Japanese Snack Reviews

Friends, Romans, countrymen, and anyone from any country other than Italy or America who reads my blog, I am here today to talk about co...

If someone decided to create the written equivalent of esparanto, that is, a writing system that everyone could use as a common form of ...

I've been reading a book about the nature of good and evil, and, no, I'm not going to talk about how food is "good" or...

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I thought that my days of reviewing Tirol chocolates were over when my airplane left Narita airport on March 29, 2012. I figured that, of...

When is a cake not a cake? Well, it's not a cake when it's a slab of hardened condensed milk. I have been intrigued by this product...

One of my labels for posts is the category "grandma's snacks". This is the sort of old-fashioned stuff that I believe is marke...

When I was a kid and wanted something sweet, I would sometimes nibble just a little brown sugar from a teaspoon. I loved the flavor, but you...

One of the reasons a brand grows to become the pinnacle of its product type is that it manages to strike the majority of people as the best ...

One of the reasons I started this blog was to compel myself to try new things in Japan. I've lived here a long time, and I believe it...

Yuzu is a citrus fruit originally grown in China which is often used like lemons in Japanese cuisine. That is, people don't eat the act...

When I saw this bar, I thought that someone was trying way too hard to throw the candy equivalent of the kitchen sink into one itty bitty b...

Before Nestlé started releasing hundreds of varieties of KitKats in Japan (yes, there was a time when that wasn't the case), Crunky w...

The Japanese don't celebrate Halloween, but they have all the trappings of wanting to do so. Scary television programs are scheduled in ...

The packaging on a lot of Japanese sweets is pretty clear cut and designed to give you a good idea of what is inside. Most of it is also mod...

As a kid, I don't recall ever eating a gummy bear or any of the other popular forms of gummy. In fact, the only gummy I recall were fish...

There are so many different Kit-Kats in Japan that I could probably populate this entire blog with reviews of nothing but various Kit-Kats. ...