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Chocolate mochi slices appear in Japan, make our mouths water and our kitchen smell amazing
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2025 - Tweet
Taste-testing our newest find at Japan’s specialty grocer that always lures us in with free coffee.
We score big with Kaldi’s wine lucky boxes thanks to some sage advice
- Krista Rogers
Jan 9, 2024
A helpful hack sets up our reporter for success to get the sparkling wine of her dreams.
- Japan
- (COK • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2024 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • haruka takagi • KALDI • lucky bag 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • SNJO • Sparkling wine • wine)
Want an easy way to eat Christmas turkey in Japan? Mr. Sato finds it, tries turkey for first time
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2023
Yes, Japan’s Christmas fried chicken tradition is great too, but if you want turkey, this is a quick, simple, and affordable option.
The butter pudding from Kaldi doesn’t taste like butter or pudding, so what does it taste like?
- Krista Rogers
Nov 2, 2023
We investigate an intriguing sweets product at the popular international foods chain and discover the secret of its hidden flavor.
- Japan
- (butter pudding • food • KALDI • Mariko Ohanabatake • purin • shopping • taste test)
Japanese melon butter, where have you been all our lives? 【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Apr 5, 2023
Melon butter is here to make everything better.
- Japan
- (bread • butter • cooking • cool • jam • Japanese melon • KALDI • melon • Melon Pan • melons • musk melon • new • omelet • SoraKitchen • taste test)
Coffee-infused rice for rice balls and curry? Taste-testing a recipe from Japan’s coffee experts
- Katie Pask
Mar 10, 2023
Soaking your rice in some Italian Roast makes a world of difference!
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • cooking • curry • food • KALDI • onigiri • recipe • rice • rice balls • rice cooker • SNJO • taste test)
We try Kaldi’s microwavable Omelet Rice to find out if it really cooks that easily【SoraKitchen】
- Dale Roll
Oct 30, 2022
Omurice in just five minutes? We had to try it.
- Japan
- (cooking • KALDI • microwave cooking • omelet • omelette rice • omurice • rice omelet • SoraKitchen)
New spreadable French Toast from Japan is a game-changer
- Oona McGee
Jul 26, 2022
The easiest way to make French toast? Simply spread it on bread!
- Japan
- (bread • breakfast • butter • COK • cool • food • french toast • Japanese breakfast • KALDI • new • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)
New spreadable melon pan changes the way we eat toast in Japan
- Oona McGee
May 1, 2022
Making melon bread, and curry bread, just got a whole lot easier.
- Japan
- (bread • breakfast • COK • cool • curry bread • curry pan • food • Japanese breakfast • Japanese sweets • KALDI • melon bread • Melon Pan • new • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)
We make chashu in just eight minutes, thanks to Kaldi’s microwaveable roast pork【Taste Test】
- Katie Pask
Apr 25, 2022
“Quick” and “easy” are not words usually associated with roast pork… until now!
- Japan
- (char siu • chashu • cooking • food • KALDI • kitchen • Mr. Sato • pork • roast pork • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test)
We hunt for Dom Pérignon in these wine fukubukuro lucky bag boxes from Kaldi
- Katie Pask
Jan 5, 2022
No matter what comes out of the lucky boxes, it’s sure to be a wine-derful day!
- Japan
- (drink • drinks • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2022 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2022 • haruka takagi • KALDI • lucky bag • wine • wines)
In search of the elusive Sea Urchin Butter from Kaldi【Taste test】
- Master Blaster
Dec 1, 2021
Our reporter is bitter no one but her ever bought her a better butter, like Uni Butter.
- Japan
- (butter • COK • food • KALDI • sea urchin • seafood • SNJO • taste test • uni • Uni Butter • weird)
Mr. Sato’s guide to easy-peasy no-bake chocolate mousse, courtesy of Kaldi import stores
- Katy Kelly
Oct 2, 2021
Just mix the ingredients, chill, and enjoy!
- Japan
- (chocolate mousse • chocolate spread • cooking • KALDI • Mr. Satou • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen • tasty)
Mr. Sato broadens his home drinking horizons at Kaldi【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】
- Master Blaster
Sep 28, 2021
Cultural confusion is still cultural.
- Japan
- (alcohol • food • Japan’s Best Home Senbero • KALDI • Mr. Sato • rice paper • sagria • senbero • SNJO • tacos)
Introducing…instant Matcha Green Tea Curry (and yes, it’s green)! 【Taste Test】
- Kay
Apr 12, 2015
It’s well-known that people in Japan are fond of green tea, especially the precious matcha green tea made from tea leaves grown in the shade. Matcha flavored Kit Kats have grown popular in Japan as well as overseas, and celebrity pastry chefs like Sadaharu Aoki have turned matcha confection making into an art. We’ve even tasted matcha-flavored ramen, so it’s not just sweets we’re talking about either.
Well, we recently found another fascinating matcha product that once again shows how much the Japanese love the green stuff…matcha green tea curry! What’s more, it’s instant curry that comes in a heatable pouch, so you can have it right at home in less than 10 minutes. A quick and easy, green-colored curry? Of course we had to try it ourselves!
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Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Pokémon doughnuts pop up at Mister Donut, with a new gathering that’s bigger than ever
Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
Starbucks Japan unveils new winter drinkware collection with limited-edition Stanley cups
Discount retailers known for massive bargains releases massive Japanese egg sandwich
First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
Japanese government hires leading comedy agency to explain national defense spending
Japan’s free stock image site of muscular men doing whimsical and mundane things reveals rankings
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Weekly
Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
Life-size Monster Hunter dragon statues to be built at Japanese shopping mall
Evangelion announces collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe
Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing
Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
Studio Ghibli homeware brand’s faux oil lamp brings light, smiles, and Kiki’s Jiji to your home
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Starbucks Japan releases now Tokyo Reserve Roastery Christmas drinkware collection [Photos]
Monthly
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?
Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
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
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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