Japanese Snack Reviews

"Torukeru" means "melty" or "melting" and is often used by Japanese candy makers to say that there is s...

I saw these "milk stick wafers" on offer many times at local 100 yen shops like Lawson 100 as well as the hybrid market/100 yen...

There's a video my husband and I shot in 1995 which we made to show our family and friends what it was like to live there at the time...

My husband recently went home to visit his family and take care of some business in the U.S. Being your faithful snack blogger, I remai...

The word "petit" when rendered into katakana English becomes something akin to "poochie". Because I automatically transl...

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...

There are so many jokes a reviewer could make about an "adult" KitKat in terms of marital aids, pornography, etc., but as someone...

If you have worked in a Japanese office, then there is a very high chance that you have had the experience of being given snacks or treats...

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...

While Nestle is grinding out new KitKat flavors as if the bar's consumers had the gustatory attention span of a 2-year-old, Furuta rele...

Sequoia wafer bars (made by Furuta ) have a lot to offer which is attractive to me. For one thing, I like the size and the bars look great ...

I love small portions for sweets, and I definitely live in the right country for buying things in small quantities. One of the reasons I rev...