Our Tottori-born reporter buys some “sand eggs” cooked at insanely high temperatures to determine just how egg-citing they are.
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Don’t panic–these “burgers” aren’t a combination of meat and sweets but are rather burger-shaped cookie sandwiches in Kirby-inspired pink.
Shibuya is going to the dogs in the cutest way possible–and you can now take them home to share with family and friends.
A new line of tea tablets uses the family crests of six famous samurai clans from Japan’s Sengoku era along with uniquely selected flavors for each.
No need to waste time shopping for souvenirs — this is the one thing you need to buy when in Osaka.
The cookies also feature a variety of designs so that you can have fun trying to eat ’em all.
A collaboration that brings one of Japan’s oldest traditions and food culture together, in the form of tableware.
Something about this toy seems more than a little bit fishy.
Now’s your change to look just like John, Paul, George, and Ringo did when they first touched down in Tokyo in 1966.
Japan never ceases to be the country of making something taste exactly like something it shouldn’t. In the land where you can get kimchi-flavored soft drinks and spaghetti-flavored ice candy, it would seem food companies are really just drunk with power when it comes to what they can and will make stuff taste like.
And now we have “the perfect snack cake for any meat-lover,” Momotan Aged Meat Flavored snacks. It’s in the form of a typical Japanese confection called manju with a cake-like outer coating and sweet been paste filling. However, these Momotan manju are heavily seasoned to make you swear you were eating a morsel of month-old meat instead!
Often when you visit another country, one thing on everyone’s to-do list is a little shopping. It’s always interesting to see what products a foreign country offers that you can’t find back home. It’s also weird and fun to see the products you are familiar with presented in a different way.
One of the main reasons Chinese tourists visit Japan is to shop. It’s not uncommon to see a Chinese visitor enter a store and drop the equivalent of hundreds of U.S. dollars – usually in cash – on seemingly everyday products like clothes or electronics, but in some cases store shelves are picked completely clean.
But what’s on these tourists’ shopping lists? Here are 11 “godly” pharmacy products that Chinese visitors simply have to buy when they visit Japan.
As you may have noticed, Japan has pretty much mastered the art of sprucing up food. We’ve already seen a plethora of tools to create bear-shaped rice or smiley face sausages, but we’re particularly excited about a certain product we just discovered up north in Hokkaido. They’re called “message kombu” and the heartfelt messages made out of seaweed are sure to put a smile on anyone’s face.
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