Japanese Snack Reviews

Yes, I forgot to take a picture before I opened the package.... There are people in my life, exclusively American actually, who are ve...

One of my enduring disappointments since returning to the U.S. is that, though Asian markets often stock Bourbon products, but they never...

The rather unremarkable package of cakes shown here brought back many memories of Japan, and not only because it was made by a Japanese...

Images from Starbucks Japan . Starbucks Japan would like you to get your tiramisu on in liquid form, because you get your calorie bombs...

Sometimes it seemed to me that the Japanese randomly assigned English names to various things. On the front of this treat, the big cha...

The unusual source of these snacks. This is after my husband toppled two of them into the prize bin. One of the great things about my h...

The temperatures may still be hitting the high 90's on a daily basis,  but as far as Japan is concerned, autumn has arrived. You can ...

I've mentioned before that I took on a part-time job because of post-quake income loss. This has had many benefits for me and a few dra...

 "Born from an exhausting research of fine tastes. We provide a first-class taste brought directly from the earth." This is what ...

Note that the bag was open before I took the picture. I couldn't wait to try them until I had a camera. I blame the purchase of this mu...

What does it take in Japan for a sweet to be labeled with "tamago" (egg)? Well, apparently it just means that it has a white shel...

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. ...

Since I haven't lived in the U.S. for quite some time now, I wonder how many domestic creations are offered under French brand names as...

If you shop in Japan for a long time, you start to see the same foods in the same places over and over again and this Pporo Chocolate is one...

Click this picture to load a bigger one which can be read more easily. Before I started paying attention to food labels, and indeed before ...

I'd like to imagine what the first meeting must have been like in Bourbon's product creation department when someone suggested creat...

While stumbling around Okashi no Machioka snack shop , I noticed that there seems to be a new line of snacks featuring a graphic of a stern...

I think there needs to be a diet blog which comes up with a formula for whether or not a food is worthwhile based on a "pleasure per ca...