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What’s the difference between “The World’s Most Delicious” and “Tastiest” Coffee Jellies?
A coffee shop’s confusing menu items both baffle and delight us.
- Japan
- (cafe • coffee • coffee jelly • coffee shop • dessert • Geisha Coffee • Marunouchi • Masanuki Sunakoma • Saza • sweets • Tokyo Station)
Krispy Kreme’s new sakura donut is available at only one place in all of Japan
- Casey Baseel
Mar 4, 2023
Branch also adds incredibly long-named, immensely delicious-looking matcha donut made with regional green tea to its menu.
- Japan
- (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • COK • donuts • food • green tea • gyuhi • Krispy Kreme • matcha • mochi • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)
Japan’s favorite popsicle is changing the way it tastes and feels for first time in over 20 years
- Casey Baseel
Mar 3, 2023
Garigari-kun apparently believes you can improve on perfection.
- Japan
- (Akagi Nyugyo • COK • food • Gari-Gari Kun • Garigari-kun • ice cream • popsicles • shaved ice • soda flavor • sweets)
Easter Egg desserts sold in Tokyo’s Joel Robuchon stores are almost too cute to eat
- Katie Pask
Mar 3, 2023
Celebrate the season with these ‘eggcellent’ Easter treats.
- Japan
- (cute • Easter • easter eggs • food • Joel Robuchon • sweets • Tokyo)
Eating all the cat treats at Japanese convenience store Family Mart
- Oona McGee
Feb 28, 2023
This cute collection covers everything from paw to tail.
- Japan
- (bread • cakes • Cat Day • Cat Day 2023 • cats • COK • conbini • convenience stores • cookies • cooking • cute • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • pets • SNJO • sweets • taste test • treats)
Starbucks Sakura and Matcha donut is a perfect Japanese springtime sweet【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2023
Two of Japan’s best dessert flavors combine in a springtime ring of deliciousness.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • COK • donuts • green tea • matcha • sakura • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)
New sakura doughnuts from Mister Donut Japan take us on a journey from bud to beyond full bloom
- Oona McGee
Feb 26, 2023
A box of doughnuts like no other.
- Japan
- (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • new • review • sakura • sakura 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Japan’s all-you-can-stuff cookie bag bakery deal has been stopped, bird flu to blame
- Casey Baseel
Feb 25, 2023
One of Japan’s best deals for sweets fans has been put on indefinite hiatus.
- Japan
- (Aunt Stella's • cafes • COK • cookies • food • restaurants • sweets)
Japanese candy company make tearful, heartfelt apology for raising their prices… by US$0.07
- Katie Pask
Feb 25, 2023
Puchi Puchi Uranai will raise their prices by an extra ten whole yen.
- Japan
- (candy • Chirin • COK • food • Japanese candy • Japanese sweets • price increase • puchi puchi uranai • sweets)
Starbucks Japan adding crunchy blooming sakura topping option to all Frappuccinos this spring
- Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2023
Sakura Saku Saku Matcha Frappuccino is the one you’ll see on the menu, but the option is there for any and all of them.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • drinks • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • matcha • sakura • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets)
Hagi no Tsuki, how we love thee: Why you should get your hands on this Tohoku treat ASAP
- Krista Rogers
Feb 23, 2023
Our reporter samples Sendai’s most popular food souvenir for the first time and is overcome by emotion.
- Japan
- (castella • COK • custard • food • Hagi no Tsuki • Kasho Sanzen • omiyage • Sendai • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tohoku)
East Japan’s best food truck? Eating crepes from the winner of the Kanto Kitchen Car Championship
- SoraNews24
Feb 23, 2023
Taste-testing the white crepes of the Tokyo area’s Shironohachi.
- Japan
- (COK • crepes • food • food trucks • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Seven places that aren’t Starbucks where you can get delicious sakura cherry blossom drinks in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Feb 23, 2023
Sure, those cherry blossom Frappuccinos are great, but they’re not the only sakura sips waiting for you in Japan.
- Japan
- (cafes • cherry blossoms • drinks • restaurants • sakura • sakura sweets • sweets)
You can now buy Japan’s popular Yoku Moku Cigare cookies from a vending machine
- Katie Pask
Feb 21, 2023
Popular butter cookies can now be found in a vending machine, so we try some!
- Japan
- (Cigare • COK • cookies • food • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • vending machines • YOKU MOKU)
New sakura doughnuts resemble different stages of the cherry blossoms in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2023
Taste the progression of the sakura, from early buds to past full bloom.
- Japan
- (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • new • sakura • sakura 2023 • sweets)
Mazda goes crazy in the sweetest way by making an insanely detailed chocolate Miata【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 16, 2023
Celebrating Valentine’s Day with a car the world has fallen in love with.
- Japan
- (cars • chocolate • cool • crazy • food • Mazda • Miata • MX-5 • Roadster • sweets • Valentine's Day)
Putting popcorn in your brownies is a great way to liven them up while skipping the nuts【Recipe】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 15, 2023
Japan’s most popular popcorn brand gives us a great dessert that only takes a few minutes in the microwave to make.
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- Japan
- (brownies • chocolate • COK • cooking • food • Mike popcorn • popcorn • recipe • SNJO • sweets)
Mister Donut turns one of its most popular doughnuts into an ice cream for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Feb 13, 2023
Iconic Japanese doughnut gets the ice cold treatment.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • conbini • conveniece stores • donuts • doughnuts • food • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Mister Donut • new • sweets • taste test)
Gacha gourmet — can we survive only eating meals that we pull a capsule toy replica version of?
- Katie Pask
Feb 13, 2023
May the odds (of getting a good gacha toy) be ever in your favour.
- Japan
- (capsule machines • capsule toy • challenge • fast food • food • gacha • Gacha Gacha no Mori • gachapon • Saya Togashi • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo)
Giri? Tomo? Gyaku? A guide to Japan’s many different kinds of Valentine’s Day chocolate
- Casey Baseel
Feb 12, 2023
There’s more to Valentine’s chocolate in Japan than the infamous “obligation” type.
- Japan
- (chocolate • COK • giri choco • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • obligation chocolate • SNO • society • sweets • Valentine's • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)
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First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
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New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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