Earlier in the year Starbucks Japan announced a new project called Starbucks Japan Wonder Project with the aim of letting customers "experience an unknown Japan" through their products! The first drink in this series featured Houjicha (roasted green tea) from Ishikawa prefecture. Starbucks is always releasing weird limited drinks, but this time to represent the...

The relationship between Japanese girls and food seems to be an eternal conflict between self-imposed rules and overweening passion. A recent online poll about conbini snacks showed what kind of food leads Japanese girls into little guilty pleasures. Here's the Japanese Girls' favorite Top 10 conbini snacks! 1位　ドーナツ (Donuts) 👑 Surprisingly, the Donut is the...

If you read our previous post explaining Taiyaki, we're sure you already have an idea of what this tasty snack is! But for those in need of a recap, Taiyaki is usually a fish shaped pancake filled with a sweet red bean paste filling! And although it's fish shaped don't worry, there's no actual fishy...

Early last month, Mister Donut Japan announced that it would be doing a special Christmas collaboration with Pokemon in celebration of Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu on the Nintendo Switch! With all the amazing Eevee goodies like these Eevee Tamagotchi announced last month, Pokemon is really going all out with their collaborations! And fans...

We already know that Japanese konbini's sell a wide variety of onigiri riceballs that are super popular with anyone who's in for a quick snack. Once in a while, interesting and somewhat crazy flavors are released! Now, you can get the most delicious combination: The Osaka-originated Takoyaki octopus ball as onigiri. Can it get any...

When you think of delicious Japanese snacks and Japanese candy we bet bugs don't come to mind! However repulsive bugs may seem to some they're commonly eaten across the globe! People don't seem to think they eat bugs in Japan either, and assume it would be something out of a Japanese Horror movie but however...