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Onsen Egg Bukkake Udon Ice Cream makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about sweets

• Oona McGee
  Sep 2, 2026
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This noodle dessert makes our brains malfunction.

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• (desserts • food • ice cream • Kagawa • Kompira-san • Kompirasan • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soft serve • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • weird • weird food)

Japan now has a takoyaki sandwich…created by a Michelin-listed restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Jul 15, 2026

Osaka’s popular street food gets a new life in sandwich form.

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• (food • Japanese sandwiches • Japanese street food • Michelin • Michelin restaurant • octopus balls • octopus dumplings • Osaka • restaurants • sandwich • sandwiches • SNJO • street food • takoyaki • weird food)

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.

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• (desserts • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • pudding • purin • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • udon • weird • weird food)

7-Eleven Japan has a lot of famous food, but its new burrito needs to be on your radar

• Oona McGee
  Jul 2, 2026

Amongst all the viral convenience store food finds, this is a hidden gem.

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• (7-Eleven • burrito • burritos • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • matcha • SNJO • viral • weird food)

Super! Eel Bread takes Japanese sushi into uncharted territory

• Oona McGee
  May 21, 2026

Honouring a centuries-old tradition with a modern twist. 

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• (bakeries • bread • breads • Day of the Ox • Doyo No Ushi No Hi • eel • food • kochi • summer • sushi • unagi • weird food)

Japan now has gyoza doughnuts, and they taste like no other doughnut we’ve tried before

• Oona McGee
  May 8, 2026

Gyonuts look set to become the nation’s trendiest new sweet. 

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• (donuts • doughnuts • food • gyoza • Osaka Ohsho • sweets • weird • weird food)

Seaweed bread is one of the most unusual baked goods in all of Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 5, 2026

A unique way to eat your greens in Tokyo.

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• (bakeries • bread • breads • food • mekabu • seaweed • SNJO • Takase Yogashi • Tokyo • weird food)

7-Eleven Japan now sells…matcha burritos?!?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 16, 2025

Well, this is a convenience store find we never saw coming.

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• (7-Eleven • burrito • burritos • combini • convenience store finds • convenience store food • convenience stores • cool • food • green tea • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese food • konbini • matcha • SNJO • viral • weird food)

Why do tourists eat noodles with a green onion instead of chopsticks in this Edo town?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 11, 2025

Charming old post town serves up a culinary tradition you won’t find anywhere else in Japan.   

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

Osaka Lover Takoyaki Danish Bread is this week’s weird Japanese must-try food

• Oona McGee
  Jul 9, 2025

A sweet Danish that tastes like octopus balls.

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• (COK • Danish • food • Grand Marble • Japanese food • Japanese street food • local specialties • Marble Danish • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • sweets • takoyaki • taste test • weird • weird food)

How many times should you mix natto to make it more delicious?

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

Find out if mixing natto 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 times makes it taste less or more like smelly socks.

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• (COK • fermented soybeans • food • Japanese food • natto • SNJO • soybeans • taste test • weird food)

Eating venomous snake in Japan

• SoraNews24
  May 13, 2025

Habu is both feared and revered, but does it taste like chicken?

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• (Amami Islands • Amami Oshima • COK • food • habu • Japanese food • Kagoshima • Okinawa • snake • snakes • SNJO • weird • weird food • weird foods of Japan)

Japanese restaurant chain serves up super thick soba noodles in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Apr 29, 2025

One of the best places to try a very unusual type of buckwheat noodle.

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• (budget • cheap eats • COK • food • Japanese food • Noodles • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • Shibuya • SNJO • soba • Tokyo • weird food • Yoshi Soba)

“Flat Takoyaki” at Nanpuu reimagines Japanese street food

• SoraNews24
  Apr 14, 2025

Fried octopus balls get a totally new look at this Japanese restaurant chain.

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• (COK • fast food • food • Japanese food • Japanese street food • local specialties • Nanpuu • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • street food • takoyaki • taste test • weird • weird food)

New Takoyaki Burger from Wendy’s Japan makes us rethink Osaka’s specialty food

• Oona McGee
  Mar 31, 2025

Find out if octopus balls taste better in burger form.

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• (burgers • COK • fast food • food • local specialties • octopus balls • Osaka • Osaka specialties • review • SNJO • specialty food • takoyaki • Takoyaki Burger • taste test • weird • weird food • Wendy's • Wendy's Japan)

New Okonomiyaki Burger flips up the fast food scene in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 26, 2025

Exclusively available in one area of the country.

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• (burgers • cool • fast food • food • local specialties • Lotteria • okonomiyaki • Osaka • weird • weird food)

Shirasu ice cream at top Japanese tourist spot terrifies some, delights others

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2025

Can ice cream sweeten the deal of eating dozens of baby sardines as their eyes stare at you?

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• Japan
• (Enoshima • fish • food • ice cream • local specialties • restaurants • shirasu • SNJO • specialty • specialty food • sweets • taste test • tourist sites • weird food • werid • whitebait)

Domino’s erupts with a 1kg Cheese Volcano in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Nov 20, 2024

We find out if this monstrosity tastes as cheesy as it looks.  

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• (cheese • COK • crazy • Domino's • Domino's Japan • Domino's Pizza Japan • food • limited edition • pizza • review • SNJO • taste test • volcano • Volcano PIzza • weird food)

Pizza Hut releases Tsukimi Moon-Viewing pizzas for 2025, with industry-first “shadow picture box”

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2024

Japan’s newest pizzas come with…rabbit? 

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• (COK • cool • crazy • fast food • festivals • food • marketing • moon viewing • news • otsukimi • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • rabbit • shadow art • tsukimi • weird • weird food)

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