Japanese Snack Reviews

As I've mentioned before, I am currently living in a rural area. For the most part, I love it here. Though the local politics don...

Merry Christmas to my readers. I hope you're all enjoying your holiday. If you were in Japan, you could be leaving Santa a littl...

My experiences with "Yuki & Love" brand mochi snacks has been a very mixed bag. In fact, I started off flying high on thei...

Have you ever wondered which part of an Oreo cookie makes the cookie better? Is it the slightly bitter, not terribly sweet and crispy ou...

Image from Lawson's web site. There were certain things in Japan that I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole when I first got the...

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...

Stupid glare. My husband recently completed a class in which he had to write a paper about the effect of cultural images on him. It mad...

 From the top: strawberry daifuku, tiramisu, and chocolate (the basic croissant) If something involves a lot of fat, there is a good ch...

My husband and I went to Kamakura to call upon the giant Buddha ( daibutsu ) several weeks ago because that's the sort of thing a ...

Ichigo (strawberry) daifuku is one of the most popular Japanese traditional sweets. When my husband and I were doing one of our day trip...

If you live in a linguistically odd environment long enough, you stop seeing strange things as strange. This is a fact that I was reminde...

One of my former classmates, in response to a comment I made on FaceBook, offered to send me some wicked sugary delights in the form of a C...

My husband and I took a trip to Odaiba, an artificial island in Tokyo bay, several weeks back. With a country as small as Japan, you'd t...

Having one good experience with a Japanese snack will often lead me to become more adventurous with all snacks made in the same general mol...

The last time I had one of Tirol's premium chocolate blocks with a map of Hokkaido on it, I was very disappointed in the results. Nonet...