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January 26th, 2008

Vending machine snacks

4 double kitkats in a jar.  Sold from a vending machine.  Sandwiched between cold drinks on one side and hot coffee on the other.  How does it survive?  The technology is amazing. What is the best thing that you have ever bought from a vending machine?  
Tags: Appetizers/Snacks/Nibbles, Japanese

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January 23rd, 2008

Chocolate with matcha

Picture 3 Australians crowded around a table.  One is studying Kanji, another is studying Japanese grammar and the third is studying the Japanese Lonely Planet.  Out comes a packet of this chocolate with macha and you can probably guess what happened.
Our analysis was short and sweet.  One said “great”, one said 8 out of 10, […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Choco pan type 3

This is the third type of choco pan that I had in mind when I wrote about the three types back here.  This one has to be the lowest level of choco pan.  Simply a long life type bread stick.  Dry and tasteless.  Dipped in chocolate.  These guys exist on the shelf next to cookies […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Choco pan type 2

Lisa from Lunchbucketbento was on the same wavelength as me when she picked this one other type of choco pan.  Have a look at her description in the comments to this post.  You can understand what she is talking about if you look at where I took a bite in the photo.  It has a swirled […]

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January 20th, 2008

Dark Chocolate Pino

Pino are a classic Japanese ice cream.  Typically vanilla ice cream shaped like a tiny fez covered in chocolate.  This week I discovered dark chocolate Pino and was very happy.  There is nothing particularly unusual about the ice cream or the chocolate but they make studying Japanese Kanji (as you can see behind the box […]

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January 20th, 2008

The reward

Saturday was cold, in fact bitterly cold.  I had been training on my bike up and down Mt Tsukuba until I was almost dead with cold and exhaustion.  I had just an easy flat ride to get me back to a shop and about 20 minutes to devise the perfect snack to keep me alive.  […]

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January 17th, 2008

Choco pie

The last post was about choco pan.  Now this is not to be confused with the totally different species known as choco pie.  Normally choco pie is a sort of biscuit/cake that lives in with the sweets and cookies in a supermarket.  They consist of a sandwich of sweet soft biscuits, some cream and heaps […]

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January 17th, 2008

Choco Pan Type 1

Choco pan is Japanese for Chocolate bread.  It is found all over Japan but takes three main forms.  The first is pictured here and is probably the sweetest and stickiest.  It is basically a low grade sweet bread roll that is filled with chocolate cream (sort of like a bitter chocolate mouse).  In this case, […]

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January 10th, 2008

Wasabi chips

I scored a bag of these wasabi flavoured chips from the 98 yen aisle of my local supermarket this week.  Needless to say they didn’t last very long.  Not only did they have a beautiful wasabi flavour (with the heat that really gets up your nose), but they also look quite like wasabi roots themselves. 
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January 5th, 2008

Beetroot chips

I was wondering why I never saw beetroot here in Japan.  Then the other day I tried Japanese beetroot chips and I understood.  Not only are they the best that I have ever tried, but they even beat wasabi potato crisps.  I have a theory that all of the healthy fresh beetroot is being diverted […]

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