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We try Keiji, an incredibly rare and expensive one-in-ten-thousand salmon sushi 【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Aug 27, 2023
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With only one of these caught for every 10,000 salmon, this rare fish comes with a super high price tag. 

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• Japan
• (57 Tokyo • COK • fish • food • Japanese food • keiji • raw fish • review • salmon • sashimi • SNJO • sushi restaurant • taste test • Tokyo Station • unusual food • weird food • Yuuichiro Wasai)

We eat fugu pufferfish semen at a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo

• SoraNews24
  Aug 9, 2023

If you thought eating fugu was scary, just wait ’til you try its milt.

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• Japan
• (blowfish • fugu • Japanese food • milt • pufferfish • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurant • sushi restaurants • taste test • Tokyo • weird • weird food)

Pizza Hut Japan’s new Wiener Coffee Pizza tastes as crazy as it sounds

• Oona McGee
  Jun 3, 2023

Pun becomes a pizza, in true Japanese style.

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• Japan
• (coffee • COK • fast food • food • Japanese • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • puns • sausages • SNJO • taste test • Vienna • weird • weird food • wieners)

We find the most ridiculous but awesome sandwiches at a little-known countryside supermarket

• Dale Roll
  May 13, 2023

It’s too bad it’s too far away to pop into whenever we want a crazy snack.

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• Japan
• (cream sandwich • Kusakabe • Midori Super • Mr. Sato • Napolitan • Saitama • sandwiches • taiyaki • weird food)

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)

Japan has a pizza for dogs, so of course we tried it

• SoraNews24
  May 9, 2023

Does the wanko pizza taste better when eaten on all fours?

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• Japan
• (cilantro • COK • coriander • Egawa Tasuku • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pakuchi • pizza • Pizza Hut • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Pizza Hut’s sakura pizza takes cherry blossom season to weird places in Taiwan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2023

Forget about putting pineapple on pizza because this is a lot, lot worse. 

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (cherry blossoms • fast food • food • natto • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Taiwan • review • sakura • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Does Pizza Hut Japan’s new “Too Much Coriander Pizza” really contain too much coriander?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2023

Whether you know it as coriander, cilantro or pakuchi, this is a very surprising combination.

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• Japan
• (cilantro • COK • coriander • Egawa Tasuku • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pakuchi • pizza • Pizza Hut • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Pizza Hut adds a “too much coriander” pizza to its lineup in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 21, 2023

New limited-time offering said to shock Generation Z. 

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• (cilantro • COK • coriander • fast food • food • herbs • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • weird • weird food)

We put weird food in curry to make it “un-curry-like”, find a killer secret ingredient instead

• Dale Roll
  Mar 1, 2023

And it’s not something we would ever have thought to try!

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• Japan
• (cooking • curry • experiment • secret ingredient • Seiji Nakazawa • SoraKitchen • weird food)

We try the “longest ramen in history”【Taste test】

• Oona McGee
  Feb 14, 2023

What’s it like to eat noodles that are over half the height of an average human?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • longest noodle • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • unusual food • weird • weird food)

Domino’s Pizza Burger? Chain teases customers with promise of a new menu item in the works

• Oona McGee
  Jan 7, 2023

New product is said to “change the way we think about burgers“.

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (burgers • Domino's • Domino's Japan • Domino's Pizza Japan • fast food • food • limited edition • marketing • pizza • weird • weird food)

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)

Pizza Hut’s new rice pizzas debut in Japan, but are they any good?

• Oona McGee
  Aug 30, 2022

Not every topping is a perfect match for rice instead of pizza dough. 

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (COK • fast food • food • Gohan • Gohan Pizza • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • rice • Rice Pizza • SNJO • taste test • weird • weird food)

Rice Pizza?! Pizza Hut creates a new base for customers in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Aug 18, 2022

Gohan Pizza My Box is full of new surprises.  

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• Japan, Taiwan
• (fast food • food • Gohan • Gohan Pizza • limited edition • marketing • pizza • Pizza Hut • rice • Rice Pizza • weird • weird food)

How to make an ice cream sandwich…the Japanese way

• Oona McGee
  Jul 23, 2022

Grandma always knows best. 

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking hacks • desserts • food • food hacks • ice cream • ice cream sandwich • Obaachan no Potapotayaki • recipe • senbei • snacks • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • weird food)

Marvelous Soba: Colour-changing noodle broth creates a twist ending to your meal

• Oona McGee
  Jul 17, 2022

This Tokyo restaurant will cure your summer blues…for a limited time.

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• Japan
• (butterfly pea • COK • food • Fuji Soba • gourmet • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test • weird food)

Weirdest convenience store drink in Japan? New drinkable Happy Turn makes stomachs turn

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2022

Mystery “happy powder” does not make us happy. 

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• Japan
• (combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • drinks • food • Happy Turn • Japanese convenience stores • japanese snacks • konbini • Lawson • Mr. Sato • snacks • taste test • Tokyo • weird • weird food)

How to make edible slime with just two ingredients

• Oona McGee
  May 22, 2022

This easy food hack from Japan is just waiting to go viral.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking hack • food hack • food trends • Go Hatori • hacks • Masanuki Sunakoma • Meiji • slime • SNJO • SoraKitchen • taste test • weird • weird food • wow • yoghurt)

New burger in Japan combines fried chicken with…strawberries and cream?!?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2022

Kind of like a British scone, but with a chunk of crunchy fried chicken.

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• Japan
• (burgers • buttermilk • chicken • COK • fast food • food • fried chicken • hamburgers • Lucky Rocky Chicken • SNJO • strawberries • taste test • weird • weird food)

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