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Will frozen bento onigiri be Japan’s next big convenience store food trend?【Taste test】

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 8, 2025
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We try out three flavors to see if cramming an entire lunch into a rice ball is truly a genius idea or just another gimmick.

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• Japan
• (bento onigiri • boxed lunches • COK • frozen food • obento • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

Ramen pizza gets a sinful upgrade with Jiro-style version from Pizza Hut Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 5, 2025

Genre famous for huge toppings adds weight to the menu for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • Jiro ramen • Jiro-kei • Jiro-style • Noodles • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • ramen • ramen jiro • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Mister Donut and Pierre Marcolini set hearts aflutter with new Valentine’s Day doughnuts in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 2, 2025

But are they worthy of the Marcolini name?

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Misdo Meets • Misdo Meets Pierre Marcolini • Mister Donut • Pierre Marcolini • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Valentine's Day)

Frito-Lay makes corn chips with shaketoba fish flavor just for Japan’s far north【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2025

What if you took a Dorito, ditched the cheese, and added salmon? You’d get Frito-Lay Japan’s shaketoba chips.

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• Japan
• (chips • COK • convenience stores • Doritos • food • Frito-Lay • Frito-Lay Japan • Hokkaido • jerky • salmon • Seicomart • shaketoba • snacks • SNJO • taste test)

Adult Mint Chocolate beer appears in Japan and makes for some funky food pairings【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2025

Should you pair your mint chocolate beer with Pocky or kimchi?

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• Japan
• (alcohol • beer • chocolate • chocolate mint • COK • drinks • mint • mint chocolate • Sapporo Beer • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

7-Eleven pancakes become a hit with American tourists in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 27, 2025

There’s a unique way Americans like to eat this convenience store sweet.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • chicken • COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • fried chicken • hack • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • pancakes • SNJO • taste test)

Our two-day struggle to buy the cutest onigiri rice balls in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2025

Norionigiri lands in Shibuya, but its beauty proves to be only skin-deep.

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• Japan
• (character goods • COK • cute • food • Nandemo Ikimono • onigiri • review • rice balls • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test)

Using tempura as a ramen topping – Blasphemy, or a beautiful idea?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 25, 2025

Soba restaurant chain’s claim leads us to cross the standard line of where tempura is supposed to go.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fuji Soba • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • soba • taste test • tempura • udon)

Starbucks releases a new Valentine’s Day Frappuccino in Japan, but is it worth the calories?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2025

Chocolatey new beverage wants to seduce you, along with its hot partner.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • latte • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test • Valentine's Day)

Mister Donut and Pierre Marcolini team up in Japan, but is it a match made in chocolate heaven?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 14, 2025

Find out if this decadent doughnut range is worth the calories.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Misdo Meets • Misdo Meets Pierre Marcolini • Mister Donut • Pierre Marcolini • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Family Mart releases a fukubukuro lucky bag packed with cool Convenience Wear

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2025

Chain’s viral fashion now comes in a convenient limited-edition pack that fans are scrambling for.

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• Japan
• (clothes • COK • combini • convenience stores • Convenience Wear • Family mart • fashion • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • love live • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2025 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2025 • manga • new year • New Year's • New Year's 2025 • SNJO • socks • taste test)

Is there a big difference between Starbucks Japan’s fukubukuro lucky bags?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 3, 2025

We find out if some lottery winners get a better deal than others.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • latte • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)

New Japanese beer takes inspiration from traditional Christmas dessert…but do they go together?

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2024

Spring Valley draws inspiration from stollen, but has this combination stolen our hearts?

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• Japan
• (alcohol • beer • Christmas • COK • drinks • food • Kirin • Kirin Beer • SNJO • Spring Valley • stollen • sweets • taste test)

What’s in a Family Mart lucky bag?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 27, 2024

Japanese convenience store serves up two fukubukuro packed with surprises.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • food • fukubukuro • fukubukuro 2025 • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • lucky bag • lucky bag 2025 • lucky bags 2025 • SNJO • taste test)

Starbucks releases a Bouquet Frappuccino in Japan…but does it taste like a bunch of flowers?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 27, 2024

Find out if this floral Frappuccino is a gift you should accept or refuse.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • latte • limited edition • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)

How to get all-you-can eat doughnuts at Mister Donut for just 12 bucks!

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2024

Beware, though — you really can have too much of a good thing.

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • buffet • COK • cute • diglett • donuts • food • Mister Donut • Pokemon • Pokémon donuts • Pon De Ring • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Does Japan’s T.M. Revolution J-rock cake really look like the song it’s named after?

• SoraNews24
  Dec 18, 2024

Takanori Nishikawa’s home prefecture supermarket has a whole line of Christmas cakes named after his songs, but do they look the part?

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• Japan
• (cake • Christmas cake • COK • food • funny • music • Shiga Prefecture • SNJO • sweets • T.M. Revolution • Takanori Nishikawa • taste test)

Starbucks Japan just released a new matcha green tea latte, but is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2024

The green mermaid’s green tea beverage undergoes a transformation.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • COK • drinks • Frappuccino • green tea • K. Masami • latte • limited edition • matcha • matcha latte • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • taste test)

One of Japan’s rarest sweets is a sell-out hit that looks and tastes like frost

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2024

You have to be very lucky to try this can of ice needles.

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• Japan
• (candy • COK • confectionery • cool • Japanese confectionery • Japanese sweets • old Japanese stores • phantom sweets • review • Sendai • Shimobashira • shopping • SNJO • sweets • taste test • unique • unusual)

American tourists give us their opinion on the new Icee slushie drinks in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Dec 13, 2024

We find out if the new Icees really taste the same in Japan as they do in the U.S.

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• Japan, USA
• (cinemas • COK • drinks • Icee • movies • new release • review • slurpees • slushies • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Toho Cinemas • Tokyo • tourists)

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