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New Japanese convenience store rice balls taste like instant noodles [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
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Nissin’s Donbei comes to Family Mart in a new form.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience store food • convenience stores • Donbei • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • kitsune udon • noodles.instant noodles • onigiti • rice balls • SNJO • taste test • tofu • udon)
Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets
- Oona McGee
Sep 2, 2026
This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction.
- Japan
- (desserts • food • ice cream • Kagawa • Kompira-san • Kompirasan • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • weird • weird food)
Domino’s puts a new spin on moon viewing with Tsukimi dango-inspired tarts in Japan
- Oona McGee
Aug 27, 2026
Fusing an old food tradition with a thoroughly modern one.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • Domino's • Domino's Japan • Domino's Pizza Japan • egg tarts • eggs • fast food • food • moon viewing • pizza • SNJO • taste test • tsukimi • tsukimi food • weird)
We recommend not buying one pack of Japan’s new convenience store corn soup-flavor fried chicken
- Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2026
But that doesn’t mean we don’t love it.
- Japan
- (Asakuma • COK • convenience stores • corn soup • food • fried chicken • Japanese convenience stores • karaage • karaage kun • Lawson • SNJO • taste test • xconveneince store food)
Heavyweight ramen-style cheese fried chicken bowl appears in Tokyo, but is it genius or madness?
- Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2026
Karaage no Tensai invokes the name of Jiro-style ramen, and we head out for a taste test.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • fried chicken • Jiro-style ramen • karaage • ramen • ramen jiro • SNJO • taste test)
New Wet Rice Cracker Burger from Dom Dom breathes new life into a “miracle” snack
- Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2026
Snack that saved a Japanese railway gets a whole new look for a limited time.
- Japan
- (burgers • Choshi Electric Railway • COK • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • nure senbei • rice crackers • senbei • snacks • SNJO • taste test • trains • weird • wet rice crackers)
Tokyo sweets store has a “350% Pudding Soft Serve”, and people are going wild for it
- Oona McGee
Aug 13, 2026
Is this ice cream dessert worth the hype?
- Japan
- (COK • cool • desserts • Ginza • ice cream • pudding • purin • Purin Lab • review • SNJO • social media • soft serve • taste test • Tokyo • viral • viral food)
Are Japan’s room-temperature curry packets the boxed lunch heroes we’ve been looking for? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2026
Packets of curry you can store and eat at room temperature could be the answer to our prayers for portable, smell-safe curry.
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • clever • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • SNJO • taste test)
Yoshinoya gets into fancy fish, but is the cheap beef king reaching too far? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 5, 2026
Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain is now serving up simmered kinmedai.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • fast food • fish • food • gyudon • kinmedai • restaurants • sea bream • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)
Coco’s Japan is very confident in their chilled ramen, but should they be? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2026
Premium-priced hiyashi chuka comes to the American coffee shop’s Japanese branches.
- Japan
- (Coco's • Coco’s Japan • COK • cold ramen • food • hiyashi chuka • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)
Tokyo’s newest viral dessert is like a Japanese parfait inside a bread bun [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Aug 1, 2026
A cool idea from Coolish, and further proof that sweet bean paste makes everything better.
- Japan
- (an bread • anko.an • anpan • bakeries • bread • Coolish • food • ice cream • Lotte • SNJO • sweet beans.sweet red beans.sweet bean paste • sweets • taste test)
Taco sandwiches appear in Japan with new Lunch Pack sandwich pocket flavor[Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Jul 22, 2026
Yamazaki’s beloved series branches out with a new fluffy taco offering.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Lunch Pack • sandwich pockets • sandwiches • SNO • tacos • taste test • Yamazaki • Yamazaki Baking)
We found the world’s first Yakult 1000 soft serve, and it’s hidden away in Nara
- Oona McGee
Jul 20, 2026
Unique Yakult find leaves us with a satisfied belly and a happy heart.
- Japan
- (antenna shops • cafes • desserts • gut bacteria • health • ice cream • Ice de Yakult • lactic acid bacteria • Nara • review • shaved ice • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • Yakult)
Japan’s favorite quasi-local curry launches convenience store version – Does it match the real deal?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 19, 2026
Is it worth go going to Family Mart to try the convenience store version of Go Go Curry?
- Japan
- (COK • curry • curry rice • Family mart • food • Go! Go! Curry • Japanese convenience stores • SNJO • taste test)
Can instant TKG from Don Quijote really recreate Japan’s beloved raw-egg-on-rice dish?
- Oona McGee
Jul 15, 2026
“TKG Anywhere in Seconds!?” promises to taste like tamago kake gohan, so we put it to the test.
- Japan
- (Don Quijote • eggs • food • how to • Japanese food • recipes • SNJO • tamago kake gohan • taste test • TKG)
Japan’s new Calpis pudding: The right call for summer, or tampering with purin perfection?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2026
Taste-testing a unique mix of two things Japan loves, but may or may not be meant to be enjoyed together.
Udon pudding is about to shake up the noodle scene in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 5, 2026
Purin, like you’ve never seen, or tasted, before.
- Japan
- (desserts • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • pudding • purin • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • udon • weird • weird food)
Taco Spaghetti appears in Japan, and our taco fan rushes to try it[Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Jun 29, 2026
Tacos and spaghetti have earned love around the world, but will their meeting in Japan be a tragedy?
Testing Japan’s latest food hack trend: Adding instant corn soup powder to popcorn[Taste test]
- Elliot Hale
Jun 27, 2026
A two-ingredient food hack promising a delicious upgrade.
- Japan
- (Ajinomoto • COK • corn potage • corn soup • crazy • cream of corn soup • food • food hack • food hacks • popcorn • snacks • SNO • soup • taste test • weird)
The adorable, delicious joy of the Totoro cream puff gift box[Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Jun 27, 2026
Turns out Studio Ghibli’s forest spirit is also a magical dessert.
- Japan
- (COK • cream puffs • cute • food • My Neighbor Totoro • Shirohige's Cream Puff Factory • SNO • Studio Ghibli • sweets • taste test • Totoro)
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