Favorite Japanese snacks, desserts, drinks, etc. ?

[caramboo]

What are you favorite snacks? :wave:

[thomas]

Japanese or in general? :)

[Twisted]

I like any form of potato chips. And i must note that i make a distinct difference between chips made of potatoes and those made of corn. I really don't like corn chips.

And i like fries, especially those large flemish fries.
Chicken McNuggets are also cool. Especially those in Thailand. They're different from those in Holland, you know. :)

[thomas]

Flamish fries, mmhhh... Belgian cuisine, beer and chocolate are special in general. Anyone living there for a while has no choce but to grow fat.
:)

McNuggets: not very fond of them (at least the European ones), they taste very artificial. Probably they are, hehe...

[Twisted]

Yeah well, chicken itself doesn't taste like anything and they probably mix all kinds of other meat into a Chicken McNugget as well. It's just that i like the crispy crust they use in Thailand. :)

[lineartube]

Swiss Chocolat with nougat. And maybe some cookies too. If there's some piece of fruit nearby I'll probably take a bite out of it :D

[Maciamo]

In Thailand I tried fried grasshoppers, cockroaches and scorpions. That's a nice crunchy snack, but they all taste similar.

More commonly, pastries, burgers, sandwiches, Japanese "purin" (custard) or chocolate are what I eat between meals to appease my insatiable stomach (and believe it or not, I am rather slim).

[thomas]

I've tried locusts in Burma, they fry them at train stations. Salty, crunchy, not bad. And healthy, lolol.

I love all kinds of nuts, especially cashew and macadamia nuts. The fatter, the tastier. Hm, at the moment I have 16 kgs more than just five years ago, but wouldn't consider myself fat (yet).
:)

[Anastasia]

OOOOH CHOCOLATE!!!! or anything packed with sugar!!!

[Namashibori]

I don't know. I just eat everything all the time.

[Maciamo]

Originally posted by thomas
Hm, at the moment I have 16 kgs more than just five years ago, but wouldn't consider myself fat (yet).
:)

Then you are ripe for a trip to India. During my first travel around India and SE Asia, I lost 15kg. Actually, I have only taken 5 or 6 back. Japan is not a country were you get fat. I guess that's true for most Asian countries, but especially were it's hot because you are not so hungry, sweat a lot and drink plenty of water. The ultimate diet. :D

[moyashi]

cookies and ice cream my favorites.

Although, I like some of the Japanese snacks. Like karinto. It's some kind of sugar covered ???. The ??? sort of reminds me of really hard pretzels.

I also like black sugar from Okinawa.

[ghettocities]

my favorite snack is kfc chicken potpies in japan, i never ate a whole one but that jingle in the commercial is still playing over and over again in my mind like a broken record, "kfc no chicken potpie, kfc no chicken potpie, kfc no chicken potpie" awww like an angels touch on a harp, so sweet, so tender.

[thomas]

Originally posted by Maciamo
Then you are ripe for a trip to India. During my first travel around India and SE Asia, I lost 15kg.

I've lost a lot of weight during my journey through Burma (just 2 weeks), but for other reasons. At that time I had only traveller cheques and just a bit of cash. In Rangoon (now called Yangon) they told me that my cheques would not be accepted. So I started to trade my personal belongings, like a T-shirt for a rice dish etc. I even managed to acquire a few souvenirs (in exchange for a cheap walkman I bought in Thailand, lol). After I had traded my last T-shirt, I was really short on food, but hey, it was a big adventure!
;)

[Hoyu]

While my favorite snacks are Wasabi Iso Peanuts and Kakidane Arare, there is a Muscat Juice that I really love as well.

If anyone knows what company makes this delicious juice with peeled little Muscat grapes in the can, then please let me know. I have been meaning to ask my brother-in-law to mail me a few cans, but I keep forgetting. And I don't even know what brand comes with the grapes in it.

[thomas]

I also love wasabi in any form and shape. In Japan I've had my daily share of wasabi potato chips, I'm missing them.

