Cuisine Around the World

I've been hanging onto this Grilled Sweet Potato KitKat for a while, as it was the last thing in my candy stash, and the only KitKat I...

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...

When my sister-in-law visited London, she said she took great care in finding me a special treat as a souvenir. She's such a sweetheart,...

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...

Nestle has been recycling KitKat flavors in Japan again, but in this case, it worked out to my advantage. I didn't get to try the candie...

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

While on vacation in Chicago, my sister and her husband stopped at Sarah's Pastries & Candies while downtown. My sister knows I love...

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...

This Milk Coffee KitKat has been hanging around in my candy cupboard for a while now, and the only thing that really stopped me from eating ...

Two years ago, some friends of mine moved to Hokkaido (the northernmost island of Japan) to teach English (kind of like Jen of Jen Ken's...

Don't judge a book by its cover doesn't really apply to candy, but maybe it should. I tend to gravitate towards Hello Kitty product...

These bars were a gift from my boss, as a thank-you for watering her plants while she was away. I'm not sure it was fair, because all I ...

These special edition Kinoko no Yama and Takenoko no Sato boxes really aren't a good deal. I don't know how much they cost in Japan,...

My sister and her husband went on a trip to New York City and the surrounding area recently, and sometime between sightseeing and attending ...

Despite having tried pretty much every matcha offering from Nestle Japan since 2006 (they haven't changed much), I can't say no to g...

Notes for this review have been sitting around since Japan's most recent strawberry boom. It seems to come around every year, but despit...