Japanese Snack Reviews

The whole World Cup thing is a bandwagon that I am not jumping on. That being said, it's one which people around me seem to be haul...

You probably don't know this, but the packaging on this candy is attempting to pander to different regional audiences. You also prob...

All images come from Tirol . I can't hit every single new snack every week because there just aren't enough hours in the day, ...

First of all, my apologies for the lateness of this posting. I thought I had already done this post and cued it for this morning (as all...

When I was still in Japan, I rarely picked up the Tirol variety packs because they sold the same old flavors with one new one in order t...

About two weeks before Christmas, I bought some brie at Costco. It was on sale and it was about as cheap as such things are ever going ...

All images are from Tirol. The press on the box of Tirol candy pictured above mentions that it's two weeks until Christmas so you ...

Images from Tirol. I think Tirol has to be one of the most representative companies in terms of displaying the Japanese tendency to va...

As a former KISS fan, I associate protruding tongues with Gene Simmons. It's not that he's the only one who famously stuck out h...

For those who don't know, Tirol sells little square chocolates in two styles. One is a "premium", which is a 1 inch/2.54 c...

Over the weekend, I went to a Japanese market called Marukai . This shop is what I consider the best one in my area for two reasons. ...

I complained a lot about strawberry chocolates in Japan because there were so many of them constantly being put on the market and most ...

Several months ago, I visited my father-in-law and he showed me a couple of oranges which he said he was going to toss out because they...

Tirol is turning into the king (or queen, if we want to not be gender biases here) of cooperative endeavors with other manufacturers. Fo...

My husband is not a very visually oriented person. In fact, I'll not infrequently point out something design or art-oriented and he...

Chocolate bread with "milk" and chocolate filling.  All images from Family Mart's web site . There are a lot of experien...

While I was walking around a supermarket on December 26th, the day of after Christmas sales, a woman could not get over the fact that Val...

All images are from Tirol's web site .  Tis the season to buy disposable Christmas decorations, and Tirol has a real cute one for ...

This is the first Halloween I've spent in America in over two decades, and I find that I miss the limited displays in Japan. Fortunately...

I'm fully cognizant of the fact that it is no longer summer, and that this bag showing sun, seagulls, and palm trees is incongruous ...