Japanese Snack Reviews

Nestle Japan started a KitKat cafe some time ago at which you can get your chocolate and wafer fix. They're looking to expand the m...

I've spoken before about how there must be a think tank of sorts inside Nestle Japan in which they're sitting around trying to f...

Image from Nestle Japan Somewhere in the scattered contents of my memory, which as of late is being filled up with information about ps...

Image from Nestle Japan .  Yesterday, Nestle Japan released a "new" big bar flavor, condensed milk strawberry KitKat.  It was...

As I've mentioned before, Nestle Japan has changed its marketing. The days of a revolving door or weird flavors seem to be over. Ind...

There are a lot of facts out there of little or no importance to the public at large. They're the sorts of things that may end up as ...

When I was a kid and went trick-or-treating, I was always delighted to get a Nestle Crunch bar from the houses at which I was beggin...

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

Image pilfered from the Nestle Japan web site.  As my very first product information post, I'm pleased to show you something w...

I have whined before that I would not fork over 840 yen ($10.23) for boxes of region-specific KitKats. There is something about standing ...

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...

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...

Quite some time ago, I got an e-mail from a reader who wasn't keen on my coverage of extremely strange Japanese snacks who said th...

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...

Lately, KitKat offerings have been uninspired yawn-fests. With the exception of the  Tohoku special Zunda KitKat , it's been a steady...

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 ...

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

I'm no foodie, or gourmand, but I do check out the food porn sites for recipes on a regular basis and I've seen people offering up...