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The beverage giant recently released this canned brew in direct response to consumer surveys asking the Japanese public to name its most desired qualities in a beer…

Japan
(Asahi • beer • drinks • Japanese beer • review • taste test)

We try the new matcha McFlurry from McDonald’s Japan【Taste Test】

Oona McGee
Mar 30, 2016

The green tea-flavoured sweet dessert is filled with traditional Japanese flavours.

Food & Drink, Japan
(desserts • green tea • ice cream • matcha • McDonald's • McFlurry • sweets • taste test • video)

New illy matcha coffee drinks combine green tea with espresso for a limited time

Oona McGee
Mar 30, 2016

Move over, **matcha lattes—**it’s time to enjoy real coffee in your green tea with illy’s new cappucino and mocha beverages.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cafes • coffee • drinks • espresso • green tea • Illy • matcha • mocha • taste test)

Eat your way back to school with adorable randoseru Japanese backpack cakes

Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2016

What better way to start the new school year than with a cake shaped like a Japanese elementary school student’s backpack?

Food & Drink, Japan
(backpacks • cakes • cute • Imperial Hotel • randoseru • school • sweets • taste test)

We try the new full-sized matcha Oreo cookies from Japan

Oona McGee
Mar 28, 2016

The full-sized Oreo sandwich cookie now comes filled with a delicious green tea matcha cream centre.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cookies • green tea • matcha • Nabisco • Oreo • Oreos • sweets • taste test)

Lola’s Cupcakes and Magnolia Bakery bring out sakura cupcakes in Japan for a limited time

Oona McGee
Mar 22, 2016

Famous bakeries from London and New York create limited edition cherry blossom cupcakes just for Japan.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cherry blossom • cupcakes • Harajuku • LOLA'S cupcakes • Magnolia Bakery • Omotesando • sakura • sweets • taste test)

Tokyo cafe’s sakura ice cream has actual flowers mixed in for the ultimate cherry blossom dessert

Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2016

Whether you’re a diehard anime fan or couldn’t care less about otaku culture, you owe it to yourself to try this new treat in Akihabara.

Food & Drink, Japan
(Akihabara • cafes • cherry blossoms • ice cream • restaurants • sakura • sweets • taste test • Tokyo)

Japanese bakery’s giant strawberry cake looks the part, but does it taste it? 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2016

We taste test the latest offering from Ibaraki Prefecture’s Farmkuchen Fukasaku.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cakes • food • strawberries • sweets • taste test)

The new Namacha reminds us that not all bottled green teas are created equal 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Mar 19, 2016

Kirin’s fresh take on bottled green tea turns our expectations, and frowns, upside down.

Food & Drink, Japan
(drinks • green tea • Meg • taste test • tea)

We try Krispy Kreme Japan’s new Easter doughnuts ahead of their release on March 23

Oona McGee
Mar 18, 2016

Why have chocolate eggs this year when you can have adorable Easter doughnuts instead?

Japan
(donuts • doughnuts • Krispy Kreme • sweets • taste test)

Is Japan’s new pudding ice cream bar too much deliciousness to handle? 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2016

With winter finally over, it’s time to start gorging ourselves on frozen desserts, starting with this combination of two of everyone’s favorite things: ice cream and pudding!