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Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo’s Kabukicho is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2023
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This underground world is filled with hungry government officials and cheap eats.

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cafeterias • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • curry • eating • food • Japanese curry • Japanese food • restaurants • secrets • shinjuku • Shinjuku Ward Office • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)

A visit to the birthplace of pizza toast: Is the original better than all the others out there?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 17, 2023

Eating at the iconic cafe that started the Japanese fusion trend over 50 years ago.

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• Japan
• (bread • Cafe Benisica • cafes • COK • cool • food • fusion food • history • Japanese food • kissaten • pizza • pizza toast • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • toast • Tokyo)

Japanese restaurant serves noodles that you fold and eat【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 16, 2023

We’ve never tried udon like this before. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • food • Gunma • gunma prefecture • Japanese food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • travel • udon • weird)

World’s largest type of daikon radish can now be ordered online in Japan

• Shannon
  Jan 31, 2023

Don’t worry, it’s sold in manageable portions.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • big food • COK • crazy • daikon • daikon radish • farming • food • Japanese food • Kagoshima • Sakurajima)

Japanese vending machine sells…onigiri cakes!?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 29, 2023

Now that’s a sentence we never thought we’d say. 

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• Japan
• (cakes • COK • food • food review • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • omusubi • onigiri • rice balls • SNO • sweets • taste test)

Our toughest blind taste test yet — can our writers pick out the more expensive mochi?

• Katie Pask
  Jan 29, 2023

This rice cake challenge proved tough for even our most experienced mochi eater.

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• Japan
• (expensive food • food • Gourmet Writers' Rating Check • Japanese food • mochi • ranking • rice • rice cake • SNJO)

Ichiran ramen lucky bag gives us everything we need to enjoy tonkotsu noodles at home

• Oona McGee
  Jan 28, 2023

This Japanese ramen chain really knows how to please its customers.

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• Japan
• (cup noodles • delicious • food • food review • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Ichiran • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • new • Noodles • ramen • review • SNJO • taste test)

Frozen sushi appears in Japan, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 23, 2023

Defrosting sushi puts a new spin on the way we eat traditional Japanese food.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • frozen food • frozen meal • Japanese food • review • rice • SNJO • sushi • taste test)

New yakiniku hair clips from Japan make meat lovers drool

• Oona McGee
  Jan 22, 2023

Like dining at a yakiniku restaurant, but the grill is your hair.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cute • fake food • fashion • food • hair accessories • hair clips • Japanese beef • Japanese food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • vegetables • weird • wtf • yakiniku)

Japanese salted plum industry in dire straits, according to umeboshi company’s tweet

• Katie Pask
  Jan 21, 2023

The average Japanese household is eating fewer pickled plums than ever.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • pickled plum • plums • society • umeboshi)

Easy yet tasty instant miso soup ball recipe will help you clear out your kitchen【SoraKitchen】

• Katie Pask
  Jan 6, 2023

Simple and quick to make, these miso soup balls are not only delicious but will help get rid of any ingredients you have lying around!

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• Japan
• (bonito flakes • cooking • food • instant miso soup • Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • SoraKitchen)

We push our luck and buy a lucky bag from a Japanese vending machine

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2023

New Year, new vending machine, and this one is filled with fukubukuro.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Hokkaido • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • local specialties • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)

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

Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2022

Rub shoulders with government officials at this cheap eatery that feeds the ministry.

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• Japan
• (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries • Mr. Sato • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best seafood restaurant in Noboribetsu!”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 22, 2022

We’ve gotta say, there’s no way we would’ve thought this remote-looking location would turn out to be such a hidden gem.

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• Japan
• (COK • donburi • fish • fishing town • food • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hey Taxi Driver • Hokkaido • Japanese food • Kojohama • Noboribetsu • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • seafood • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taxis • travel)

Yoshinoya’s fukubukuro lucky bag is part box, part beef bowl, but is there anything to eat?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 15, 2022

Take a look at the presents in store for beef bowl lovers in Japan at New Year.

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Japanese food • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • porcelain • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Yoshinoya)

Tokyo Banana’s Legendary Curry Bread tests the limits of what makes a good karepan 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 11, 2022

New store at Tokyo Station goes bananas for curry bread…and doughnuts.

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• Japan
• (awesome • bananas • bread • COK • cool • crazy • curry • curry bread • doughnuts • food • Japanese food • karepan • Mr. Sato • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo Banana • Tokyo Bananas • Tokyo Station)

Why Gonpachi Nori-Temaki in Harajuku is a great Japanese restaurant for foreign tourists

• SoraNews24
  Dec 5, 2022

Mr Sato reckons this hand-rolled sushi joint is perfect for international visitors.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Gonpachi • Harajuku • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • review • SNJO • sushi • taste test • temaki • temakizushi • Tokyo • tourists)

Japanese conveyor belt restaurant delivers food by boat in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2022

Floating meals are just the start of what makes this restaurant so memorable.

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• Japan
• (COK • conveyor belt restaurants • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • culture • food • gourmet • hachioji • Hinatoriyama • Japanese food • Restaurant • SNJO • tradition • unique • water • weird)

Pepsi creates a new cola for Christmas fried chicken in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 2, 2022

Raise a toast with special ingredients designed to enhance the traditional Japanese Christmas meal.

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• Japan
• (ads • COK • Cola • drinks • fried chicken • japanese drinks • Japanese food • Joyman • karaage • limited edition • Limited edition flavours • marketing • pepsi • soft drinks)

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