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Potato-Chip-Flavored Dressing coming to stores in Japan
- Master Blaster
Jul 7, 2026 - Tweet
Dressed to impress.
- Japan
- (Calbee • dressing • food • potato chips • Riken Vitamin • salad • seaweed • vegetables)
Seaweed bread is one of the most unusual baked goods in all of Japan
- Oona McGee
May 5, 2026
A unique way to eat your greens in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (bakeries • bread • breads • food • mekabu • seaweed • SNJO • Takase Yogashi • Tokyo • weird food)
Donuts with seaweed and soy sauce — Is Japan’s Mister Donut idea too Japanese for its own good?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 2, 2025
Traditional mochi treatment puts a spin on the Pon de Ring, but is it an unrecoverable tailspin?
- Japan
- (crazy • donuts • food • isobemaki • Mister Donut • mochi • seaweed • SNJO • soy sauce • sweets • taste test • weird)
Seaweed lovers can rejoice at this bento with almost nothing but ultra-premium nori
- Krista Rogers
Jul 5, 2023
Mr. Sato tries the ultimate in luxurious noriben and equates it to a microcosm of the universe.
- Japan
- (bento • deluxe • Mr. Sato • Nihonbashi • nori • noriben • premium • seaweed • Tokyo • Yamamotoyama)
Cat shaped seaweed can turn even the most unappetising meals into adorable works of art
- Katie Pask
Feb 27, 2023
Maximise how cute your meal looks with these time-saving seaweed sheets!
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • cats • COK • cooking • cute • food • japanese bento • nori • Nori Art • seaweed • SNJO)
Seaweed in your green tea Frappuccino? Starbucks Japan has a bold idea for its New Year’s drink
- Casey Baseel
Dec 20, 2022
Starbucks goes old school with the semi-secret ingredient in its newest matcha Frappuccino.
- Japan
- (chai • drinks • Frappuccinos • genmaicha • green tea • hoicha • Japanese Frappuccinos • kombu • matcha • seaweed • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)
We read and then eat a rare edition of the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper made out of kelp
- Master Blaster
Dec 4, 2022
Extra! Extra! Eat all about it!
- Japan
- (food • Hokkaido • Hokkaido Kombu Shimbun • Hokkaido Shimbun • kelp • kombu • newspaper • seaweed)
“It’s Rice! Toast” recipe from Japan gives us an edible paradox for breakfast【Recipe, taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 27, 2022
The key ingredient in “girl’s hair-flavored fried chicken” returns in yet another surprising place.
- Japan
- (bread • cooking • Gohan Desu Yo • recipe • rice • seaweed • SNJO • taste test • toast • tsukudani • weird)
Roasted nori seaweed cake might be a dessert even more Japanese than matcha sweets【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2021
Tea company that’s been in business for more than 300 years takes Japanese sweets to a pitch-black frontier.
- Japan
- (cake • COK • food • nori • seaweed • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea • weird • Yamamotoyama)
Cups made of kelp from Hokkaido add a touch of umami to whatever you put inside
- Master Blaster
May 23, 2021
Kelp yourself to an extra flavorful cup of sake or soup.
- Japan
- (COK • drinkware • Hokkaido • K. Masami • kelp • kombu • miso soup • sake • seaweed • SNJO • umami • weird)
We make nori seaweed mayo toast, just like Mama Hatori used to make!【SoraKitchen】
- Casey Baseel
May 25, 2020
An ultra-easy bit of home cooking makes our reporter nostalgic for something he’s never eaten before.
Picking seaweed up off the beach and taking it home is illegal in most of Japan, and here’s why
- Katy Kelly
Oct 25, 2019
What’s the harm in pinching a tiny bit of seaweed? Quite a lot, as our Japanese-language reporter learned.
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- Japan
- (COK • conservation • crime • environment • fish • fishermen • fishing • nature • Ocean • seafood • seaweed • SNJO • society • Tottori)
The world’s most famous sushi restaurant sells seaweed too, so we made nori rice balls with it
- Casey Baseel
Jun 19, 2019
Mr. Sato whips up a batch of onigiri with a little help from Sukibayashi Jiro.
- Japan
- (COK • cooking • food • Jiro Dreams of Sushi • Mr. Sato • nori • onigiri • rice balls • seaweed • SNOJ • Sukibayashi Jiro • sushi)
We tried a special savory green tea and rice-flavored cream puff available for only one day
- Koh Ruide
May 20, 2019
This combination of traditional Japanese snack and French pastry has got to be one of the oddest we have seen.
- Japan
- (Beard Papa • collaboration • cream • cream puff • green tea • ochazuke • P.K. Sanjun • seaweed • SNJO)
Remember: Japanese kombucha is nothing like American kombucha
- Casey Baseel
Feb 5, 2019
It’s a tale of two kombuchas as Mr. Sato tries a canned kombucha imported from the U.S. that startles his taste buds and blows his mind.
- Japan
- (drinks • funny • Japanese language • kombu • kombucha • linguisitcs • seaweed • SNOJ • tea)
Japanese department store wishes you a good year ahead with 150 types of delicious ehomaki
- Koh Ruide
Jan 14, 2019
Welcome in spring with these limited-edition, mouthwatering sushi rolls.
- Japan
- (COK • Daimaru Department Store • delicious • Ehomaki • limited • seaweed • setsubun • sushi roll)
This is what Tokyo’s ultra-premium 12,960-yen (US$117) seaweed looks like
- Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2018
SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato continues to live the high life (sort of) as he pairs the most expensive nori he could find with the cheapest rice available.
Norigami Tacos combines sushi and tacos into one crunchy culinary coupling【Pics】
- Scott Wilson
Feb 18, 2017
Do you feel like Japanese or Mexican tonight? Let’s do both!
- USA
- (California • food • Los Angeles • nori • seaweed • sushi • tacos)
Putting Japanese soy sauce on ice cream: Just crazy enough to work? 【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 14, 2016
If green tea, Japan’s favorite traditional drink, can make desserts better, why not its most important seasoning, too…right? Right?!?
Homemade seaweed & milk face packs—the secret to healthier skin?【Video】
- Jamie Koide
Mar 16, 2016
Whip up a homemade face pack with this Korean recipe that only requires two common ingredients you’ll find in many Asian kitchens: seaweed and milk.
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