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Japan’s super-cheap corn snacks apologize for second-ever price increase in 45 years
- Casey Baseel
Sep 26, 2024 - Tweet
Umaibo continues its absolutely tiny, proportionally huge price increases of the 2020s.
7-Eleven Japan now sells fresh-fried doughnuts, but are they any good?【Taste test】
- Oona McGee
Sep 8, 2024
A new release set to shake up the Japanese convenience store food scene.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • donuts • doughnuts • food • Go Hatori • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • new • snacks • SNJO • taste test • treats)
The best sweet souvenirs at Tokyo Okashi Land inside Tokyo Station
- Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2024
Get a taste for five of Japan’s most popular snacks, all for less than US$17.
- Japan
- (COK • Happy Turn • japanese snacks • Japanese sweets • recommendations • review • shops • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Okashi Land • Tokyo Station • travel)
Edamame potato chips appear in Japan, made with the king of edamame, dadachamame
- Casey Baseel
Jul 29, 2024
Calbee adds edamame royalty to its chips for extra summertime appeal.
- Japan
- (Calbee • chips • dadachamame • edamame • food • Kataage Potato • potato chips • snacks)
How to order snacks on a Shinkansen bullet train in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 26, 2024
With cart sales no longer available, there’s a new way to enjoy food, drinks and ice cream on board.
- Japan
- (bullet train • COK • food • ice cream • japanese snacks • Japanese trains • shinkansen • snacks • SNJO • sweets • Tokaido Shinkansen • tourism • train • train travel • trains • travel)
Eating “adults-only” potato chips sends over a dozen Tokyo high schoolers to the hospital
- Casey Baseel
Jul 17, 2024
“These chips are for adults only” sounds like a joke, but it turns out it’s a legitimate warning.
Japan’s new KFC-flavor potato chips don’t taste like KFC, but they do taste like chicken【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2024
Flavor reminds our KFC fundamentalist taste tester of a different chicken restaurant icon than Colonel Sanders.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • potato chips • Sekai no Yama-chan • snacks • SNJO • taste test)
KFC-flavor potato chips returning to Japan after a nearly decade-long absence
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2024
We’ve missed you, Kentucky Fried chips.
- Japan
- (Calbee • chips • COK • food • Kentucky Friend Chicken • KFC • KFC Japan • potato chips • snacks)
Family Mart convenience stores add “See-Through Pudding?” to their summer lineup【Taste test】
- Master Blaster
Jul 2, 2024
Now I’ve seen through it all.
- Japan
- (Family mart • jelly • pudding • purin • see-through • snacks • summer • Tomei Purin?)
Beyond Goldfish crackers – Japan getting 75 different Pokémon crackers this summer!
- Casey Baseel
Jun 12, 2024
Ottotto crackers team up with Pokémon and take an exclusivity cue from the franchise’s video games.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • cute • food • Morinaga • Ottotto • Pikachu • Pokemon • snacks • video games)
Family Mart holds its first-ever Mint Chocolate Fair with 9 intriguing types of snacks
- Master Blaster
May 25, 2024
Great balls of chocolate-covered mint gummy!
- Japan
- (baked goods • choco mint • Choco Mint Fair • Family mart • food • Garigari-kun • ice cream • mint chocolate • snacks)
Kyushu-exclusive Black Mont Blanc goes nationwide in a “Special” way
- Master Blaster
Apr 16, 2024
Yes, Mariko, there is a Special Black Mont Blanc.
- Japan
- (Black Mont Blanc • ice candy • ice cream • Kyushu • Lawson • regional foods • snacks • Special Black Mont Blanc)
Japan’s new “painful sadness” snacks are a deliciously mysterious linguistics lesson【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 3, 2024
Happy Turn swerves into a new form, Tsuratan.
- Japan
- (april fools • COK • food • funny • Happy Turn • Japanese language • linguistics • rice crackers • senbei • snacks • SNJO • spicy • taste test • weird)
This lucky box stuffed with Tokyo souvenirs is sold online, but you still have to fight for it!
- Dale Roll
Jan 4, 2024
Whether you live in Tokyo or not, this bargain box of Tokyo sweets is well worth fighting for!
- Japan
- (chocolate • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2024 • Lucky Bags • snacks • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo)
Which Japanese tube chip brand is the least disappointing upon opening? We measure to find out
- Dale Roll
Dec 9, 2023
Here at SoraNews24, we cover only the most important of topics!
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • chips • disappointment • potato chips • Pringles • snacks • SNJO)
Aerosmith taiyaki now available in Japan for a limited time
- SoraNews24
Nov 10, 2023
American band who fell in love with taiyaki after visiting Japan finally gets the release they’ve truly been waiting for.
- Japan
- (Aerosmith • food • marketing • music • snacks • Steven Tyler • sweets • taiyaki • traditional Japanese sweets • traditional sweets)
Crazy big Japanese street food at Tokyo Station causes a stir with foreigners online
- Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2023
The only place in Japan where you can enjoy this super huge snack.
- Japan
- (Calbee • Calbee Plus • chips • COK • food • Jagarico • Japanese potato chips • potato chips cool • Seiji Nakazawa • snacks • SNJO • souvenirs • Tokyo Okashi Land • Tokyo Station • videos)
Japanese popcorn comes with collectible cards of women who own traditional ryokan inns【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 7, 2023
Okami Cards hope to encourage people to put Ibaraki Prefecture on their itinerary.
- Japan
- (collectible cards • food • Frito-Lay • Ibaraki • inns • Mike popcorn • Okami • popcorn • ryokan • snacks • trading cards • travel)
We tried 12 different gummy candies from a Japanese supermarket and found the most delicious one
- Dale Roll
Oct 4, 2023
There’s stiff (but sometimes chewy) competition for gummies out there, but one came out on top in this taste test.
- Japan
- (candy • COK • comparison • food • gummies • gummy candy • Haribo • Mr. Sato • snacks • sweets • taste test)
Mr. Sato presents the salad rice cracker showdown (no salads involved)【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2023
Seven scrumptious salad senbei, one wonderful winner.
- Japan
- (COK • food • rice crackers • salad senbei • senbei • snacks • SNJO • taste test)
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