[ryo]

i dunno if its japanese, but its definetly asian.. i love Pretz salad from a company called Glica.. theyre buscuit sticks like pocky, but its got this great taste..

[Tare. Aura Violette]

hmm
I love Ramune soda
rather obsessed with it I must say

frequent customer down at the korean mart :emblaugh:

hmm...... anything orange flavoured
mmm ^___^

chocolate is nice too

I like those snacks I found in Japan that were some sort of mixing thing .. heh ^^;
those are very good, yet very tangy

[Mae]

i love chocolates and fast-foods like nugats, burgers and the worst and yet the best ---fries!!!...i always take those as my SNACKS, feel really good after having those, they're my daily companion!! But, those are really what geting my weight rising..^_^"

[Christine]

My favorite snack is...... I don`t eat candy or snack I\m fed up with it. But I do love ice cream!

[Christine]

My favorite snack is...... I don`t eat candy or snack I`m fed up with it. But I do love ice cream!

[ayupan]

pocky all the way ^^

[Shinmeiryu]

pocky, yan-yan, daifuku

[Himura]

I love ICE-TEA and Green-Tea!!! -thatｴs no snack? for me it is!!! i really drink that much of it that it is food :gulp: !!!!

[neko_girl22]

I LOOOOOOVE karaage. I could eat hundreds.

but, I am going to an Asian medicine doctor and he's put me on this STRICT diet so no more snacking for me :bawling:

I love Green tea , mugi-cha and ulon tea so I live on that.......
watch the weight drop off - yaay!

[optimus prime]

I like "o-zakku" chips & toppo stix. Despite my love for japanese junk food, I lost 10 kilos durring my year in Japan. which was weird, cuz i didn't know I had 10 kilos to lose.

[Tare. Aura Violette]

ooo well if we are considering tea as a snack!! ^__^

definately! I love my green tea, and sometimes I add a bit of honey into it too :3

and rice cakes with bean paste those are real good

[noyhauser]

Anpan... I could eat a million of those things, and yet I can't find one of them abroad... I literally stuffed my mouth full of them when I was over there last.

I also miss the japanese convienience store dinners. they were cheap, relatively good for you (compared to a swansons dinners) and tasted waaay better.

[kirei_na_me]

noyhauser, anpan is one of my favorites too. I could eat them all the time. Are there any Japanese grocery stores around you? The one we go to has anpan in the frozen section along with the kurimupan and the other -pans.

I have made anman at home a couple times and it turned out really good. Time consuming, but worth it. Yum....

[Haivart]

anything with sweet bean paste-- just ask kirei ne me.

[kirei_na_me]

You know me well, Haivart... :p

[Malice Mices]

nyaa I like Pockey and milky drinks! ;) Qoo is my favorite drink though. I also like "ichigo Miruki" they're frozen straberry milk snacks. I also like the dried bean snacks too, any vegetable flavored ones. I also like onigiri too <333 :cool:

[noyhauser]

No, there isnt anyplace nearby. I go to a school thats pretty ethnically challenged, in a city that is as well. There are no japanese restaurants nearby, and the stores are "asian markets" that have the bare necessities of Japanese goodness (horrendously overpriced boxes of pocky, and glico sweet curry)

I can't wait to get back to vancouver for the month to refill my Japaneseness. Nothing beats japanese home cooking, like my father's sukiyaki.

[neko_girl22]

oh--- someone mentioned onigiri.... I loooove Convenience store tuna and mayo onigiri. yummmmmmmm

[caramboo]

what type of japanese drinks do you like? teas? desserts? treats? snacks? =)



:cool:

[Iron Chef]

Ocha. Any kind, any time 8-) Never really was much of a tea drinker until I lived in Japan. Now I find i've developed quite an affinity for it.
:)

[Onizuka]

my favorite are ramens and these triangular shaped balls of rice stuffed with tuna fish or anything with rectangular shaped unagi stuck to it. Plus a bottle of Asahi or a little sake glass.

