Nothing much this time..

Truffle & Gorgonzola Cheese cod sticks

Just about worth eating..

Jagarico Mentai Cream bits

Well, this one is also just about worth eating..

Smoky Pretz, smoked bacon flavor

Good enough as a snack with a drink..

Iekei MAX

Getting that junky iekei flavor across seems to be a tall order for a cup noodle..

Yamitsuki Oil, Asian coriander

It is delicious drizzled over pho. I sometimes use it on a fried egg too.

Kawasaki’s soul food, Ganso New Tantanmen

This one was pretty good. It tastes like suanlatang, so it really whets your appetite. With a place like this I would love to visit the original shop, but I wonder if I will ever have a reason to go all the way to Kawasaki..

Guilt-free snacking, bite-size karaage

It is karaage made from soybeans.. it was fine the first time I ate it, but keep eating and the spices start to wear you down.

Kanda Matsuya’s tori nanban soba

Just as Koreans eat tteokguk, in Japan there is a custom of eating soba at the turn of the year. So every December I end up buying soba.. and the quality here is good.

Bagged suanlatang noodles, Chuka Zanmai Akasaka Eirin

It reproduces the taste of suanlatang well enough. Being a bagged noodle, the noodles themselves are a slight letdown though.

This is what it looks like..

Pretty much the same as the photo.

Osha-meshi

The suanlatang soup rice. For whatever reason, the moment one thing catches on here, related products come pouring out.. and this time there seemed to be a lot of suanlatang ones. Anyway, it is decent enough..

Osha-meshi

The tomato soup rice.. it is just so-so..

Nabe Cube

With one of these plus some napa cabbage and tofu, a hot pot is done just like that. The flavor is richer than you would expect.. In winter there are times when I crave a Japanese nabe, and it is handy for exactly that.

AFURI Yuzu Shio Ramen

This is another one I find myself eating now and then.

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