Japanese Snack Reviews

Several Asian snack concerns that offer monthly or bi-monthly boxes or snack surprise packages have contacted me and I've reviewed t...

One of my enduring disappointments since returning to the U.S. is that, though Asian markets often stock Bourbon products, but they never...

I saw these "milk stick wafers" on offer many times at local 100 yen shops like Lawson 100 as well as the hybrid market/100 yen...

One of the things that Japan used to be famous for was copious numbers of free samples. There was a time, in days gone by, that foreign...

When I was titling this review, I was thinking about what I should call them. They're not quite cookies. They're not quite crackers...

When is a cake not a cake? Well, it's not a cake when it's a slab of hardened condensed milk. I have been intrigued by this product...

I sought out this drink after one of my readers recommended it to me. You wouldn't think I'd need to have people telling me to try t...

 A kiosk in Akihabara sells a vast array of milk drinks. When I first came to Japan, I was surprised at the array of milk beverages. They d...

The Japanese seem to have a taste for sweetened condensed milk which I never developed. This is reflected in the fact that they'll squi...

I've watched all of Michael Palin's travel shows and in one of them I recall that he drank fermented yak's milk. That sounds rat...

I think this particular KitKat has definitively signaled the fact that Nestle Japan is running out of ideas. You'd think the hundred or ...

I grew up around cows, and I always thought they were cute. To this day, seeing the image of a cow warms my heart a little bit. I just reali...

The Aero bar is Nestlé Japan's lesser loved child. Of course, daddy's favorite is the oft-manipulated KitKat. The original Aero is a...