[Sekabin]

Iced green tea, definitely. I really wish it were sold here in the UK - the only thing you can get here is some disgusting lemon flavoured stuff. In Japan you can try all sorts of different green teas etc... and cheap too, and refreshing. I think it's the thing I missed most when I came back here.

Fortunately we get quite a lot of stuff sent from Japan so I don't miss so much other things. If there's anything I desparately want ( like nice mayonnaise for example), I can go down to London and buy it from the Japanese shop there.

But tea... too expensive
:(

[kirei_na_me]

Didn't we just do this a few threads down?

[eimik]

We have cold green tea in a bottle made by Nestea but the first ingredient is sugar. Although ive never tried it, i think i will passsssssssss.

[patman]

Fave drinks - Have a few, love Melon Fanta, bright green, then there the MAD sounding Calpico or Calpis a milky looking drink that's cool mixed with sparkling water, Strawberry flavour is the best. But Ichiban is sparkling Grape juice you get gtom the vending machines. Oh so yummi.

Drinks in Japan are are so good & plentiful too. Never with out a choice.

Patman ^_^ J-PASSION FLOWS HERE (http://www.jpassion.net)

[caramboo]

Originally posted by Sekabin
Iced green tea, definitely. :(


Ahhh - green tea for sure .. have you had green tea ice cream with red bean paste on top? SUPER GOOD!


:wave:

[Raion]

:sick: Guess I'm a freak or something but I just hate green tea... I've eaten a lot of good stuff in Japan. Too bad I just can't remember the names any more.

[Ami]

Ramen :ramen: Sake :gulp: But I hate Sushi._. :mad: Never tried green tea... I better go try it out._. :happy:

[ghettocities]

I drank a lot of Vanilla coke (seems they just got it in 2003,) while I was over there a few weeks ago this summer. I was kind of sad that Nikumon (pork buns,) are seasonal (I had gone each winter for the past several years,) and since I was there during the summer-time I guess it was too hot for hot food (but I was able to still buy corndogs and cheese sticks at the 7-11 which was just as good.) I also ate a lot of the 90yen cheese burgers at Mcdonalds and speaking of Mcdonalds I had ate a Japanese Mcdonalds breakfast for the first time in like four years of going to Japan, it was interesting, pretty good but still I find Mcdonalds in Japan to not be as processed as it's American counter-part where as I'd buy an sausage-mcmuffin over here (it'd be miniature with a synthetic looking egg patty,) and in Japan it'd be different (it'd be regular size with real looking product within the sandwhich itself.) It was pretty great.

Josh

[Ami]

I hate McDonalds werever it is. :mad: I dislike all Fast Food Resturants though. :auch:

[kisu]

sake
iced green tea in a bottle

pocky (i love this too much)
strawverry choco? (little cones that are pink and brown, come in a rectangular small box that open from the top, anyone help me out here?)
onigiri

kisu

[ghettocities]

Originally posted by kisu
sake
iced green tea in a bottle

pocky (i love this too much)
strawverry choco? (little cones that are pink and brown, come in a rectangular small box that open from the top, anyone help me out here?)
onigiri

kisu

I know what your talking about, I also really like Pocky and all those different kinds of candy/snacks that come with free toys (like ultra-man, hamtaro or whichever the product takes after, it's fun like Crackers Jacks but with coolers presents.) I went to Japan-street (supposed to be town,) when I was like 12 or 13 in San Fran and I bought my first Pocari Sweat and pretty much looted the whole candy row, I love japanese products, I don't know any other drink or food that gives me such a good inner-feeling from earting/drinking it, it's silly but true.

Josh

[neko_girl22]

mmmm tuna and mayo onigiri......

raw tuna and salmon - yum!

anyone tried fugu? Nothing special really, just a delicasy.

niyasai udon from sobachaya - soo healthy and so yummy!:love:

It's so easy to go to Japan and just eat western style food - maybe I would've tended to do that, but since on this meat-less, sugar-less, oil-less, milk-less diet I've had to eat healthy washoku - now I LOVE Japanese food even more ;)

[Meo]

I absolutely love green tea! Then again, I'm a tea loving freak. Heh.

