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We can’t stop eating this chicken ramen noodle and chocolate snack we made【SoraKitchen】

• Katie Pask
  Jan 31, 2022
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Stuck for inspiration for Valentine’s Day or just fancy something sweet AND salty? Why not give this recipe a try?

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• (Baby Star Ramen • chocolate • COK • cooking • food • ramen • recipe • snacks • SNJO • SoraKitchen • sweets • taste test)

Sakura Lindor: A Lindt chocolate you can only buy in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2022

We find out what it’s like to bite into a Lindor cherry blossom.

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• (cherry • cherry blossoms • chocolate • COK • hanami • limited edition • lindor • Lindt • new • sakura • SNO • sweets • taste test)

Japanese KitKat Bears debut exclusively in Japan, but are they any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 29, 2022

Join us as we break into this limited-edition box of Valentine’s Day chocolates.

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• (bears • candy • chocolate • COK • cute • food • Japanese KitKats • KitKat • KitKats • limited edition • love • Nestle • Nestle Japan • SNO • sweets • taste test • Teddy Bears • valentine chocolate • Valentine's Day)

We eat Kyoto’s best-loved noodle dish at the restaurant that invented it

• Dale Roll
  Jan 28, 2022

Nishin soba is a Kyoto specialty, but does the restaurant that created it do it best?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Herring • Kyoto • nishin soba • Noodles • original flavor • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test)

Japanese freight container bento satisfies our hunger for unusual lunches

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

A lunchbox so popular its makers can’t keep up with demand.

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• Japan
• (Awajiya • bento • boxed lunch • boxed lunches • COK • cute • food • freight containers • Japan Rail • Japanese food • Japanese trains • JR • Kobe • lunch • lunchboxes • SNJO • sukiyaki • taste test • trains)

Japanese convenience store’s cheap knockoff croissant — is it any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 26, 2022

7-Eleven may have bitten off more than it can chew in this taste test showdown.

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• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • croissants • food • Japanese convenience stores • Pierre Hermé • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

A paradise for beer lovers — Yokohama combini has over 300 different kinds of beer for sale

• Katie Pask
  Jan 25, 2022

The store is run by a man who “hardly used to drink at all.”

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• Japan
• (beer • combini • convenience store • craft beer • craft beers • Japanese convenience stores • kombini • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • Yokohama)

Is McDonald’s Japan’s new Godiva hot chocolate worth the relatively high price?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 20, 2022

In a country where you can buy cheap drinks everywhere, expensive luxuries need to be worth the calories.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • coffee • COK • drinks • fast food • Godiva • hot chocolate • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • SNJO • SNOJ • sweets • taste test)

Starbucks Japan’s newest Frappuccino is the only date we need this Valentine’s Day

• Oona McGee
  Jan 20, 2022

A cool beverage that knows how to treat you right.

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

Japanese bento serves up a slice of the samurai life in a special carry case

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2022

Lunch like a warrior in Tokyo for a limited time.

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• (bento • COK • culture • Edo period • food • history • inro • Mito • samurai • SNJO • taste test • Tokugawa)

McDonald’s Japan’s new winter menu exclusives: Hot pies and special chicken nuggets

• Oona McGee
  Jan 16, 2022

Canadian Maple Custard Pie is just the start of this limited-time flavour celebration.

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • SNJO • taste test)

Osaka restaurant has ramen for those who like it spicy, cold, sweet, hot, creamy, salty and meaty

• Master Blaster
  Jan 12, 2022

Waiter, there’s a juxtaposition in my soup.

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• (COK • crazy • food • ice cream • Noodles • Osaka • ramen • restaurants • SNO • sweets • taste test • weird)

Which Japanese convenience store has the best plain onigiri rice balls?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 11, 2022

Lawson, 7-Eleven and Family Mart go head-to-head in this konbini battle but there can only be one winner.

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• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • Mini Stop • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

McDonald’s Japan’s Samurai Mac series: which burger is the greatest warrior of all?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2022

Four valiant contenders battle it out on our taste buds. 

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• Japan
• (burgers • fast food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • SNJO • taste test)

Taste-testing the Attack on Titan rice ball that “shouldn’t be on sale”【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 3, 2022

Sorry, Sasha, but your loss is our gain.

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• Japan
• (anime • Attack on Titan • COK • convenience stores • food • Japan Railway • JR • manga • New Days • onigiri • rice balls • SNO • taste test)

No need to be lonely at New Year’s with Japan’s new one-person osechi set【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 31, 2021

Conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi single-sizes osechi, creates new desserts to keep us company.

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• Japan
• (COK • conveyer belt sushi • food • Kaitenzushi • Kura Sushi • Kurazushi • New Year's • osechi • Oshogatsu • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Which Japanese convenience store has the best premium pork buns?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 30, 2021

This steaming hot showdown between Family Mart, Lawson and 7-Eleven produces a very surprising result.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • Mini Stop • nikuman • pork buns • SNJO • steamed buns • taste test)

Will we win a 75,000-yen tub of caviar from this Japanese vending machine?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 28, 2021

Putting our faith in the gacha gods at a new store dedicated to weird vending machines in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (caviar • COK • food • gacha • gacha vending machine • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vending machines • weird)

Starbucks blends Japanese and Western flavours together in new Frappuccino

• Oona McGee
  Dec 28, 2021

An East-Meets-West fusion promises to excite the taste buds this winter.

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

Who made the tastiest gyoza in 2021? We decide on our favourite pot stickers

• Katie Pask
  Dec 26, 2021

Check out our definitive guide to the best gyoza 2021 had to offer — just make sure you’re not hungry first!

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • gyoza • Japanese food • Osaka Osho • pot stickers • ranking • taste test)

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