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Durian Mango Cheese Pizza comes to Pizza Hut Taiwan, we put our nose on the line and try some

This pizza leaves the whole pineapple controversy in the dust.

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Japan is about to get baked cheesecake-flavour cornflakes—breakfast will never be the same again

Stop everything you’re doing because we have three very important words to say: cheesecake flavoured cornflakes.

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“Sandwich rice ball”? We give convenience store chain’s new concoction a taste

Rice balls, called onigiri or omusubi in Japanese, are a quintessential staple of Japanese lunches for people of any age. Convenience store shelves are always stocked full of many different varieties, and there are even specialty shops that sell nothing but rice balls for take-away. They can be as simple as rice flavored lightly with salt, but are more commonly found with some sort of filling like konbu (kelp with a salty-sweet soy sauce flavoring) or salmon, and wrapped with a sheet of nori seaweed.

Convenience store chain FamilyMart recently released what they call a “sando omusubi“, or a sandwich rice ball, though it doesn’t quite seem to make it to the rice-ball level…

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