In a bid to win even more customers Asahi and Kirin are stepping up in their competition. First Asahi released its 1000 ml can: The response from Kirin was swift – 1520 ml can! The Kirin can is actually so big that apparently the producer decided that it is too dangerous to ship it under [...]

I am sure that everybody who leaves for at least one or two years in Japan knows everything about setsubun‘s Mamemaki (soya bean – throwing): and the oni (demon) masks: One of the reason for this is that you can see both mamemaki beans and the demon masks of Setsubun for at least one month [...]

After the Samurai and “Obama” coffee chottomatte.net is proud to present you the Espresso Tea from Kirin: This time I was not brave enough to taste it so I kindly asked a fellow person to do it for me. Here I will present her testimonials (after receiving her permission of course): “too sweat, like syrup” [...]