A gummy candy inspired by Fukuoka Prefecture's soul food, udon noodles, is gaining popularity among consumers for the ...

For 100 years, the Nisshodo Candy Store has been making mochi and other traditional Japanese confections by hand, and they’re basically doing it the same way taught by owner Mike Hirao’s late ...

Shalala-sha is a candy shop specializing in kohaku-to 琥珀糖 (literally "amber sugar"), a kind of candy made from pure sugar and kanten 寒天 (Japanese agar), sometimes blended with coloring and flavoring.

Candy, a convenience store product in Japan, spurred debate over what the “taste of nothingness” tastes like, if anything. Skip to content Skip to site index.

I made space in my luggage specifically so I could bring piles of Japan-only candy back home with me. (I purchased roughly $70 of boxed and bagged Kit Kat during my two-week vacation.

Recently, Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has become known for its frappes, which are sold in the freezer section and blended by customers at a machine on the counter. Every now and then, ...

We got the first taste of the giant candy store that opens today in American Dream mall. Updated: Apr. 26, ... Japan and elsewhere, including six varieties of Pocky, Cadbury, and more.

But American shoppers don’t exactly lack domestic candy options; any average grocery store’s checkout line is bursting with Snickers, Twizzlers, M&Ms, and Skittles.

In 1921, Asataro Hirao opened his candy store on King Street in Honolulu with fellow immigrants, including Jokichi Tasaka. At first, he leaned on traditional Japanese recipes for chichi dango, mochi ...

The candy was manufactured by Kanro, one of Japan’s major candy companies, and test-marketed in some stores last fall by Lawson, a convenience store chain.