Japanese Snack Reviews

As I mentioned in my "I'm back" post, I now live in a very remote area. What is more, I also live in a small town (less t...

Have you ever purchased a blueberry waffle, blueberry muffin mix, or any commercially produced product which is blueberry flavored? If y...

I've been told that "Happy Turn" is a brand that many folks in Japan find familiar and comforting. The happy sembei (rice ...

They're "all-natural"! I guess that including silicon dioxide and maltodextrin is good then. When I was living in Japan,...

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

The display above is from a sembei shop in Sugamo , aka, the old ladies Harajuku. That means that the former was the shopping mecca for t...

The Japanese are great at fusion, and I don't mean just cooking. They can take disparate elements and mix them up to create somethin...

Don't let the title of this post fool you into thinking I had double desire for these sembei. That's simply the name of the brand...

You can tell someone has spent a long time in Japan when... okay, I swore I'd never start a sentence like that because I hate when pe...

One of the things which I have not had any sort of access to since coming to America is sembei (rice crackers). Yes, I can find rice crac...

I knew that there were going to be options for some of my favorite Japanese snacks in America. One of the things that I had high hopes fo...

Click to see a larger image. Sometimes you have to wonder just how much cultural differences affect perception. Take the illustrations ...

Before I started this blog, I was reluctant to sample a lot of Japanese foods. To be perfectly honest, I didn't know what a lot of ...