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Starbucks Japan adds new Customisation Bar to stores, with free ways to hack your food and drink orders

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2026
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New bar helps to create up to 5.27 million possible combinations.

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• (customisation • customization • customized drinks • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • hacks • Japanese Frappuccino • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • Starbucks • Starbucks customization • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • tea)

Cheap Japanese sandwich hack: Popular cafe’s 21-cent white bread offcuts will really up your game

• Oona McGee
  Jun 23, 2026

A smart way to beat rising prices and eat on the cheap like a local in Japan.

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• (cafes • Caffe Veloce • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hacks • hidden gems • Japanese food • Japanese sandwiches • sandwich • sandwiches • SNJO • toast sandwiches • Tokyo • weird)

Starbucks Japan sells Valencia Flavoured Syrup, and here are four ways to use it this summer

• Oona McGee
  Jun 22, 2026

These syrups aren’t only designed for coffee.

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• (drfnk hack • drinks • food hacks • fruit • hack • hacks • milk tea • orange • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • summer • syrups • tea • Valencia • yoghurt • yogurt)

Burger King Japan’s All Heavy customisation hack may not be all it’s cracked up to be

• Oona McGee
  Apr 22, 2026

The results of this taste test are truly baffling. 

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• (All Heavy • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • cool • fast food • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hacks • SNJO • whopper)

Pringles Chocolate, but with a Japanese twist, is the snack hack you should be trying right now

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2026

Jagarico one-ups a viral global trend for fans of Japanese flavour. 

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• (cooking • cooking hack • cooking hacks • food hacks • hack • hacks • Jagarico • Jagariko • junk food • Pringles Chocolate • recipes • snacks • SNJO)

McDonald’s Japan releases “intense” McPork burger, prompts Michelin chef to create jam hack

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2026

Can Japanese jam really get this burger out of a jam?

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• (Aohata • burgers • cool • fast food • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hacks • jam • jam jar • Japanese jam jar • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McPork • SNJO)

Are Japanese convenience store sandwiches scamming us with their fillings?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 17, 2026

We find out if there’s any truth to the so-called “cross-section scam”.

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• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience store hack • convenience stores • crazy • egg sandwich • Family mart • food • hacks • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwich • Japanese sandwiches • Lawson • sandwich • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • weird)

McDonald’s Japan hack: What happens when you put an apple pie inside a Big Mac?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2026

This could be the best idea in the world…or the worst.

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• (apple pie • Big Mac • cool • fast food • food • food hack • hack • hacks • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • sweets)

Lawson convenience stores sell a mega katsu sando, and there’s a hack to get it cheap in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2026

This beast puts convenience store egg sandwiches to shame.

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• (big food • COK • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience store hack • convenience stores • crazy • food • hacks • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwich • katsu sando • katsu sandwich • katsu sandwiches • Lawson • sandwich • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu sandwiches • weird)

How to turn cold McDonald’s fries into the best hash browns you’ve ever tasted

• Oona McGee
  Jul 14, 2025

This hack from Japan will change the way you eat fries forever.

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• (epic • fast food • food • food hacks • fries • hacks • hash brown • hash browns • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • recipes • SNJO)

Tokyo travel hack: How to enjoy a free sightseeing boat tour around Tokyo Bay

• Oona McGee
  Jun 7, 2025

Little-known gem is how locals cruise the city in summer.

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• (boat tour • boats • ferries • hacks • hidden gems • Japan sightseeing • sightseeing • sightseeing boats • sightseeing spots • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo sightseeing • tourism • travel)

How to make a Japanese convenience store bento look like a meal from a restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Sep 13, 2024

Local hack elevates convenience store food in seconds.

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• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • bento • COK • convenience stores • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hacks • SNJO)

Foreign tourists go crazy for white tonkatsu in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jul 16, 2024

Restaurant serves up an unusual Japanese dish that’s even surprising locals. 

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• (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • Fukuoka • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)

How to make an epic pizza at a Japanese family restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2024

Eating on the cheap doesn’t have to be boring.

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• (cheap eats • family restaurants • food • food hack • food hacks • Gusto • hacks • pizza • restaurants • review • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • taste test • Tokyo)

The most delicious way to eat tonkatsu blows people’s minds in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2024

Diners are shocked to learn they’ve been eating tonkatsu the wrong way all their lives.

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• (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)

Saizeria meal hack by foreign diners introduces us to a secret dish that’s not on the menu

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2024

Sometimes it pays to copy your fellow diners.

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• (arrosticini • food • food hack • food hacks • hacks • meat • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • Saizeriya • SNJO • Tokyo)

How to pull a beer from the can so it tastes like it’s from a keg

• Oona McGee
  Dec 10, 2023

Japanese senpai shares a drinking hack to make canned beer taste infinitely better. 

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• (alcohol • beer • bonenkai • canned beer • COK • cool • draft beer • drinks • hacks • lifehack • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • trick)

We try the viral screaming rubber chicken car park hack in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 4, 2023

Who needs fancy parking sensors when you’ve got chickens to help you out?

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• (cars • chickens • cool • Don Quijote • funny • hacks • life hacks • LOL • Masanuki Sunakoma • parking • parking lot • product reviews • rubber chicken • shopping • SNJO)

How to make noodles look restaurant quality in just three seconds

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2022

Little-known hack from a soba restaurant pro will give your noodles a professional look every time.

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• (COK • cooking hack • cooking hacks • cool • food • food hack • hacks • how to • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • recipes • SNJO • soba • toshikoshi soba)

How to make a hot pudding drink with Japanese purin【SoraKitchen】

• Oona McGee
  Oct 3, 2022

Official recipe from Glico is so good it should replace hot cocoa.

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• (COK • cooking • cooking hacks • cool • creme caramel • drinks • food hacks • Glico • hacks • hot drinks • pudding • purin • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets)

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