Anything macha can go in the bin. Calbee chips are great and Japanese chocolate is top rate too. But to be quite honest nothing come close to the exceedingly good cakes made by one UK maker.
The salty snacks are too sweet and the sweet treats are bland and lack that butter-sugar punch. Regular potato chips are pretty hard to mess up that, but they somehow manage it with flavorless potatoes.
Well so okay maybe their potato chips don't measure up but they have elevated shave ice (kakigori) and the parfait (check out some of the shops in the Meguro area) to an art form, and some places (obviously not the ones doing corn mayonaise) do a great pizza.
I tried mochi its yummy. Id give my voice for dorayaki, yokan, takosen and fried rice onigiri, and anything of\with chestnuts, just looking at them lets you know they are good.
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Hawk
Black Thunder and Kare-pan.
Toshihiro
takoyaki and onigiri. I'm a bit of a chowhound, these are just snacks for me.
purple_depressed_bacon
Those spicy Calbee chips are nice. Pocky and the Panda cookies are fun too. Oh and all the mad Kit Kat flavors they put out are interesting to try.
Gene Hennigh
Mochi.
Takoyaki is a great choice, Toshihiro. Thanks for reminding me.
Roll cake.
yinyang128
Senbei, Maccha flavored ice cream, Manju, konbini Nikuman, Famichiki (konbini fried chickens), Potato fries with nori, fruits Kanten, konbini oden, fruits flavored yoghurts etc...
Mr Kipling
Anything macha can go in the bin. Calbee chips are great and Japanese chocolate is top rate too. But to be quite honest nothing come close to the exceedingly good cakes made by one UK maker.
Arrrgh-Type
Black Thunder is really good and makes a great gift to bring back overseas. Chip Star Nori Shio is another guilty pleasure.
grund
Kurikinton and any other cakes with chestnuts.
commanteer
Shigekix are great and always put the so-called "sour" candies at home to shame.
SDCA
Nori-shio potato chips with sesame seed oil. They come out with this for a limited time only but these are freaking delicious!
藤原
Yatsu Hashi and Nama Yatsu Hashi
Not really a snack but Hori 551 Butaman. As well as Oyaki from Nagano Ken.
wallace
I will second that one, especially when done on an open fire.
FizzBit
Nothing.
The salty snacks are too sweet and the sweet treats are bland and lack that butter-sugar punch. Regular potato chips are pretty hard to mess up that, but they somehow manage it with flavorless potatoes.
Legrande
Well so okay maybe their potato chips don't measure up but they have elevated shave ice (kakigori) and the parfait (check out some of the shops in the Meguro area) to an art form, and some places (obviously not the ones doing corn mayonaise) do a great pizza.
Yuuju
I tried mochi its yummy. Id give my voice for dorayaki, yokan, takosen and fried rice onigiri, and anything of\with chestnuts, just looking at them lets you know they are good.
Sven Asai
fridge cooled Angel Pie (you won't stop eating until package is empty lol)
Patricia Yarrow
Mr Kipling can send his matcha treats my way. Matcha is my number one preference.
blue in green
Calbee Ume flavored potato chips, custard filled Taiyaki,
and nutty Manju...
CuteUsagi
Warm Shirako on toasted France Pan
Garthgoyle
Cheese Umaibo and Black Thunder.
John-San
Ikura
Neurozoo
Kaki no tane with a cold Asahi draft.