[Maciamo]

Originally posted by kirei_na_me
Didn't we just do this a few threads down?

I've merged the 2 threads under this new title. Caramboo had started both topics.

[Tare. Aura Violette]

developed new insane love for ramune candy!

^_^
ramune soda is what I live for v___v

[doudesuka]

Maciamo:cockroaches.... I just had to throw up! I must give it to you for being courageous. Never in a million years would I eat a roach.
Not even if I was in N.K. I would just go starving!
That must be an adventurous delicacy. More power to you!

[doudesuka]

My favorite drink is C.C. Lemon and the sekkihan rice roll.
My favorite candy are the meiji chocolate almond and white chocolate covered- strawberries. mmmmm

[KoranRi]

I love pocky ^^ when my friend went to japan she brought back pocky for me and I have loved it ever since (i think i scared her i glomped her) I love sugar! if it has sugar it's good (okay there are exceptions.) although this sounds kind of disgusting to a lot of people, the other day my dad brought home domino's dots. U know the sugarry stuff that comes w./them? I sorta.....drank it. yummy! sugar!:evil: :silly: :clap: :)

[teardrop]

i like spicy stuff!!!
ooh...and Mister Donut!!! Especially the donut pops i tried in Japan!!! Anyone tried that? Darn.... they aren't available in Singapore....

[kirei_na_me]

This is my new favorite...

[CANON]

e-bu-ri -baa-gaa? hmmm looks yummy hehe
what are these burgers like?..:)

[kirei_na_me]

Well, the "bun" part is cookie, the "burger" is chocolate, and then there are actually bits of sesame seeds on top as the sesame seeds. They are very tasty little hamburgers... ;)

[neko_girl22]

haha YUMM!!!
I haven't seen those here, but then I do purposely skip around the chocolate/sweets section........ :(

[CANON]

I just found those tiny burgers a few days ago, i thought they were going to be a atleast the size, of the palm of my hand, but they are soooo tiny *lol* , they look quite big in the picture. But they are very tasty, i can stick a whole packet of them in my mouth.. :)

[~*hellokittydiva*~]

ooooh my gosh i absolutely love
1. mochi with aduki paste
2. anpan
3. those chocolate things with the strawberry bit that someone mentioned before...the lil cone shaped things
4. raaaaaaaaaamen!!!
5. omochi like the ones you get at new years...
6. pocky!!! and yan yan
7. ocha!!! mmm mmmmmm....green tea ice cream!! woooo!

and much much more...heheh being nice and youthful i can eat almost anything without getting too tubsy wubsy :) actually i like nearly every food that comes out of japan. :love:

actually i dont know if this is well known, its a tube of candies with a little collectable plastic stamp at the end, its called Juicy or Jyuu C something like that and the candies specially the pink ones (peach?) are sooooo yummy!! i havent had any for a while tho my supplier closed down and i cant get them anywhere else!!! hmmm now that i thin kabout it, theyre white with flecks of pink...mmmm...:giggle:

[Dr_Inferno]

oh man, i know this awesome japanese restaurant in Brooklyn that's not too expensive, i'd like to believe their food is authentic -- their miso and tempura tasts right, but i'm just a dumb amerikan -- but it sure is good.

anyone suggest a good japanese cookbook, maybe? also; other good japanese dishes i should try

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[Mou Kaoru]

Everytime I get paid I stock up on Pocky, Yan Yan, and gotta have the ramune!:happy:
I get some other stuff too (look at hellokittydiva's post up there) but those three are what I live for nyoo!
:ramen:

[nikki_the_insane]

I think through wizzywig.com you can buy all these popular japanese snacks. mmm, wish i would have bought some imports in hawaii while i was there durrying the summer. :(
Ohh, i like chicken. and pie. but not chicken pies, they are nasty. and milk chocolare, i love milk chocolate. and saly and vinegar chips, they good. :P I like salted peanuts and all other kinds, cashews and even water chesnuts. :P

[DrifterX]

I love Hello Boss Coffee, Pocky, Pocai Sweat. and that Grapefruit Gum.

