Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
When I went shopping at a Lawson convenience store the other day, I found a product of wafer chocolate reminiscent of my childhood called Bikkuri-Man (ビックリマン: meaning Surprise Man) from Lotte. When I was...
Together with the Kit Kats that I talked about in the previous posts, I accidentally found one of my favorite soda candies as a kid called Awadama (あわだま) in the Welcia drugstore. Awadama Soda...
Recently, Yaokin has announced that it will revise the price of Umaibo from 10 yen (about 0.1 USD) to 12 yen on April 1st of this year (2022). As the price of the dagashi...
Today at a 7 Eleven convenience store I swang by on my way home, I found a good and old Dagashi snack called “Choco Bat (チョコバット)” for the first time in a while. Choco...
The time of Halloween is nearing day by day. Here in Japan, the festival is not that familiar to people, but many like getting a taste of it through its related products. Annually, I...
As you may already know, Dagashi (駄菓子) is the generic term for cheap and relatively small Japanese snacks and candies. Those treats are sold at a price ranging from 10 yen to 100 yen...
It’s been about 2 months since I last shopped at a Welcia drugstore, where today, an Umaibo flavor that I had never seen before caught my eye. The flavor of that Umaibo was Lemon....
“Arare (あられ)”, literally meaning hailstone, is a common traditional Japanese rice cracker made from glutinous rice called “Mochi Gome (餅米)”, but in modern times, it’s also made from wheat flour and favored especially by...
