Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
“Dagashi (駄菓子)” is the generic term for cheap, relatively small, unique Japanese snacks and candies, and one of the most famous products in the genre is “Umaibo (うまい棒: literally Delicious Stick)”, which is a...
Japanese “Dagashi (駄菓子)” snacks can’t be told without “Umaibo (うまい棒)”. For the unfamiliar, Dagashi is the collective term for cheap, unique, and relatively small Japanese snacks whose price ranges from 10 yen (about 0.1...
In July 2020, the leading Dagashi snack company, Yaokin added a new regular flavor to their Umaibo line for the first time in five years, and I bought 2 bags of the newly released...
by Tomo · Published September 25, 2019 · Last modified August 20, 2020
Known as one of the most beloved Dagashi treats in Japan, “Umaibo (うまい棒)” is a long-selling corn puff snack bar that is especially popular with children. It comes in many unique flavors and only costs 10...
“Umaibo (うまい棒)” is a classic, popular “Dagashi (駄菓子)” snack bar sold by Yaokin. Although Umaibo is a cheap corn puff snack that only costs 10 yen (about 0.1 USD) in Japan, it is really...
Product introduction / Snacks / Trivia
by Tomo · Published July 30, 2019 · Last modified March 3, 2021
“Umai-Bo (うまい棒)”, literally meaning “Delicious-Stick” in Japanese, is a Japanese corn puff stick with a lot of fans in and outside of Japan. The Japanese puffed corn snack is shaped like a cylindrical tube...
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)”....
Junk foods / Recipes / Seasoning and Condiment / Snacks
by Tomo · Published April 13, 2018 · Last modified September 7, 2020
Some Japanese like to create food recipes using snacks and candies, and in fact, you can find a bunch of recipes of that kind on the internet offered in Japanese. Among those, I have...
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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.
