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Japanese restaurant chain causes a stir with foreigners online, but is it any good?

• SoraNews24
  Aug 3, 2023
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We find out if this yakitori chain is really worth visiting. 

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• Japan
• (chicken • COK • foreigners • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese restauramts • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Torikizoku • tourists • yakitori • YouTube)

Japanese convenience store fools us with its 40-percent-more sandwich, but in a good way

• Oona McGee
  Aug 2, 2023

Family Mart is upsizing over a dozen products for a limited time, but they’re being more generous than they let on. 

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• Japan
• (chicken katsu • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • sandwiches • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese curry chain is highly recommended by foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 30, 2023

We find out if this curry joint is worth visiting or if it’s an overhyped tourist joint. 

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• Japan
• (COK • curry • curry rice • Hokkaido • Japanese curry • Japanese food • reddit • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • soup curry • taste test • Tokyo • tourists)

42 thoughts that crossed our mind when visiting the forest that inspired Princess Mononoke

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 25, 2023

Our reporter Seiji hopes that first-time visitors to Yakushima’s Shiratani Unsuikyo will avoid some of the same pitfalls that he ran into.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful • funny • Hayao Miyazaki • Kagoshima • nature • Princess Mononoke • Seiji Nakazawa • Shiratani Unsuikyo • Studio Ghibli • tourism • travel • Yakushima)

Japan’s cat robot waiter now available to build at home with blocks

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2023

Eat your heart out, Lego!

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• Japan
• (Bellabot • cats • COK • cute • funny • Gusto • restaurants • robot waiter • robots • Seiji Nakazawa • shopping • Skylark • SNJO • toys)

English-language Reddit falls in love with curry restaurant– Can it win our taste tester’s heart?

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 22, 2023

Joto Curry comes from Osaka to Tokyo, and then to our stomach.

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• Japan
• (COK • curry • curry rice • food • Joto Curry • reddit • Reddit restaurants • restauranrs • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO)

What does a Burger King Whopper with nothing but 20 slices of cheese taste like?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 21, 2023

We recreate The Real Cheese Burger in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (Burger King • burgers • cheese • cheeseburger • crazy • fast food • food • food hack • hamburgers • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Thailand • weird)

Japanese convenience store’s new chicken katsu sandwich looks deceptive…but is it?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 17, 2023

We investigate another possible case of a “paper tiger” sandwich in Japan.

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• Japan
• (chicken katsu • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • sandwiches • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)

What it’s like to attend an idol concert where they’re singing lyrics that you wrote【Pt. II】

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 14, 2023

Our musician reporter Seiji attends the one-year anniversary concert of idol group Gilty x Gilty, who sang a song that he penned.

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• Japan
• (COK • composer • concert • Idols • lyrics • music • odaiba • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokyo • Zepp Diver City)

Japanese convenience store Lawson unveils a new type of egg sandwich

• Oona McGee
  Jul 13, 2023

Two different sandwiches in one pack, but which one tastes better?

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • egg sandwich • egg sandwiches • eggs • food • konbini • Lawson • plant-based • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • vegan • vegetarian)

Japanese curry chain becomes a hot topic with foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 11, 2023

CoCo Ichibanya isn’t the only curry chain you can visit in Japan.

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• Japan
• (COK • curry rice • cury • Hinoya • Hinoya Curry • Japanese curry • Japanese food • reddit • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tourists)

What happens when you cook beer with potato chips in a rice cooker?

• Oona McGee
  Jul 1, 2023

The lazy drinker’s guide to a good night in.

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• Japan
• (beer • chips • COK • cooking • food • Japanese potato chips • potato chips • recipe • rice • rice cooker • rice cookers • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • weird • wtf)

Usada Pekora VTuber popup shop opens at Peko-chan House, our otaku reporter’s wallet takes a hit

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2023

Pekora meets Peko-chan, and this fan is powerless to resist.

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• Japan
• (caramels • COK • food • Fujiya • milky • Peko-chan • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sweets • Usada Pekora • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Japanese ramen chain becomes a hot topic with foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 23, 2023

The Ramen War offers you the choice between Peace, Freedom, Pistole or a Rusty Blade.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • reddit • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • The Ramen War • Tokyo • tourist sites • tourists)

Japanese convenience store sandwich becomes a hot topic on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 22, 2023

7-Eleven sandwich wins foreign fans so we head out to try it.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • cream • cream sandwich • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • reddit • sandwiches • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)

New York pizza joint in Tokyo has rave reviews with foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 19, 2023

This hidden hangout will transport you to another world. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Japanese food • New York • New York pizza • Nihonbashi • NY pizza • pizza • Pizza Slice • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Which Japanese convenience store has the best salted onigiri rice balls?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 19, 2023

A surprising new-and-improved contender from Lawson might just steal your heart this year.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • Mini Stop • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • rice balls • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test)

Does Tokyo’s King of Tonkatsu live up to its name? We find out 【Taste Test】

• Shannon
  Jun 7, 2023

Can a bento shop really have the best tonkatsu?

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• Japan
• (bento • best • best tonkatsu • delicious • japanese bento • Seiji Nakazawa • Tabelog • Tokyo • Tokyo eats • tonkatsu)

Our street food-skipping reporter learns he’s been doing Japanese festivals wrong his whole life

• Casey Baseel
  May 27, 2023

He’s one of the few people in Japan who made it to adulthood without trying one of the country’s most popular festival foods.

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• Japan
• (COK • festivals • food • Japanese festivals • Japanese street food • Matsuri • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • street food • yakisoba)

Noodle joint in Harajuku becomes a hot topic with foreigners on Reddit, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  May 26, 2023

Let’s find out if this Tokyo restaurant is a foreign tourist trap or a place that’s truly worth visiting.

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• Japan
• (carbonara • COK • cool • Harajuku • Japanese food • Menchirashi • Noodles • reddit • restaurants • review • Seiji Nakazawa • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tourist sites • tourists • udon)

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