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McDonald’s Japan Bringing Back Matcha Treats Again This Year With New Twist

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - As we’ve seen time and time again, McDonald’s Japan likes to shake up its menu to keep customers coming back to try all the new and limited-time goodies, with everything from peach milkshakes and Pikachu McFlurries to monstrous burgers like the Giga Mac.
Last year, they also...

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Häagen-Dazs Japan Unveils Its Next Unusual Ice Cream Flavour: Orange Sweet Potato

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This is no ordinary sweet potato offering.
Häagen-Dazs has been spoiling its Japanese customers with unusual flavours specifically geared towards local tastes for a number of years now, and while many of the company’s limited-edition releases have showcased well-known ingredients li...

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Idol Singer Girl Sweat Flavor Fried Chicken Goes on Sale in Tokyo

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Yes, of course it’s made with breast meat.
Tenka Torimasu is a chain of take-out restaurants with a half-dozen branches in Tokyo (and a few more elsewhere in Japan) that specializes in karaage, boneless chunks of Japanese-style fried chicken. While fried chicken is plenty delicious ...

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Japanese Company Produces Organic Miso Powder in Collaboration with Model Miranda Kerr

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - If you asked Japanese people on the street to name one of their favorite models from overseas, chances are that Australian beauty Miranda Kerr would be on that list. Kerr’s good looks have been used to advertise everything from handbags to jewellery and even fat-shedding tea...

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Pitch-black Instant Ramen Added to Cup Noodle Lineup

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - While the “men” part of the word “ramen” means “noodles,” it’s really the broth that makes ramen special. The noodles themselves don’t really have much flavor, after all.
Soy, miso, and pork are the most popular choices of stock, and each imparts its own unique flavor. Regar...

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Eel Slightly Cheaper, But Long-term Supply Uncertain

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Tuesday will mark one of this summer’s “doyo no ushi no hi,” a traditional eel-eating day, and this year we are likely to be able to eat eel at slightly cheaper prices than last year.
Thanks to larger catches of glass eels for farming compared to last season, the wholesale price ...

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Japanese Tea Shop Introduces $16-a-scoop Matcha Ice Cream, Has Good Reason For Eye-popping Price

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Not just any green tea is good enough to become Daijinsho Matcha ice cream.
As such an integral part of Japan’s beverage culture, green tea usually isn’t prohibitively expensive. Grocery store cooler sections are stocked with plastic bottles of pre-made green tea that sell for 100 y...

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Move over square watermelons – Japan now has square watermelon bread!

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Beautiful and delicious, both inside and out.
The prevalence of square watermelons in Japan is greatly exaggerated. Sure, if you walk into the fruit-as-gift sections of high-end department stores you can find them, but it’s not like people regularly buy them for themselves. Not only...

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Coca-Cola Releases Five New Gorgeous Limited-Edition Bottles in Japan

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Each of the locally-themed designs will be limited for sale in different regions of the country.
While Pepsi tantalises our tastebuds with new and exciting limited-edition flavours in Japan, Coca-Cola keeps us on our toes with new and exclusive packaging.
Following on from the huge ...

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Chill Out This Summer With a Refreshing Iced Cup Noodle

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If you can’t stand the heat, then get out a delicious-looking Cup Noodle Somen.
Japan is quickly entering the summer season, which is also traditionally known as “the suckiest season around.” With its abundance of cockroaches, giant hornets, humidity, sweat, typhoons, and…sweat, the...

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