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You’ve no idea how deep this rabbit hole is. #japanlife #lifeinjapan #japanesetreats #snacksofjapan #japanesesnacks #rabbithole #deepestrabbithole (at J-Hoppers Lake Biwa Guesthouse ジェイホッパーズ琵琶湖ゲストハウス) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nrRbXnWdU/?igshid=11gsc6w5pjkp5

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せんべい (rice crackers) come in different flavors. Take your pick. (Photo taken 12 August 2018) || #tokyotrip #tokyotrip2018 #flavorsofjapan #snacks #snacksofjapan #senbei #ricecrackers #yanaka #taitoku #tokyo https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQE5H5gfvV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rnp0hweqnbeb

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ORANGE FANTA BLACK THUNDER

It's just a regular Black Thunder with a miniature orange-flavoured fireworks party happening in my mouth (there’s popping candy in there), I don't care if it's a total novelty, I love it.

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ARIAKE HARBOUR

This packaging gives hardly any clues as to what is inside. I have to admit it’s the mystery that draws me in. Also it has an illustration of people holding streamers and waving from a boat. I’ve always wanted to be the one waving from a boat.

Inside is a kind of oily, kind of wrinkly, kiiiiind of (??) boat shaped cake that smells either like an old doughnut or some kind of ancient but familiar treat from my childhood, I can’t pinpoint it.

Anyway it’s somewhere between a manju and a financier and it’s pleasant enough. Great for grandmothers. 

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YOUNG DOUGHNUT

I’m sorry, I really just can’t get past the name here, but I’ll try:

These actually just taste like artificial stale cake doughnuts that you get from the supermarket because that’s what they are but you can’t really blame them for not being that great because they haven’t reached maturity also they were 40 yen in the children’s snack aisle at the supermarket, so.

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BIG KATSU To my disappointment this product does not contain any pork cutlet but I'm pretty good at setting aside my disappointment so never mind. For only thirty yen it's a substitute, if not an acceptable one. Also if you don't care about meat this does smell and taste exactly like tonkatsu sauce and if you ignore the cardboardy texture then... maybe? it works? sort of? (...I don't know what it says about me that I actually enjoyed this product.)

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JAGA CHOCO HONEY BUTTER FLAVOUR It's the year 2016 so we've all seen chocolate covered potato chips by now but what about these, honey butter white chocolate covered chips? The texture is right, I'll give them that. But rather than honey or butter they mostly just taste like someone mixed Elmer's glue with too much sugar and poured the resulting mess over some perfectly good potato chips. They simultaneously make me want to compulsively finish the whole package and vomit all over the table.

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Chips of Japan episode 5: bacon asparagus potato chips