Japanese Snack Reviews

During the holiday season, I was drawn to the gift baskets and packages that I saw on sale. I don't know how other people regard the...

Year-round, we can buy nearly any kind of nut roasted, salted, or dried in markets. You can even get them in convenience stores. For rea...

Meiji's kinoko and takenoko no sato (mushroom and bamboo shoot) lines of cookie snacks is one of the most venerable in Japan. While...

Sorry for the big label residue. There was an English label that was stubborn about being torn off. There's an old SNL commercial...

My husband is not a very visually oriented person. In fact, I'll not infrequently point out something design or art-oriented and he...

Every time I see something which says "straight" as an adjective for food or drink, I have to suppress the thought that this is...

All images from Glico Japan . Recently, I was contacted by a woman at the BBC and answered some of her questions about Japanese food/sn...

This is a review which is tricky to write because I know most of my readers don't know what yuzu is. Even if I tell you that it is ...

I've heard for years that the Chinese eat all sorts of weird things, and I've known for some of those years that things like 1,00...

There were many perfectly reasonable and innocent word combinations in Japan which, because of different cultural connotations, were fu...

I'm not sure if this is as funny to others than it is to me, but the name of this product makes me think of some lewd interaction bet...

Thanks to a trip up a mountain , the Tea's Tea brand has hooked me as a repeat customer. If they could just get everyone to climb a mou...

This blog is called "Japanese Snack Reviews", but it's my blog and I'll cover non-Japanese products on a very infrequent ...

Dydo is one of the first Japanese drink companies that I heard the name of, though I didn't come across it firsthand. My husband, bef...

There are two ways to read the name of this product. One is " lemon" tea cookies and the other is "lemon tea" cookies...

My husband caught these bottles of Jasmine tea in a vending machine. He couldn't help but make a certain connection between the English...

I think that I'm starting to have a stimulus-response reaction to anything in Japan with a big zero on it. Like the Pavlov's dog th...

Occasionally, people will write me an e-mail or leave a comment asking how, as a reviewer, one might score freebies for review purposes. My ...

Before I came to Japan, I had never heard of "royal milk tea." You find it sold in bottles in some refrigerator cases, at coffee a...

I've been told that Lipton yellow label tea is considered one of the more premium varieties of what the Japanese refer to as "black...