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It’s time to treat yourself to a new experience point with some extra-adorable Slime and She-slime kamaboko.
Edible flowers appear on iced doughnuts and spectacular cold, clear jelly doughnuts for summer.
The “circle of the sun boxed lunch” is usually a friend to those with a lonely wallet, but not this one.
It’s said this Tokyo dish looks like vomit, so does the instant cup version look any better?
There’s no international cuisine quite like the different McDonald’s burgers of the world!
A chance encounter at a Tokyo fish market fills us with intrigue/dread, and things don’t get any less scary when we tear it open.
Pick a god and pray for our reporter’s digestive system as he tries 16 different types of flatbread in one sitting.
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