Japanese Snack Reviews

The site for the "giza giza" (ridged) potato chips that Calbee makes encourages you to enjoy the chips slowly one by one. I do...

I'm continuing my brisk jaunt through the box of snacks ZenPop sent me with two of the salted potato snacks. Besides being made of ...

My sister-in-law is currently in Madrid visiting family. She hasn't been able to upload many pictures because of her crummy internet...

Picture from Calbee. Mini Stop convenience stores is offering this abomination before the potato gods for a limited time. The concept ...

Sorry for the mangy picture. I had a shot of the unopened bag and lost track of it. When Japanese folks eat rice, they generally eat i...

Prior to coming to Japan, I never thought much about the private lives of cartoon mascots. Most of them really didn't require a bac...

When I first came to Japan, I didn't have a phone or television. Telephones back them required a deposit on the order of $500, and my h...

The earthquake has had some interesting and unusual consequences, and I'm pretty sure that this particular bag of chips is one of them....

Back when I was working in an office, I used to pick up these Calbee vegetable snacks on occasion when I wanted a salted snack treat. I di...

There is some debate in this age of hyper-awareness of nutrition as to whether or not corn is a healthy vegetable as opposed to a "fun...

Calbee is a very large producer of salted snacks in Japan. Their potato chips line the salted snack food aisles more than any other manufact...

When I was working in an office, I used to pick up plain Jaga Rico potato sticks as a substitute for potato chips. I'm not sure why I f...

Look at all of those happy vegetables. They seem delighted to be pureed, processed, and turned into waffled snack foods. How can one disappo...

When I reviewed the yuzu soy sauce chips , the great and powerful Marvo from The Impulsive Buy wondered in the comments about soy sauce f...

When I was a kid, I didn't care much for pickles, but I did like to drink small amounts of the pickling juice from the far as it emptie...

If you spend any reasonable amount of time in Japan, you'll notice that flavors come in and out of fashion. Some flavors stay after thei...

There are a great many things that the Japanese have taken and adapted to suit their tastes which have presented an equally good, but unique...

Vegetables are good. Sweet potato and pumpkin are even better when you're thinking of vegetables. In fact, I often think of sweet potato...