カテゴリー: Japanese food and drink
For decades nori-wrapped rice dish was mainly a snack eaten at home or in a bento, but now it has come into its ownIt is barely 10am and the queue outside Onigiri Bongo already stretches around the block. Some of the 30 or so early-bird diners sit on s…
Umaibo, a crunchy corn snack that means ‘delicious stick’, increases in price from ¥10 to ¥12 – the first rise in the face of higher import costsOne of Japan’s best-loved snacks is to go up in price – by a whopping 20% – for the first time since its la…