Snack Nation: Healthy Milk Tea Kirin's Afternoon Tea series appears to be going for quantity over quality, if the zero sugar, zero fat version of their popular Milk Tea is anything to go by All things considered, the packaging beautifully mixes the ...

Snack Nation: Ryomaden Dodekai Ramen Japanese snacks embrace the proto-liberal values of 19th century samurai legend Ryoma Sakamoto -- in two flavors On the left, katsuo soy sauce flavor, on the right, yuzu salt flavor. Both are seriously grown-up ...

Snack Nation: Lipton Tea au Lait Chocolat Milk tea with a splash of chocolate in a 500ml carton sounds completely drinkable, but something doesn't work There are little flower-like marks at the bottom of the packaging that give you a clue to the ...

Snack Nation: Espresso Tea The European elegance and caffeine shock of espresso coffee come to the world of tea -- sort of The Espresso Tea can includes an incredibly long description about its luxurious manufacture process at the bottom of the can. ...

Snack Nation: Melon au Lait There seems to be something unnatural about mixing fruits and milk, but Meiji's light honeydew concoction actually pulls it off pretty well Drinks that come in the 500ml paper cartons feel low rent compared to the PET ...

Snack Nation: Georgia Maple Festa coffee Just in time for the Olympics, a canned coffee that wins the Gold in super sweetness We assume that no one at the actual Olympics in Vancouver will have a place in their special athlete diet for this kind of ...

Snack Nation: Fanta U.S.A. HIPHOP Fruits Punch Yo! Yo! Yo! Fanta is in da house with the crunkest, hip-hoppingest fruit punch ever "U.S.A" stands for the United States of America, not the town of Usa (宇佐) in Kyushu's Oita Prefecture. On January 18, ...

Snack Nation: Chocolate Sparkling Suntory goes into uncharted territory with a clear sparkling soda flavored like milk chocolate The gold packaging and mock-British give the drink airs of a luxury soda rather than an intentionally crazy drink for ...

Snack Nation: Glamatic gum Finally a women-only gum that does to your breath what makeup does to your face Sparkles have become the universal symbol for "female" in Japan. The pink also gets the message across. off Almost everything is sex-segregated ...

Snack Nation: Georgia Sengoku coffee Japanese beverages leap onto the "good-looking samurai" bandwagon with a special ten-can Georgia series of manga-illustrated warlords If you're a true hardcore collector you can buy two sets -- one plucked from ...