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Don Quijote’s “Magic Powder” promises to make food taste mind blowingly delicious

• Katie Pask
  Mar 7, 2023
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The store’s “Premium Magic Powder to Make Instant Ramen Taste Amazing” can be used for all kinds of meals!

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• Japan
• (cooking • Don Quijote • food • haruka takagi • instant noodles • magic powder • ramen • SNJO • taste test)

Taste test battle! The new Mister Donut ice cream bar vs. a frozen Mister Donut donut【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Mar 6, 2023

Donut-inspired ice cream or icy donut, which will win our taste tester’s heart/stomach?

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• Japan
• (COK • donuts • food • ice cream • Mister Donut • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Eating all the cat treats at Japanese convenience store Family Mart

• Oona McGee
  Feb 28, 2023

This cute collection covers everything from paw to tail. 

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• Japan
• (bread • cakes • Cat Day • Cat Day 2023 • cats • COK • conbini • convenience stores • cookies • cooking • cute • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • konbini • pets • SNJO • sweets • taste test • treats)

Starbucks Sakura and Matcha donut is a perfect Japanese springtime sweet【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2023

Two of Japan’s best dessert flavors combine in a springtime ring of deliciousness.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • donuts • green tea • matcha • sakura • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)

What makes this new Japanese convenience store chain better than 7-Eleven?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 27, 2023

This chain takes konbini food to a whole other level.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • bento • chicken • COK • combini • convenience • convenience store food • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • Gunma • Japanese convenience stores • karaage • konbini • Masanuki Sunakoma • new • onigiri • rice balls • Sakura Mikura • SNJO • taste test • travel)

New sakura doughnuts from Mister Donut Japan take us on a journey from bud to beyond full bloom

• Oona McGee
  Feb 26, 2023

A box of doughnuts like no other.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossom sweets • cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • new • review • sakura • sakura 2023 • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Hagi no Tsuki, how we love thee: Why you should get your hands on this Tohoku treat ASAP

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 23, 2023

Our reporter samples Sendai’s most popular food souvenir for the first time and is overcome by emotion.

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• Japan
• (castella • COK • custard • food • Hagi no Tsuki • Kasho Sanzen • omiyage • Sendai • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tohoku)

East Japan’s best food truck? Eating crepes from the winner of the Kanto Kitchen Car Championship

• SoraNews24
  Feb 23, 2023

Taste-testing the white crepes of the Tokyo area’s Shironohachi.

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• Japan
• (COK • crepes • food • food trucks • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Korakuen’s Chocolate Ramen returns to restaurants, wins over our most cynical taste tester

• Katie Pask
  Feb 17, 2023

Think that chocolate and ramen don’t go well together? Think again!

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• Japan
• (chocolate • chocolate ramen • food • Korakuen • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • taste test • Valentine's Day • white chocolate ramen)

Does Starbucks Japan’s new Sakura Frappuccino taste as good as it looks?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 16, 2023

Japanese cherry blossoms give this pink drink a very distinct flavour.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms 2023 • COK • dessert drinks • desserts • drinks • Frappucinos • hanami • Japanese Frappuccino • K. Masami • review • sakura • sakura 2023 • sakura Frappuccino • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)

CoCo Ichi hamburger steak curry for vegetarians? Taste-testing the meatless option in Taiwan

• SoraNews24
  Feb 16, 2023

Japan’s favorite curry chain serves up plant-based comfort food.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (coco ichi • coco ichibanya • COK • curry • curry rice • foof • plant-based meat • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • vegan • vegetarian)

Our Japanese language reporter gets lucky with Vietnam McDonald’s Prosperity Beef Burger

• Shannon
  Feb 14, 2023

Live long and McProsper, at McDonald’s Vietnam.

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• SE Asia
• (McDonald's • McDonald's Vietnam • taste test • Vietnam)

We try the “longest ramen in history”【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 14, 2023

What’s it like to eat noodles that are over half the height of an average human?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • longest noodle • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • unusual food • weird • weird food)

Mister Donut turns one of its most popular doughnuts into an ice cream for a limited time

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2023

Iconic Japanese doughnut gets the ice cold treatment.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • conbini • conveniece stores • donuts • doughnuts • food • ice cream • Japanese convenience stores • Mister Donut • new • sweets • taste test)

Unstaffed frozen gyoza stores are now selling frozen ramen…but is it any good? We find out

• Dale Roll
  Feb 11, 2023

It turns out this ramen has a special cooking method too…

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• Japan
• (Japan Ramen Research Institute • Noodles • ramen • takeout • taste test • unstaffed store • Yukimatsu Gyoza)

Japanese arcade lets you win Kobe beef and “Japan’s number-one beef stew”【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2023

Three of the most prized wagyu varieties are waiting inside this crane game.

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• Japan
• (Arcades • beef • beef stew • COK • cool • crane games • food • game centers • Kobe beef • SNJO • taste test • UFO catcher • Wagyu • weird)

We try the new Asian Juicy burgers from McDonald’s Japan

• Oona McGee
  Feb 6, 2023

Cute on the outside, but are they good on the inside too?

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• Japan
• (90s • burgers • COK • commercials • fast food • food • Idols • J-Pop • Japanese commercials • Japanese idols • JPOP • limited edition • Marie Iitoyo • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • music videos • Nanase Nishino • Puffy • review • SNJO • taste test)

Domino’s Pizza Japan’s Big Dac Burger Pizza tastes like food from a completely different chain

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2023

Mystery of the hybrid comfort food’s name gets cleared up on the first bite.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • crazy • Domino's Pizza Japan • dominos pizza • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • pizza • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Is Starbucks Japan’s new Valentine’s Day Frappuccino worth the calories?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 4, 2023

This decadent affair inspired by a French cake is difficult to resist.

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• Japan
• (cakes • chocolate • COK • desserts • drinks • Frappuccino • Frappuccinos • Japanese Frappuccino • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • limited edition • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test • valentine's chocolate • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)

Burger King Japan’s Cheeseburger Gelände — exceptional in taste, size and… paper napkins?

• Katie Pask
  Feb 3, 2023

Burger King’s latest offering leaves Mr. Sato stunned not once, not twice but three times!

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• Japan
• (big food • Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • Mr. Sato • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

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