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What happens when you combine fries from 8 different fast food chains in Japan?【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Apr 2, 2023
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Playing God with French fries can have some unexpected consequences.

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• Japan
• (Burger King • COK • Dom Dom Hamburger • fast food • First Kitchen • food • french fries • freshness burger • fries • KFC • Lotteria • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Mos Burger • SNJO • taste test)

Did Burger King just troll McDonald’s Japan with its new Big Bet burger?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2023

Move aside, Big Mac — the Big Bet is in town!

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cool • daifuku • fast food • food • ichigo daifuku • Japanese sweets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mochi • pies • review • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

McDonald’s Japan’s new daifuku pie: Is it as good as the Japanese sweet that inspired it?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 24, 2023

A limited-edition pie created specially for sakura season. 

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cool • daifuku • fast food • food • ichigo daifuku • Japanese sweets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • mochi • pies • review • sakura • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

McDonald’s adds a Japanese daifuku pie to its menu for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Mar 17, 2023

It’s sweets over flowers this sakura season.

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• Japan
• (Ado • asmi • cool • deep fryer • fast food • food • french fries • funny • McDonald's • music • TikTok • weird)

Sakura season arrives at McDonald’s Japan with new range of exclusive menu items

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2023

The cherry blossoms look extra tasty this year.

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• Japan
• (burgers • cherries • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • commercials • fast food • food • hanami • Japanese commercials • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • sakura • sakura 2023 • teritama)

Our Japanese language reporter gets lucky with Vietnam McDonald’s Prosperity Beef Burger

• Shannon
  Feb 14, 2023

Live long and McProsper, at McDonald’s Vietnam.

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• SE Asia
• (McDonald's • McDonald's Vietnam • taste test • Vietnam)

We try the new Asian Juicy burgers from McDonald’s Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 6, 2023

Cute on the outside, but are they good on the inside too?

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• Japan
• (90s • burgers • COK • commercials • fast food • food • Idols • J-Pop • Japanese commercials • Japanese idols • JPOP • limited edition • Marie Iitoyo • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • music videos • Nanase Nishino • Puffy • review • SNJO • taste test)

Domino’s Pizza Japan’s Big Dac Burger Pizza tastes like food from a completely different chain

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2023

Mystery of the hybrid comfort food’s name gets cleared up on the first bite.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • crazy • Domino's Pizza Japan • dominos pizza • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • pizza • SNJO • taste test • weird)

McDonald’s Japan is changing the ingredients in Chicken McNuggets

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2023

Wait, what exactly goes into a McNugget anyway?

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• Japan
• (Chicken McNugget • COK • fast food • food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McNugget)

Asian Juicy: New burgers from McDonald’s Japan pay tribute to a ’90s J-pop music video by Puffy

• Oona McGee
  Jan 27, 2023

There’s a lot more than burgers to unpack here.

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• Japan
• (90s • burgers • COK • commercials • fast food • food • Idols • J-Pop • Japanese commercials • Japanese idols • JPOP • limited edition • Marie Iitoyo • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • music videos • Nanase Nishino • Puffy)

McDonald’s remixes Ado and Asmi hits along with the sound of their deep-fryer

• Master Blaster
  Jan 20, 2023

A mouthwatering mix.

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• Japan
• (Ado • asmi • cool • deep fryer • fast food • food • french fries • funny • McDonald's • music • TikTok • weird)

Did you know you can “wash” your smartphone at McDonald’s in Japan? 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 6, 2023

Ingenious two-step process allows you to clean your hands and your smartphone at the same time. 

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• (cool • hi-tech • Japanese technology • Japanese toilets • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Public restrooms • tech • technology • twitter • videos • Wosh • wota)

McDonald’s Japan’s 2023 fukubukuro lucky bag first disappoints then redeems itself

• Oona McGee
  Jan 2, 2023

The golden arches misses the mark in some ways but then makes up for it after all.

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • lucky bag • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • SNJO)

“Adult anime” geta new meaning with McDonald’s Japan ad from Fist of the North Star creator【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2022

”Enjoy being an adult!”

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• Japan
• (anime • burgers • cool • fast food • Fist of the North Star • food • hamburgers • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • Tetsuo Hara • video)

McDonald’s Japan’s Fuwatoro Tamago Noko Demi Gurakoro burger is a mouthful in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Dec 3, 2022

New limited-edition menu item celebrates Japanese fusion flavours.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • croquette • fast food • food • gratin • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • review • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)

KFC releases an Otaku Burger…in Spain?!?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 2, 2022

Spreading the Japanese custom of eating KFC at Christmas to other parts of the world.

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • burgers • chicken • Christmas in Japan • COK • cool • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • manga • marketing • McDonald's • otaku • SNJO • Spain • taste test • weird • wtf)

McDonald’s Japan’s Fuwatoro Tamago Noko Demi Gurakoro is coming to warm us up this winter

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 25, 2022

Name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it should still go in your belly.

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• Japan
• (burgers • croquette • fast food • food • gratin • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • sandwiches)

The McDonald’s Hokkaido Salmon Burger is a sell-out hit…outside of Japan【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Nov 19, 2022

Join us as we track down the elusive burger to find out if it’s worth the hype.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (burgers • COK • fast food • fish • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • McDonald's • Milo • Mos Burger • review • salmon • SNJO • taste test)

McDonald’s Japan’s new kalbi koshihikari rice burger and its friends only come out after sundown

• SoraNews24
  Oct 30, 2022

Eating these new rice burgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the same day is sadly not an option.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • food • gohan burgers • hamburgers • kalbi • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • rice burgers)

Lupin III x McDonald’s Japan commercial makes us want to zip through the drive-thru 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Sep 28, 2022

Lupin’s latest anime caper takes place at the golden arches.

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• Japan
• (burgers • Chicken McNuggets • COK • fast food • food • limited edition • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McFlurry • milkshakes • moon viewing • Moon Viewing Burger • pie • sukiyaki • sweets • tsukimi • tsukimi burgers)

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