taste test (Page 46)
We visit Japan’s big three combini, plus one dark horse contender, on our search for nikuman bliss.
Tea company that’s been in business for more than 300 years takes Japanese sweets to a pitch-black frontier.
It’s like Santa came early as we taste test the cake made by Starbucks and its Hiroshima partner.
Pork-stock ramen in onigiri form sounds like a covetous convenience store snack that would require dark powers to create.
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It looks like an apple pie from the outside, but the filling is one we’ve never seen at the Golden Arches before.
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