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Kit Kat green tea flavour half-eaten © Camille Oger

The Japanese Kit Kat craze

Kit Kat is this chocolate bar invented in 1935 and bought by Nestlé. It’s a bestseller everywhere in the world. In most countries, you’ll find the original milk chocolate flavour, sometimes dark or white chocolate when…

Peach ice tea drink from Fukushima © Camille Oger

Yum yum Fukushima

One year after the first leaks in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Japanese food crisis is not over, but the mistrust is fading away. The governement is trying to reverse the situation, after banning the…

Different burned cashew nuts © Camille Oger

Cashew + Fire = Explosion

Here’s the fourth episode of the cashew story. The first one, It’s cashew time, is here. The second one, Profession: cashew opener, is here. And the third one, Let’s eat cashew apples, is here. Today, for…

Cashew apples from Palawan, Philippines © Camille Oger

Let’s eat cashew apples

I took my first cashew pictures 3 weeks ago. At that time, the apples were still tiny and green. Now they’re ripe, so I’ll introduce them to you. In only 3 weeks, an impressive change has…

Profession : cashew opener © Camille Oger

Profession: cashew opener

Now that you know exactly what cashew nuts look like and where they come from, let’s see what we can do with them. I went to a small, old-style processing factory in Coron Town, and there…

Cashew nut with the apple © Camille Oger

It’s cashew time

We don’t know much about cashew nuts. Have you ever wondered why they’re so expensive, or why, unlike almonds, walnuts or peanuts, you cannot buy them whole, in their shells? In the Philippines, small producer of…

Lato seaweed salad © Camille Oger

Lato, the strange sea salad

This weird seaweed that looks like small grapes is called lato or caulerpa lentillifera. It’s very popular in the Philippines and in Japan, where people call it umi-budo. I went to Coron, in the Philippines, to…

Soft-boiled ostrich egg © Quentin Gaudillière

Ostrich egg, the ultimate egg experience

Better, bigger and stronger than goose eggs, I give you the ostrich egg. Don’t look any further, it’s unbeatable: it’s by far the biggest and heaviest of all eggs. I’ve had the opportunity to eat one,…

Claw from a big black crab in the Philippines © Quentin Gaudillière

A crab anthology: the black crab

I love crab. From the Norman brown crab to the huge Japanese king crab, I’ve tasted many of them. So I invite you to come with me on a crab world tour. In each article, I’ll…

Goose egg compared to a hen egg © Camille Oger

Cannot say boo to a goose egg

For two years, I’ve been looking at the goose eggs they sell in a small cheese shop on the rue de Bretagne in Paris. They look great. They’re huge, white and certainly delicious. A week ago,…

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