Here’s a mixed bag of food for you.

Dubai chewy cookies

So they come in this form now too.

Single malt Yoichi and Miyagikyo

You can find them just about anywhere these days. Feels like the boom is slowly fading.

Buldak curry

Looks like some new characters are showing up with it.

MEDiHEAL

Spotted this at Workman, so I snapped a photo. Clothes that help you recover from fatigue while you sleep are a big thing in Japan right now.

Otoko Ume Sour

With the weather heating up, this kind of thing is getting popular.

Menya Saimi’s Sapporo miso ramen

This isn’t a packet ramen, it’s frozen ramen. It’s a collab with Lawson, and if you look closely there are three stars under the L. Being frozen, it’s dead easy to make, and it tastes great too. It’s a rich miso soup base with ginger used really well, which gives it a fresh feel: a new-generation miso ramen. I liked it so much it made me want to go to Hokkaido.

And while eating it, it struck me that HIKAKIN’s ramen tasted exactly like this, so maybe this is where miso ramen is trending these days. Where it used to be all about richness, it’s become a bit more varied, I’d say.

Wakayama fully ripe Nanko ume

I’m hooked on ume lately so I bought this, but it was just okay..

Otoko Ume Sour

This one wasn’t especially good either..

Calbee Ethnican

These are potato chips that are supposedly popular in Hong Kong, but when I tried them they tasted like something I’ve eaten plenty of times before. Not in a good way: they’re a bit like cheap junk snacks. Maybe that’s exactly why they’re popular in Hong Kong.

Otoko Ume Gummy

This one was really sour, so it was edible enough, but it didn’t really feel like a gummy.

Kataage Potato, ume flavor

It was just, you know, edible.

Marrons glacés

Made in China, and I think it was about 100 yen. Tasty for the price, but they were closer to crumbs than whole chestnuts. I figured they collect the failed marrons glacés and sell them cheap.

Kin-chan Noodle

It’s a cup ramen made in Tokushima, and it turned out to be really good. It tasted like a milder version of a yukgaejang cup noodle. Going by the ingredients list, they use proper ingredients too. The noodles are fried in lard, and the shrimp topping is pretty generous, so you get a real shrimp flavor. The price varies from supermarket to supermarket, but you can get it for around 100 yen, so it’s great value too.

Spring-summer Bacchus

Not bad either, but Rummy is better.

The Bezers

It’s a non-alcoholic beer, and it doesn’t taste good.

Panasonic nose hair trimmer

It’s a bit pricey, but the motor spins fast so it cuts nice and clean. It performs better than my old one, but it’s less portable. Personally I liked it.

Chicken mustard sandwich

They sell this at the convenience store, and the nutritional balance is pretty good. I guess it means you can get by without a Subway.

Puré Ring

Seems like decent value. There’s no jam-like filling, which actually makes it cleaner.

Puré Gummy, grape

Just so-so.

Anyway, I’m eating well out here.

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