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How to turn konbini food into a luxury Japanese meal
- Oona McGee
Aug 13, 2020 - Tweet
It looks like a breakfast at a fancy ryokan inn, but all this food came from a humble 7-Eleven and cost about 10 bucks.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • convenience stores • food • Japanese breakfast • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • kombini • konbini • ryokan)
Stinkiest sushi in the world is now an ice cream flavour in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 30, 2020
Is decayed fish still as pungent when it’s turned into sweet ice cream?
- Japan
- (COK • fish • food • food review • funazushi • ice cream • Japanese food • Shiga • Shiga Prefecture • SNJO • soft cream • sushi • sweets • taste test)
Tired of buying spicy cod roe that’s just not how you like it? Customize it with this new DIY kit
- Dale Roll
Jul 29, 2020
Spice up your mentaiko exactly how you want it!
- Japan
- (caviar • cooking • Japanese food • mentaiko • seafood • spicy • spicy cod roe)
Ramen face mask from Japan fogs up your glasses, looks like a steaming hot bowl of noodles
- Oona McGee
Jul 15, 2020
If you can’t stop your spectacles from fogging up, you might as well make art with them.
- Japan
- (art • coronavirus • design • face masks • food and drink • funny • Japanese food • masks • Noodles • ramen • twitter)
Tokyo store sells beautiful Japanese fruit sandwiches that look like floral arrangements
- Oona McGee
Jul 1, 2020
A fruity bouquet of flavour for your taste buds, with a special surprise hidden in the back of each one.
- Japan
- (COK • expensive fruit • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Japanese food • japanese fruit • Omotesando • parfait • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo)
Make sushi in seconds with smart ingredient hack from Don Quijote
- Oona McGee
Jun 22, 2020
Lazy cooks can now feel like sushi pros.
In celebration of Onigiri Day, we compare rice balls from three different convenience stores
- Dale Roll
Jun 21, 2020
Which conbini makes the best salmon rice ball: 7-Eleven, Family Mart, or Lawson?
- Japan
- (convenience stores • Family mart • Japanese food • Lawson • onigiri • rice balls • Seven Eleven)
We make one of Japan’s best breakfast treats: Himeji almond toast【SoraKitchen】
- Katie Pask
Jun 3, 2020
Get a taste of Hyogo’s Himeji City from the comfort of your very own home.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (almond • almond butter • almond toast • cakes • COK • food • Himeji • Hyogo • Japanese cake • Japanese food • oden • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets)
We try cooking yakisoba with real Japanese buckwheat soba【SoraKitchen】
- Dale Roll
Jun 1, 2020
Does Japanese soba go well with yakisoba sauce? Will it hold up in a frying pan? We find out!
- Japan
- (cooking • experiment • Japanese food • Noodles • Seiji Nakazawa • soba • SoraKitchen • yakisoba)
Rice cooker recipe: How to make a giant cheesy okonomiyaki pancake in a rice cooker
- Oona McGee
May 14, 2020
Epic Japanese comfort food is easy to make with just the push of a button!
- Japan
- (food • Japanese food • okonomiyaki • recipes • rice cooker • rice cooker pancakes • rice cookers • twitter)
Make a high-end Japanese meal at home with the help of traditional Japanese restaurant Nadaman
- Dale Roll
May 1, 2020
Nadaman’s new YouTube channel shows us the ins and outs of traditional Japanese cooking.
- Japan
- (cooking • how to • Japanese cuisine • Japanese food • Nadaman • recipe • video tutorial • YouTube)
Japanese restaurant chain shows us how to make katsudon in three minutes【SoraKitchen】
- Oona McGee
Apr 28, 2020
Easy recipe behind this tonkatsu rice bowl uses just eight simple ingredients.
- Japan
- (cooking • fast food • food • Fuji Soba • Japanese food • katsudon • recipe • rice bowls • SoraKitchen • tonkatsu)
We try a traditional Tokyo dish of stewed loaches, encounter something we’ve never seen before
- Dale Roll
Mar 26, 2020
A taste of the Edo-period past, and a new encounter.
- Japan
- (Asakusa • COK • Edo • Edo period • fish • food • history • Japanese food • loach • nabe • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO)
Wear your love of ramen around your neck with a noodle towel from Japan
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2020
Because there’s nothing more refreshing than patting your face dry with a bowl of ramen.
- Japan
- (Felissimo • food • funny • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • shopping • souvenir • towels • YOU+MORE!)
Japanese ramen restaurant chain brings out noodles with cola dipping sauce for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2020
Why drink cola with your noodles when you can eat it instead?
- Japan
- (Cola • food • Iyoshi Cola • Japanese food • limited edition • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • Shibuya • Tokyo • tsukemen)
Japanese pork cutlet chain unveils its latest fusion food: cornflake chicken katsu bowls!
- Katy Kelly
Mar 9, 2020
Katsuya has a crunchy cereal chicken coating for when breadcrumbs just won’t cut it.
- Japan
- (chicken katsu • corn • corn flakes • cornflakes • food • fried food • Japanese food • Katsuya • limited time)
Japanese revolving sushi restaurant chain stops revolving during coronavirus outbreak
- Oona McGee
Mar 4, 2020
But customers wonder if it will do anything to help the growing health crisis.
- Japan
- (Conveyor belt sushi • coronavirus • COVID-19 • Hamazushi • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • novel coronavirus • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • Sushi Train)
What happens when you accidentally put a gyudon beef bowl meal through the washing machine
- Oona McGee
Feb 18, 2020
Sad tale of a Japanese Uber Eats delivery gone wrong.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • Japanese food • laundry • Sukiya • twitter • washing machines • Yoshinoya)
A pack of natto (fermented Japanese soybeans) a day keeps the death away according to study
- Master Blaster
Feb 1, 2020
Terrible news for picky eaters.
- Japan
- (diet • fermented food • food • health • Japanese food • Miso • National Cancer Center • natto • survey)
Try this netizen’s “secret menu” item beef bowl at Yoshinoya, if only to see what the heck it’s about
- Dale Roll
Jan 17, 2020
This “secret menu” is really more of an alternate style of beef bowl.
- Japan
- (beef bowl • Japanese food • Japanese Twitter • secret menu • weird • Yoshinoya)
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- Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
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Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
Japanese government announces criteria for creating backup capital of Japan
Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
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Pokémon Company announces first-ever permanent Pokémon store to open outside Asia
Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
What’s it like to stay in a Japanese container hotel?
Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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