Japanese Snack Reviews

There's an episode of the Simpsons in which Ralph Wiggum says, "Sleep, that's where I'm a Viking!" In this spirit...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, it's when all of the chestnut sweets start showing up on shelves in Japan... or J...

There's an episode of Monty Python in which people rather inexplicably keep saying "lemon curry" in a very quizzical fashi...

One of the things which I have not had any sort of access to since coming to America is sembei (rice crackers). Yes, I can find rice crac...

As no one may have noted, I haven't been reviewing as much sembei (rice crackers) as I once did. It turns out that once you run the g...

It seems rather curious to me that the Japanese use "W" to indicate "double" considering that that letter is not a part...

I'm coming up on two years of this sort of Japanese snack food reviewing and you'd think there would be some lessons I would have l...

Like all people who review things in their blogs, I often find that  my ratings system has shortcomings. The main shortcoming is with the ...

For a brief time about 5 years ago, my husband and I looked into the whole Atkins diet thing and tried to follow a bit of it. I'm still ...

I've been questing to find a combination of a salty-sweet sembei marriage that pleases my picky palate. I knew it was out there somewher...

Back when I reviewed black soy bean sembei , one of the commenters (Sophia) advised me not to be wary of the frosted sembei because they h...