A unique store filled with curries from around the country, featuring unusual local ingredients.
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Our convenience store-loving chefs are at it again with this egg-xcellent creation! Read More
A centuries-old sweet so sacred it’s still used as an offering at one of the country’s holiest shrines.
Woman says she’s a foreign student struggling in the pandemic, asks us to buy her homemade chocolate
There’s a lot of great curry inside this machine, but one in particular is really something special.
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Mr. Sato is never one to pass up a good T-shirt–especially one that salutes his home train line!
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