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We eat an Italian-inspired lobster curry…at a cheap curry chain!
It felt like eating like a king.
- Japan
- (50th anniversary • anniversary • curry • Curry no Osama • lobster • luxury food • Mr. Sato • shinjuku)
Got rice? The tastiest rice ever compels bread-fan Mr. Sato to eat more rice than ever before
- Krista Rogers
Apr 11, 2023
Cooked in a traditional earthenware pot, there’s something about this Maboroshi no Koshihikari rice that almost spirited him away.
- Japan
- (COK • dining • Ginza • gourmet • koshihikari • Mr. Sato • rice • Salon Ginza Sabou • SNJO • Tokyo)
Choshimaru offers a limited-time Explodingly Big Sushi Roll, or basically sushi in sushi armor
- Krista Rogers
Apr 10, 2023
What’s the true form of this rolled sushi hiding underneath the Final Boss sushi?
- Japan
- (big • Choshimaru • COK • decadent • dining • food • Mr. Sato • norimaki • pudding • purin • roll • SNJO • sushi • weird)
A visit to Green Lawson, the futuristic Japanese convenience store where you get served by an avatar
- Oona McGee
Apr 4, 2023
Strangely, this convenience store turns out to be surprisingly inconvenient…
- Japan
- (avatars • bento • combini • convenience store • cool • ecological • environment • environmentally friendly • food • konbini • Lawson • marketing • Mr. Sato • new • remote work • self-checkout • technology • unstaffed store)
Taste-testing famous ramen from Kobe turns into moment of self-reflection for Mr. Sato
- Katie Pask
Apr 1, 2023
What was supposed to be a simple taste test makes Mr. Sato take another look at his gourmet writer credentials.
- Japan
- (Chinese seasoning • food • Kobe • Kobe Chinatown • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • taste test • Wei-Pa)
Japan’s first made-to-order natto store will make you fermented beans without the putrid smell
- Katie Pask
Mar 23, 2023
Could this be the answer that all natto-nay sayers have been searching for?
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • natto • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)
In search of Japan’s largest melon bread with Mr. Sato
- Master Blaster
Mar 22, 2023
Join us as we hunt the monsters of the Japanese bakery scene.
- Japan
- (baked goods • big food • bread • COK • crazy • Deka Melon • food • Lopia • melon bread • Melon Pan • Monster Melon Pan • Mr. Sato • SNJO)
Taste-testing “Japan’s Number-One Taiyaki,” where becoming a master chef takes five years
- Casey Baseel
Mar 13, 2023
Does this chain of fish cake sweets have the flavor to back up its bold name?
Burger King Japan’s Cheeseburger Gelände — exceptional in taste, size and… paper napkins?
- Katie Pask
Feb 3, 2023
Burger King’s latest offering leaves Mr. Sato stunned not once, not twice but three times!
- Japan
- (big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
What exactly is the treat known as a “kougnané” that’s sold outside Tokyo’s Yurakucho Station?
- Krista Rogers
Feb 1, 2023
We learn the origin of this unique pastry sold in one of Tokyo’s bustling commercial districts.
- Japan
- (bakeries • COK • food • Kougnané • Kyoto • Mr. Sato • SNJO • sweet • sweets • Tokyo • Uji • Yurakucho)
We found traditional pudding perfection in a brand new Tokyo cafe
- Dale Roll
Jan 29, 2023
In looks and flavor, this pudding knocked Mr. Sato’s socks off!
- Japan
- (cafe • custard pudding • Mr. Sato • Nerima • pudding • sweets • taste test)
Mr. Sato angers the potato gods of Kogane No Potatorado restaurant
- Master Blaster
Jan 26, 2023
Finally, a restaurant that uses the aesthetic of a used video game store.
- Japan
- (food stands • Kogane No Potatorado • mashed potatoes • Mr. Sato • potatoes • restaurants • Shibuya • Tokyo)
We visit the only shrine in Japan where you can pray to the gods for good weather
- Katie Pask
Jan 22, 2023
Pray the rain away at special weather shrine in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • culture • Koenji • Mr. Sato • shinto • shrines • SNJO • Teru Teru Bozu • Tokyo • weather)
Cafe next to Tokyo Station offers all-you-can-eat tarts, and Mr. Sato is ready for his desserts
- Krista Rogers
Jan 20, 2023
It seemed like such a good deal at the time that we had to wonder–is this highway robbery?!
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • cafe • cafes • COK • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • tabehodai • tarts • Tokyo Station)
We try Tokyo restaurant’s crab ice cream that tastes more like crab than cream【Taste test】
- Shannon
Jan 16, 2023
Staff say it tastes even better with olive oil and pepper!
- Japan
- (COK • crab • Crab Ice Cream • crazy • food • ice cream • Jiyugaoka • Mr. Sato • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • weird)
Can our writers’ taste buds pick out the luxury kamaboko fish cake from these two?
- Master Blaster
Jan 14, 2023
Everyone’s loco for kamaboko!
- Japan
- (COK • fish cake • food • Gourmet Writers' Rating Check • kamaboko • Kinsen Yuzuki • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mr. Sato • New Year's food • SNJO • Suzuhiro)
Mr. Sato goes back to the junk shops of Akihabara, where the real lucky bag action is
- Master Blaster
Jan 3, 2023
It just wouldn’t be New Year’s without a bag of junk.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • junk shop • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Mr. Sato • portable DVD player)
Mr. Sato orders Kura Sushi’s New Year’s kosechi meal for one but gets a chilly surprise
- Krista Rogers
Dec 31, 2022
It’s almost like the New Year already wanted to give him the cold shoulder…or rather, a cold fish cake.
- Japan
- (COK • frozen • kosechi • Kura Sushi • Mr. Sato • osechi • single serving • SNJO • sushi • table for one)
Secret staff cafeteria in Tokyo is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides
- Oona McGee
Dec 31, 2022
Rub shoulders with government officials at this cheap eatery that feeds the ministry.
- Japan
- (cafeteria • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • eating • food • Japanese food • Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries • Mr. Sato • restaurants • secrets • shokudo • SNJO • staff cafeterias)
You don’t have to go all the way to Haneda to find a vending machine that sells airplane meals
- Dale Roll
Dec 28, 2022
But we can see why you’d want to!
- Japan
- (airplane food • Asagaya • bento • food • frozen meal • in-flight meals • Mr. Sato • travel • vending machine)
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