Japanese Snack Reviews

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People love to show rarely eaten and even more rarely offered food monstrosities in the U.S. and say, "this is why Americans are...

You can probably tell that the one on the left is the chicken curry since there's a picture of a chicken on the package, but I'm...

The Japanese are great at fusion, and I don't mean just cooking. They can take disparate elements and mix them up to create somethin...

Sorry that I don't have a picture of the soup dissolved in a cup. It's just a white, semi-translucent fluid. It doesn't resem...

I grew up poor. I'm not talking about the kind of poor where you couldn't have an iPod and got some cheap knock-off MP3 player at W...

Much to my surprise, tomato is coming on as one of the summer's hottest flavors. Tomato gelatin is on offer in convenience stores, for ...

I'm coming up on two years of this sort of Japanese snack food reviewing and you'd think there would be some lessons I would have l...

In Japan, you don't have to settle for a "hot Carl". You can get a "red hot Carl". One of these days, I need to hav...

Kagome Chicken Doria (236 calories) As part of my attempts to review instant or frozen food on occasion, I picked up these shelf stable ...

In Japan, variety packs are called "asooto" (アソート) which is the Japanized version of "assortment". This Bakauke pack of ...

How many failures does it take before one should give up on a good version of something coming along? Well, my previous experience with cur...

Something about this packet of curry sembei rubbed me the wrong way when I saw it elegantly displayed in a cardboard box at the local 99 yen...