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Brand: Jagabee Cost: Gift Found at: Sumo Tournament As an apology for forgetting to send my bags to the airport (first world problems, amiright?) my boss brought me some potato chips from the Sumo tournament last month in Osaka. This gave me the opportunity to try, albeit in potato chip form, something that I’ve always... Continue Reading →
Brand: Walkers Cost: Gift Found at: Lawsons I am sad to say that I will soon be leaving Japan and its wonderful snacks. I’m off, instead, to Scotland. I need to go to graduate school, after all, and what better place to pursue an expensive degree than to a country where the local currency... Continue Reading →
Brand: 7-11 Cost: 158 yen Found at: 7-11 It kills me to say this, it really does, but I did not enjoy this pizza bread. There were good parts, certainly - the bread was soft and the bacon chewy – but the overall experience was just so… oily. And not in the fun way... Continue Reading →
Brand: Family Mart Cost: Gift Found at: Family Mart Oh no. It’s awful. Like, truly genuinely awful. I don’t know whose idea it was to put ume plum flavor on dried seaweed and market it as a fun snack to suck on but that person was wrong. These are not two flavors that belong... Continue Reading →
Brand: Onigiri Shop Cost: 222 yen Found at: Lawsons The older I get, the more I learn to love the cheesy, the tacky, and the camp things in life. Gone are the days of “oh my god, gold pants” to be replaced with the era of “OH MY GOD GOLD PANTS!”- and I am... Continue Reading →
Brand: Yamazaki Cost: ~100 yen Found at: Lawson’s Cherry Blossom (Sakura) season is HERE! And the world has gone pink. Cars have slowed down to admire the buds, shops have exploded with pink decorations, and outcroppings of semi-sober family picnics have sprung up on every lawn in every park with sufficient amounts of the iconic... Continue Reading →
Brand: Kakukyuu Cost: 324 yen Found at: Lawson One of the staple flavors of Nagoya food culture is that of red miso. Red miso, unlike the white and yellow varieties, is made with more soybeans and aged for longer, giving it a stronger, earthier umami taste. As I have a significant salt bias, it’s... Continue Reading →
Brand: 7-11 Cost: 128 yen Found at: 7-11 Natto. Please don’t tell me that I have learned to like natto. Natto is the pungent and distinctive local dish made from fermented soybeans. The slimy beans are covered with a slimy, mucusy goo – a result of the fermentation process – that creates long spiderweb strings... Continue Reading →
Brand: Yamatono Cost: 100 yen Found at: Yamadai I’m always interested in snacks that have an old person depicted on the packaging because there is always the possibility that it will turn out to be something fantastically weird that no modern person would dream of eating. The Japanese equivalent of the holiday fruit cake,... Continue Reading →
Brand: Meito Cost: 108 yen Found at: Daiso I have not been in Japan long enough to fully distinguish between the waves of seasonal food flavors and the waves of fad food flavors. I’m starting to recognize what is eaten when, but there is still so much that I have to learn when it... Continue Reading →
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