[Hachiko]

(I will exclude any non-Japanese snacks here.)

Pocky (all varieties), dried green peas with wasabi, lychee jelly, Hi-Chews (tried it once-not bad), tempura, drinks with boba, and some other snacks that I can't remember. I did try this shave ice that resembled cream anmitsu...actually I ate one of those yesterday at the mall. Now that I think about it, I think it probably was...:D

Just as a side note, at Suncoast, where I buy my anime DVDs, manga, and Newtype USA, they have a stall that sells many varities of Japanese snacks. Unfortunately, they're a little overpriced...\ :o /

[Musoka]

I LOVE onigiri. It looks like a triange of white with a rectangle of black in the top middle, this forum has an avatar of it

[Budderfly]

I ate a lot of Haw flakes in my time...

Hmmm. my favorite snack? There's so many!

[justin]

Japanese Snacks: Pocky and other sweets

American: Pizza and sweets

Drink: Hot coco, Green Tea, and Beer (American, Mexican, or Japanese)

[Golgo_13]

They have pound cakes that look like a cut log with tree rings called Baum Kuchen (German for "tree cake") . But my German teacher in high school told me this was made up by the Japanese and it doesn't exist in Germany.

[Lina Inverse]

They have pound cakes that look like a cut log with tree rings called Baum Kuchen (German for "tree cake") . But my German teacher in high school told me this was made up by the Japanese and it doesn't exist in Germany.
Why did that idiot tell you such nonsense? Of course it exists over here! Baumkuchen is a very well known and and well liked German speciality. Your teacher is a complete retard if he doesn't know that! :p
For some reason unbeknownst to me, it seems to be quite popular in Japan. Example: in the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion", when Asuka tells Shinji to think German (so he can synchronize), the only thing he can come up with is "Baumkuchen" :D
Here's a recipe if you want to try it out yourself:
Baumkuchen recipe (http://www.sheries-kitchen.com/recipes/german/baumkuchen.htm)

[EscaFlowne]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:
Pocky,
twix
Flaming Fries [-Hot fries-]
Checkers fries
Vanilla CokeCola! :gohan:

[Golgo_13]

"Why did that idiot tell you such nonsense? Of course it exists over here! Baumkuchen is a very well known and and well liked German speciality. Your teacher is a complete retard if he doesn't know that! "

I had that conversation with my teacher, a native of Kiel, who was not an idiot or retard by the way--he had a Ph.D., what degree do you have?--in the late 1970s which is about 25 years ago. Were you around in Germany 35 - 40 years ago when he was last there?

Has Baumkuchen always existed in Germany since time immemorial?

Or was it reverse-imported from Japan after it became popular in Japan?

[tsukinoko]

Anman, mochi, edamame, onigiri, kaki, nashi, any kind of cake, macha aisu, 'dars' milk chocolate, lemonwater, green tea, hiamugi, cold and sweet milk coffee - and sometimes a 'sapporo super dry' or a good sake. (I leave away the non-japanese things) :ramen:

BTW, Baumkuchen really is a well known traditional cake in Germany! I even watched a report in Japan about a japanese baker who went to Germany to learn how to do it. And my mum always told me, that she loved to eat it when she was still a child, that was back in the early Sixties and in North Germany, too! So, Golgo, in spite of your teacher having a Ph.D. he must have missed something there, I think. But according to my experience men often don't know about things like names of cakes and other stuff that is more 'women-related', especially those who are not that young anymore. :bow:

[Golgo_13]

Okay, I will submit that my teacher was misinformed. Perhaps he had never eaten it in Germany.

