Japanese Snack Reviews

This post is a review of three items that are unified in two ways. All of them are round and I got them all as part of the Sakura Box m...

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...

When I first came to Japan, diet foods were pretty much nonexistent. There were pleasantly chubby Japanese girls, but they were seen as ...

Taking picture of food isn't exactly an exciting endeavor, but taking pictures of Hi-Chew's lumps of goo is even more boring than ...

I think that I'm starting to have a stimulus-response reaction to anything in Japan with a big zero on it. Like the Pavlov's dog th...

Let's get the big laugh out of the way first. When you say " Calpis ", it sounds like "cow piss". The makers of Calp...

Part of the design on the front of this box depicts a grape that has been partially peeled. I'm not sure what image peeled grapes conjur...

These Japanese "jelly" candies are really just gelatin in disguise. This is something which I sort of forgot when I bought this ba...

In Japanese business, there's a concept called "plus alpha". This means that an additional service is added on to whatever the...

The box tells you that two fingers contain 114 calories. This particular KitKat has been in my refrigerator for about a month waiting for m...