Japanese Snack Reviews

I think my faithful readers will find that little has changed since I last blogged. I'm still using a crummy little digital camera a...

When I was a kid, if someone had told me that, some day, I'd be standing in a store pondering whether to choose cakes filled with s...

There's this thing in America where the kids like this singer named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure what the appeal is because he l...

Note the cool sample on the right which shows plastic versions so they don't get all gross and rotted while on display.  One of th...

Since leaving Japan and becoming a woman of leisure (i.e., unemployed), I've been taking advantage of the time to do things which I ...

I chose this treat entirely for one reason and that was that "adzuki bean boy" is too cool a name for a product to pass up. In f...

This seems to be the year that the 7 lucky gods are hitting center stage in Japanese marketing ploys. While walking home from a local ...

Sometimes the name of a product is meant to convey something about the ingredients, and sometimes it's a play on another type of food. ...

My husband and I are sumo fans from our earliest days in Japan. In fact, that was how he learned a lot of his kanji (Chinese characters), a...

I try not to cover too many freshly produced sweets that can only be purchased if you actually live in or visit Tokyo. However, this is an ...

I don't travel much in Japan anymore either for pleasure or for business. There are several reasons for this. The big one is that I...

Japanese food has a reputation for freshness and Japanese people value it, yet you do find that there are a fair number of foods that are pr...

Two gifts from two different students in one day. A box of Mamador bean cakes from Takashimaya in Shinjuku and some macademia nuts from Saip...

Note the fact that the packaging could easily accommodate 9 of the banana-flavored eggs, but was cleverly designed to only hold 8. One of t...