Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
Junk foods / Product introduction / Recipes / Rice bowl dishes / Seasoning and Condiment
by Tomo · Published May 28, 2020 · Last modified January 11, 2021
A few years ago, a rice bowl dish called “Akuma Meshi (悪魔めし)” became a popular topic on Japanese social media, and based on the recipe even the convenience store chain Lawson developed an Onigiri...
Junk foods / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published May 5, 2020 · Last modified June 24, 2020
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is the generic name for cheap Japanese snacks and candies, and those treats were mostly sold in “Dagashiya (駄菓子屋)”, shops that specialize in Dagashi snacks and candies, several decades ago in Japan....
Junk foods / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published December 17, 2019 · Last modified December 18, 2019
“Katsu (カツ)” is the Japanese word for cutlets, so the food is deep-fried in plenty of oil and is characterized by its crispy breadcrumb coating. The Japanese cutlet, Katsu is usually made with sliced...
Junk foods / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published February 1, 2019 · Last modified September 27, 2020
Have you ever heard that there is a snack genre unique to Japan that is especially popular among children? As you may already know, the name of the Japanese snack genre is “Dagashi (駄菓子)”....
Foods / Junk foods / Product introduction / Trivia
by Tomo · Published December 22, 2018 · Last modified March 7, 2020
Tempura is a traditional Japanese food made by deep-frying one piece of ingredient covered in the batter of hen’s eggs and wheat flour. It seems that the scraps of leftover deep-fried Tempura batter generated...
Junk foods / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published December 20, 2018 · Last modified May 24, 2020
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is a snack genre unique to Japan which is mostly made up of so-called junk foods. In fact, Dagashi snacks are so cheap, being sold for 10 (about 0.1 USD) to 100...
Instant noodles / Junk foods / Product introduction
by Tomo · Published December 8, 2018 · Last modified July 1, 2020
These days, I often see newly released cups of Nissin’s instant rice soup lined up on the shelf in the instant cup ramen section of a 7 eleven convenience store that I regularly stop...
Junk foods / Product introduction / Snacks
by Tomo · Published September 24, 2018 · Last modified February 15, 2021
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is a snack genre unique to Japan, which is made up of cheap, unique, relatively small Japanese snacks and candies. As a single piece of Dagashi is available from only 10 yen...
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I'm Tomo, a Japanese blogger living in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. For the purpose of enriching your life, I would like to introduce things about Japan on this blog, especially unique Japanese products, cooking recipes, cultures, and facts and trivia.
