Japanese Snack Reviews

Nippon-ya did a survey and this box of sweets was their most popular. I can see why that is the case if only based on the packaging. It...

As is so often the case when I buy a product that I can't read the label on, I failed to look at the English on this until I got hom...

My experiences with "Yuki & Love" brand mochi snacks has been a very mixed bag. In fact, I started off flying high on thei...

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

I love the name of the company that makes these. It seems slightly scary that a food is made by a company which has "industrial...

Stupid glare. My husband recently completed a class in which he had to write a paper about the effect of cultural images on him. It mad...

When I was shopping in Tokyo, I never looked carefully at the origin of a product before I bought it. In fact, most of the time, I didn...

As I grew increasingly bored by the sweets on offer in usual venues (convenience stores, supermarkets, snack shops) in Tokyo, I started t...

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 bigger version. Shakey's Pizza is inexplicably popular in Japan. Well, that's not quite true. There's an e...

As no one may have noted, I haven't been reviewing as much sembei (rice crackers) as I once did. It turns out that once you run the g...

Attentive readers with an impeccable memory may recall that Ginbis is the maker of " asparagus biscuits ", which don't actual...

If you want to dive deep into the heart of weird snacks in Japan, I recommend you raid the kid's section. That's what I did to find...

I don't travel much in Japan anymore either for pleasure or for business. There are several reasons for this. The big one is that I...

After researching and shopping for this week's worth of Setsubun snacks, I wondered if soy bean producers are rubbing their hands togeth...

One of my labels for posts is the category "grandma's snacks". This is the sort of old-fashioned stuff that I believe is marke...