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How to take your home ramen to the next level by making your own chashu pork in a frying pan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 8, 2026 - Tweet
If you’ve got a frying pan and some aluminum foil, this kurukuru chashu recipe is ready to revolutionize your home cooking.
Japanese viewers unsure what to make of comedian’s shirtless apology to Turkish people
- Master Blaster
Sep 18, 2025
Be careful when releasing potato chips, or this could happen to you too.
- Japan
- (apology • comedians • culture • Egashira 2:50 • food • kebab • pork • potato chips • religion • turkey • Turkiye • video)
Musings on Okinawa’s canned enthusiasm for all things Spam
- Krista Rogers
May 20, 2025
Net users reflect on the island prefecture’s status as a top world consumer of Spam.
Venture into some of Japan’s tastiest theme parks this Golden Week
- Elliot Hale
Apr 28, 2025
These four food parks offer fun, flavor, and unforgettable experiences.
- Japan
- (Chiba • COK • cream cornet • food • food theme park • Golden Week • Gunma • Hattendo • Hattendo Cafelie Kisarazu • Hidaka • Hojo • Hokuei • Kanra • Kisarazu • konnyaku • Konnyaku Park • pork • Pork Festival • Saiboku • Saitama • theme park • Tokoton Matsuri • Tottori • wiener • wieners)
“Get fat now!” commands Tokyo restaurant that gives you the means to do just that
- Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2025
Shibuya ramen restaurant’s new dish contains copious calories but no noodles.
- Japan
- (big food • char siu • chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • pork • ramen • restaurants • Shibuya • SNJO • Yaro Ramen • Yarou Ramen)
What’s the deal with akebi, the perfectly purple, alien-like fruit that’s in season now in Japan?
- Krista Rogers
Oct 22, 2024
We make a simple dish with the fruit that would make Crayola proud by cooking it with…pork?!
- Japan
- (akebi • bitter • chocolate vine • COK • cooking • fall • fruit • Ikuna Kamezawa • pork • purple • seasonal • SNJO • unusual)
Has Osaka Ohsho’s “romance-filled” omuraisu morphed into a monster in its new form?
- Krista Rogers
Sep 18, 2024
The casual gyoza and Japanese-Chinese food specialty chain releases its second take on omuraisu and we can confirm that it’s nothing like the first.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • garlic • meat • Ohsho • omuraisu • Osaka Ohsho • pork • Restaurant • rice omelet • SNJO)
Making minudaru, Okinawa’s super simple jet-black pork【SoraKitchen】
- Krista Rogers
Aug 21, 2024
Its mysterious outer coating is not burned but simply incorporates one special ingredient.
- Japan
- (COK • cooking • cool • food • minudaru • Okinawa • Okinawan food • pork • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen • Udonko)
Does thin-strip beef specialist Yoshinoya know what it’s doing with thick-cut pork?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2024
Gyudon king now offering kakuni, so Mr. Sato springs into action.
- Japan
- (COK • food • kakuni • Mr. Sato • pork • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)
“THIS is Pork!” 7-Eleven’s pre-made chashu pork is here to elevate your instant ramen【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 24, 2024
Solving the big problem with Japan’s awesome convenience store ramen selection.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • chashu • COK • convenience stores • food • Instant Ramen • Noodles • pork • Premium Seven • ramen • SNJO • taste test)
Katsudon vs. tonkatsu vs. katsu sandwich – What’s the best way to eat pork cutlet in Japan?
- Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2024
Three great ways to enjoy katsu, but when you have to choose one, what’s your pick?
- Japan
- (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • pork • pork cutlet • SNO • tonkatsu • tonkatsu sandwiches)
Cappuccino Ramen becomes super popular in Japan, but is it worth the hype?
- Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2024
An “only in Japan” type of meal is going viral on social media.
- Japan
- (chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • Menya Musashi • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tsukemen • weird)
Japan’s craziest ramen? Famous noodle chain in Tokyo takes things to extreme levels
- Oona McGee
Mar 8, 2024
You won’t find ramen like this anywhere else.
- Japan
- (chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • Menya Musashi • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tsukemen • weird)
Starbucks releases a Braised Pork Latte in China, so we see if we can recreate it in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 27, 2024
Is coffee and pork really as good as they say?
- Japan
- (braised pork • braised pork latte • coffee • kakuni • pork • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test • weird)
This is the one and only kakuni pork bowl restaurant in Tokyo, and it’s amazing
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2023
Located in a quiet part of a student neighborhood, this is where our kakuni dreams came true.
- Japan
- (COK • donburi • food • kakuni • pork • restaurants • rice bowls • SNJO • Takadanobaba)
Japan’s favorite pork cutlet sandwich maker also has awesome katsudon restaurant in Tokyo Station
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2023
Maisen Shokudo will make sure you get on the train with a full and happy stomach.
- Japan
- (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • Maisen • pork • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • stations • Tokyo Station • trains • travel)
Japanese convenience store food takes a walk on the weird side with…cup pork?
- Oona McGee
Aug 18, 2023
New range of Japanese dishes, ready in less time than it takes to make instant ramen!
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • COK • combini • convenience store • Family mart • food • instant food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • Japanese sweets • konbini • Lawson • Masanuki Sunakoma • pork • SNJO • taste test)
Tomahawk Tonkatsu at Japanese restaurant becomes a hot topic online
- Oona McGee
Jul 27, 2023
A very unusual type of tonkatsu hidden in the backstreets of Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • katsu • Ningyocho • P.K. Sanjun • pork • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo restaurant • tonkatsu • Tonkatsu Fujiki)
Restaurant-quality frozen ramen that doesn’t need water added to go on sale 20 February
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2023
Water isn’t added, but the taste of Kitakata Ramen Bannai is.
- Japan
- (frozen ramen • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Kinrei • Kitakata Ramen Bannai • Omizunai • pork • ramen)
Does this Dormy Inn near Mt. Fuji offer the best business hotel breakfast in all of Japan?
- Krista Rogers
Jan 25, 2023
In true Dormy Inn style, the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet features regional specialties including pork dishes and mikuriya soba.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • breakfast • COK • Dormy Inn • Gotemba • hot spring • hotel • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mt. Fuji • onsen • pork • Shizuoka Prefecture • SNJO • travel)
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