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Japan’s heart-melting, mouthwatering cat-shaped bread can now be ordered online【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 20, 2020
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No need to go to the bakery, because now the kitty bread can come to you!

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• Japan
• (bakeries • bread • cats • cute • food • Neko Neko Shokupan • sweets)

Invisible pie from Japan beautifully baffles the mind【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 19, 2020

Tastes like lemons, looks like nothing else (and also nothing at all).

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• Japan
• (beautiful • clear • cooking • cool • crazy • food • gelatin • sweets)

Magical yokai from Edo Period with powers against sickness makes appearance as cute doughnut

• Kay
  Apr 16, 2020

In these trying times, no one can be blamed for trying to get as much help as possible to keep safe from coronavirus, even if it’s from a mythical yokai.

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• Japan
• (Amabie • doughnuts • Ikumimama • sweets • yokai)

As American as Nara apple pie? We try the U.S.’s best small town pies without leaving Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 15, 2020

Julian Pie Company gives our Japanese sweets fan her first taste of America’s signature dessert.

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• Japan, USA
• (apple pie • COK • food • Julian Pie Company • K. Masami • Nara • pie • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Mister Donut, Kyoto tea maker, and celebrity pastry chef collaboration yields beautiful results

• Kay
  Apr 13, 2020

You can’t go wrong with a team-up between Mister Donut, famous matcha maker Gion Tsujiri, and celebrity pastry chef Toshi Yoroizuka! 

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• Japan
• (COK • Gion Tsujiri • matcha • Mister Donut • sweets • Toshi Yoroizuka)

First ever sales of popular Tokyo Banana cakes outside of Tokyo planned then cancelled due to Coronavirus

• Kay
  Apr 11, 2020

Popular Japanese snack Tokyo Banana was set to venture into unchartered territory by opening shop in Osaka, but unfortunately, it was not to be.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • food • Osaka • souvenirs • sweets • Tokyo • Tokyo Banana)

Rainbow milk gelatin cake from Japan: Beautiful to look at, amazingly easy to make in your kitchen

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2020

If you’ve got a half hour or so, you’ve got enough time to make this stunning dessert.

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• Japan
• (agar • beautiful • cooking • food • gelatin • kanten • sweets)

New Kyoto green tea dessert drinks join McDonald’s Japan menu with ichigo and shiratama assists

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 7, 2020

Matcha McCafé menu tempts us to skip the burgers and double-down on desserts.

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• Japan
• (Asahi Soft Drinks • cafes • drinks • fast food • green tea • matcha • McCafe by Barista • McDonald's • shiratama • sweets • Uji)

20-year-old anime cakes sell online for an eye-popping price

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2020

These Azumanga Daioh sweets are older than many anime fans, and they’re not the only uneaten collectors’ food otaku have hung on to.

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• Japan
• (anime • Azumanga Daioh • crazy • food • funny • gross • manju • otaku • sweets)

An edible DIY Japanese rock garden is what we all need to stay sane while working from home【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 19, 2020

Soothing to look at and delicious to taste, this is our newest home office amenity.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • culture • cute • food • gardens • SNJO • sweets)

Sakura Oreos set to blossom in Japan this spring and fill our hearts/stomachs with happiness

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 19, 2020

Two very Japanese Japan-exclusive flavors added to cookie lineup.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • cookies • food • green tea • matcha • Nabisco • Oreo • sakura • sweets)

Japan’s Eel Pie manufacturing sector hit hard by effects of COVID-19

• Master Blaster
  Mar 16, 2020

Unagi Pie is one of many Japanese cultural treasures struggling under the pandemic.

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• Japan
• (business • cookies • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • eel • food • Hamamatsu • snacks • sweets • travel • Unagi Pie)

Starbucks Japan’s new Butterscotch Frappuccino confuses Japanese foodies, but does it satisfy?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2020

”Is there booze in it?” wonders our taste tester.

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• Japan
• (butterscotch • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • SNJO • Starbucks • sweets • taste test)

We can’t wait for New Horizons, so we pigged out for Japan’s Animal Crossing Choco Egg figures

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2020

Instant gratification for Nintendo fans and sweets lovers.

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• Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Choco Egg • chocolate • COK • cute • nintendo • SNJO • sweets • toys • video games)

How to make so, Japan’s 1,000-year-old dessert recipe that’s back in fashion【SoraKitchen】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 13, 2020

There’s only one ingredient in this super-simple recipe for a favorite food of Kyoto’s imperial court.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • coronavirus • culture • food • history • milk • oronavirus • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets)

Celebrate spring with the Butterscotch Coffee Jelly Frappuccino from Starbucks Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2020

A Tokyo exclusive that can now be enjoyed nationwide.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • limited edition • new • Starbucks • sweets)

Yoghurt Sake is the newest Japanese KitKat we need to get our hands on right now

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2020

There’s a brand new alcoholic KitKat to add to our souvenir wishlist.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • food • Hidetoshi Nakata • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • KitKat • KitKats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • sake • sweets • yoghurt • yogurt)

New limited-edition 3-D printed Japanese sweets designed with weather data now available in Tokyo

• Dale Roll
  Mar 9, 2020

This is a one-of-a-kind sweet that you’ll never be able to get anywhere else, for a limited time only!

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• Japan
• (3-D Printing • art • cool • data • Japanese sweets • Open Food project • Roppongi Hills • sweets • wagashi • weather)

Get your pink sugar fix this spring with new line of sakura doughnuts at Mister Donut

• Kay
  Mar 9, 2020

The cherry trees haven’t blossomed yet, but it’s definitely sakura season at Mister Donut here in Japan.  

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• Japan
• (doughnuts • Mister Donut • sakura • sakura mochi • sweets)

Our reporter tries amemonaka, the traditional sweet from Niigata Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 4, 2020

This traditional confection is pretty to look at, but how’s the taste?

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• Japan
• (amemonaka • Chomeido Ameho • confectionery • mizu-ame • monaka • Niigata • sweets • taste test • traditional)

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