But to call someone an idiot and retarded is very childish and rude, and I'm sure Lina in Reverse will never do it again.

[Golgo_13]

I just spoke with a friend who has spent 2 years in Germany studying. He said the Baumkuchen they have in Japan--he has eaten them--is quite a bit different from what's eaten Germany.

Maybe that's what my teacher, whom I liked and respected, meant.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Lina Inverse]

Well, I think it's only natural that it tastes somewhat different - it's made in Japan with Japanese ingredients. Perhaps they also modified the recipe somewhat because they thought it was neccessary for it to be popular in Japan, who knows.

[bezz]

The first Baumkuchen in Japan was baked in 1917 in Hiroshima by Karl Juchheim. His shop opened in Yokohama first, then moved to Kobe.

http://www.juchheim.co.jp/konditorei/catalogue/info_baum/images/baum_kuchen_03.jpg
Juchheim (http://www.juchheim.co.jp/)

[Lina Inverse]

The first Baumkuchen in Japan was baked in 1917 in Hiroshima by Karl Juchheim. His shop opened in Yokohama first, then moved to Kobe.

http://www.juchheim.co.jp/konditorei/catalogue/info_baum/images/baum_kuchen_03.jpg
Juchheim (http://www.juchheim.co.jp/)
Very interesting... I thought it originated in Bando and spread from there.

[GoldCoinLover]

I LOVE pocky. I'm saving up to go to tokyo, japan for my whole family. It's expensive! I love japan and their technology. This forum is a dream come true, friendly people, and I have alot of questions I need answered. By the way, is pocky supposed to be dipped in coffee or something? It sucks that the company's website that makes pocky is in all japanese only. I'm not that great at japanese. I went to some pocky club-thing and emailed the guy the best I could in japanese trying to tell I wanted to join, he is what I said, heh:

かいもの に いきます。わたしは アメリカ じん です。




ワタし ワ POCKY だいすきです

ドホ アリガト

~Kevin

[Golgo_13]

The Morinaga company first put out "Purittsu" ("Pritz", short for Pretzel) in the mid 1960s. Just very thin pretzel sticks.

Then they began coating the Purittsu in chocolate and called it "Pokkii" ("poki !" onomatopoeia for the sound when something like a pretzel breaks in half). For Exporting porposes it was modified the "Pocky" (same way Calpis was changed to "Calpico" for exports). Nowadays I've seen Pocky with different mousse flavor in Japanese markets in LA.

[bezz]

I thought it originated in Bando and spread from there.Juchheim was initially in Osaka camp then moved to Ninoshima, never in Bando according to the records and his diary.
It is quite possible Baumkuchen baked by someone else in Bando around the same period too, but Juchheim was the one who stayed in Japan to popularize it.

[bezz]

I LOOOOOOVE karaage. I could eat hundreds.Chicken karaage is called "zangi" in Hokkaido.

http://www.jmi.or.jp/web/php_06_cooking/photo1/197.jpg

[bezz]

Anpan... I could eat a million of those things, and yet I can't find one of them abroad...The ampan inventor, Yasubei Kimura, the founder of Kimura-ya bakery in Ginza, it was early 1870s.

Kimuraya (http://www.kimuraya-sohonten.co.jp/) (est. 1872)
4-5-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 Japan
phone: +81(3)3561-0091

http://www.ginza.jp/tokushu/vol-146/img/anpan.jpg
related thread (http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5559)
more (http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11859)

[Ebichu_chan]

Edamame!!!!!!!
Green tea!!!!!!
Ice cream!!!!!
Chocolate!!!!!!
Capuccino or moccha latte!!!!

Waw~ getting hungry now :smug:

[godppgo]

Roasted Mix Nuts by Kasugai!!!!!!!

[Dogen Z]

I just had an ice milk bar that was filled with azuki beans. :-) The flavor of the beans and the vanilla complemented each other so perfectly. This will be my favorite dessert for awhile. It's cheap and can be found at your neighborhood 7-11 convenience store.

Saikou!