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”Slime-flavored” pastry teaches us that the famous video game monsters are actually delicious!
We visit the bakery featured in Kyoto Animation’s love letter to brass bands, and taste its heartache-healing signature bread.
Chili peppers, pickled ginger, and potato do battle with anko, mayo and chocolate inside these seemingly hard-to-stomach combos.
Our Mr. Sato simply loaves the bread he bought at Japan’s biggest and fanciest Starbucks store, Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo.
Ninja girl anime/video game franchise Senran Kagura continues to have one thing (or two things) on its mind.
We test our luck with a new nine-person party snack that threatens to shoot our taste buds with wasabi.
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SoraNews24’s crack reporter might miss all cherry blossom season with a food coma, but it’s still worth it to enjoy three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of sweets!
Even though it didn’t cause us to swap bodies, it was every bit as creamy and tasty as we imagined it to be.
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