Japanese Snack Reviews

On the social media outlet, "Reddit," - that's the one that all of the content aggregaters steal content from - I occas...

I have never been much of a Pringles person. Sure, being a fairly organized person who likes orderly spaces, the concept of Pringles ap...

My husband and I have been back in the United States for almost exactly seven years come the end of this month. This has nothing to do w...

I'm continuing my brisk jaunt through the box of snacks ZenPop sent me with two of the salted potato snacks. Besides being made of ...

My stroll through the ZenPop box is one that I'm hoping will be far less leisurely so, with any luck, I'll be posting one revie...

I read a lot of cooking blogs because I'm always interested in expanding my range of cooking skills. There was a time, for instance...

My friends and I have an inside joke about corn. I'm not exactly certain how this happened, but it is a lot like being a Monty Pytho...

History has seen its fair share of tyrants - Caligula, Stalin, Pol Pot, and, of course, everybody's low-hanging fruit in the game of...

A long time ago, in an island nation not too terribly far away by galactic standards, I sampled a ramen snack . That snack tasted a lot ...

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

I've often thought that it would be cool to work for the art department of a snack company. You can come up with all sorts of kooky ...

I can get my hands on no small amount of Japanese snack food. In fact, I could fill this blog with daily reviews if I wanted to and neve...

Some natural disasters are sadder than others. I don't mean to belittle the effects of any unfortunate instance when nature unleash...

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

When I was growing up, my mother was the queen of buying off-brand and store-brand snacks. I'm pretty sure that we never once procur...

The snack I'm reviewing today comes courtesy of KS Snacks who kindly sent me a box of goodies from Indonesia. If you'd like to...

One of the lessons that I used to teach Japanese students had to do with symbolic hand or finger gestures. The sign for "ok" ...

Sorry for the mangy picture. I had a shot of the unopened bag and lost track of it. When Japanese folks eat rice, they generally eat i...

Image from Denroku's web site. I wonder how many companies out there make variations on what appears to be Japan's most availa...

You can probably tell that the one on the left is the chicken curry since there's a picture of a chicken on the package, but I'm...