Japanese Snack Reviews

As I mentioned in my "I'm back" post, I now live in a very remote area. What is more, I also live in a small town (less t...

I've been told that "Happy Turn" is a brand that many folks in Japan find familiar and comforting. The happy sembei (rice ...

My husband and I brought back select souvenirs from Japan and had to be extra cautious about large items. One of the big things we broug...

Since I was a psychology major and continue to study psychology of my own volition to this day, I often run across various studies and ...

There was a period of time in my life when I was absolutely bonkers for pizza. I call that the time "when I was young and lived in t...

I've spoken before about how I'm rather dumb about packaging even though I really should know better. I'm about to reveal that ...

Sometimes I wonder what companies believe the average I.Q. of customers is. On the back of this bag of cheese rice crackers with almonds, t...

When I was a kid, I turned my nose up at things like onions. They were too strong tasting and I'd get annoyed when my parents would ord...

Note the design motif - they're supposed to be for tea time, hence the tea cup. Butter flavored sweets may be becoming a bit of a fad. ...

I can't believe that I've been snack blogging for coming up on two years and I hadn't sampled anything flavored with ponzu unt...

Sometimes I feel like I'm cheating doing a snack review blog and eating things which are flavored with cheese. My readers might expect ...

Every time I go to Seiyu supermarket, I find that there is a whole world of goodies that I can't find anywhere else. Their selection is ...

If one cheese is good, then four types of cheese must be better, right? I'm not sure if that works after sampling this sembei. If you ...

These days, the old sembei well has been running dry. Lately, it seems that the only things of interest that I haven't tried are those ...

The inattentive eye probably will not pick up on this little detail, but the package above is open. I usually make an effort to take picture...

Have you ever eaten something for the first time and you could swear that you've eaten something very much like it before, but you can...