Taste-testing the “cheese that gives you weird dreams”【Experiment】
The Japanese Internet is buzzing about this mysterious blue cheese, and as usual, we’re ahead of schedule on the weirdness. Over the past few days, there’s been a lot of buzz on Japanese social media...
View ArticleCan we replace tofu with cheese in miso soup? We find out【SoraKitchen】
This is quite possibly the easiest recipe ever…but does it taste good? Cheese is a gift to mankind. Honestly, if people got along with each other the same way cheese gets along with everything, the...
View ArticleCamp eats: We try making an “Italian-style” meat-wrapped onigiri for a hearty...
Possibly one of the best fusions of Japanese and Italian cuisine we’ve had. As camping season gears up in Japan, we’re always on the hunt to make the experience even better than the last year. That...
View ArticleHear ye, hear ye! 7-Eleven’s Cheese Buns are the best cheesy bread snacks on...
Nearly everyone in the office agrees! Listen, we here at the SoraNews24 office have eaten a lot of food. Actually, we’ve eaten a lot of really, really good food–so much that we’d ordinarily be...
View Article“The devil made me do it!” Mr Sato eats cheese bread ramen in Tokyo
Japanese noodle restaurant chain adds a decadent offering to its menu at select locations. According to our Japanese-language reporter Mr Sato, now that he’s in his late 40s he can’t eat fatty foods...
View ArticleLemon & Cheese pies from McDonald’s bring some sunshine to the rainy...
And Spicy Chicken McNuggets bring the heat. Japan seems to be settling into the rainy season now, with gray skies and mugginess on a near-daily basis. To counter that, it seems that someone at...
View ArticleBurger King’s new all-cheese The Real Cheese Burger looks crazy, sort of...
Burger King Thailand’s new sandwich grabs our eyes and opens our mind. I spend a lot of time thinking, in a professional capacity, about both hamburgers and linguistics, and there’s a weird quirk...
View ArticleWhat does a Burger King Whopper with nothing but 20 slices of cheese taste like?
We recreate The Real Cheese Burger in Japan. Just last week, we discovered that Burger King Thailand had a new item on the menu called The Real Cheese Burger, consisting of two halves of a bun with...
View ArticleThe Gentleman’s Cheese Beef Bowl, invented by Mr. Sato
Opulence, thy name is The Gentleman’s Cheese Beef Bowl. In recent years in Japan, the act of putting cheese on top of a gyudon/beef bowl has become associated with a certain negative stereotype of a...
View ArticleMr. Sato compares the new milk cream Hokkaido cheese steamed cake to the...
He swears the company took a hint from his own eating preferences. Our Japanese-language reporter Mr. Sato can never seem to have enough carbs. One product that has maintained constant popularity in...
View ArticleCan our reporters tell fancy specialty store camembert cheese from the...
Our reporters’ experienced palates are tested once again. If there’s one food that’s universally appealing to people around the world, it’s probably cheese. Of course, there are different kinds of...
View ArticleKFC becomes KFCheese with new pie and raclette “drowning” burger in Japan
Fried chicken specialists make cheese the star with new limited-edition menu items. Like many global franchises, KFC knows how to adapt its menu to please local tastes, and judging by this newest...
View ArticleDomino’s Japan’s New Cheese Volcano Pizza is a game-changer that’s about to...
Look out — this cheesy volcano from Japan may be coming to your local branch soon. As the most popular pizza delivery chain in Japan, Domino’s is always looking for new ways to stay on top, and its...
View ArticleIs Domino’s Japan’s new Cheese Volcano Pizza worth the hype and calories?
Taking pizza to new heights with a volcanic crater full of cheese. In its ongoing efforts to stay on top as Japan’s most popular pizza delivery chain, Domino’s is always looking for new ways to keep...
View ArticleThis is what a Whopper with 1,005 slices of cheese looks like in today’s...
Revenge is a dish best served cold, or sometimes, not at all. Back in 2012, our reporter Mr Sato took the Internet by storm when he attempted to devour a Whopper containing 1,000 slices that he...
View ArticleJapan’s Homo Sausage now comes with cheese
What a way to celebrate a birthday. In Japan, some terms get lost in translation, with words from other languages having a different meaning in Japanese, like “mansion“, which means “apartment“,...
View ArticleHow to make a massive five-layer lasagna…in your rice cooker【SoraKitchen】
The quest to eat all of the cheese in our office continues. First there was our attempt at creating a 1,005-cheese-slice Whopper, then there was our successful rice cooker deep dish Chicago pizza...
View ArticleBaskin-Robbins Japan creates four-cheese pizza ice cream – Buono or non...
Four-cheese ice cream from Thirty One is one strange idea. If you’re a fan of Italian food, there’s a pretty good chance that when you hear the words quattro formaggi you think of an extra-cheesy...
View ArticleKrispy Kreme Japan unveils new doughnuts filled with…cheese?
Say hello to the Cheerful Cheese! collection. Krispy Kreme has changed its strategy in Japan in recent years, focussing more on sweet releases that appeal to local tastes, and judging by this latest...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Japan’s new Cheese Cheese Double Cheeseburger makes a different...
How cheesy is a Cheese Cheese Dabuchi? In recent years, the Double Cheeseburger at McDonald’s has been winning fans in Japan, who fondly refer to the burger as the “Dabuchi“. With twice as much cheese...
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