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Kyoto’s crazy expensive luxury chirimen nut clusters cost as much as a lunch, but are they worth it?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 23, 2025
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A very unique, very pricy snack from Japan’s classiest town.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • expensive • expensive food • fish • food • Kyoto • nuts • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart’s eight new cheese treats tempt cheese lovers from across Japan【Taste test】

• Elliot Hale
  Apr 18, 2025

These products might just turn your love into obsession.

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• Japan
• (cheese • Cheesecake • COK • convenience stores • cream cheese • Family mart • food • food review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Lawson?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 17, 2025

11 cheap meals you can make at this famous Japanese convenience store chain.

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• Japan
• (1000 yen • cheap food • COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • Lawson • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

“Flat Takoyaki” at Nanpuu reimagines Japanese street food

• SoraNews24
  Apr 14, 2025

Fried octopus balls get a totally new look at this Japanese restaurant chain.

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• Japan
• (COK • fast food • food • Japanese food • Japanese street food • local specialties • Nanpuu • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • street food • takoyaki • taste test • weird • weird food)

Does Starbucks Japan’s new Frappuccino really help you forget about everyday life?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2025

We test the powers of the forget-the-world Frappuccino.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • Japanese strawberry • limited edition • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • strawberry • sweets • taste test)

The ultimate SoraNews24 anpan showdown: Which sweet bread will reign supreme?

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 11, 2025

Our team gathers their favorite anpan and tasks Go Hatori with being the Anpan Judge to determine the best of them all.

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• Japan
• (anko • anpan • best • bread • COK • contest • Go Hatori • judge • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Starbucks vs 7-Eleven: Which chain serves up the best acai drink in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 7, 2025

On-trend flavour put to the test in this Smoothie-Frappuccino showdown.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • acai • COK • combini • convenience stores • drinks • food • Frappuccino • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese Frappuccino • konbini • My Fruits³ Frappuccino • smoothie • smoothies • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

7-Eleven Japan adding fresh-brewed tea machines to 2,000 stores, but is their tea any good?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2025

Mr. Sato sets out to taste the future of 7-Eleven drinks at one of its Tokyo branches where the machinery is ready to use right now.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • black tea • COK • convenience stores • drinks • SNJO • taste test • tea)

Family Mart releases new “raw” bread collection that bucks tradition, messes with your mind

• Oona McGee
  Apr 1, 2025

Shironama breads shake up the Japanese convenience store food scene.

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• (bread • breads • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • croissant • Family mart • food • Japanese bread • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • koppepan • SNJO • taste test)

New form of luxurious poverty arrives at Japanese convenience stores with Tenkasu Gohan

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 31, 2025

Lawson tempts us with rice topped not with tempura shrimp, but tempura nothing.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crazy • food • Lawson • SNJO • taste test • tempura • tenkasu • weird)

New Takoyaki Burger from Wendy’s Japan makes us rethink Osaka’s specialty food

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2025

Find out if octopus balls taste better in burger form.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • food • local specialties • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • takoyaki • Takoyaki Burger • taste test • weird • weird food • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)

7-Eleven Japan’s new acai smoothie becomes a hit with customers

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2025

Run, don’t walk, to try this special limited-edition drink.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • acai • COK • combini • convenience stores • drinks • food • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • smoothie • smoothies • SNJO • taste test)

Japan’s new Mister Donut matcha donuts have so much green tea flavor one has to use the hole

• SoraNews24
  Mar 30, 2025

Misdo Meets Gion Tsujiri for five new matcha donuts created in conjunction with Kyoto tea company that’s been in business for over 150 years.

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• Japan
• (COK • donuts • food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • matcha • Misdo Meets • Misdo Meets Gion Tsujiri • Mister Donut • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

We try the new Family Mart Uji matcha sweets before they go on sale in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2025

Find out which of these green tea treats is worth the calories.

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• Japan
• (cakes • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • matcha • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Uji Matcha)

McDonald’s Japan renews the Samurai Mac, but not everyone will be happy with the new warrior

• Oona McGee
  Mar 27, 2025

Stripping a samurai of one vital ingredient is like cutting Samson’s hair.

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• Japan
• (Burger • burgers • COK • fast food • food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • new • news • Samurai Mac • SNJO • taste test)

Starbucks Japan’s Snoopy Frappuccino is here!【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2025

Snoopy’s special Frappuccino has a very long name and a lot of flavors, but surprisingly “peanut” isn’t one of them.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • Joe Kind • Peanuts • SNJO • Snoopy • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)

Kyoto’s most popular local sweets get a soft spin with Fuwafuwa Otabe【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2025

Taste-testing Kyoto’s newest selling-out sweet sensation.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Kyoto • nama yatsuhashi • Otabe • SNJO • sweets • taste test • yatsuhashi)

Rare Mos Burger vending machine sells items not found in restaurants

• Master Blaster
  Mar 24, 2025

It’s Mos, Definitely.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • lu rou fan • Mos Burger • rice burgers • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vending machines • yakiniku)

Shirasu ice cream at top Japanese tourist spot terrifies some, delights others

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2025

Can ice cream sweeten the deal of eating dozens of baby sardines as their eyes stare at you?

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• Japan
• (Enoshima • fish • food • ice cream • local specialties • restaurants • shirasu • SNJO • specialty • specialty food • sweets • taste test • tourist sites • weird food • werid • whitebait)

Japanese meat buns with deer meat?!? Taste-testing Nagano’s shikanikuman【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2025

Who’s game for this unique savory snack?

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• Japan
• (COK • deer • food • meat buns • nikuman • SNJO • steamed buns • taste test • venison)

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