Japanese Snack Reviews

One of my students used to come for her lessons after working and it was close to dinner time. This sometimes benefitted me because she ...

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...

There's an episode of the Simpsons in which Ralph Wiggum says, "Sleep, that's where I'm a Viking!" In this spirit...

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 ...

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...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, it's when all of the chestnut sweets start showing up on shelves in Japan... or J...

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...

In Monday's post, I mentioned all things mango in Japan. I felt that it would be appropriate to follow that up with the sembei that ...

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

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

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...

Awhile back, in a salt-craving induced buying frenzy, I picked up several sleeves of salty snack bits from Bourbon. This karinto sembei (r...

I'd seen these rice crackers (sembei) hanging around the racks at Daiso Japan for awhile and ignored them because they had a fluoresc...

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...

Modern life is fraught with choice. In fact, I've read that psychologists have done studies in which too much choice causes stress an...

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...