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Chicken wing-flavor ramen is our newest guilty pleasure we feel no real remorse over【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  May 18, 2021
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The flavor of a Nagoya favorite finds its way into a cup of ramen and into our hearts.

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• (chicken wings • Instant Ramen • izakaya • Noodles • ramen • Sekai no Yama-chan • SNJO • taste test)

New cooking gadget turns your kitchen into a Japanese izakaya pub all by itself【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 7, 2021

Why just be a home chef when you can be a home bartender too?

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• Japan
• (clever • cooking • cool • food • gadgets • izakaya • pubs)

Tokyo pub lets you grill traditional Japanese dessert right at your table in all-you-can-eat deal

• SoraNews24
  Apr 15, 2021

Dango deal is a fun cultural experience and a tasty bargain.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • cool • dango • dumplings • food • izakaya • mochi • restaurants • SNJO • sweets)

Kyoto slammed for manga telling people not to talk at restaurants

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2021

Four-panel manga fires up the Internet. 

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • eating • Eating Out • food • izakaya • Kyoto • manga • pandemic • restaurants)

Japan has a new bar just for people who want to drink alone

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2021

If a cold beer is all the company you need, this is the place for you.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • alone • clever • COK • cool • izakaya • pubs • restaurants)

Pringles now comes in karaage flavour in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 18, 2021

Japanese fried food gets even more addictive.

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• Japan
• (chicken • chips • COK • food • fried chicken • izakaya • karaage • marketing • potato chips • Pringles • snacks)

“Please don’t use our tubs for getting drunk” pleads Japanese maker of plastic wash tubs

• Dale Roll
  Oct 22, 2020

The makers of Kerorin tubs, the yellow plastic tub used in Japanese bath houses, say they’re not meant for food or drinks.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • bars • baths • crazy • health • Instagram • izakaya • public baths • weird)

Japanese pubs in Tokyo, Osaka now have special seats for online drinking party customers

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 9, 2020

Special one-person seats for when your party has to be online, but you don’t want to have it at home.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • Amataro • bars • COK • coronavirus • food • izakaya • pubs • restaurants)

Treat yourself to a secluded izakaya experience with Tsukada Nojo’s home drinking service!

• Katy Kelly
  Jun 16, 2020

You provide the alcohol, and Tsukada Nojo will take care of everything else.

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• (bar • chicken • delicious • drinking • food • home delivery • izakaya • SNOJ • stay at home • Tsukada Nojo)

Japanese wife creates izakaya pub at home during coronavirus outbreak

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2020

When your husband can’t go out to the izakaya during a pandemic, you bring the izakaya to him.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • drinking • food • izakaya • Japanese wife • love • marriage • restaurants • romance • society)

Nationwide pub chain in Japan adapting to the times by turning into a bento boxed lunch shop

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 7, 2020

We ask how the Kushikatsu Tanaka izakaya chain is faring in the midst of a pandemic.

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• (bento • COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • food • izakaya • Kushikatsu Tanaka • restaurants • SNJO)

Confirmed coronavirus patient in Aichi told to go home, goes bar hopping instead

• Master Blaster
  Mar 7, 2020

I’m sorry sir, you have a highly contagious and deadly pathogen. Now get out of here you little scamp!

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• (Aichi • bars • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Gamagori • izakaya)

Izakaya etiquette: Stacking your plates after eating doesn’t help waitstaff in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 22, 2020

Japanese restaurant worker says there’s a better system that diners should use.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • culture • drinking • etiquette • food • izakaya • japanese manners • manners • restaurants • society)

10 tips to remember for your first trip to izakaya, Japan’s awesome traditional pubs【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2019

Suntory’s for-foreigners video has plenty of great info, and we’ve got a few things to add.

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• (alcohol • etiquette • izakaya • manners • pubs • restaurants • travel • video)

Futon izakaya lets you drink and sleep on the cheap

• Oona McGee
  Dec 17, 2019

Now you can sleep inside a restaurant in Japan.

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• (cheap eats • COK • drinking • futon • izakaya • Osaka • SNOJ • value for money)

All-you-can-drink deal lets you chug down unlimited alcohol at 138 Japan locations for a month

• Koh Ruide
  Oct 7, 2019

At just $37, you can easily get your money back with just ten drinks.

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• (alcohol • all you can drink • bars • cheap • deals • drinks • izakaya • pub)

Want to boost your ego? Head to the new Homeru “Praise” Bar in Osaka

• Oona McGee
  Sep 6, 2019

Good-looking staff promise to identify your good points and shower you with compliments as you unwind after a long day. 

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• (alcohol • bars • food • food and drink • izakaya • Osaka • restaurants • sakaba • themed restaurants)

New commercial shows people in Japan offending foreigners with their stinky breath【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jun 23, 2019

Survey says one in two foreigners have been bummed out by meeting Japanese people with bad breath.

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• Japan
• (ads • bad breath • commercials • foreigners • izakaya • marketing • mouthwash • omotenashi • ryokan • Sunstar • teeth • toothpaste • travel • video)

New bar catering to Pokémon GO players who want to make friends opens in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  May 27, 2019

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your trainer name ♫

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• Japan
• (bars • Edogawabashi Station • food • izakaya • P-GO Izakaya Genkinokakera • Pokémon GO • Tokyo • video games)

Evangelion bar in Tokyo: You mustn’t run away from the awesome anime food at this sakaba

• Oona McGee
  May 14, 2019

We go on a mission to eat and drink at Nerv headquarters.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • anime • bars • Evangelion • food • food and drink • izakaya • restaurants • sakaba • themed restaurants • Tokyo)

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