Japanese Snack Reviews

I used to get irritated when I was in Japan and the Japanese perception of American food and culture was limited to hamburgers, steak, f...

It's becoming clear that cranberry is now a thing in Japan. I've been seeing more items containing cranberries including some ...

Excuse my flash, and you can click on this image to see a bigger one. Many a man would like society to put up something called a ...

For those who don't know my particular regional supermarket options, I'd like to start out by saying that Safeway is a chain ...

Recently, I was talking about Asian bakeries with my sister-in-law. We were talking mainly about a chain called " Paris Baguette ...

My husband and I recently attended a festival in Japantown in San Jose (as I mentioned in last week's random picture ). When I got ...

Pocky products on display that were eligible for the promotion - these are mostly variations on green tea. In my post about Nijiya Jap...

There was a time in the 1970s when pyramid power was a big deal. People would construct or buy little pyramid structures to sit in and m...

As I "warned" in my Monday review, everything is coming up strawberry right now. This was the display at Marukai market, one o...

Sometime in the last year that I was living in Tokyo (that's 2012 for those who aren't keeping track), bagna caude caught on as...

The picture above is of a poster for a restaurant near my old apartment in Tokyo. The characters on the left say "samurai" in ...

I'm not sure if these are supposed to be intelligent or if they're supposed to be sparkly and bright, but I was intrigued by the...

David Letterman used to do a line repeatedly in which he'd say, "does this look infected to you?" While looking at thes...

I went to an area in San Jose called "Little Saigon". I perused a supermarket there which offered a lot of durian-flavored ite...

My apologies for this being a random picture of something which is not Japanese, but this was a curiosity that I had to ponder and ask m...

Certain things exist in many cultures. I can't say "all cultures" because I'm sure there are many undeveloped or triba...

When I was still in Japan, I rarely picked up the Tirol variety packs because they sold the same old flavors with one new one in order t...

One of the problems I had before leaving Japan was that there were all sorts of nifty things which I wanted to buy and bring back with ...

This is the time of year for me at which I most long for being in Japan again. Christmas is generally better in America, but New Year...

Merry Christmas to my readers. I hope you're all enjoying your holiday. If you were in Japan, you could be leaving Santa a littl...