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Dragon Quest slime donuts draw near in Tokyo!

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 1, 2025
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Our stomachs are commanding us to eat them.

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• Japan
• (cute • donuts • Dragon Quest • food • Luida’s Bar • restaurants • slime • Square Enix • sweets • themed restaurants)

Matcha Ofukumochi: One of Japan’s most deliciously direct desserts【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 26, 2025

What you see is what you get, and exactly what we want, with this regional treat.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • green tea • green tea sweets • Ise • matcha • matcha sweets • mochi • SNJO • sweets)

Nana’s Green Tea releases unique sakura treats for cherry blossom season in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2025

Anyone up for a salty sakura lassi?

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• Japan
• (cafes • cake • cherry blossoms • COK • drinks • food • green tea • lassi • matcha • Nana's Green Tea • parfait • parfaits • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets • yoghurt • yogurt)

Family Mart unleashes sweet cats in Japan for Cat Day, but do they taste as good as they look?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025

New collection brings the cute to this Japanese convenience store chain for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (animals • Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Sanrio Pompompurin purin custard pudding sweets sound doubly delicious, look like pooch bottoms

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2025

There’s no better Sanrio star for this job than the golden retriever who’s named after custard.

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• Japan
• (custard • custard pudding • cute • food • pastel • Pompompurin • pudding • purin • Sanrio • sweets • weird)

Japanese cafe serves up fruit sandwiches like nowhere else

• Oona McGee
  Feb 20, 2025

There’s a reason these are some of the best sandwiches you’ll find in Japan.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cakes • dessert sandwiches • food • fruit • fruit sandwiches • Japanese food • japanese fruit • Japanese sandwiches • Mariko Ohanabatake • Nagasaki • review • sandwiches • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Everyday Japanese cafe chain’s seasonal sakura sweets look amazing from every angle…except one

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2025

You’ll want to snap your photos before you start eating one of this chain’s tempting new cherry blossom treats.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cake • cherry blossoms • COK • Cozy Corner • food • Mont Blanc • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)

Pikachu and extra-cute Pokémon look extra delicious as Japan’s new Poké Peace cakes【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2025

I choose you, cake Pikachu! And you too, cake Piplup!

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• Japan
• (anime • cake • Cozy Corner • cute • food • manga • Pikachu • Poké Peace • Pokemon • sweets • video games)

Sakura parfait contains six layers of sweets to get us in the mood for cherry blossom season

• Oona McGee
  Feb 17, 2025

Like eating a Japanese cherry blossom tree in full bloom.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cherry blossoms • COK • drinks • food • parfait • parfaits • restaurants • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)

Japanese manga serves up a McDonald’s hack for making epic pancakes

• SoraNews24
  Feb 16, 2025

Making hotcakes even more delicious.

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• Japan
• (art • COK • desserts • food • food hack • food hacks • hack • hotcakes • manga • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pancakes • recipes • SNJO • sweets)

Chocolate mochi slices appear in Japan, make our mouths water and our kitchen smell amazing

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2025

Taste-testing our newest find at Japan’s specialty grocer that always lures us in with free coffee.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • food • KALDI • kirimochi • mochi • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Tokyo’s Sakeice O’Choco alcoholic hot chocolate both does and doesn’t contain “sake”

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2025

A lot of linguistics, and a lot of flavor, goes into each and every cup of this dessert drink (and there’s room for debate about the cup too).

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• Japan
• (alcohol • chocolate • drinks • hot chocolate • Japanese language • linguistics • sake • Sakeice • shochu • sweets)

Are Japan’s Strawberry Shortcake instant noodles as gross as they say?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2025

Yakisoba meets cake in this very weird Japan-exclusive product.

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • crazy • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • review • shortcake • SNJO • strawberries • strawberry shortcake • sweets • taste test • weird • yakisoba)

Godiva Japan working pink magic with new Sakura Chocolixirs

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 13, 2025

Two different cherry blossom chocolate dessert drinks mean we’ve got a big, and sweet, decision to make.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cherry blossoms • chocolate • Chocolixir • drinks • Godiva • Godiva Japan • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)

Sakura scent coffee and sweets appear at Japan’s low-key, highly tasty coffeehouse chain

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2025

Doutor is getting noticed with a very tempting lineup of cherry blossom coffee, cakes, and more.

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• Japan
• (cafes • cherry blossoms • coffee • COK • drinks • food • restaurants • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)

Black Thunder grab event in Tokyo gets you a fistful of chocolate bars for less than 30 cents

• Oona McGee
  Feb 11, 2025

How many of these iconic Japanese chocolates can we grab for 40 yen?

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • candy • chocolate • chocolates • cool • events • food • Harajuku • marketing • Shibuya • snacks • sweets • taste test • Tokyo • Yuraku Confectionery)

Black Thunder Tempura from Japanese udon chain is not a good partner for noodles

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2025

Famous chocolate bar gets fried up for Valentine’s Day, but it’s not exactly as great as they say.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • Black Thunder Tempura • chocolate • COK • food • fried chocolate • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • review • sanuki udon • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tempura • udon • valentine's chocolate • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)

Sakura season begins at Lotteria Japan with new mochi pie and parfait shake

• Oona McGee
  Feb 8, 2025

Sweet treats bring hanami cherry blossom-viewing to the menu for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom • cherry blossom treats • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2025 • chocolate • drinks • hanami • Lotteria • milkshake • pie • sakura • sakura 2025 • sakura drinks • sakura Frappuccino • sweets)

Ruru Cafe Shibuya wows customers by serving coffee and sweets on unique water tables

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2025

A new Tokyo hotspot, where your meal looks like it’s floating on water.

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• Japan
• (cafes • COK • cool • cool japan • design • drinks • dry landscape • Japanese rock garden • Japanese sweets • Kare Sansui • latte • Nure Sansui • review • Ruru • Ruru Shibuya • Shibuya • Shibuya Sakura Stage • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel • Zen • zen garden)

Deep-fried “Let’s just be friends” chocolate tempura appears in Japan for Valentine’s Day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2025

Black Thunder joins forces with popular noodle restaurant chain for a treat that keeps the chocolate brand’s image of cheap and delicious.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • chocolate • crazy • food • fried food • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • sweets • tempura • udon • Valentine's Day)

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