Japanese Snack Reviews

The peach on the bottom candy reminds me of " Call Me By Your Name ." If you haven't seen it, don't ask. The defilemen...

When I received both of these in ZenPop's Peach Festa box, I figured it was only reasonable to pit them against one another. I cons...

Kanro is selling a hard candy which is supposed to appeal to people who are starting to droop that they can pep up a bit by having thei...

This gummi candy is the odd couple of candies. First of all, it uses " framboise " for raspberry which is like using "...

Image courtesy of Kanro. I witnessed the "growth" of Halloween as a holiday in Japan during my years there. Like most for...

Recently, I contacted a woman who used to do psychic readings. I've never been to one, but I know this one to be genuine as she did ...

I bought a chou cream dessert when I was living in Tokyo called "Pai-Chou". If you can't parse that phonetically, it soun...

Some time ago, when I was still watching television on occasion, I used to see a lot of commercials for a dried blueberry that was call...

I once sat down and tried to organize lists of seasonal flavors in Japan. In fact, one day, this list will make it into some sort of blo...

When I was growing up, there were basically two types of oranges in my life, navels and tangerines. Of course, there were more types of o...

I don't know what cultural influences make me believe this sounds like a euphemism for a carnal act, but it isn't helped by th...

I once read a book called "Turning Japanese" by a nisei, a young man born of Japanese parents in the United States. He had be...

This flavor of gummy is part of Pure's "wild pure" line. The thing that makes them "wild", apparently, is the ko...

Most nuts in Japan cost a great deal. You can generally buy rather small packets of them for about 100 yen ($1.07) at convenience stores, b...

I love the line of Pure gummy candies. I've reviewed a few of them in the past, and have sampled a few that haven't made the blog. ...

Note: Blogger appears to have eaten the pictures for this post, and I'm afraid I no longer have the originals so the best I can do is a ...

As a kid, I don't recall ever eating a gummy bear or any of the other popular forms of gummy. In fact, the only gummy I recall were fish...