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Tea company that’s been in business for more than 300 years takes Japanese sweets to a pitch-black frontier.
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Pork-stock ramen in onigiri form sounds like a covetous convenience store snack that would require dark powers to create.
Want to get your yatsuhashi fix but live too far away from Kyoto? We’ve got the answer for you!
It looks like an apple pie from the outside, but the filling is one we’ve never seen at the Golden Arches before.
Mr Sato gives us his verdict, and stumbles upon the Onigi Remix — a new way to combine them and eat them all!
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