Japanese Snack Reviews

My husband and I have been back in the United States for almost exactly seven years come the end of this month. This has nothing to do w...

My expectations of these were that they would be a variation on conventional cheese balls in the U.S. By that, I mean a version of a che...

The site for the "giza giza" (ridged) potato chips that Calbee makes encourages you to enjoy the chips slowly one by one. I do...

Though Asahi is best known for its beer, the "Asahi Group" makes other products including snacks, personal care products, and ...

In England, I'm told that many people refer to any vacuum cleaner as a "Hoover" whether it is made by the Hoover company o...

If you ever wondered what a Ritz cracker would look like if it could mate with another Ritz and reproduce, these cracker sandwiches will...

Image from McDonald's Japan I have never wanted to put quotes around something as much as the word "Italian" in the titl...

Some natural disasters are sadder than others. I don't mean to belittle the effects of any unfortunate instance when nature unleash...

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 ...

They're "all-natural"! I guess that including silicon dioxide and maltodextrin is good then. When I was living in Japan,...

Image from the Mister Donut Japan site. The commercials feature a chubby man in drag. He might be a sumo wrestler, but I'm too far r...

Cheese sweets in the U.S. are synonymous with pretty much only one type of cheese, cream cheese.  Most of us would not think of adding su...

I'd seen these rice crackers (sembei) hanging around the racks at Daiso Japan for awhile and ignored them because they had a fluoresc...

I had a few friends over for lunch yesterday and they mentioned that they had tiramisu for dessert over the weekend. I don't know how...

As is the case in all countries, there are various categories of snacks. I tried to sample from a variety of types including otsumami (...

Just after graduating from college, I was desperate to get a job as my guaranteed student loans were going to require their first payment...

Have you ever kept a pepper in the refrigerator for far too long? They get all soft and shriveled up. In the end, you've got a flac...

Sorry that there is no cutaway shot. I took one, but lost it in the huge number of photos I've taken lately. If I find it, I'll a...

I'm a sucker for any box that has cow illustrations on it. I'm not sure why that is, but it remains the truth and I'm not afr...