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Japanese beef bowl restaurant serves up a breakfast don that’s dividing customers

• Oona McGee
  Jan 18, 2025
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Does this fusion meal really deserve all the criticism it’s been getting?

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • breakfast • COK • food • gyudon • Japanese breakfast • Japanese food • Matsuya • restaurants • review • SNJO)

Studio Ghibli retailer now sells Japanese anime curry with all the special utensils

• Oona McGee
  Jan 18, 2025

Enjoy the taste of a Hayao Miyazaki movie classic.

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• Japan
• (anime • anime merchandise • curry • curry rice • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Hayao Miyazaki • Japanese curry • Japanese food • merchandise • Panda Kopanda • Panda! Go Panda! • Studio Ghibli)

Japanese onsen hot spring comes with 99 types of soy sauce for visitors

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2025

All this awaits you on a short train ride from Tokyo.
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• Japan
• (COK • culture • day trip • food • hidden gems • hot springs • Japanese food • ofuro • onsen • restaurants • Saitama • sento • soy sauce • travel)

Kura Sushi has secret menu items in Japan, and here’s how to find them

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2024

Get a taste of some rare hidden gems enjoyed by those in the know.

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• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • cool • food • Japanese food • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi)

World’s first real ramen in a can now available at Japanese vending machines

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2024

No more konjac-made imitations — finally, authentic ramen!

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• Japan
• (canned ramen • COK • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Noodles • ramen • ramen in a can • restaurants • soy sauce ramen • vending machines)

Japan now has fish-shaped soy sauce bottle hand cream

• Oona McGee
  Dec 18, 2024

Still serves up soy, but in a different way.

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• Japan
• (beauty • bento • COK • cool • crazy • cute • food • hand cream • Heso • Heso Productions • Japanese food • LOL • Osaka • sashimi • shopping • souvenir • soy • soy sauce • soy sauce bottle • sushi • weird)

Japan’s top 10 food travel destination prefectures【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2024

From the north to the south, there are amazing eats waiting in these parts of Japan.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • survey • tourism • travel)

Drink hot sake at Tokyo train station’s “phantom platform”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2024

A special winter drinking event you won’t want to miss.

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• Japan
• (atsukan • COK • cool • events • food • hot sake • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese sake • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • oden • restaurants • Ryogoku • Ryogoku Station • sake • Tokyo • train stations • trains • unique • unusual • winter)

Japanese mochi tasting flight has roots in samurai dining culture

• Oona McGee
  Nov 22, 2024

A new take on honzen ryori in the holy land of mochi.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Genbikei • Ichinoseki • iwate prefecture • Japanese food • michi no eki • mochi • restaurants • rice • rice cake • SNJO • travel • unique)

Best all-you-can-eat okonomiyaki in Japan? Restaurant chain serves up a feast for under $14

• Oona McGee
  Nov 18, 2024

There are good reasons why this is the largest okonomiyaki chain in Japan.

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• (COK • Dohtonbori • food • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • okonomiyaki • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese ramen restaurant serves noodles with a heartwarming side of history

• Oona McGee
  Nov 8, 2024

Unique visitor’s record tells the story of a ramen dish that remains unchanged for decades.

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• Japan
• (Asahikawa • COK • culture • food • hidden gems • history • Hokkaido • Japanese food • old restaurants • ramen • ramen restaurant • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • soy sauce ramen • travel)

Tsukemen ramen restaurant becomes a hit with foreign tourists in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Oct 13, 2024

Dipping noodles are all the rage with visitors to Japan.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • foreign tourists • Ginza • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tsujita • tsukemen)

Japanese izakaya serves up cheap breakfast…and morning drinks in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Oct 9, 2024

One of the most unusual places to start your day in the city. 

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• Japan
• (breakfast • cafes • COK • food • Ikebukuro • Japanese breakfast • Japanese food • Masanuki Sunakoma • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Japanese chanko ramen restaurant contains a moving relic from the World Trade Center

• Oona McGee
  Oct 2, 2024

Menchanko-tei combines noodles with traditional sumo food for a meal that’s become popular in Japan and the United States.

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• Japan
• (chanko nabe • COK • food • Fukuoka • Ground Zero • hotpot • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Masanuki Sunakoma • Menchanko-tei • nabe • New York • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Sumo • taste test • World Trade Center)

Eat Japanese prison food at this unique cafeteria in Abashiri

• Oona McGee
  Sep 29, 2024

A taste of incarceration that’ll leave you with a new appreciation for the everyday.

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• Japan
• (Abashiri • Abashiri Prison • anime • film • food • Golden Kamuy • historical • Hokkaido • jail • Japanese food • katsudon • manga • museums • prison • prison food • prisons • restaurants • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

New Japanese Food Sample Making Cafe opens in Asakusa, Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Sep 24, 2024

A unique tourist experience where you can eat Japanese food…and take it home with you to enjoy forever as a hyper-realistic food sample.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • cafes • cute • food • food sample • food samples • Japanese food • Japanese souvenirs • plastic food samples • restaurants • souvenirs • themed cafe • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel)

Sukiya celebrates Tsukimi Moon-Viewing season with limited-edition gyudon beef bowls in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2024

Popular chain delivers beef by the light of the moon. 

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • fast food • food • gyudon • Japanese food • marketing • moon viewing • Sukiya • tsukimi)

Japanese burger chain adds crazy new fruit teriyaki burger to its menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2024

A unique burger you won’t find anywhere else. 

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • cool • Dom Dom • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • fruit • Japanese food • Nashi • pears • teriyaki • teriyaki burger • weird food • wow)

How good is this popular wooden onigiri mould, made by a Japanese rice specialist?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 22, 2024

We find out if this sell-out hit product is worth the hype.

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• Japan
• (Akomeya • COK • food • Japanese food • onigiri • rice • rice balls • shopping • shops • SNJO • specialty products • taste test • wood)

Tsukimi Moon-Viewing season begins in Japan with new Yoshinoya gyudon beef bowls

• Oona McGee
  Aug 21, 2024

Moon and meat arise in a tasty new collection.  

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• Japan
• (autumn • beef bowl • beef bowls • fast food • festivals • food • gyudon • Japanese food • limited menu • moon viewing • seasonal menu • tradition • tsukimi • Yoshinoya)

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