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You know, I gotta confess, I have always been a sucker for Japanese treats.

I love going down a little Tokyo, heading to a convenience store and grabbing all those brightly colored fun

packaged boxes off of the shelf but you know what I don't get the chance to go down

there as often as I would like to and that is why I am so thrilled that

baksu a Japanese snack subscription box, chose to sponsor this episode.

What's got me so excited about Baksu is that these aren't just your run of the mill grocery store finds.

Each box comes packed with 20 unique snacks that you can only find in Japan itself.

Plus they throw in a handy guide filled with info about each snack and about Japanese culture.

And let me tell you something you are going to need that guide because this box comes with a lot of snacks.

I just got this one today direct from Baku and look at all of these things.

We got some sort of seaweed snack here.

We've got a butter cream cookie. We've got

dolche. I don't I'm gonna have to read the guide to figure out what this one is. It looks like some

sort of sponge cake. Oh my gosh this one is I think it's some kind of maybe fried banana chip.

Let's try it out and see. Is that what it is?

Nope, it's not banana.

Maybe it's a cassava potato chip.

I should have read the guide.

Ah, here they are.

I Bourdagako's smoky chips.

Potato chips made with rice flour, providing a lighter texture and satisfying

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