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Nattoku! Factory offers free factory tours of a famous natto brand production process

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 24, 2025
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Diehard lovers of Japan’s infamous fermented soy beans can now get a glimpse of the sticky production process.

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• (COK • cool • factories • fermented soybeans • food • Futon Natsuno • Ibaraki • museum • natto • Nattoku! Factory • Okame • SNJO • Takano Foods • weird)

How many times should you mix natto to make it more delicious?

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

Find out if mixing natto 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 times makes it taste less or more like smelly socks.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • Japanese food • natto • SNJO • soybeans • taste test • weird food)

That time we were either genius or insane to eat natto with Yukimi Daifuku per official advice

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 25, 2025

Plus, we tried crafting even crazier natto x mochi ice cream variations featuring kimchi, squid, and more. 

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Lotte • Mizkan • natto • SNJO • weird • Yukimi Daifuku)

We go looking for the best natto (fermented soybeans) in all of Japan【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 28, 2024

Our search in natto mecca Mito leads us to Kogoira Natto.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • Mito • natto • SNJO • soybeans • taste test)

The surprising reason natto (fermented soybeans) are hard to swallow for many Japanese surfers

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2024

Surfing can lead to natto allergies, it turns out.

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• Japan
• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • health • jellyfish • natto • science • surfers • surfing • weird)

Our resident natto lover tries Mythical Natto from Hokkaido and gets spirited away【Taste test】

• Krista Rogers
  May 12, 2023

We tickle our taste buds with a grotesque-looking but premier version of the infamous “foreigner-repelling food.”

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• Japan
• (Ebetsu • fermented soybeans • Hokkaido • maboroshi no natto • mythical • natto • Takashi Harada • taste test)

Pizza Hut’s sakura pizza takes cherry blossom season to weird places in Taiwan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2023

Forget about putting pineapple on pizza because this is a lot, lot worse. 

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (cherry blossoms • fast food • food • natto • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Taiwan • review • sakura • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Instant natto soba a suspiciously hot item so we check it out

• Master Blaster
  Apr 9, 2023

Is Natto Soba natto what it seems?

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • instant noodles • Masanuki Sunakoma • natto • SNJO • soba • taste test • weird)

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?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • Mr. Sato • natto • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Soap made from natto coming to Tokyo a week after Natto Day

• Master Blaster
  Jul 11, 2022

Make your skin as fresh as a styrofoam tub of fermented beans!

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• Japan
• (food • Ibaraki • natto • skin care • soap • Suzuki Herb Laboratory • Tokai)

Japanese mum’s secret curry recipe puts a new spin on the beloved dish

• Oona McGee
  Feb 21, 2022

Impressive meal that’s easy to make, thanks to this handwritten recipe from a gacha capsule toy machine.

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• Japan
• (capsule toys • cooking • cool • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • gachapon • natto • recipe • SNJO • taste test • weird)

We tried making natto the old-fashioned way, and the result was unexpected but delicious 【SoraKitchen】

• Shannon
  Oct 31, 2021

Who knew that fermenting soybeans was such a delicate process?

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• Japan
• (cooking • easy • fermentation • fermented soybeans • making natto • natto • SoraKitchen)

Our natto maniac verifies the legitimacy of fermented soybean-flavored potato chips【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  Oct 13, 2021

Are these chips enough to satisfy a true natto fan?

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• Japan
• (Japanese potato chips • natto • potato chips • snacks • weird potato chip flavors • weird snacks)

Natto-infused ramen is a thing — we tried it, we love it【Taste test】

• Katie Pask
  Sep 30, 2021

Made with Japan’s most expensive beans, this dish could sway even the biggest natto naysayers.

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• Japan
• (cooking • easy recipe • food • Japanese recipe • kitchen experiment • natto • natto ramen • nattou • ramen • recipe • SoraKitchen • taste test)

Mizkan develops world’s most “beautiful” natto, Mr. Sato takes it for a spin

• Master Blaster
  Aug 4, 2021

But true beauty is in the eye of the bean-holder.

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• Japan
• (Binatto • fermented food • food • health • Lawson • Mr. Sato • natto • Natural Lawson • soy beans)

We try a new natto coffee ice cream that took 17 months to perfect

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2021

Tokyo cafe finds a way to use natto’s sticky texture to create a dessert like Turkish ice cream.

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• Japan
• (cafes • coffee • COK • desserts • dondurma • fermented soybeans • ice cream • Japanese desserts • Mr. Sato • natto • SNJO • sweets • Takadanobaba • taste test • Tokyo • Turkish ice cream)

The most expensive natto in Japan – Eating the “black diamonds” of Tanba Kuro【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 22, 2021

These Akita beauties will bust our food budget, but can they win our heart?

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • food • natto • SNJO • soybeans • taste test)

We spice up our fermented soybeans with curry powder flavored natto【Taste Test】

• Katy Kelly
  Mar 13, 2021

How will the power of curry fare against one of Japan’s most notorious dishes?

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• Japan
• (curry • curry powder • food • Japanese food • natto • Saya Togashi • SNJO • soybeans • taste test)

There’s no reason not to play with your food with this natto in Nanoblock form

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 4, 2021

All we have to say is that this is one curiously clever fermented soy toy for the win.

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• Japan
• (blocks • COK • cool • food • Nanoblock • natto • SNJO • soy • soybeans • toy • weird)

Natto for beginners? How to half-make Japanese fermented soybeans at home【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  May 19, 2020

We try a way to stretch our store-bought natto supply, and also make the smelly, sticky dish less intimidating for newcomers.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • food • natto • SNO • SoraKitchen • soybeans)

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