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New Japanese convenience store rice balls taste like instant noodles [Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
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Nissin’s Donbei comes to Family Mart in a new form.
- Japan
- (COK • convenience store food • convenience stores • Donbei • Family mart • food • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • kitsune udon • noodles.instant noodles • onigiti • rice balls • SNJO • taste test • tofu • udon)
Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets
- Oona McGee
Sep 2, 2026
This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction.
- Japan
- (desserts • food • ice cream • Kagawa • Kompira-san • Kompirasan • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • weird • weird food)
Nagoya’s famous Shinkansen platform noodle shop has other, better branches nearby
- Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2026
Travelers love Sumiyoshi’s kishimen, but there’s a way to skip the long line and get a better deal on your meal.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japan travel • kishimen • Nagoya • Nagoya Station • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel • udon)
“We want to be Japan’s best cheap restaurant” says new (but also not new) Akihabara noodle joint
- Casey Baseel
Jul 24, 2026
Akihabara Ramen Center is dead. Long live Akihabara Seimen Center.
Udon pudding is about to shake up the noodle scene in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 5, 2026
Purin, like you’ve never seen, or tasted, before.
- Japan
- (desserts • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • pudding • purin • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • udon • weird • weird food)
50-year-old instant noodle recipe is back from the past in Japan for a limited time[Taste test]
- Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2026
As Donbei celebrates its 50th anniversary, two of its original noodle recipes return.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • crazy • Donbei • food • instant noodles • instant soba • instant udon • Nissin • Noodles • SNJO • soba • taste test • udon)
Nissin Donbei to sell Classic line of instant udon and soba noodles for its 50th anniversary
- Krista Rogers
Mar 24, 2026
The new bowls will recreate the old taste of 50 years ago when the famous brand first dropped.
- Japan
- (50th anniversary • cup noodles • kitsune udon • Nissin Donbei • recreation • retro • soba • tempura soba • udon)
Visiting Japan’s one-and-only, and only-for-a-limited-time, Dragon Ball noodle restaurant[Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2026
Marugame Seimen branch in downtown Tokyo transforms into an anime eatery with awesome artwork inside and out.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • Dragon Ball • food • manga • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • restaurants • Senzu Beans • SNJO • taste test • udon)
Taste-testing Japan’s real-world Dragon Balls and Senzu Beans at Marugame Seimen
- SoraNews24
Mar 5, 2026
The treasures of Dragon Ball come to one of Japan’s favorite noodle restaurant chains.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cool • Dragon Ball • food • manga • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • restaurants • Senzu Beans • SNJO • taste test • udon)
Japanese restaurant chain serves Dragon Ball donuts and Senzu Beans this spring
- Master Blaster
Feb 26, 2026
Goku’s putting the “kame” into Marugame Seimen.
- Japan
- (anime • Dragon Ball • food • manga • Marugame Seimen • Marukame Seimen • Senzu Beans • udon • Udonuts)
Bear meat noodles?!? Tokyo restaurant adds a new kind of niku soba to its menu【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2026
Bears are everywhere in Japan these days – even in our noodles.
- Japan
- (bears • COK • crazy • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test • udon • wild game)
Major Japanese noodle chain is closing on Christmas Eve so workers can spend time with families
- Casey Baseel
Dec 6, 2025
Marugame Family Night is for the Marugame families, not the customers.
- Japan
- (Christmas • Christmas Eve • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Udon.touching • moving • Noodles • restaurants • society • touching • udon)
Kagawa’s Udon Gummies are so hard to chew they come with warning labels
- Elliot Hale
Nov 1, 2025
You might need some good dental insurance.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • gummies • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • SNJO • sweets • udon • weird)
Oodles of noodles! Udon chain pays homage to all 47 prefectures of Japan with 47 dishes【Photos】
- Krista Rogers
Oct 21, 2025
You’ll have to travel to Marugame Seimen locations across Japan to try each dish in its respective prefecture.
- Japan
- (47 prefectures • campaign • COK • food • gourmet • local • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • photos • SNJO • udon)
Man arrested for breaking into unoccupied home in Japan after mystery noodles found in fridge
- Casey Baseel
Oct 18, 2025
A rare case of udon being unexpected in Udon Prefecture, but where they came from is still a mystery.
- Japan
- (crime • Kagawa • Kagawa Prefecture • Noodles • udon • Udon Prefecture • weird)
Craft your own edible Mt. Fuji with Yamanashi’s Blue Udon
- Master Blaster
Sep 15, 2025
Udon is going through its blue period.
Cold curry noodles? Is Japan’s favorite curry rice restaurant’s idea crazy enough to work?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2025
Cold noodles and curry noodles are proven successes, but cold curry noodles is a new roll of the culinary dice.
- Japan
- (Cocoichi • cocoichibanya • COK • curry • curry rice • curry udon • food • Noodles • SNJO • taste test • udon • weird)
Investigating the mysterious “Shake Pippi” at Marugame Seimen udon restaurants
- Master Blaster
Jun 27, 2025
It’s only natural to want to shake your pippi.
- Japan
- (COK • food • fried foods • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Shake Pippi • Noodles • Pippi • restaurants • snacks • SNJO • udon)
Udon Doughnuts boom in popularity, get a whole new look at Japanese restaurant chain
- Oona McGee
May 23, 2025
Behold the Udonuts, with a texture like no other doughnut in Japan.
- Japan
- (Aichi • donuts • doughnuts • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Mr. Sato • Noodles • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • Udonatsu • Udonuts)
Fukuoka’s Inaba Udon chain comes to Harajuku and we slurp up every last drop of it
- Krista Rogers
May 2, 2025
Yup, we’d do just about anything for these noodles with a unique tempura topping.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fukuoka • gobo • Harajuku • Harakado • Inaba Udon • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • tempura • Tokyo • Tokyu Plaza • udon)
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