Japanese Snack Reviews

The idea that a food is better in another country than its country of origin is not an alien one, though I do believe it's something...

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

With little chunks of ice and a waffle cone with a few scoops of vanilla ice cream on the package, it will surprise no one to learn that...

There's a song by Barenaked Ladies which my husband has listened to many times in which about a million lyrics are disgorged in about...

The "Tanita Restaurant" brand of 100-calorie desserts has been on the shelves for awhile in Japan and I'd been hoping to g...

If the astronauts could eat something akin to "real" ice cream, they'd be eating "Coolish". The concept is ice mi...

Back when I was in junior high school, we had a classmate whose first name was "Colin", but it wasn't pronounced the way it i...

I've never been to Europe and my first experience with European food is largely through living in Japan. As someone who grew up poor in...

There's a new blog which I started following a few months ago called " Food in Real Life ". It takes pictures of the box ill...

I've known about this product since last spring when I reviewed the same company's cheese mochi sembei , but hadn't located i...

My husband spied these cookies while we perusing Family Mart convenience store ("konbini") before heading up to the counter to pa...

The Japanese seem to have a taste for sweetened condensed milk which I never developed. This is reflected in the fact that they'll squi...

All 100-yen shops are not created equal in Japan. Some of them mainly carry food and are like tiny, cheap supermarkets selling food in sma...

I believe that cows, if they were the size of dogs, would be pets, and we wouldn't be eating them. Sure, they go around dropping big cow...

I rarely do those "you know you've been in Japan too long" deals, but this Tirol chocolate is providing me with an irresistibl...

I've often thought it would be interesting to create a blog devoted to low calorie, diet and health foods in Japan. Of course, I soon re...