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• Asian Candy Review: Pocky Brazilian Pudding

  A recent Saturday afternoon found me cruising the aisles at a large downtown Chinese market that I’d somehow never been to in all my years of living in this town. Naturally, I made a beeline for the candy section. All the usual suspects were there – Kasugai Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 1:00 AM from Candy Addict | 0 Comments Filed under: Chocolate Candy, Candy, Foreign (non-US) Candy, Candy Reviews, Chocolate, review, japanese, japan, caramel, asia, pocky

• Want to buy butter in Japan? Good luck!

  Filed under: Dairy , On the Blogs , Food News The shelves in Japanese supermarkets that normally hold butter are turning up bare these days. There is currently a shortage of milk in Japan, which has resulted in dearth of butter (since butter obviously Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:32 PM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: On the Blogs, dairy, japanese, japan, food news, dairy shortage, butter shortage, ButterShortage, DairyShortage

• Milk plus beer equals... bilk?

  Filed under: Beer , Dairy , Far East , Food Oddities , Islands , New Products Milk consumption in Japan is steadily declining and there seems to be no drop in production, which means that there is a lot of extra milk that needs to be disposed of every Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 2:29 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Drink, Beer, New Products, Food Oddities, drinks, NewProducts, dairy, Islands, japanese, Far East, japan, milk, oddities, novelt, bilk, brew

• Valentine's Day in Japan is for the guys, not the ladies

  Filed under: Chocolate , Far East , Did you know? , Islands In the US, Valentine's Day celebrations are generally geared towards couples, with a slight bias towards women when it comes to the marketing of chocolates, flowers and other gifts - a bias that Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:34 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Candy, Chocolate, chocolates, Did you know?, gifts, candies, Islands, japanese, Far East, japan, tradition, valentine's day, valentine, women, white day, reciprocation, WhiteDay, men

• Extra stuffed crust pizza from Japan

  Filed under: Restaurants , Far East , Food Oddities , Super Size Me , Fast Food Remember when stuffed crust pizza seemed like a relatively new idea? The idea of stuffing a pizza crust, instead of relegating all the toppings to the surface of the pizza, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:31 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, Cheese, Food Oddities, sausage, Fast Food, Super Size Me, japanese, Far East, japan, Pizza, crust, pizza hut, stuffed crust, super size

• Japanese students tested on chopstick skills

  Filed under: Far East , Culinary Kids , Food Gadgets , Islands Have you ever seen someone using a fork, knife or another eating utensil in a way that seems incredibly awkward? Because the ability to use a knife and fork is a mark of a well-socialized Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:02 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Culinary Kids, Food Gadgets, kid, kids, Islands, japanese, Far East, japan, school, tests, test, chopstick, utensil, students, knife, chopsticks, fork, utensils

• OXO adapts gadgets to the global market

  Filed under: Business , Far East , Food Gadgets , America OXO is well-known in the US for their sleek designs and both the functionality and reliability of their products, but when they decided to go global with their much-loved kitchen products, the Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 7:04 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: America, Food Gadgets, Business, kitchen, gadget, japanese, Far East, japan, oxo, grater, salad spinner, designs, design, tool

• Sake losing popularity in Japan

  Filed under: Far East , Trends , Islands , Spirits In spite of a 2,000 year old tradition, sake is declining in popularity in Japan. Consumers there are opting for wine, beer and cocktails - Western drinks - at home, at bars and at restaurants, causing Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:02 PM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Wine, Spirits, Trends, trend, Islands, japanese, popular, Far East, rice, japan, hip, cool, sake