taste test
The chain may not be called “Mister Ramen,” but that doesn’t mean they don’t know how to make a really good bowl of noodles.
We check out the new hamburger specialty shop with nice buns that has joined its sister shop I’m Donut? in Shibuya.
Tokyo noodle joint is open 24 hours a day, but it may or may not be what you’re looking for.
Häagen-Dazs’s Japan hardly ever disappoints, but hardly any ice cream has ever made our taste-tester this happy.
The American ice cream chain has closed all of its branches in east Japan, but this Tokyo train station sells its frozen treats from a vending machine.
There’s a premium matcha version of Japan’s favorite cheap chocolate cookie snack, and we need to know if it offers anything the standard one doesn’t.
Western pear hardly ever shows up in desserts in Japan, but does it work as a Frappuccino flavor?
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