Japanese Snack Reviews

Based on when I ran a contest to win a box of these particular KitKats and the timing on reviewing them, you might guess how high my le...

When I was given wasabi KitKats, I remember having a discussion about chocolate with one of my students in which I mentioned that putti...

There's a song by Barenaked Ladies which my husband has listened to many times in which about a million lyrics are disgorged in about...

I'm not sure what to make of the "adult" line of KitKats in Japan. When I ask my Magic 8 Ball about whether or not it is po...

First things first, I did not go to the Tokyo Sky Tree. I'm not especially interested in large quasi-phallic structures or radio to...

My husband recently went home to visit his family and take care of some business in the U.S. Being your faithful snack blogger, I remai...

Japan doesn't "do" Halloween, though over the years I have been here, it's been heading in that direction.  The display...

I vowed a long time ago not to seek out the regional KitKats nor to pay a premium price for them. I'm sure all of my readers will app...

The Japanese KitKat scene has been a wasteland littered with tumbleweeds of uninspired options. The latest entry is just another cactus p...

I swear not to buy another strawberry KitKat, but then here I am. I bought the bitter strawberry one, and now this one. In my defense, I ...

When I spied this newest KitKat, I said to myself: "Self, you promised me that you wouldn't buy anymore damn strawberry KitKats be...

The earliest charity items for victims of the Great Tohoku Earthquake were T-shirts. Other items are sluggishly following at their heels an...

Thanks to the earthquake, I'm going to start a new type of review. No, I'm not looking to dash off a quick review between tremors o...

Some readers may have noticed that there haven't been many KitKat reviews as of late. The truth is that the Japanese KitKat scene has b...

(Click this picture to see a larger version) You can tell that "it's that time of year" again in Japan when the KitKat releas...

This review is a bit of a cheat in one way, and an authentic review in another. Some months ago, Nestle Japan altered the basic KitKat sayi...

I'm going to ask my readers to return to those less than thrilling days of yesteryear when they were young and naive and their mommies ...