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 ...

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

I hear the word "Oreo" several times a day every day. I wish I could say that was because I worked in an Oreo factory or even...

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

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...

I have a love/hate relationship with Sonton and their peanut spreads. One is a bit of an abomination . The other is a dollop of heaven ....

What is pictured above is called "educational confectionary" according to its  maker, Kracie . I call it "playing with fo...

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...

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

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...

I've mentioned my feelings about Gari Garikun on my other blog. I find him one of the more disturbing mascots. His enormous maw mak...

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 ...

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...

One thing which I was much slower to learn about compared to when I lived in Japan was what "year" it would be next year. I f...

My husband and I both thought this illustration looked a bit... peculiar. The man pictured on the canister is supposed to be enjoying a...

One of the possibly dubious benefits of having lived in a particular Asian country for quite some time is that, while I can't read o...

Some time back, I reviewed the liquid version of one of the three candies pictured above. These three flavors are super pickled plum (...