Japanese Snack Reviews

I have reached an important conclusion about the Fujiya brand's versions of chocolate. Well, it's not important in a global sen...

A few days after Christmas, I wanted to make the rounds of the three major Japanese markets in my area ( Marukai , Nijiya , and Mitsuwa ...

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...

During the last eight months of my time in Japan, I taught a sweet old lady who used to bring me gifts on a regular basis. She told me ...

Year-round, we can buy nearly any kind of nut roasted, salted, or dried in markets. You can even get them in convenience stores. For rea...

Sorry, I managed to lose my pictures, but the manufacturer's is much nicer anyway. If you search my archives, you will see that I ...

People have been telling me about various "Japan Towns" since I returned to the U.S. I'm not sure what I expected when I h...

Despite my initial reservations about the show, I found that I learned to love the T.V. series "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer". I...

Lately, KitKat offerings have been uninspired yawn-fests. With the exception of the  Tohoku special Zunda KitKat , it's been a steady...

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 ...

  Toppo is Lotte's answer to Glico's Pocky. To avoid looking like a complete copycat, they turned them inside out and created a pr...

Pudding or "purin" as it is called in Japan, is sold pretty much everywhere here, and I tend to pretty much ignore it. It's n...

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

There are always a lot of appealing looking coffee beverages on offer in Japanese convenience stores. Unfortunately, they're all also u...

I'm a sucker for anything chestnut, but I haven't been keen on white-chocolate-based Crunky bars since trying the caramel latte b...

Dars is holding a promotional campaign which says " 1 chocolate for 1 smile ." This is related to an NGO meant to help people in A...

There are two ways to look at natural food like raisins or dried cranberries. You can consider that they are merely meant to be components o...