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...

I was both looking forward greatly to this donut (because it's lemon!) and wary about how it was going to be (because, Japanese). I...

Haagen Dazs Japan gave fans of their frozen desserts a chance to sample this product before its official release on July 7. On June 2, N...

The idea that a food is better in another country than its country of origin is not an alien one, though I do believe it's something...

Some time back, I reviewed the liquid version of one of the three candies pictured above. These three flavors are super pickled plum (...

There's an episode of Monty Python in which people rather inexplicably keep saying "lemon curry" in a very quizzical fashi...

When I did a product information post on the summer Pocky releases, I didn't really expect to find myself sampling them. However, m...

If you look at the design of the "All" on the "All (fruit)" line of cookies, you'll see that the "A" i...

For those who don't know, Tirol sells little square chocolates in two styles. One is a "premium", which is a 1 inch/2.54 c...

My husband is not a very visually oriented person. In fact, I'll not infrequently point out something design or art-oriented and he...

Readers may have noticed that I haven't reviewed many Japanese beverages since returning to the U.S. This isn't because I haven...

One of the things that I'm finding overwhelming about being in the U.S. is the enormous variety of products. There are dozens of flav...

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 have whined before that I would not fork over 840 yen ($10.23) for boxes of region-specific KitKats. There is something about standing ...

This review represents what is likely to be the last of the "summer" snack offerings that I'll be covering in 2011. Lemon h...

I've mentioned before that I took on a part-time job because of post-quake income loss. This has had many benefits for me and a few dra...

Ice is made of water and water tastes like pretty much nothing. If these cookies were actually "ice flavor(ed)", then they'd ...

 "Born from an exhausting research of fine tastes. We provide a first-class taste brought directly from the earth." This is what ...

The Japanese are big into seasonal anything, so I'm guessing there is some special significance to these being "winter apples...