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Burger King Japan’s crazy patty-only menu item: Depressing, delicious, or both?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 3, 2025
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On the Beef plays with our mind, but does it satisfy our stomach?

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• Japan
• (Burger King • Burger King Japan • burgers • COK • crazy • fast food • food • hamburgers • meat • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Tokyo has Cold Stone vending machine after ice cream chain leaves city, but is it just as good?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 1, 2025

The American ice cream chain has closed all of its branches in east Japan, but this Tokyo train station sells its frozen treats from a vending machine.

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• (COK • Cold Stone • food • ice cream • Meidaimae • SNJO • stations • sweets • taste test • vending machines)

Starbucks has a Japanese pajama-themed dessert drink, but how does it taste?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 30, 2025

Starbucks Japan teams up with Gelato Pique for a very unique collaboration.

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• (COK • drinks • Earl grey • Gelato Pique • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test • tea)

Kyoto’s green Black Thunder and gold-box green Black Thunder: Which best meets matcha needs?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 26, 2025

There’s a premium matcha version of Japan’s favorite cheap chocolate cookie snack, and we need to know if it offers anything the standard one doesn’t.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • chocolate • food • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea)

Japanese instant curry promises flavor of day-old curry right away, and that’s a very good thing

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2025

Ashita no Curry wants to time-warp you to the curry of tomorrow.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • curry • curry rice • food • instant curry • Japanese curry • taste test • weird)

Japan’s super colorful Super Sentai Burger is here, but can this crazy thing actually taste good?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2025

Celebration of 50 years of tokusatsu action catches the eye but also worried our mind.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • hamburgers • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger • power rangers • SNJO • Super Sentai • taste test • tokusatsu)

Pizza Hut Japan’s one-handed matcha dessert pizza is a hot mess (we mean that as a compliment)

• SoraNews24
  Sep 12, 2025

Pizza Hut Japan and a 165-year-old Kyoto tea company have us feeling sticky but happy.

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• Japan
• (food • Gion Tsujiri • green tea • Handy Melts • matcha • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • Pizza Hut Melts • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Uji Matcha)

Starbucks Japan serves surprise fall Frappuccino with rare appearance by Western pear【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 11, 2025

Western pear hardly ever shows up in desserts in Japan, but does it work as a Frappuccino flavor?

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • Frppuccinos • Japanese Frappuccinos • K. Masami • pear • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • sweets • taste test • western pear)

McDonald’s Japan’s moon-viewing mochi pies are a little more westernized-tasting this year

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2025

Taste-testing the new-recipe Tsukimi Pie.

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• (COK • fast food • food • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • McDonald's pies • mochi • moon viewing • pies • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tsukimi)

Japanese convenience store showdown: Who’s got the best red rice sekihan rice balls?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2025

It’s a red-letter day for sekihan fans.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • onigiri • red rice • rice • rice balls • sekihan • SNJO • taste test)

Mr. Sato takes on two of Muji’s most powerful Chocolate Mint ice creams*

• Master Blaster
  Sep 3, 2025

*One of them actually sacrificed the “ice cream” designation to be more powerfully minty.

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• Japan
• (choco mint • chocolate mint • COK • food • ice cream • mint • mint choco • mint chocolate • muji • Mujirushi • SNJO • super cup • sweets • taste test)

What’s so “Japan mind” about Häagen-Dazs’ new “Japan Mind” ice cream?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 28, 2025

Yuzu White Chocolate scratches the surface of what lies beneath Japanese society.

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• Japan
• (COK • green tea • gyokuro • Häagen-Dazs • Häagen-Dazs Japan • ice cream.food • matcha • matcha sweets • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tea)

Mister Donut turns doughnuts into Japanese idols for new range in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 23, 2025

Taking oshi culture into new realms of fandom.

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• Japan
• (autumn • chestnuts • COK • donuts • doughnuts • food • Mister Donut • sweet potato • sweets • taste test)

Japan’s Egg Curry Pan Sandwich is a bread-on-bread snack that deserves to go viral

• Oona McGee
  Aug 22, 2025

Egg Curry Pan Sandwich puts bread inside bread for a new take on a traditional classic.

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• (COK • curry • curry bread • curry pan • egg • egg sandwich • food • Japanese curry • Japanese sandwich • sandwiches • SNJO • taste test • weird)

Supercomputer noodles bring the magic of Fugaku to the dining table

• Oona McGee
  Aug 21, 2025

The Venn diagram of computer geeks and noodle lovers overlaps in a delicious way.

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• Japan
• (COK • computers • cool • Felissimo • food • Fugaku • fujitsu • Japanese food • Noodles • RIKEN • SNJO • somen • supercomputer • taste test • weird • weird food)

Japanese highway rest stop slow-melting ice cream fish dessert: An offer too strange to refuse

• SoraNews24
  Aug 20, 2025

There are several things in that concept that might not seem like they should go together, but we can’t so no to a dessert this unique.

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• Japan
• (Chikuwa • COK • crazy • fish • fish cakes • fish sausage • food • highwat rest stops • ice cream • Kariya Highway Oasis • neruimono • parking areas • rest stops • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird)

This might just be Starbucks Japan’s beat matcha drink ever, and it’s not a Frappuccino【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2025

We’d love the Cooling Matcha Mousse Tea at any time of year, but debuting in the middle of an intense heat wave makes it all the more satisfying.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • green tea • matcha • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • taste test • tea)

How to try the viral 7-Eleven smoothie hack in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 16, 2025

This convenience store trend takes an already popular drink to new heights of deliciousness.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • coffee • coffees • COK • combini • convenience store finds • convenience stores • drinks • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • taste test)

Japanese automaker Suzuki now makes instant curry, but does it rev our foodie engines?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2025

Believe it or not, there’s a very logical reason that one of Japan’s most famous car companies has gotten into the curry game.

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• (cars • COK • curry • curry rice • food • instant curry • SNJO • Suzuki • taste test • weird)

Don Quijote now sells a bento of American corn dog ends

• Oona McGee
  Aug 11, 2025

The end bits of the “American Dog” are now the main dish…but should they be?

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• Japan
• (bread • COK • cooking • Don Quijote • food • SNJO • sweet potato • sweets • taste test • toast)

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