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Brand: Foodland Cost: $5.49 Found at: Foodland There is really not much to say here: it’s just mochi. It’s your standard-issue soft rice dough sweetened with sugar and presented in a fun pink and white color scheme. They are perfectly tasty, if a little unremarkable. Still, I think I’ll hunt through the fridge for something... Continue Reading →
Brand: Foodland Cost: $7.99 Found at: Foodland At last, my two great loves meet. Peanut butter and mochi. Peanut butter in mochi. It’s the fusion cuisine that I never knew that I needed in my life. This is it. I have peaked. I can die now. I’m not crying, you’re crying. This mochi is absolutely a fan favorite.... Continue Reading →
Brand: Yamayo Seika Found at: Bokkusu Location: Aichi Prefecture Eating this is like licking a molasses desert. The mochi itself is flavored with Japanese black sugar syrup, and this gives it a pleasant, brown-sugar flavor that’s not too powerfully sweet. But for all the moderation in the mochi flavoring, the coating of kinako... Continue Reading →
Brand: Nagatanien Found At: Bokkusu ‘A sweet and bitter green tea jelly that you eat from a package’ – described accurately, this snack hardly seems appealing. The packaging, too, is quite off-putting as only a packet of jelly can be. But as unappetizing as it seems, the taste is something transcendent – that quintessential... Continue Reading →
Brand: Tsuruya Seika Region: Osaka Found at: Bokkusu Thank goodness for the lockdown so that no one has to see me eat this. I’ve never looked so much like a cave gremlin in my life – and I have done my fair share of gremlining. In my defense this is a rather messy desert:... Continue Reading →
Brand: Seiki Found at: Bokkusu The first time I saw an orange growing on a tree, I was totally stunned. Being a Northerner, born and bred, I knew that oranges grew on trees in the same way that I knew that alligators roamed the swamp: I believed it because other people had told me... Continue Reading →
Brand: Nissin Found at: Bokkusu Is it a cookie? Is it a cracker? Is it a fiber supplement? Surprise! It's all these things. And it tastes like a butter cookie. There's not much to say about these sugar-covered cracker-shaped squares other than that they are delicious. They're not so dissimilar to Bevita crackers or graham... Continue Reading →
Brand: Yuki & Love Cost: £3 The following story is a tale of a first-world problem extraordinaire. I tell it because, in this time of pandemics and primaries, it is nice to present the world with a problem that is both niche and ridiculous. Behold my tale of woe in four acts: Act... Continue Reading →
Brand: Bourbon Found at: Lawsons My father’s favorite aphorisms is “gilding the lily,” declaimed at such wonton excesses as eating bacon on a burger, putting chocolate sauce on ice-cream, and wearing earrings and makeup to the same event. It’s one of a long line of fatherly one-liners that later turn out to be references... 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 →
