Omiyage: Japan

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Heart

Fruit Pop Candy

Fujiya

Grape, orange, strawberry and melon, each made with real fruit paste or juice — bright, tart, and built to last a while.

Common Allergies

Strawberry, Orange

Ingredients

GRAPE: sugar, corn starch syrup, grape paste (grape, sugar), acidulant (citric acid E330), artificial flavour (grape), colouring (anthocyanin E163, safflower yellow), green tea extract. ORANGE: sugar, starch syrup, orange paste, acidulant (citric acid E330), artificial flavour (orange), colouring (carotene E160a), green tea extract. STRAWBERRY: sugar, corn starch syrup, strawberry paste (strawberry, sugar), acidulant (citric acid E330), artificial flavour (strawberry), colouring (anthocyanin E163, carotene E160a), green tea extract. MELON: sugar, corn starch syrup, concentrated melon juice, acidulant (citric acid E330), colouring (beetroot red E162, safflower yellow), artificial flavour (melon), tea extract.

Sweet-Shop Nostalgia

Milky Soft Candy

Fujiya

Condensed milk, cream and whole milk folded into one soft, slow-melting chew — sweet, gently salted, and unmistakably dairy.

Common Allergies

Milk

Ingredients

Starch syrup, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), caster sugar, whole cream, vegetable oil (palm), whole milk, salt, emulsifier (sucrose fatty acid ester E473, derived from palm).

Best Straight from the Fridge

Konnyaku Jelly

Orihiro Plandu

Springy konjac jelly made with real grape and apple juice — light, bouncy, and refreshing in a way gelatin never quite manages. Squeeze out a little at a time.

Common Allergies

Apple

Ingredients

High fructose corn syrup, sugar, juice 18% (grape, apple), reduced starch syrup, konjac powder, acidity regulator (citric acid E330), gelling agent (xanthan gum E415), artificial grape flavour, potassium chloride E508, sweetener (acesulfame potassium E950, sucralose E955).

Ramen, Eaten Dry

Noodle Snack

Oyatsu

Wide wheat noodles fried until they shatter, then dusted with chilli, garlic and soy — salty, fiery, and hard to put down.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy, Molluscs (clam, scallop)

Ingredients

Wheat flour, vegetable oil (palm oil, corn oil, soybean oil, antioxidant tocopherol E307b (soybean oil, rapeseed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil)), stabiliser (acetylated starch E1420), soy sauce (wheat gluten, salt, defatted soybean, wheat), sugar, chilli pepper seasoning powder (dextrin, sugar, flavour enhancer E621, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, soy sauce powder (soy sauce (wheat, soybean, salt), salt, stabiliser E1404), yeast extract, shellfish extract powder (clam, scallop, dextrin, salt), chilli pepper powder, acidity regulator (citric acid E330), flavouring substances, flavour enhancer E635, spice extract, sweetener (aspartame E951), acidity regulator E260), seasoning mix (hydrolysed protein (soybean, wheat, corn), flavour enhancers (E635, E621), stabilisers (E331(iii), sorbitol E420(i)), acidity regulator (E340(ii)), anticaking agent (silicon dioxide E551)), flavour enhancer E621, chilli pepper powder, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, hydrolysed protein (soybean), clam extract.

Close Your Eyes For This

Cafe Latory Peach Tea

Ajinomoto AGF

Black tea and two kinds of peach — white and yellow — dissolved into a cup that's floral, honeyed, and aromatic before you've tasted it.

Common Allergies

Peach — Contains: aspartame

Ingredients

Dextrin E1400, fructose, sugar, black tea extract, juice powder (yellow peach, white peach), acidulant (citric acid E330), flavouring (peach), colouring (caramel E150c), fine silicon dioxide, sweetener (aspartame, L-phenylalanine compound E951, acesulfame potassium E950), pH adjuster (trisodium citrate E331, glucono delta-lactone E575).

Hot or Over Ice

Matcha au Lait

Nittoh Tea

Matcha blended with milk powder into a smooth green latte — grassy, gently sweet, and creamy without a drop of fresh milk.

Common Allergies

Milk, Soy

Ingredients

Sugar, lactose, dextrin E1400, vegetable oil (coconut, soybean), skimmed milk powder, green tea powder 15%, salt, sodium caseinate E469 (emulsifier), carboxymethyl cellulose E466 (thickener), potassium phosphate E340 (acidity regulator), sorbitan fatty acid ester, plant-derived E491 (emulsifier).

