Japanese Snack Reviews

"Garlic Meat Beast" sounds like a good name for a lot of things. It would be a great name for a rock band. It certainly would...

I confess that I bought this product only because of the name and the angry-looking bulb of garlic that appears to have violent tendenci...

 Ta Pasta is one of those things that has been on my mind for quite some time. This is because the concept sounds interesting, but it...

As regular readers may recall, I'm not a big fan of fish. In fact, faced with a heaping stack of dried fish snacks, I nearly lost my ...

I studied psychology with a fairly strong emphasis on biology and behavior. One of the things I learned about was how and what stimulates th...

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That's the message I need to keep in mind when I buy snacks made with healthy ve...

Thanks to the experimentation that this blog has encouraged me to do, I've changed from being indifferent to sembei to being quite the f...

The top of the bag says something like 'heart poundingly delicious.' One of the local convenience stores near my home is a 99 yen (a...

One thing you notice if you live in Japan long enough is that food manufacturers are big fans of short-term variations on their core product...