Japanese Snack Reviews

The concept of this bar seems stolen directly from the baked KitKat concept. It's a white chocolate bar designed to be briefly cook...

I've been seeing Pai Cro at Japanese markets for some time, but I was unwilling to fork over the cash they were charging to give the...

Recently, I read an article on a food news site in which someone was extolling the virtues of monaka . The notion of the ice cream encas...

The truth is that I didn't know what SKE48 was until I stumbled across this news. I could guess based on the existence of AKB48, tha...

I think this post should more properly be titled "de la Rosa" marzipan candy , but I couldn't resist using the Baboon dist...

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

Before I get too far in this review, I should state that this is not Japanese, but Korean. One of my students visited Korea for 5 days of ...

All things mont blanc draw me to them. The Pied Piper would have nothing to offer me, but the Hamlin baker could lead me to my doom with...

Like t he yogurt tablets that I reviewed previously (which I liked, but a commenter amusingly likened to something you'd be given at a...

Though I am old (all of 46), I'm not old enough to have first hand experience with those old cigarette ads in which they extol the heal...

I didn't think I would be taking part in the whole rusk fad that is still raging out of control in Japan, but cinnamon treats of any ki...

There are two words that should serve as red flags to anyone seeking a snack treat. One of those words is "drink". If you find so...

 I have been farming the kid's snacks bins of various odd snacks or things which are difficult to tell the nature of merely by looking a...

Some products come across as the "poor man's" version of a better-known brand name item. Drinks like RC Cola or Shasta cola ...

Mochi, or pounded rice cake, is a fairly common component in many traditional-style Japanese treats. It doesn't tend to show up that of...

Armies of snacks go unnoticed by me when I shop. I bypass them for the same reason that most people do, their packaging doesn't do anyth...