Gaming sake: a game-changer for the industry!?
Recently, there are many items labeled for gaming. Gaming mice, gaming chairs, gaming headsets, the list goes on. If you’re a gamer, you may own…
Food
Japanese pudding specialty shop teams up with Sanrio for adorable Hello Kitty sweet treats
Sanrio are a company known worldwide for their cute characters such as Cinnamoroll, My Melody, Kuromi, and more. But surely their most popular creation is…
Family Mart collabs with 450-year-old teahouse to bring Uji matcha luxury to green tea frappe
The summer is heating up in Japan, and if there’s one treat that green tea fans can’t do without during this season, it’s a matcha…
Instant noodles “modified recipe” becomes a hot topic in Japan; Just add ingredients and boil?
“I really want to make this” “It looks soooo good!” “I’m hungry and I want to eat this now!” Japanese chef and Twitter user 麦ライス…
Japan’s first salmon speciality bar – Salmon Holic – to serve up salmon-only dishes in Nagoya
Though Japan has plenty of variety when it comes to types of sushi to dine on, there’s one plate in particular that seems to be…
Japan’s best cookies converge at Sogo Yokohama’s first “Cookie Expo”
The market for high-end cookies is growing internationally. In Japan, cookies are very popular and new brands and varieties continue to emerge. For example, as…
Living in the city? Try hand picking at strawberry farms
Green and red, fragrant and sweet! There are so many opportunities to pick your own strawberries in Kanagawa. Here’s what we found. By Moe Moeda,…
When non-Japanese people see the “oden” emoji: “That’s what they see?” “I loled”
Emojis, the convenient pictograms populating cellphone and smartphone keyboards around the world, originated in Japan. Written 絵文字, emoji literally means “picture letter.” For example, here…
This is confusing! To all appearances, they’re rice ball packages but something’s wrong
As many grape Japan readers probably know, Japanese convenience stores sell a wide variety of おにぎり onigiri rice balls. TikTok user and sweets lover gi_sk_cake…
Japanese sweet store brings back ‘raindrop cake’ jellies as traditional summer dessert
Japanese traditional sweets are known just as much for their presentation as their taste, and one particularly magical looking genre of dessert are those that…
Use ground meat ‘as is’ in ultimate “shortcut recipe”: “Awesome”; “I’ll try it right away!”
“Japanese hamburger steak” (ハンバーグ hambāgu), a variation of Hamburg Steak or Salisbury Steak, is a dish made by kneading ground meat—often a 7:3 blend of…
“Make these kinds of sweets!” Final form of candy thought up by kids is too cute
It can always be a Herculean order for a parent to meet the expectations of their child’s imagination, but Japanese mother of three and patissier…
Need a berry twist on your breakfast? Japan’s new strawberry sugar uses some of the tastiest in the country
While there’s no denying the appeal of a hearty breakfast, a serving of sweets in the morning can sometimes be the most delicious way to…
Earn tasty Stella Stars with these Spy x Family snacks
The manga series Spy x Family, written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo, is having its moment in the limelight as its popularity, buoyed by its…
7-Eleven Japan’s delicious egg roll sandwiches deliver the most value for your yen
As some grape Japan readers may recall, we recently considered what makes Japanese convenience store egg sandwiches so exceptional using the example of Family Mart’s…