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Discount retailers known for massive bargains releases massive Japanese egg sandwich
- Casey Baseel
2 days ago - Tweet
Don Quijote doubles up its “Peculiar Preference” sandwich.
- Japan
- (big food • COK • crazy • Don Quijote • egg sandwiches • eggs • food • photos • sandwiches • SNJO • tamago sandwiches • taste test)
Starbucks Japan invites us to par-tea with its new Earl Gray Frappuccino [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
5 days ago
![Starbucks Japan invites us to par-tea with its new Earl Gray Frappuccino [Taste test]](https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/11/2_14ff9b.jpg?w=640 "Starbucks Japan invites us to par-tea with its new Earl Gray Frappuccino [Taste test]")
Three new drinks, featuring seven kinds of tea, join the Starbucks Japan menu.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Earl Gray • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • Joyful Medley • K. Masami • latte • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)
Mochido donuts make a squishy return to Lawson stores across Japan
- Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2026
Mochido or Mochidon’t. There is no Mochitri.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • donuts • Japanese convenience stores • kinako • Lawson • Mochibee • Mochido • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Japan’s newest tempura is…potato salad tempura?!? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2026
Annual idea contest takes Tenya to a bold new tempura frontier.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • potato salad • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tempura • tendon • Tenya • weird)
KFC Japan releases its first thigh-meat fried chicken burger in 43 years, but was it worth the wait?
- Casey Baseel
Oct 16, 2026
It’s been a looooong time since you could get a thigh-meat sandwich at KFC Japan, and now you can get six.
- Japan
- (burgers • chicken • chicken burgers • fast food • food • fried chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken • Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan • KFC • KFC Japan • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)
7-Eleven Japan now has Milk Miso Curry Ramen, but is that too much for one cup? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 10, 2026
A special kind of regional ramen makes its 7-Eleven instant noodle debut, with help from the makers of Sapporo Ichiban.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese convenience stores • Noodles • ramen • Sapporo Ichiban • SNJO • taste test)
Yogurt and Japanese koji fungus is Japan’s latest food trend, but how does it taste? [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2026
“Hey dude, put some fungus on this!” isn’t an ordinary food hack, but koji is no ordinary fungus.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • food hacks • Japanese food • koji • shio koji • SNJO • taste test • weird • yogurt)
One of Japan’s best convenience store egg sandwiches is one you won’t find at the big three chains
- Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2026
Even if you can’t go every day, here’s why you should go to Daily Yamazaki today.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience stores • Daily Yamazaki • egg sandwiches • eggs • food • Japanese conveneience stores • Japanese egg sandwiches • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test)
Do Japan’s new single-minded convenience store bento show depressing poverty or satisfying focus?
- Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2026
The line between simplicity and inadequacy can be a fine one. Which side do Lawson’s new Ittentoppasugi fall on?
- Japan
- (bento • boxed lunches • cheap eats • cheap food • convenience stores • crazy • food • Japanese convenience stores • Lawson • sausage • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Three amazing Japanese convenience store sweet potato desserts to eat right now (and 11 for later)
- Casey Baseel
Sep 22, 2026
A roadmap for starting your journey of eating your way through Family Mart’s sweet potato sweets lineup.
- Japan
- (beni haruka • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • SNJO • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
Japanese sweet potato ice cream season! Häagen-Dazs and Muji take different paths to our hearts
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2026
Two completely different ways to make a delicious Japanese autumn dessert.
- Japan
- (beni haruka • beniharuka • COK • food • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream • muji • Mujirushi • Mujirushi Ryohin • SNJO • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test)
Japan’s new delicious dark horse sweet potato dessert drink is waiting at a beef bowl chain
- Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2026
A beniharuka shake rolls into Sukiya as sweet potato season gets underway.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • beni haruka • beniharuka • food • gyudon • milk shakes • shakes • SNJO • Sukiya • sweet potato • sweet potatoes • sweets • taste test • yaki imo • yakiimo)
New Japanese convenience store rice balls taste like instant noodles [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2026
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)
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