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Edible flowers appear on iced doughnuts and spectacular cold, clear jelly doughnuts for summer.
Clever cake maker thinks of everything, even how to turn the wasabi and ginger that come in a sushi set into proper desserts.
Our reporter visits several Family Mart branches in her quest to unravel the mystery and comes to an important realization in the end.
The concept restaurant brings us juicy bursts of color and flavor for their monstrous summer menu.
The “circle of the sun boxed lunch” is usually a friend to those with a lonely wallet, but not this one.
It’s said this Tokyo dish looks like vomit, so does the instant cup version look any better?
Japan is filled with special KitKat flavors, but one you design and make yourself could be the most special of all.
Stimulate your mind and your appetite with a four-course meal of Japanese linguistics, culture, and spicy curry.
Ever wonder what everyone who has to evacuate Tokyo-3 while the Evangelions are fighting Angels is eating?
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What happens when Japanese eel meets French cooking, then jumps from the anime world to the real one? We find out!
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