Cuisine Around the World

I am such a sucker for new flavors of Tirol, and I can't resist matcha anything, so purchasing these flavors from napaJapan was an easy...

This review is about four months late, but this was such a cute promotion that I had to post it. New Year is a very important holiday in Jap...

These two Tirol flavors, while both strawberry-related, did not come from the same collection. The White Strawberry came in a box shaped lik...

Diving right into my new Tirol selection, I'll start with this mini variety pack. Of the 3 flavors, 2 are new to me: Mango and Pachi-Ca...

Thanks to a friend of mine, I have 10 different flavors of Tirol chocolates to review soon! It's a favorite brand of ours, and she often...

The current limited edition flavor in the Tirol "Mix 8" pack is Castella. Castella (sometimes called kasutera) is a sponge cake ...

Even though I know next to nothing about wine, I do know that Wine is not a very descriptive name for a flavor. From the package, it can be...

First, this is just a gentle reminder that there is one week left to enter my Trident Layers giveaway ! Thanks to everyone who has entered s...

The current rotating flavor in Tirol variety packs is Matcha Milk, and that's good news for me. Hot Cake was interesting, but trying Ma...

Pie as I know it is one of those things that is hard to come by in Japan. I'm sure it's available, but commercial "pie" sn...

Premium Tirol are rather difficult to locate in the United States. Many Japanese stores in the Midwest carry the regular assorted Tirol pack...

Like people and animals, snacks follow the circle of life as well. Last winter, a friend sent me the Strawberry 2009 variety pack , and this...

I was a little confused by the name of this Tirol variety pack, as my knowledge of Japanese proverbs is rather limited. The full Japanese is...

I have been waiting to try this Tirol flavor for several months, and finally found it at Mitsuwa Marketplace near Chicago. It was part of th...

Tirol is one of the harder Japanese sweets for me to find in America. I only ever see the variety pack strips , and more often than not, the...

This is the last of the Tirol I have to review. I saw this cute little bag with a Wallace and Gromit -esque character on the front and was i...

Every time I went to a convenience store in Japan, if felt like I saw a new kind of Tirol chocolate. I don't know if it was just luck or...