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Should you place miso soup on the right or the left?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2022
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Difference between Tokyo and Osaka kicks off a nationwide debate on Japanese miso placement etiquette.

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• Japan
• (eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)

Three unusual Japanese curries to celebrate Regional Retort Curry Day

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2022

Plus, find out what it takes to register a special day like this in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • COK • curry • curry day • Curry Land • curry rice • food • instant curry • Japanese curry • Japanese food • Regional Retort Curry Day • retort curry • review • SNJO • taste test)

Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best salmon sushi?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2022

Salmon is one of Japan’s most popular sushi options, but which kaitenzushi restaurant does it best?

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • revolving sushi • salmon • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurants • Sushiro • taste test)

We order lunch at Mos Burger-owned restaurant, end up with traditional Japanese breakfast

• Katie Pask
  Feb 22, 2022

Mr. Sato’s light lunch ended up turning into a feast for the gods.

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• Japan
• (food • healthy food • Japanese food • Japanese restauramts • MOS • Mos Burger • Mr. Sato • restaurants • ryokan • ryokan meal • SNJO • Tokyo)

Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best ikura sushi?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 16, 2022

We go round Japan’s top kaitenzushi chains to find the best place to go for salmon roe.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • ikura • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • review • revolving sushi • salmon • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)

Discount super market’s super cheap bento wows us with its looks, confuses us with its taste

• Dale Roll
  Jan 28, 2022

A tremendous value for money…that is, if you don’t mind eating it.

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• Japan
• (bento • boxed lunches • cheap • COK • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • Japanese food • LAMU • noriben • Okayama • SNJO • supermarkets)

Japanese freight container bento satisfies our hunger for unusual lunches

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

A lunchbox so popular its makers can’t keep up with demand.

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• Japan
• (Awajiya • bento • boxed lunch • boxed lunches • COK • cute • food • freight containers • Japan Rail • Japanese food • Japanese trains • JR • Kobe • lunch • lunchboxes • SNJO • sukiyaki • taste test • trains)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best bubuzuke in Kyoto!”

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

Our search for a regional specialty takes us to an amazing traditional restaurant.

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• Japan
• (bubuzuke • chazuke • COK • food • Japanese food • Kyoto • Kyoto food • local specialties • ochazuke • pickles • restaurants • SNJO • taxis • travel)

“Hey, Japanese taxi driver, take us to the best seafood joint in Otaru!”

• Oona McGee
  Jan 21, 2022

What happens when we put our faith in a cab driver for local restaurant recommendations in Hokkaido?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Hokkaido • Japanese food • local specialties • Otaru • restaurants • seafood • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sushi • taxis • travel)

Japan’s Curry Bread Grand Prix award winner is…a dorayaki sweet?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 9, 2022

Shock victory for Japanese pancakes in a competition usually reserved for bread.

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• Japan
• (curry • curry bread • curry pan • dorayaki • food • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • sweets)

Who made the tastiest gyoza in 2021? We decide on our favourite pot stickers

• Katie Pask
  Dec 26, 2021

Check out our definitive guide to the best gyoza 2021 had to offer — just make sure you’re not hungry first!

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Osaka Osho • pot stickers • ranking • taste test)

Sushi Crepes: Will Harajuku’s newest weird food craze catch on in Tokyo?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 13, 2021

Conveyor belt restaurant chain restyles itself to fit the Harajuku aesthetic. 

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• Japan
• (crepes • food • Harajuku • Japanese food • Kurazushi • Mr. Sato • SNJO • sushi • sweets • taste test)

Japanese convenience store’s new “phantom” cream doughnuts are sinfully good

• Oona McGee
  Dec 10, 2021

They’re marketed as doughnuts but they actually taste like something else.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • combini • convenience stores • donuts • doughnuts • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Our reporter finally tried vending machine ramen, and his life is changed forever

• Dale Roll
  Dec 8, 2021

Seiji may never need to go to a ramen restaurant again, so long as he can find a ramen vending machine.

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• Japan
• (Japanese food • Kiyose • Noodles • ramen • ramen jiro • ramen vending machine • Seibu Ikebukuro Line • Seiji Nakazawa • vending machine)

We tried all seven of Muji’s new “Bento of the Day” boxed lunch sets

• Katie Pask
  Dec 7, 2021

Can boxed lunches stay minimalist and delicious at the same time?

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• Japan
• (bento • bento box • food • japanese bento • Japanese food • muji • Muji Cafe • Mujirushi • Mujirushi Ryohin • SNJO • taste test)

Celebrities slam katsu curry, divide netizens: “It’s a dish where 1+1 never actually makes 2”

• Dale Roll
  Dec 6, 2021

Are you Team “Katsu Curry”? Or Team “Katsu or Curry”?

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• Japan
• (COK • curry • debate • food • funny • Japanese food • katsu • katsu curry • tonkatsu)

Transparent soy sauce is a thing — we saw it, we tried it, we’re confused by it

• Katie Pask
  Nov 30, 2021

Our resident soy sauce fanatic gives it a try and breaks her brain in the process.

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• Japan
• (clear • cooking • food • japanese cooking • Japanese food • K. Masami • kitchen • SNJO • soy sauce • taste test • tofu • transparent • weird)

Egyptian restaurant Sumo Sushi offers our Japanese reporter a delightful yet quirky lunch

• Dale Roll
  Nov 27, 2021

Interesting decor, enticing food names, and endearing staff made this a meal Ikuna will always remember!

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• Japan
• (Egypt • Hurghada • Ikuna Kamezawa • international sushi restaurants • Japanese food • Japanese food overseas • sushi • sushi restaurants)

Japanese beef bowl vending machine serves up…gyudon rice burgers?!?

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2021

Matsuya’s first-ever vending machine surprises everyone with secret burgers.

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• Japan
• (beef • beef bowls • burgers • COK • food • gyudon • gyumeshi • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Matsuya • meat • restaurants • rice burgers • SNJO • tonkatsu • vending machines • weird)

Okonomiyaki you can eat with one hand? We try a revolutionary new frozen food【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Nov 21, 2021

How do you transform a flat saucy food into a handheld form, and is it any good?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • frozen food • Japanese food • microwave cooking • okonomiyaki • one-handed food • SNJO • taste test)

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