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All-you-can-eat Häagen Dazs among 200 other frozen foods at Osaka’s Chin! Suru Restaurant【Pics】

This place is loaded with food, and you will be too.

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Don’t throw out leftover rice! Testing to find the best rice freezing/microwaving container

A three-way showdown between a Japanese housewares brand, an international icon, and the king of 100 yen shops.

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Frozen sushi appears in Japan, but is it any good?

Defrosting sushi puts a new spin on the way we eat traditional Japanese food.

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These Ajinomoto frozen Japanese dishes from France baffled our Japanese reporter【Taste test】

Expectations were not met–in many ways. 

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We try a frozen sushi box from Rejyu, and it was way better than it sounds

You might not think that frozen and defrosted sushi would be any good…but you’d be wrong!

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All you can eat ice cream and frozen food restaurant becomes a hit in Akihabara

Ever wanted to try all those mysterious Japanese frozen foods? Well, now you can!

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Taste testing 7-Eleven Japan’s five frozen curries to see which ones nail it

Frozen curry may not sound appetizing, but 7-Eleven can make anything great.

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Okonomiyaki you can eat with one hand? We try a revolutionary new frozen food【Taste test】

How do you transform a flat saucy food into a handheld form, and is it any good?

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We try Ajinomoto’s European Chicken Katsu Curry Style frozen gyoza that has no katsu in it

The popularity of katsu-less, “katsu curry” flavored food continues to rampage throughout Europe.

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Monjayaki vending machine appears in Tokyo

An unprecedented development for Tokyo’s famous specialty soul food.

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Tokyo’s new frozen ramen vending machines are brain-breakingly amazing【Taste test】

Ramen Stock 24 baffles our minds and delights our souls.

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All-frozen ramen restaurant appears in Tokyo, shows us we don’t really need the restaurant

Ramen Journey Showroom does things a little differently.

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Microwavable okonomiyaki that you can eat with one hand? Yes, please!

Because most of us don’t have table-sized flat grills in our home kitchens.

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Japanese mom’s husband trash talks her for using frozen dumplings, maker fires back on Twitter

”It’s not about being lazy” says one of Japan’s most popular frozen gyoza brands.

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Yoshinoya sells frozen beef bowl topping packs, but are they as good as the restaurant kind?

We taste test both offerings from Japan’s gyudon god, and find a key difference.

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Rare mouth-watering instant sobameshi combines delightful flavors of yakisoba and fried rice

Why settle for two separate dishes when you can have both in the same bowl?

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“I’m almost embarrassed by how good it is”: Our reporter really, really loves this fried rice

Think of this piece as our Japanese reporter’s love confession to this particular brand of frozen fried rice in honor of “Frozen Food Day.”

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How you know your fish is too fresh: when it comes with a warning “may come back to life” 【Pics】

“So, uh, can we just talk about this?”

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The defrosted reality of 24 frozen meals at Thai 7-Elevens [Photos]

The frozen food section at the local convenience store may not hold any lofty culinary treasures, but it does hold the key to saving time and energy after a long day. All around the world, people value frozen foods for their convenience and, sometimes, their deliciousness.

But can you really trust the picture on the front of the package to be what comes out of the microwave? One Thai netizen went on a quest to demystify the frozen food section of Thailand’s 7-Elevens and posted photos of 24 heated up meals to see how they compared to people’s expectations.

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