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McDonald’s creates a dream Japanese bento for April Fools’ Day
- Oona McGee
Apr 2, 2024 - Tweet
And here’s how you can create one too.
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- (April Fools' Day • bento • COK • fast food • food • food hack • hack • Japanese food • Makunouchi bento • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • news • obento • P.K. Sanjun • taste test)
Japanese ramen chain elevates convenience store food with new microwaveable noodles【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Mar 3, 2024
Over a year in the making, these noodles bring the taste of Japan’s most popular ramen chain into your kitchen.
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- (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • kotteri • Lawson • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • taste test • Tenka Ippin)
24-hour Kabukicho restaurant serves up Japanese meals with Tokyo flair
- Oona McGee
Mar 2, 2024
A great place in Shinjuku for an early morning breakfast or late-night snack.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • Kabukicho • kamameshi • restaurants • review • rice • shinjuku • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
Ninja Soba Goemon: A Japanese restaurant that’s like a ninja hideout
- Oona McGee
Mar 1, 2024
Because shadow warriors need to eat noodles too.
- Japan
- (cool • eating • food • Goemon • goemonburo • Gunma • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • Ninja • Ninja Soba Goemon • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soba • soba restaurant • taste test)
Japanese cake becomes a hit with foreign tourists, but is it worth the hype?
- Oona McGee
Feb 26, 2024
We find out if a cake that looks like an omusubi rice ball is worth your yen.
- Japan
- (cakes • COK • cute • food • food review • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • omusubi • Omusubi Cake • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Ginza hotel serves up one of the best breakfasts in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Feb 22, 2024
A luxurious buffet befitting this sophisticated part of town.
- Japan
- (accommodation • breakfast • Ginza • hotel breakfast • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Japanese food • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tokyo hotels • travel)
The most delicious way to eat tonkatsu blows people’s minds in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2024
Diners are shocked to learn they’ve been eating tonkatsu the wrong way all their lives.
- Japan
- (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)
Celebrate cherry blossom season with a wine-and-dine bus tour of Tokyo’s best spots
- Dale Roll
Feb 17, 2024
Why settle for picnicking in one spot when you can dine while cruising around all of them?
- Japan
- (cherry blossom season • cherry blossoms 2024 • course menu • French food • gourmet • Japanese food • sightseeing • Tokyo Restaurant Bus • Tokyo sightseeing • tour bus • Willer Travel)
Do Japan’s Sushi Manju sweets look as good as the packaging on the box?
- Oona McGee
Feb 12, 2024
Unusual case of false advertising surprises everyone in the office.
- Japan
- (cute • food • Japanese food • Kitte • Kitte Marunouchi • Lawson • manju • marketing • Mr. Sato • packaging • shopping • SNJO • souvenirs • steamed buns • sushi • Sushi Manju • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Station)
Shima Gyoza: Hidden restaurant sells island dumplings that look like macarons
- Oona McGee
Feb 9, 2024
Some of the most unusual gyoza you’ll find in all of Japan.
- Japan
- (food • gyoza • Ishigaki • Ishigaki Island • Japanese food • Okinawa • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • travel)
National Diet Curry: Loved by Japanese Prime Ministers and politicians, but is it any good?
- Oona McGee
Feb 9, 2024
The Kokkai Beef Curry is an immoral meal, in more ways than one.
- Japan
- (curry • diet • food • Go Hatori • government • Japanese food • Japanese Prime Minister • Kokkai • Kokkai Curry • Matsusaka beef • politicians • prime minister • retort curry • SNJO • taste test)
Japan’s Homo Sausage now comes with cheese
- SoraNews24
Feb 1, 2024
What a way to celebrate a birthday.
- Japan
- (cheese • food • homo sausage • Japanese food • marketing • Maruzen • news • sausage • sausages)
“Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to the best restaurant in Sendai!”
- Oona McGee
Jan 19, 2024
Spur-of-the-moment adventure leads to a surprising meal and a driver that becomes a new friend.
- Japan
- (beef • COK • food • gyutan • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Ikuna Kamezawa • Japanese food • restaurants • Sendai • SNJO • taxi • travel)
Green takoyaki puts a new spin on classic Japanese street food
- Oona McGee
Jan 9, 2024
You won’t find takoyaki like this anywhere else in Japan.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • crazy • food • Ibaraki • Japanese food • Japanese street food • octopus • review • SNJO • street food • takoyaki • taste test • weird)
Kyoto’s demon manju is as big as the local legend that inspired it
- Oona McGee
Jan 5, 2024
Huge sweet celebrates the slaying of a sake-loving demon.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • demon • food • Japanese food • Kyoto • legends • manju • myths • onimanju • review • SNJO • sweets • traditional Japan)
Tokyo big eats just got even bigger with massive meat curries at new restaurant chain
- Oona McGee
Dec 22, 2023
Nikumeshi Okamoto rises from the ashes of its predecessor with a new take on Japanese curry.
- Japan
- (beef • Japanese curry • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • meat • Mr. Sato • Nikumeshi Okamoto • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test)
Drink a beer at Tokyo Station for 12 cents a day
- Oona McGee
Dec 21, 2023
Add a plate of gyoza and you can eat and drink for less than 25 cents a day!
- Japan
- (COK • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo Station • Yuuichiro Wasai)
Osaka hotel has amazing all-you-can-eat takoyaki and kushikatsu breakfast buffet
- Oona McGee
Dec 19, 2023
Start the day with a street food buffet!
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- (accommodation • breakfast • breakfast buffet • food • hotel • hotel breakfast • hotels • Japanese breakfast • Japanese food • kushikats • local specialties • Masanuki Sunakoma • Osaka • SNJO • takoyaki • travel)
Matsuya beef bowl fukubukuro lucky bag should be purchased with caution
- Oona McGee
Dec 13, 2023
There’s one downfall to this massive gyudon haul.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • gyudon • Japanese food • lucky bag • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2024 • Matsuya • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO)
Enjoy a Japanese tea ceremony in a traditional storehouse
- Oona McGee
Dec 9, 2023
A unique setting for a unique tea ceremony.
- Japan
- (architecture • cafes • COK • cool • food • green tea • Gunma • Gunma restaurants • Japanese food • Japanese tea • Japanese tea ceremony • kura • ocha • old buildings • restaurants • review • SNJO • tea • traditional architecture • traditional Japan)
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