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Respect the salmon – a visit to an off-the-beaten-path foodie destination in Niigata【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 22, 2025 - Tweet
This charming town on the Sea of Japan coast is a great place to dive into a local culinary culture without massive tourist crowds.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • dried salmon • fish • food • Murakami • Niigata • restaurants • salmon • seafood • shiobiki • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Frito-Lay makes corn chips with shaketoba fish flavor just for Japan’s far north【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 31, 2025
What if you took a Dorito, ditched the cheese, and added salmon? You’d get Frito-Lay Japan’s shaketoba chips.
- Japan
- (chips • COK • convenience stores • Doritos • food • Frito-Lay • Frito-Lay Japan • Hokkaido • jerky • salmon • Seicomart • shaketoba • snacks • SNJO • taste test)
7-Eleven Japan now has two tiers of salmon rice balls, but is the new, cheaper one any good?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2024
It’s salmon vs. salmon as we taste-test 7-Eleven’s attempt to stem the tide of rampant combini onigiri price inflations.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • onigiri • rice balls • salmon • SNJO • taste test)
We have Norway to thank for salmon sushi and they’re planning even more for Good Meat Day
- Master Blaster
Nov 27, 2023
Free samples of salmon beef, salmon pork, and salmon chicken coming to Tokyo.
- Europe, Japan
- (Good Meat Day • Norway • salmon • salmon sushi • Samo Meat Shop • Samoniku • Shibuya • sushi • Tokyo)
Japanese museum dedicated to salmon have no live salmon on display this year
- Shannon
Nov 20, 2023
Where there are normally 60, there’s now a whopping zero.
- Japan
- (heatwave • Japanese salmon • Japanese summer • Murakami • nature • Niigata • sake • salmon • summer 2023)
Landlocked Japanese prefecture creates a new kind of fish, so how does it taste as sashimi?
- Casey Baseel
Oct 11, 2023
That might look like salmon, but it’s actually Fujinosuke.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fujinosuke • Otsuki • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi • taste test • travel • Yamanashi)
What it’s like to eat dancing squid in Japan for the first time
- SoraNews24
Oct 10, 2023
Seafood so fresh it “dances”.
- Japan
- (COK • dancing squid • ika • raw fish • restaurants • salmon • sashimi • seafood • Seiji Nakazawa • shinjuku • SNJO • squid • sushi • taste test)
Revolving sushi restaurant’s “Sushi of the World” Festival brings unusual fish to the table
- Dale Roll
Sep 3, 2023
One particular variety really piqued our interest!
- Japan
- (barramundi • raw fish • revolving sushi • salmon • sushi • Sushiro • taste test • tuna)
We try Keiji, an incredibly rare and expensive one-in-ten-thousand salmon sushi 【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2023
With only one of these caught for every 10,000 salmon, this rare fish comes with a super high price tag.
- Japan
- (57 Tokyo • COK • fish • food • Japanese food • keiji • raw fish • review • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi restaurant • taste test • Tokyo Station • unusual food • weird food • Yuuichiro Wasai)
New sashimi clips from Japan let you wear your love for sushi in your hair
- Oona McGee
Jun 21, 2023
A fun way to add fishy flair to any outfit.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • cute • fake food • fashion • fish • food • hair accessories • hair clips • Japanese food • restaurants • salmon • sashimi • sushi • tuna • weird • wtf)
Salmon katsudon? Tokyo restaurant’s specialty is like a deep-fried sashimi lunch【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2023
And if you eat it like we did, there’s essentially a second rice bowl waiting for you too.
Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to the best restaurant in Fukuoka’s Hakata neighborhood!
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2023
The Hanmen Set is our new must-eat in Kyushu’s biggest foodie town.
- Japan
- (COK • fish • food • Fukuoka • hakata • Hey Japanese taxi driver • katsu • katsudon • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi)
We try the bizarre ‘Get Your Finger Chomped By A Sturgeon’ experience at a Hokkaido aquarium
- Katie Pask
Apr 11, 2023
Our reporter gets her finger bitten by a sturgeon yet lives to tell the tale.
- Japan
- (Aquarium • experience • fish • haruka takagi • Hokkaido • museum • salmon • Shibetsu • SNJO • sturgeon • travel • weird)
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.
- Japan, SE Asia
- (burgers • COK • fast food • fish • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • McDonald's • Milo • Mos Burger • review • salmon • SNJO • taste test)
Mr. Sato tries out Kappa Sushi’s salmon salad mountain, a fun dish available for only one week
- Krista Rogers
Oct 3, 2022
Will the conveyor belt sushi chain’s recent playful menu item be as much fun to eat as it is to look at?
- Japan
- (Conveyor belt sushi • food • gourmet • Kappa Sushi • Mr. Sato • salmon • sushi • yancha)
Cases of people getting unwanted crabs skyrocketing in Japan, salmon too
- Master Blaster
Jul 19, 2022
People reminded to just say “no” to crabs at their doorstep.
- Japan
- (business • crabs • food • National Consumer Affairs Center • negative option • salmon • seafood)
Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best aburi salmon sushi?【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Mar 10, 2022
Seared fish go head-to-head at Japan’s top sushi chains.
- Japan
- (aburi • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • fish • food • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • revolving sushi • salmon • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)
Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best salmon sushi?【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Feb 23, 2022
Salmon is one of Japan’s most popular sushi options, but which kaitenzushi restaurant does it best?
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • revolving sushi • salmon • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurants • Sushiro • taste test)
Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best ikura sushi?【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Feb 16, 2022
We go round Japan’s top kaitenzushi chains to find the best place to go for salmon roe.
- Japan
- (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • ikura • Japanese food • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • review • revolving sushi • salmon • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)
We make a super giant sushi using Costco salmon in Japan【SoraKitchen】
- Oona McGee
Nov 26, 2019
Jiro dreams of sushi, but we dream of GIANT sushi.
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