Ready in Five, Tonkotsu-Fu (Halal)

Tonkotsu-Style Ramen

Higashimaru

A broth built on chilli, garlic and toasted sesame — deep, creamy, and quietly fiery, with a springy fried noodle to carry it.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Sesame

Ingredients

Fried noodle (wheat flour, vegetable oil, salt), powdered soup (salt, sugar, powdered oil, garlic powder, ground sesame, red pepper, welsh onion, yeast extract, sesame oil, pepper, carrot powder), modified starch, seasoning (monosodium L-glutamate E621, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide E635), calcium carbonate, kansui (alkaline mineral water), polysaccharide thickener (alginic acid E400), calcium phosphate, colour (caramel E150a, beetroot red E162, carotenoid), antioxidant (vitamin E, E306).

This Is Arare

Rice Crackers

Morihaku Seika

Crisp little bites of mochi rice, glazed with soy and sweet corn — savoury up front, teriyaki-sweet at the finish.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Milk, Soybean — May Contain Traces Of: egg, shrimp, crab and peanut

Ingredients

Rice cake (rice powder, water, salt), vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed), seasoning (sugar, granulated sugar, whole milk powder, hydrolysed protein, black pepper), sweet corn powder, soy sauce (soybean, wheat, salt, sugar, water), salt, yeast extract powder, monosodium glutamate E621, sodium 5'-ribonucleotide E635, artificial corn flavour, modified corn starch E1422, modified potato starch, caramel colouring E150c, onion extract, lactic acid E270.

Eaten Under the Blossoms

Mochi

Seiki

Soft, springy rice cake carrying the scent of cherry leaf — chewy, faintly floral, gently sweet. Best taken in small bites.

Common Allergies

Milk

Ingredients

Syrup, sugar, glutinous rice flour, starch, cherry leaf powder, emulsifier, flavouring, colouring (cochineal).

Japan's Most Famous Stick

Pocky

Glico

Wholegrain cocoa pretzel sticks under a double layer of strawberry cream, made with hand-picked berries freeze-dried to keep their tartness sharp.

Common Allergies

Milk, Wheat, Soybean — May Contain Traces Of: egg and peanut

Ingredients

Flour, sugar, vegetable oil, whole milk powder, lactose, strawberry powder, sweetened condensed milk, candy chip, yeast, salt, flavouring, emulsifier, acidulant, colouring (benikoji pigment, grape skin pigment, caramel), seasoning salt, trehalose, sweetener (sucralose).

Baked at the Foot of Fuji

Home Pie Original

Fujiya

Dough folded over and over, then baked until it shatters — buttery, golden, and impossibly light for something with this many layers.

Common Allergies

Milk, Wheat, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: egg

Ingredients

Wheat flour, vegetable oil (palm, coconut), sugar, butter (whole cream, lactic acid E270, salt), fermented wheat, whole milk powder, salt, skim milk powder, concentrated whey powder, milk based products (whey powder, skim milk powder, vegetable oil (palm), emulsifier (sucrose fatty acid ester E473, derived from rapeseed)), starch syrup, emulsifier lecithin E322 (wheat, soy), artificial flavour (milk), natural colour (carotene E160a).

Fruit of the Pie

Pai no Mi

Lotte

Layer on layer of flaky pastry, slowly cold-matured, then filled with chocolate through a tiny hidden hole. Shatters at the first bite.

Common Allergies

Dairy, Wheat, Soybean — May Contain Traces Of: egg

Ingredients

Wheat flour, margarine, sugar, vegetable oil, cacao mass, maltose, lactose, whole milk powder, whey powder, cocoa powder, salt, modified starch, emulsifier (from soybeans), flavour (cacao).

Pairs With Everything

Confetti Cocoa & Butter Cookies

Ito Seika

Made with real butter and cocoa, these are rich without weight — the small, plain kind of cookie that disappears while you're thinking about something else.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Egg, Milk, Soy

Ingredients

Wheat flour, shortening (vegetable oil (soybean, rapeseed, palm)), sugar, butter (whole cream, lactic acid E270, salt), pasteurised egg, cocoa powder, corn starch, starch syrup, corn starch syrup, indigestible dextrin E1400, salt, cellulose E460i (anti-caking agent), emulsifier (glycerol fatty acid ester E471, derived from soy), artificial flavour (milk).

