks • environmentally friendly • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Japanese Frappuccinos • limited edition • mottainai • mottainai bananas • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • sweets • ugly bananas)
The one in which we sample top-notch melon in the Crown Melon Lucky Bag
- Krista Rogers
Jan 25, 2024
This melon specialty shop’s unique lucky bag puts a fruity spin on the New Year’s tradition.
- Japan
- (COK • crown melon • food • fruit • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • melon • mikan • Shizuoka • SNJO • specialty)
Is Denny’s Japan’s new ultra-expensive Amaou strawberry parfait worth it?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2024
Prized Fukuoka fruit delivers joy to the taste buds, shock to the wallet.
- Japan
- (Amaou • COK • Denny's • Denny's Japan • expensive • family restaurants • food • fruit • ice cream • parfaits • SNJO • strawberries • sundaes • sweets • taste test)
Tokyo’s newest crane game prize is prized pears from west Japan, and you’re guaranteed to win
- Casey Baseel
Sep 8, 2023
A sweet deal for some sweet Nijuseiki.
- Japan
- (cool • crane game • food • fruit • satellite shops • Tottori • UFO catcher • weird)
Amazing fruit bouquet crepes of Japanese sweets shop Eternity — a dessert you’ll always remember
- Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2023
Your stomach and eyes will thank you for making a stop at this seaside town’s side-street dessert spot.
How to make Starbucks Japan’s new Watermelon Frappuccino taste even more watermelony
- Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2023
Secret barista hack transforms the flavour in this new limited-edition drink.
- Japan
- (COK • customization • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Gaburi Suika • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • new • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test • watermelon)
Banto, the fruit eaten by Son Goku in Journey to the West, is real, and we just ate it【Taste test】
- SoraNews24
Aug 13, 2023
From the literary classic to our stomach.
- Japan
- (banto • coiled peach • COK • crazy • flat peach • food • fruit • peaches • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Is Starbucks Japan’s first-ever nationwide Watermelon Frappuccino the hit drink of summer?
- Oona McGee
Aug 9, 2023
Gaburi Suika includes the surprising addition of dragon fruit for a very limited-edition flavour combination.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • fruit • Gaburi Suika • Japanese Frappuccino • K. Masami • limited edition • new • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test • watermelon)
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