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Noodle chain Marugame rolls out strawberry milk udon donuts for new spring sweets lineup

Krista Rogers
Apr 15, 2025
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These sweet treats–made not from udon flour but from actual mashed udon noodles–are delightfully chewy and pack a flavorful punch.

Japan
(donuts • food • Hokuto Matsumura • Kaito Takahashi • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • strawberries • strawberry • sweets • udon • Udonatsu • Udonuts)

New tanuki soba specialty restaurant in Ikebukuro serves up soba with a unique taste and visuals

Krista Rogers
Apr 5, 2025

The noodles at Tanuki Soba wa Nomimono don’t look like any bowl of tanuki soba that we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining.

Japan
(COK • dining • gourmet • Ikebukuro • nomimono • Noodles • Restaurant • SNJO • tanuki soba • Tokyo)

Pokémon Slowpoke Powdered Rice Topping tastes like liquid for noodles【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2025

Honorary Pokémon governor of Udon Prefecture has a treat that might be even tastier than his tail.

Japan
(anime • Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • food • furikake • manga • Noodles • Pokemon • rice • Slowpoke • SNJO • taste test • udon • video game)

Udon soup-scented bath salts from Kagawa are flying off the shelves and into bathtubs everywhere

Krista Rogers
Feb 20, 2025

Be careful that you don’t start drinking your bath water by mistake or you’ll find yourself in even hotter water.

Japan
(bath • bath salts • cool • crazy • food • funny • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • udon • weird)

Are Japan’s Strawberry Shortcake instant noodles as gross as they say?

Oona McGee
Feb 13, 2025

Yakisoba meets cake in this very weird Japan-exclusive product.

Japan
(cake • COK • crazy • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • review • shortcake • SNJO • strawberries • strawberry shortcake • sweets • taste test • weird • yakisoba)

Black Thunder Tempura from Japanese udon chain is not a good partner for noodles

Oona McGee
Feb 9, 2025

Famous chocolate bar gets fried up for Valentine’s Day, but it’s not exactly as great as they say.

Japan
(Black Thunder • Black Thunder Tempura • chocolate • COK • food • fried chocolate • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • review • sanuki udon • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tempura • udon • valentine's chocolate • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)

Deep-fried “Let’s just be friends” chocolate tempura appears in Japan for Valentine’s Day

Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2025

Black Thunder joins forces with popular noodle restaurant chain for a treat that keeps the chocolate brand’s image of cheap and delicious.

Japan
(Black Thunder • chocolate • crazy • food • fried food • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • sweets • tempura • udon • Valentine's Day)

Ramen pizza gets a sinful upgrade with Jiro-style version from Pizza Hut Japan

Oona McGee
Feb 5, 2025

Genre famous for huge toppings adds weight to the menu for a limited time.

Japan
(COK • crazy • food • Jiro ramen • Jiro-kei • Jiro-style • Noodles • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • ramen • ramen jiro • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Want the noodles without the noise? This is the perfect place for you to try wanko soba

Krista Rogers
Feb 4, 2025

This wanko soba restaurant in Iwate Prefecture serves up soba without a side of self-consciousness.

Japan
(Bashokan • dining • iwate prefecture • Noodles • Restaurant • Saya Togashi • Tohoku • travel • wanko soba)

Japanese instant yakisoba noodles now available in…Strawberry shortcake flavour?

Oona McGee
Feb 1, 2025

Dessert noodles designed to be enjoyed with coffee.

Japan
(cake • crazy • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • shortcake • strawberries • sweets • weird • yakisoba)

Japan’s new no-topping cup ramen is super simple, sort of cheap, and kind of depressing

Casey Baseel
Jan 27, 2025

Lawson skips a key ramen elements to keep prices down, but are they low enough to justify this tradeoff?

Japan
(convenience stores • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Lawson • Noodles • ramen)

Using tempura as a ramen topping – Blasphemy, or a beautiful idea?【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2025

Soba restaurant chain’s claim leads us to cross the standard line of where tempura is supposed to go.

Japan
(COK • food • Fuji Soba • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • soba • taste test • tempura • udon)

Sugakiya brings back the ’70s with a retro ramen experience in Nagoya

Elliot Hale
Dec 31, 2024

Blending the store’s unique flavors and vintage vibes to create a satisfying taste of nostalgia.

Japan
(Aichi • COK • food • Nagoya • Noodles • Osu • ramen • restaurants • retro • SNJO • Sugakiya • Vintage)

Cup Noodle sells new squid fork with its instant ramen

Oona McGee
Dec 20, 2024

Nissin outdoes itself by making this crazy idea a reality.

Japan
(COK • cool • Cup Noodle • food • fork • instant food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • marketing • news • Nissin • Noodles • seafood • squid • weird)

World’s first real ramen in a can now available at Japanese vending machines

Oona McGee
Dec 19, 2024

No more konjac-made imitations — finally, authentic ramen!

Japan
(canned ramen • COK • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Noodles • ramen • ramen in a can • restaurants • soy sauce ramen • vending machines)

Take a toothbrush with you to Butakin for this daring mixed noodles with chives dish

Krista Rogers
Dec 17, 2024

It’s just as we’ve always said–with great pungency comes great deliciousness.

Japan
(Butakin • chives • Eating Out • food • garlic chives • Kanda • mazesoba • nira • Noodles • Ochanomizu • ramen • Restaurant • Tokyo)

This might be the simplest restaurant ramen in all of Japan, but it’s still something special

Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2024

Breakfast ramen recommendation shows that big satisfaction can come from small ingredient lists.

Japan
(COK • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • tanmen)

Do cold noodles from a Japanese vending machine fill us with joy or regret?

Oona McGee
Nov 24, 2024

Find out if Morioka Reimen is a famous specialty worth canning.

Japan
(canned food • canned noodles • COK • cold noodles • crazy • food • Iwate • Japanese vending machines • Morioka • Noodles • ramen • ramen in a can • reimen • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)

Want some great ramen in Akihabara? Then head to this…karaoke joint?!?

Casey Baseel
Nov 23, 2024

You can sing and eat your heart out with Ramen Paro.

Japan
(Akihabara • COK • crazy • food • Jiro ramen • Jiro-kei • Jiro-style • karaoke • Noodles • Paro Ramen • Pasela • ramen • Ramen Paro • Ramn Jiro • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Chill out with an ice-blue drink and noodles from Mount Fuji at this Tokyo junkissa

Elliot Hale
Nov 7, 2024

Venture into Shinbashi, where an old-school cafe awaits to captivate your taste buds and provide an unforgettable culinary experience.

Japan
(blue Hawaii • cafe • COK • cream soda • drink • food • Fujinomiya yakisoba • junkissa • kissa • kissaten • Masanuki Sunakoma • Noodles • shimbashi • Shinbashi • SNJO • Tokyo • yakisoba)

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