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We visit the world’s largest Starbucks: The Starbucks Reserve Roastery Shanghai【Pictures & Video】
This Starbucks is enormous in both size and selection!
- China
- (cafe • China • coffee • Shangai • Starbucks • Starbucks China • Starbucks Reserve Roastery)
Meg tries out Starbucks Japan’s newest treat: the White Brew Coffee and Macadamia Frappuccino
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2018
White coffee dessert drink appears in the land of green tea, and Meg finds there’s more than just the color to love.
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Meg • Meg Eats Stuff • SNOJ • Starbucks • sweets • taste test)
This beautiful Kyoto dry landscape garden…is part of a Starbucks?!?【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 14, 2018
The coffeehouse carries on Japanese traditions in Uji, the country’s most famous tea-growing town.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cafes • coffee • COK • gardens • Kyoto • rock garden • SNOJ • Starbucks • stone garden • travel • Uji)
Starbucks Japan kicks off New Starbucks Coffee Journey with unique “white coffee” drinks
- Kay
Mar 9, 2018
This spring, Starbucks Japan invites you to enjoy a unique white coffee experience!
Starbucks opens up new coffeehouse in traditional Japanese building near Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Mar 5, 2018
Now you can enjoy your coffee with a side of Edo-style charm in this old castle town.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • coffeehouse • Kawagoe • kura • Saitama • sightseeing • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tourism • tradition • travel)
Starbucks Korea’s Year of the Dog puppy cupcakes look adorable, get stabbed in the face【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 20, 2018
Videos show lunar New Year treats require a forceful stabbing that breaks hearts while making mouths water.
- Korea
- (Chinese New Year • cupcakes • Lunar New Year • Starbucks • sweets • video • Year of the Dog)
Starbucks Japan’s new sakura donuts look so good it’s like cherry blossom season is already here
- Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2018
Sakura sweets lineup also includes mouth-watering cherry blossom cake with two sakura-sourced ingredients.
We try the new sakura Frappuccino from Starbucks Japan【SoraNews24 Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Feb 17, 2018
The new limited-edition beverage takes its inspiration from a traditional Japanese springtime confection.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • drinks • Frappuccino • limited edition • Meg • pink • sakura • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)
Grab a clear sparkling drink from Starbucks at a convenience store in Japan and get refreshed!
- Kay
Feb 16, 2018
A bottled Starbucks drink with a bit of fizz is coming out in Japan, and you’ll be able to grab one at a convenience store!
- Japan
- (drinks • soda • sparkling drink • sparkling water • Starbucks • Suntory)
Starbucks sakura Frappuccino and hot drinks unveiled for 2018 cherry blossom season in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 8, 2018
For the first time ever, Starbucks even has a cherry blossom tea in their sakura collection.
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Starbucks sakura milk solves the Starbucks dilemma travelers face in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Feb 8, 2018
New dessert beverage lets you enjoy a uniquely Japanese taste without having to sit around in the same chain you have back home.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • convenience stores • drinks • sakura • Starbucks • sweets)
Starbucks now has a Lemon Zest Macchiato, limited for sale at only nine locations in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 25, 2018
We try the new citrus-infused coffee that comes served in a set with chocolates and warm lemon milk.
- Japan
- (cafes • coffee • lemon • Lemon Zest Macchiato • limited edition • macchiato • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Starbucks Japan’s new Chocoholic Frappuccino gets what Japanese Valentine’s Day is really about
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2018
Chocoholic Cocoa and stylish Valentine’s drinkware are also ready to receive your love.
- Japan
- (chocolate • cocoa • coffee • COK • drinkware • Frappuccinos • Starbucks • Valentine's Day)
Starbucks opens its second Roastery, the biggest Starbucks coffee shop yet, in Shanghai
- Richard Simmonds
Jan 18, 2018
Shanghai, already home to more than 600 Starbucks, is now only the second place to get an extra-special Starbucks Reserve Roastery.
We try the heavenly Starbucks pink latte in Japan 【Taste Test】
- Oona McGee
Jan 11, 2018
It looks like a sakura drink, but it gets its colour from a different blend of ingredients.
【Lucky Bag Roundup 2018】Starbucks Japan lucky bag only available to lottery winners this year
- Oona McGee
Jan 2, 2018
Take a look inside one of Japan’s most exclusive fukubukuro.
- Japan
- (coffee • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2018 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2018 • Lucky Bags • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)
Here’s your handy Winter 2017 Japanese Frappuccino reference chart to help you order at Starbucks
- Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2017
Coming to Japan on winter vacation? Don’t forget your passport, or your local Frappuccino guide.
Starbucks’ new matcha cheese Frappuccino is here, but can this crazy combo work?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2017
Frappuccino connoisseur Meg muses on mascarpone green tea beverage.
- Japan
- (cheese • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • green tea • matcha • Meg • SNOJ • Starbucks • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks promises “new world of matcha” with green tea cheese Frappuccino, citrus green tea
- Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2017
Two new beverages are ready to take green tea sweets to unexplored areas of your palate.
Merry matcha! Starbucks Japan adds two subtly changed, deliciously different green tea beverages
- Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2017
Christmas is a time for romance in Japan, and we’ve fallen in love with the taste, and even the texture, of these two new Starbucks treats.
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