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Potato-Chip-Flavored Dressing coming to stores in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Jul 7, 2026
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Dressed to impress.

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• (Calbee • dressing • food • potato chips • Riken Vitamin • salad • seaweed • vegetables)

How to cook shiitake mushrooms like a Japanese manga character

• Oona McGee
  Jul 5, 2026

Easy recipe shows how to grill a mushroom so it tastes just like meat.

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• Japan
• (1-Nichi Gaishutsuroku Hanchou • cooking • food • Japanese food • manga • mushrooms • recipe • recipes • shiitake • SNJO • SoraKitchen • vegetables • vegetarian • vegetarian cuisine • vegetarian food)

Japanese rice cooker recipe gives us a tasty new way to enjoy vegetables and wieners

• Oona McGee
  Jun 7, 2026

Quick and easy, this is a meal that’ll have you going back for seconds.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • food • Japanese food • recipe • recipes • rice • rice cooker • sausages • SNJO • SoraKitchen • vegetables • wiener)

This rare autumn vegetable is the perfect addition to your stir-fry or salad【SoraKitchen】

• Dale Roll
  Nov 19, 2023

It may look like nothing special, but it’s actually the perfect vegetable to pair with anything!

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• (COK • cooking • food • Manchurian wild rice • SNJO • SoraKitchen • vegetables • weird food)

McDonald’s Japan reminds everyone that French fries are vegetables to celebrate Vegetable Day

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 1, 2023

Well, they’re not wrong.

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • french fries • funny • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • nutrition • potatoes • Vegetable Day • vegetables)

Do you know what this caterpillar-like food is? We had no idea!【Taste test】

• Dale Roll
  May 11, 2023

Apparently, it’s a popular regional ingredient in New Year’s food. 

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• Japan
• (Chinese artichokes • chorogi • haruka takagi • osechi ryori • taste test • vegetables • weird food)

New yakiniku hair clips from Japan make meat lovers drool

• Oona McGee
  Jan 22, 2023

Like dining at a yakiniku restaurant, but the grill is your hair.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cute • fake food • fashion • food • hair accessories • hair clips • Japanese beef • Japanese food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • vegetables • weird • wtf • yakiniku)

Which Japanese convenience store has the best miso vegetable stick pack?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2022

For those combini runs where you want something healthier than melon bread and Asahi Super Dry.

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• (7-Eleven • COK • convenience stores • Family mart • food • Lawson • SNJO • taste test • vegetables)

Japanese shiitake mushroom snacks from Don Quijote, created for people who don’t like mushrooms

• Oona McGee
  Sep 12, 2022

They don’t call this chain crazy for nothing. 

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• Japan
• (COK • Don Quijote • food • japanese snacks • Mr. Sato • mushrooms • shiitake • snacks • SNJO • taste test • vegetables • weird • weird food)

Mystery vegetable patch suddenly appears in the middle of Japan’s fourth-largest city【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 20, 2022

Opinions are divided, with mayor having particularly strong feelings.

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• Japan
• (agriculture • cool.crazy • farming • food • funny • mystery • Nagoya • vegetables • video • weird)

The unstaffed vegetable stand in Japan where you pick your produce yourself

• Oona McGee
  Jun 9, 2022

Mr Sato teaches us how to make a purchase at this unusual roadside stall.

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• (Chiba • cooking • countryside • farm life • farmers • farms • Japanese farm • Japanese farmers • SNJO • travel • unmanned • unmanned shops • unmanned store • unstaffed store • vegetable stand • vegetables • weird)

Broccoli and chocolate? We try vegetables in chocolate fondue to test Japanese company’s claims

• Shannon
  Apr 7, 2022

Cheese fondue we’d understand, but chocolate is a bit out there.

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• Japan
• (chocolate • chocolate fondue • COK • crazy • fondue • SNJO • sweets • taste test • vegetables • veggies • weird)

Japan’s Best Home Senbero: Costco brings a touch of health to drinking at home for under US$10

• Master Blaster
  Sep 18, 2021

If there’s a wrong way to get drunk, we’ll find it!

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• Japan
• (alcohol • cheap food • Costco • food • Mr. Sato • senbero • vegetables • wine)

My Neighbor Totoro fruit and vegetable shop series meets your daily nutritional needs for cute

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 10, 2021

Nothing’s more wholesome than these seven servings of Totoro and summertime produce goods.

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• Japan
• (cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • fruits • merchandise • My Neighbor Totoro • Studio Ghibli • Totoro • vegetables)

The best-looking ramen in Japan? New store creates beautiful noodle bouquets

• Oona McGee
  Jul 10, 2021

But…do they that taste as good as they look?

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• (beautiful • COK • food • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • reviews • SNJO • taste test • vegan • vegetables • vegetarian)

Limited-edition vegetable snack cube dreamt up by a Japanese elementary school kid goes on sale

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 16, 2021

Coro Coro Vegetable is by kids and for kids, and it looks deliciously nutritious!

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• Japan
• (Calbee • clever • cubes • cute • elementary school students • food • healthy • kids • snacks • vegetables)

Kandaba, moui, and sakuna: We have fun taste-testing Okinawan fruits and vegetables

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 14, 2020

Our reporter samples 11 types of produce unfamiliar to her in order to crown the overall victors and losers of the island diet.

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• Japan
• (cooking • food • fruit • Itoman • market • Okinawa • produce • ranking • taste test • vegetables)

We tried eating a raw “mizu nasu” eggplant, and it tastes like a weird fruit【Taste Test】

• Dale Roll
  Jul 19, 2020

This eggplant is supposed to be sweet like fruit…so we ate it like a fruit!

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • eggplant • food • mizu nasu • SNJO • taste test • vegetables • weird)

Japanese crowdfunding underway for bottled Onionade, just like mom used to make

• Master Blaster
  Nov 7, 2019

And if your mother never made fresh-squeezed onionade for you, you may want to consider if she really loved you.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • drinks • House Foods • Onionade • onions • Smile Ball • SNJO • vegetables • weird)

Japanese restaurant says its wonder ramen provides all the vegetables your body needs in one bowl

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2019

Oh, and it has about half the carbs of regular ramen too.

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• Japan
• (COK • family restaurants • food • Gusto • healthy • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • vegetables)

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