Japanese Snack Reviews

I've often thought that it would be cool to work for the art department of a snack company. You can come up with all sorts of kooky ...

Recently, I was talking about Asian bakeries with my sister-in-law. We were talking mainly about a chain called " Paris Baguette ...

Kirin is doing some sort of promotion in which they talk about the combination of fruit and salt. I am very aware that salt can do a lot...

When I hear a word with "cream" or even "creme" as part of the name, I expect, well, rich, fatty, white goodness. Wha...

One of my favorite candies in Japan was Bontan Ame . This candy, which resembles fruit jelly candies, is widely available in Japan and co...

The Simpsons rather famously made the idea that Japan has square watermelons common knowledge. The thing is, I've lived in Japan for...

I'd read that this was going to be released on July 26 and dutifully went out to the local Family Mart to procure one. It is part of t...

Click for a bigger picture. Note that many of these are yogurt and fruit combos, though all of them have so much sugar in them that they ...

I've written before that I'm not a big consumer of gum, but that has since changed. I'm not sure why, but now I find myself sub...

Doing a rough translation of the name of the this product, which literally is "man banana" (男バナナ), I realize there is an unintent...

Recently, I was having a conversation with the student who gave me the wasabi KitKats that I reviewed yesterday , and she and I were talking...

I vowed some time ago to stop buying bags of KitKat minis in order to review them. Most of them are simply not worth having such a large qu...

The Japanese market is nothing if not flooded with well-meaning products that are meant to improve your health through candy and cookies. T...

There has been much talk in the U.S. over the last several years about why poor people suffer from obesity more than richer ones. Some peop...

I've sampled plenty of yuzu treats up to this point, but haven't eaten anything which contains much more than a speck of real fruit...

Note: Blogger appears to have eaten the pictures for this post, and I'm afraid I no longer have the originals so the best I can do is a ...

Back when I sampled Fujiya's Peach Nectar , one of the commenters asked me if there were other of this type of beverages. At that time, ...

One of my students gave me three of these ugly customers from a tree in her yard. She told me that she had copious amounts of them and that ...

Fruit in Tokyo is fairly expensive save for a few items like bananas. Even they are only "cheap" by comparison to things like appl...

Mikan is a variety of mandarin orange that is grown and quite popular in Japan, but originated in China. It's very popular in the winte...