Best With Hot Tea

Elise Hokkaido Milk Wafers

Bourbon

Thin wafers layered with a soft cream made from Hokkaido milk — Japan's dairy heartland. Light, milky, and quick to dissolve on the tongue.

Common Allergies

Dairy, Egg, Wheat, Soybean

Ingredients

Wheat flour, vegetable oil, sugar, glucose, whey powder, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, dextrin, soybean powder, lactose, corn flour, processed oil, dried egg yolk, malt extract, salt, emulsifier (from soybean), trehalose, milk flavour, caramel colour, annatto colour, turmeric, sorbitol, raising agent.

Bittersweet by Design

Matcha Chocolate

Meiji

Mellow chocolate wrapped around first-harvest matcha — grassy, gently astringent, and quietly grown-up. Small enough to unwrap without thinking, good enough to slow down for.

Common Allergies

Milk, Soy

Ingredients

Sugar, vegetable oil, whole milk powder, lactose, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, matcha, creaming powder, skimmed milk powder, trehalose, emulsifier, flavouring, colouring (gardenia, flavonoid).

Japan's Lucky Charm

Kitkat Mini

Nestlé Japan

Japan turned Kit Kat into a good-luck gift — "kitto katsu," surely win. This one layers crisp wafer with sweet-tart strawberry and real fruit powder.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Milk, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: egg, almond and sesame

Ingredients

Chocolate coating (vegetable oil, sugar, lactose, whole milk powder, cocoa butter) (manufactured in Japan), wheat flour, biscuit (wheat flour, sugar, shortening, salt), vegetable oil, lactose, sugar, strawberry juice powder, dried strawberry processed product, cocoa powder, yeast, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier (derived from soybean), acidulant, leavening agent, flavouring, colouring (red beet, red yeast rice (Monascus)), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), yeast food.

Dashi in a Chip

Petit Potato Chips

Bourbon

Kelp and bonito — the two halves of Japanese dashi broth — dusted over crisp, delicate potato. Deeply savoury, faintly oceanic, and dangerously easy to finish.

Common Allergies

Soy, Fish (bonito)

Ingredients

Dried potato, vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed), salt, kelp extract seasoning (kelp, salt), bonito extract seasoning (bonito, salt), emulsifier soy lecithin E322, flavour enhancer (monosodium glutamate E621, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide E635), artificial flavour (potato), antioxidant (vitamin E, vitamin C), acidulant (citric acid E330), fine silicon oxide E414, thickener (guar gum E412).

Crisps in a Can

Chip Star Potato Chips

YBC

Wafer-thin crisps stacked in a slim can — moulded from potato flake, then dusted with tangy sour cream and sweet onion. Japan's take on a snack you already love.

Common Allergies

Milk, Soy

Ingredients

Potato flake, vegetable oil (palm, coconut), sour cream mix (onion powder, salt, milk products (milk protein, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder), sugar, glucose, yeast extract powder, corn starch, vinegar powder, sour cream powder), onion paste (onion, sugar, salt), flavour enhancer (monosodium glutamate E621, disodium 5'-ribonucleotide E635), acidulant (citric acid E330), artificial flavour (sour cream), emulsifier (glycerol fatty acid ester (derived from soy) E475, sucrose fatty acid ester (derived from palm) E473), spice extract, sweetener (licorice).

Cat's Tongue Cookie

Langue de Chat

Nikko Shokuhin

A French tea-room classic reborn in Japan: feather-light biscuits named for their slender "cat's tongue" shape, in three flavours — sharp cheese, creamy white chocolate, and bright strawberry.

Common Allergies

Wheat, Egg, Soybean, Dairy, Almond

Ingredients

SHARED BASE: wheat flour, sugar, margarine, egg white, almond powder, skim milk, salt, chocolate paste, cocoa butter, emulsifier (lecithin, E322). CHEESE: maltodextrin, vegetable oil & fat (palm oil, shea oil), protein concentrated whey powder, cheese powder, salt, yeast extract, cacao flavour, carotene pigment. WHITE CHOCOLATE: vegetable oil & fat (palm oil, shea oil), milk powder, milk sugar, cacao flavour. STRAWBERRY: milk powder, strawberry powder, berry flavour, acidulant (citric acid), colorant (beet red).

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