Japanese Snack Reviews

My husband and I brought back select souvenirs from Japan and had to be extra cautious about large items. One of the big things we broug...

"Baton d'or" means "golden stick" in French. Naming any product in French instantly improves its cache. Instead o...

My husband and I were taking a walk around Ogikubo and happened across what seems to be the viral spread of Don Quixote shops. We walked a...

For those who aren't familiar with Tirol (or haven't been paying attention to my prattle about them), there are two types of them o...

Click on this picture to see a bigger one that will allow you to read all of the ingredients clearly. Calorie Mate is one of those things wh...

Back when I was working at a Japanese office, one of my coworkers was an amiable, but rather goofy, American fellow named Scott. Scott used ...

Based on the choices I make for review, one might assume that Japan has little or no equivalent to Hostess cakes or Little Debbie . While i...

Sometimes I run across something which makes me very curious about exactly what it is. This item appealed to me on two fronts. First of all,...

I love small portions for sweets, and I definitely live in the right country for buying things in small quantities. One of the reasons I rev...

When I was working full-time in a Japanese office, I used to indulge myself once or twice a week with the purchase of a Caffé Latte milk and...

Sometimes I try something which is abysmally bad and I figure that someone somewhere has a very different sense of taste than I. I figure th...

One of the first things you notice when you enter a convenience store in Japan is that there are many different and highly interesting looki...

The pen is there to show you the size of the cookie. It's about 1/3 of the length of an average ballpoint pen. There are some types of s...