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The top five Starbucks Frappuccinos in Japan in 2022
- Oona McGee
Dec 30, 2022 - Tweet
It was a year of great flavours, but which ones were the best?
- Japan
- (COK • cute • dessert drinks • desserts • drinks • Frappuccinos • K. Masami • review • sakura • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)
This is the first cafe in Japan to serve Mont Blanc, and it’s closing down after 90 years【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 29, 2022
Tokyo cafe introduced the dessert to Japan almost 90 years ago, and the rest is sweets history.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • food • Jiyugaoka • Mont Blanc • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Starbucks Japanese New Year’s Frappuccino: Too delicious to wait for January to drink【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2022
The ingredients of this Frappuccino, including kelp, don’t just taste great, traditional Japanese culture says they’ll give you blessings for the year to come.
- Japan
- (COK • drinks • Frappuccinos • genmaicha • green tea • Japanese Frappuccinos • kelp • kombu • matcha • New Year's • osechi • Oshogatsu • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test)
Our reporter gets stuck into some ‘Meat Curtain’ beef sukiyaki in Tokyo
- Katie Pask
Dec 24, 2022
Don’t worry though, this is totally safe to read at work.
- Japan
- (beef • COK • food • Okamoto • P.K. Sanjun • restaurants • SNJO • sukiyaki • taste test)
Can our writers pick out the pricier strawberry shortcake against one over four times cheaper?
- Master Blaster
Dec 23, 2022
It’s the reason for the season.
- Japan
- (cake • Chateraise • Christmas • Christmas cakes • COK • food • Gourmet Writers' Rating Check • Hotel New Otani • shortcake • SNJO • strawberry shortcake • sweets • taste test)
Mister Donut dazzles us with custom-made Pokémon furniture and edible Jigglypuffs【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 21, 2022
Delicious donuts, fashionable furniture, and just a little terrifying trauma.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • donuts • interior • Jigglypuff • Mister Donut • Pikachu • Pokemon • SNO • sweets • Takadanobaba • taste test • video games)
Hey, Croatian taxi driver! Take us to the restaurant with the best štrukli in Zagreb
- Dale Roll
Dec 21, 2022
The result was…unexpected.
- Japan
- (Croatia • Europe • European food • food • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Ikuna Kamezawa • taste test • travel)
We try a Le Lectier, the highest-quality European pear available in Japan【Taste Test】
- Dale Roll
Dec 19, 2022
This luxury pear is grown almost exclusively in Niigata. Is it worth splurging on?
- Japan
- (COK • expensive • expensive food • expensive fruit • food • fruit • Le Lectier • Niigata • pears • SNJO • taste test • yellow pears)
Japan’s snack of almonds and whole fish might not be for everyone【Taste test】
- Master Blaster
Dec 19, 2022
The snack of champions.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • Almond Fish • almonds • convenience stores • fish • Japanese anchovies • snacks • taste test)
These 7-Elevens are gettin’ fancy! We try their pate and terrine【Taste Test】
- Dale Roll
Dec 18, 2022
The question is, do we want a convenience store to sell luxury food at a reasonable price?
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • conveneinece stores • fancy food • food • pate • SNJO • taste test • terrine)
These Ajinomoto frozen Japanese dishes from France baffled our Japanese reporter【Taste test】
- Dale Roll
Dec 14, 2022
Expectations were not met–in many ways.
- Japan
- (Ajinomoto • COK • food • france • frozen food • Ikuna Kamezawa • Japanese food overseas • overseas Japanese food • SNJO • taste test)
Is Jiro-style ramen takeout from the supermarket as good as the real deal?
- Krista Rogers
Dec 14, 2022
We find out if this reasonably priced bowl stacks up to the ramen served at popular noodle chain Ramen Jiro.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Jiro-style • Noodles • ramen • ramen jiro • Seisen Ichiba • SNJO • supermarket • taste test)
Starbucks Japan’s Christmas customisation is the festive treat you need to try these holidays
- Oona McGee
Dec 12, 2022
A very cute way to add a dash of Christmas flavour to your Frappuccino.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas 2022 • COK • cookies • customisation • customization • cute • dessert drinks • desserts • drinks • festive • Frappuccinos • gingerbread • Holiday Season • K. Masami • review • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test)
Kakiage towers and Italian soba? We try out a unique soba restaurant in Tokyo
- Shannon
Dec 12, 2022
Is it creative madness, or creative genius?
- Japan
- (Akabane • creative • delicious • Mr. Sato • soba • taste test • Tokyo eats • Zenmi Kotobuki)
Domino’s Pizza now sells fancy gold-topped cakes in Japan【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 10, 2022
Yeah, Domino’s? Let me get a large peperoni and a gateau au chocolat with gold leaf for delivery.
- Japan
- (cake • chocolate • COK • dominos pizza • food • gold • gold leaf • pizza • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Mos Burger has a new restaurant just for cheeseburgers, and you bet we tried it
- Shannon
Dec 9, 2022
Because sometimes a regular Mos cheeseburger doesn’t cut it.
- Japan
- (burgers • cheeseburgers • gourmet • Mos Burger • mosh Grab N Go • Mr. Sato • Restaurant • taste test • Tokyo eats • Tokyo restaurant)
Legendary pie shop Anna Miller’s returns to Tokyo with station popup shop【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 9, 2022
Hey, Mr. Sato, how do you like them apple (pies)?
- Japan
- (Anna Miller’s • apple pie • COK • Koenji • Mr. Sato • pies • SNJO • stations • sweets • taste test)
What’s it like to eat goat sashimi from a Japanese vending machine?
- Oona McGee
Dec 8, 2022
A local specialty from Okinawa, served up in a very unique way.
- Japan
- (COK • food • goat • Japanese vending machines • Kouhey • local specialties • Okinawa • sashimi • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)
Our reporters try a yakiniku sauce called “Even Women Garlic” to figure out what that means
- Dale Roll
Dec 7, 2022
To garlic, or not to garlic? That is (part of) the question.
- Japan
- (food • Ikuna Kamezawa • marketing • sauce • taste test • yakiniku • yakiniku tare)
Is this newly released sweet konnyaku, jelly or pudding? We try to sort out the custardy chaos
- Krista Rogers
Dec 6, 2022
We unravel the true nature of the mysterious new flavor of Konnyaku Batake jelly that has our brains and our tongues in a twist.
- Japan
- (caramel • custard • Daiki Nishimoto • dessert • konnyaku • Konnyaku Batake • MannanLife • new product • pudding • purin • taste test • weird)
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