Image pinched from Pepsis Japanese web site. This is just a quick and brief post to say that the weird Pepsi flavor that everyone (no one?) has been waiting for is going to be "salty watermelon&...
One of the things you get from being outside of a culture and looking in is a perspective on how things seem to be. You get an overview which is not possible when looking from the inside out. Of cour...
Several years ago, I had a conversation with one of my friends in California in which he told me that he preferred to drink green tea rather than other sorts of beverages. Though he has since moved o...
Im pretty sure that I saw blueberry cheesecake KitKats were available in Japan in at least 4 different packages. I bought them as single stick bars quite some time ago and saw them as a regular bar w...
This is one of the regional KitKat varieties that I picked up at the airport on the way out the door when I left Japan. Its important to say that my husband was the one who spied this and wanted it b...
Image pilfered from Pepsi Japans web site Since many of my readers also read "The Impulsive Buy" (and if you dont, you should), this products existence should not come as a surprise to you....
As is the case in all countries, there are various categories of snacks. I tried to sample from a variety of types including otsumami (snacks to be consumed with beverages, especially alcoholic ones)...
Since leaving Japan and becoming a woman of leisure (i.e., unemployed), Ive been taking advantage of the time to do things which I lacked the free hours to do in Tokyo. One of those things is putting...
When I was shopping in Tokyo, I never looked carefully at the origin of a product before I bought it. In fact, most of the time, I didnt pay attention after purchasing unless there was a reason. This...
Image pinched from Dominos Japans web site. I used to teach a lesson about holidays to my student during which I taught them the term "Hallmark Holiday". The awesome thing for Japanese comp...
When I was given wasabi KitKats, I remember having a discussion about chocolate with one of my students in which I mentioned that putting chili in chocolate was fairly common in America. She was shoc...
Image acquired from Lottes web site. One of the things Im finding now that Im back home is that I dont know how to pronounce product names in the way in which people here pronounce them. If it was in...
There were many perfectly reasonable and innocent word combinations in Japan which, because of different cultural connotations, were funny to native speakers. These cans of jasmine tea, sold without ...
As I grew increasingly bored by the sweets on offer in usual venues (convenience stores, supermarkets, snack shops) in Tokyo, I started to look further afield for interesting items. During my last ye...
I knew that there were going to be options for some of my favorite Japanese snacks in America. One of the things that I had high hopes for was a tasty Americanized version of sembei or rice crackers....
Click to see a larger picture. Its that time of year in Japan again. The cherry blossoms are blooming. The salary men are sitting on blue plastic tarps and getting drunk in appreciation, and the youn...
Prolific movie reviewer Roger Ebert once said something to the effect that what he wanted out of a movie was for it to be something that he had not seen before. Given how many movies he digested as a...
Image pilfered from the Nestle Japan web site. As my very first product information post, Im pleased to show you something which Nestle Japan was boring me with just before I left Japan. I actually ...
This is the current availability of Japanese snacks at my present location, and what a sad lot it is! When I left Japan, there were a lot of question marks about the future of this blog. I knew that ...
Click to see a larger, more legible version. Every time a restaurant in America tries to grab attention with some sort of gargantuan portion which clearly no individual (or even a small party) is mea...
When I visited Kamakura, home of the big Buddha, I saw loads of people walking around with shopping bags with the design on the front of the Hato Sable (pigeon/dove cookies). I didnt understand why t...
Ive always been curious about the origin of various foods and wary of the notion that any food was solely invented by one particular culture. Long-time and attentive readers will recall that I questi...
Click to see a bigger picture. Im not sure what the soymilk cookies are supposed to reset in one day (appetite?), but I have my doubts about their ability to suppress appetite. I think my brain goes...
I lived on a big island (thatd be Japan for those who are incredibly dim or havent been reading this blog for awhile) for 23 years and am currently taking my ease on a much, much smaller island and ...
From the top: strawberry daifuku, tiramisu, and chocolate (the basic croissant) If something involves a lot of fat, there is a good chance that the French are doing it quite well, and if you know th...
My last full day in Japan was March 28 and my husband and I traveled to the place where it all started for us, Kita-senju. This was where I "met" him for the first time and lived in his apa...
I have whined before that I would not fork over 840 yen ($10.23) for boxes of region-specific KitKats. There is something about standing in an airport knowing that this is the last time Ill be there ...
My husband and I went to Kamakura to call upon the giant Buddha (daibutsu) several weeks ago because thats the sort of thing a person does before leaving a country forever. Honestly speaking, every t...
It may surprise no one that I have been taking pictures of food all over Japan like a mad woman since I know that Ill not have the chance to do so in the future. That being said, I still hold out hop...
Just after graduating from college, I was desperate to get a job as my guaranteed student loans were going to require their first payment come August. With a B.A. in Psychology in hand, I was ready t...
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