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Japan now has drinkable roasted sweet potato, and it’s practically a dessert in a bottle!
One of Japan’s comfort foods will be available as a hot dessert drink straight from a vending machine!
Pocky gets elegantly mature with new flavor designed to be paired with red wine
- Casey Baseel
Oct 10, 2017
Japan’s favorite chocolate pretzel snack is set to add some sweet sophistication to your next occasion to crack open a bottle of red.
Japan’s Disguise Ice Cream is an ingenious way to keep roommates from stealing your desserts
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2017
The best way to protect your tempting treasure is by making it look like something no one would want to eat.
Felissimo’s cat marshmallows get ready for Halloween … and they’re as cute as ever!
- Kay
Oct 4, 2017
What better Halloween treat for cat lovers than a soft, cat-shaped marshmallow filled with chocolate?
- Japan
- (cats • cute • Felissiomo • Nyarshmallow • sweets)
Häagen-Dazs’ new gold matcha ice cream has French heritage and our full attention
- Casey Baseel
Sep 29, 2017
Matcha Opera ice cream promises to make sweets fans ready to sing with joy.
7-Eleven Japan’s frozen hot biscuits are so good, they might make pancakes obsolete!
- Kay
Sep 25, 2017
We try the new frozen hot biscuits from 7-Eleven and end up seriously impressed.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • convenience store food • food • hot biscuit • SNJO • sweets)
Japan creates pancake pudding, simultaneously hits two comfort food bullseyes
- Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2017
Clever container even has its own self-contained maple syrup serving.
Brand-new premium sake Kit Kats are out in Japan, and they’re amazing【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2017
But how well do they pair with their liquid inspiration? SoraNews24’s Meg finds out.
- Japan
- (chocolate • food • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • Meg • sake • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks’ first-ever Japanese hojicha tea Frappuccino is here, but how’s it taste?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2017
After the incredible success of the green tea Frappuccino, Meg tries out the new tea flavor exclusive to Japan.
- Japan
- (drinks • Frappuccino • green tea • hojicha • Meg • Starbucks • sweets • taste test • tea)
Adorable, edible dog buttholes are part of this new take on traditional Japanese sweets
- Casey Baseel
Sep 13, 2017
The Shiba Inu once again shows up where we’d least expect it, makes us smile.
- Japan
- (cooking • cute • dango • dogs • dumplings • funny • mitarashi dango • Shiba Inu • sweets • weird)
New Japanese Sake Kit Kat developed by esteemed brewery and famous soccer player
- Oona McGee
Sep 12, 2017
A high-class Kit Kat said to be a cut above Nestlé’s previous sake-flavoured release.
- Japan
- (chocolate • food • Hidetoshi Nakata • Japanese Kit Kats • Kit Kats • Nestle • Nestle Japan • sake • soccer • sweets • Toyama)
Sailor Moon Cafe 2017 opens this month in Tokyo, Osaka with Luna burgers, Tuxedo Mask black curry
- Casey Baseel
Sep 8, 2017
Latest iteration of anime restaurant also salutes Sailor Uranus and Neptune’s forbidden…smoothie?!?
- Japan
- (anime • cafes • cool • drinks • food • manga • Sailor Moon • sweets • themed restaurants)
Move over, matcha. Starbucks makes its first-ever hojicha roasted green tea Frappuccino
- Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2017
The coffeehouse chain dives deeper into the world of Japanese tea.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • grape • green tea • hojicha • Starbucks • sweets • tea)
Dominique Ansel Bakery Japan now offering Singapore Crab… as an exquisite dessert! 【Pics】
- Kay
Sep 3, 2017
No, that’s not an actual crab — it’s a sweet dessert available for a limited time.
Love your Suica card? Now you can eat it up, with Suica penguin chocolates
- Scott Wilson
Aug 31, 2017
Charge your stomach with some candy after you charge your Suica card.
- Japan
- (chocolate • cute • Suica • Suica Penguin • sweets • Tokyo Station)
A cute robot will make you a perfect ice cream cone for 100 yen in Japan【Video】
- Scott Wilson
Aug 30, 2017
Just watching him make it is worth the price alone!
McDonald’s Japan is bringing back their matcha treats again this year with a new twist
- Meg Murphy
Aug 30, 2017
They’re bringing back some old favorites, plus a new item we have to try!
Beautiful Japanese dessert looks like cube of crystal-blue water, only sold at convenience store
- Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2017
Gorgeous enough for the fanciest restaurant in Tokyo, this is actually available only from one of Japan’s most popular convenience store chains.
Häagen-Dazs Japan unveils its next unusual ice cream flavour: orange sweet potato
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2017
This is no ordinary sweet potato offering.
- Japan
- (desserts • Häagen-Dazs • ice cream • limited edition • sweets)
We tried a colossal shaved iced dessert at Omotesando, got an equally massive brain freeze
- Koh Ruide
Aug 20, 2017
Fancy an ice-cold dessert as big as a watermelon?
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