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All-you-can-eat KFC returns to 247 locations across Japan this April!
- Master Blaster
Mar 6, 2018 - Tweet
But it can only be taken advantage of by reservation, so book your pleather seat today!
【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】KFC Japan fukubukuro makes fried chicken dreams come true
- Oona McGee
Jan 4, 2018
Colonel Sanders has been kind to his finger-lickin’ customers this New Year.
- Japan
- (COK • fast food • food • fried chicken • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • lucky Bags 2018 • new year • SNOJ)
KFC Japan earned 6 billion yen over Christmas weekend, proving that Japan loves Christmas chicken
- Dale Roll
Dec 29, 2017
The fried chicken industry in Japan is no small fry.
- Japan
- (business • Christmas • holiday sales • Japanese Christmas • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • sales)
In always-polite Japan, KFC has low-smell fried chicken so you won’t bother people on the train
- Casey Baseel
Dec 18, 2017
KFC Japan wants to help keep the smell of your finger-lickin’ good meal out of other passengers’ noses.
Protect yourself from that dastardly Internet with a KFC Internet Escape Pod
- Richard Simmonds
Nov 23, 2017
$10,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Dislike receiving emails? Then the Internet Escape Pod is for you!
- USA
- (crazy • interior • internet • Internet-proof • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • weird • wireless signals)
How to make your own KFC bath without Japan’s official Kentucky Fried Chicken bath salts【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 21, 2017
Eleven herbs and spices plus one bathtub makes for an unforgettable beauty ritual.
- Japan
- (bath salts • baths • beauty • crazy • funny • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • video • Village Vanguard • weird)
KFC cooks up fried chicken bath salts in Japan
- Oona McGee
Nov 1, 2017
Now you can soak in the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices.
- Japan
- (bath bombs • bath powder • bath salts • bathing • baths • chicken • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • LOL • wtf)
Japanese Twitter is cracking up over these incredibly odd “fried chicken” pants
- Meg Murphy
Oct 2, 2017
Kentucky Fried Chicken? Carrots? What do you see in these pants?
Kentucky Fried Chicken has all-you-can-drink beer in Tokyo for less than 10 bucks
- Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2017
Cocktails, wine also part of unbeatable package.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • beer • fast food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • restaurants • Takadanobaba • Tokyo)
KFC Japan to open new specialty take-out store in Sendai with wholesome deli food!
- Kay
Jul 27, 2017
Think these items look appetizing? You’ll have to go to a unique KFC store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture to get them!
- Japan
- (deli • fast food • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • The Table by KFC)
There’s a KFC smartphone going on sale in China【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 13, 2017
Is Colonel Sanders ready to join Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as a technological icon?
- China
- (crazy • fast food • fried chicken • Huawei • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • Smartphones • technology • video • weird)
New KFC dessert features Japanese Sanrio character from Cinnamoroll
- Oona McGee
Jun 5, 2017
The cute and delicious treat is only available for a limited time.
- Japan
- (cinnamon roll • Cinnamoroll • cute • KFC • Sanrio • sweets)
KFC Chizza returns to Japan with all-new Korean twist
- Oona McGee
May 30, 2017
When is a pizza not a pizza? When it’s a Chizza from KFC!
KFC Philippines searches for new Colonel Sanders
- Master Blaster
May 27, 2017
It worked for Journey, why not Kentucky Fried Chicken?
- SE Asia
- (Colonel Sanders • KFC • Leo Martinez • Pen Medina • Philippines • Ronaldo Valdez • video)
Colonel Sanders becomes harbinger of death in darkly comical Japanese New Year’s card
- Casey Baseel
Jan 11, 2017
It’s terror-inducin’ good!
- Japan
- (Colonel Sanders • funny • KFC • nengajo • New Year's • Year of the Rooster)
【Lucky Bag Roundup 2017】Celebrate the Year of the Rooster with a KFC Japan fukubukuro
- Oona McGee
Jan 3, 2017
The contents of this lucky bag are sure to delight fans of KFC.
- Japan
- (fast food • fried chicken • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2017 • KFC • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2017 • New Year's)
Colonel Sanders gets a needed makeover to bring him into 2017
- KK Miller
Dec 29, 2016
Is the change a welcome eyeful? Or is this a case of too much too soon? You be the judge.
KFC Japan reveals New Year’s box for 2017, seeks total domination over festive period
- Evie Nyan
Dec 28, 2016
After making “Kentucky Fried Christmas” a thing, KFC continues to bring out New Year’s boxes to compete with traditional osechi cuisine
KFC Japan releases special finger sheaths for hassle-free fried chicken eating
- Oona McGee
Dec 16, 2016
Their chicken might be finger lickin’ good, but now we don’t have to put up with any of the oily mess that comes with it!
- Japan
- (chicken • cool • fast food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC)
This Kentucky Fried Chicken Day we investigate the rumored “custom ordering”
- Master Blaster
Nov 22, 2016
We discover that it is possible to order thighs, breasts, or whatever piece of chicken you want in your bucket of Original Recipe KFC, but there are rules.
- Japan
- (fast food • fried chicken • holidays • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken Day • KFC • special order)
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