Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
When it comes to Japanese milk chocolate with flavored cream inside, Fujiya Look Chocolate and Meiji Strawberry Chocolate are best-known with a long history. While the latter, Strawberry Chocolate, debuted in 1967, the former Look...
Today when I was eating dinner watching TV, local specialty foods of Toyama Prefecture were introduced on a TV show. Among them, there was one thing that I had never heard of before. Seaweed...
Although winter is just around the corner here in Japan, yesterday, when I was shopping at a drugstore, I came across an autumn flavor of Japanese Kit Kat. There are 2 Kit Kat Japan-limited...
Today when I went out shopping, I stopped by a supermarket and came across a rare Kit Kat by chance that had been sold only in Japan’s Onsen hot spring resorts in 2018. That...
When it comes to Japanese milk chocolate with fruit-flavored chocolate fillings, Meiji Strawberry Chocolate and Fujiya Look Chocolate are the best and most-loved. While Look Chocolate was introduced in 1962 by Fujiya and is made up...
The donut is a fried dough confection that’s long been loved in many countries whose original form is said to be the traditional Dutch confection “Oliebollen” or “Olykoek”. In Japan, Mister Donut and Dunkin’ Donuts opened...
While the word “Okashi (お菓子)” can refer to any kind of snack, sweet, and candy, regardless of where they are produced, “Wagashi (和菓子)” is the word for traditional Japanese confections. Wagashi comes in many...
Yesterday when I shopped at a 7 Eleven convenience store, a small packaged Wagashi sweet caught my eye because I had never seen the product before. From its name, the confection from 7 Eleven’s...
