Kinako Milk: Basic Recipe and Health Benefits
As you may know, Kinako (きな粉) is a traditional Japanese food made from whole soybeans roasted and finely ground into powder. In addition to coating Mochi (餅: plain white rice cake) in the winter, we...
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2 Types of Ramune: Soda Drinks and Dagashi Sugar Candy
When you hear “Ramune (ラムネ)”, what comes to your mind? I think many will probably bring to mind the classic Japanese soda pop with its root in lemonade “Ramune (ラムネ)”. As a matter of...
HB-101: Best Japanese Organic Plant Vitalizer
If you are a house plant lover, there is an organic plant vitalizer that I want you to know, which is the product named “HB-101”. HB-101 is a natural liquid fertilizer free from chemicals, so...
Dagashi: Baby Star Ramen Deep-Fried Noodle Snack
When I was a kid, with some pocket money I got from my parents, I used to often go to a small candy shop in my neighborhood that specialized in Dagashi snacks called Dagashiya...
Bath Salts: Bathclin Nihon no Meito Noboribetsu Karurusu
Nowadays, a large variety of Japanese bath salts are available on Amazon.com, from famous brands, such as Bathcline and Bath Roman, to minor products. Some of those items are well-recognized in Japan but haven’t become...
Nure Senbei: A Type of Wet Rice Cracker
As with Okaki and Arare, Senbei is one of the traditional rice crackers most familiar to us Japanese. The rice snack comes in four major types, one of which is called Nure Senbei (ぬれせんべい). Nure...
Nobel Super Lemon Candy Famous for its Extreme Sourness
When I was a kid, a lemon flavor candy amazed me because the hard candy had a super sour taste that I had never experienced. Nonetheless, after the first try, I became addicted to...
Mitsubishi Uni-Ball RE: Knock-Type Erasable Ballpoint Pen
When I think of Japanese erasable ballpoint pens, what comes to my mind first is the Pilot FriXion erasable pen series. This is because recently I have heard that the sales number of the...
