Freedom Japanese Market Review: June 2017
A family saw a gap in the market, when their friends who had moved away from Japan could not find the same high quality of Japanese snacks in their own country. During a family holiday in the U.S, they noticed that the international stores stocked snacks, but they were either dangerously close to their sell by dates or not even of Japanese origin. With this in mind, the family went away and set up family run Freedom Japanese Market, with a determined mission to deliver quality Japanese to the world.
The original subscription box landed on my door from Japan and was packed to the rafters with a balanced mix of sweet, savoury, and fun snacks, directly from Japanese manufacturers. The box had a cute handmade origami figure, with this month’s theme in honor of Girl’s day which is celebrated on 3rd of March in Japan. Also, each snack was explained in English on a full clear content list that also included images. The mix of products was fab from a DIY candy kit to savoury snacks and the more experimentally challenging okonomiyaki – fish jerky and Takoyaki Umaibo – puffed corn flavoured like octopus.
The subscription box service is a fab way to learn about Japanese culture and taste some interesting authentic Japanese snacks at the same time. All the snacks were fab, but my top 5 fav snacks included the baby star panmen – ramen chips flavoured with maple & Cinnamon, Roasted Corn Ariel – light and crispy chips tasting like they have come straight off the BBQ, Maken Gummy – A cola flavoured gummy that you can use to play rock, paper & scissors, NeruNeruNeruNe – add water to this and it creates a grape candy which you can decorate with crystalized sugar and finally the Big Bar Choco – which was a scrummy aerated chocolatey treat.
Snacks Japanese style, then the Freedom Japanese Market subscription service is ideal for your needs.
Thank you for reading 🙂
Melanie xx
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I love Japanese food and Japanese snacks, I regularly go to my local Asian supermarket – this looks great.
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Me too…it was fantastic 🙂 x
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Oh man! I’ve been looking for a way to get some decent Japanese food! I may just have found it! Thanks so much!
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My pleasure…enjoy 🙂 x
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This sounds amazing. I love trying new foods from around the world
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They were fab 🙂 x
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Oh wow I didn’t know you could do this! This is an awesome idea
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Totally hun 🙂 x
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This sounds so cool! I love Japanese snacks and would love to discover some new things to munch on. Ha! x
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Haha same here 🙂 x
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I love snack subscription boxes – they are such a great way to try different snacks OR get your hands on the ones you love. Great idea!
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Totally agree with you – makes life much easier and they are a great gift too 🙂 x
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I am so glad I found this post! This is something I will be trying as I love Japanese food and culture! Thanks so much x
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Aw my pleasure. glad that you found the review helpful – enjoy 🙂 x
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This is ace, my partner and son would love it!
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Totall, I think a treat is deffo in order for them lol 🙂 x
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How cool is this subscription box? I haven’t tried any Japanese snacks before so I am quite intrigued to give them a go, especially the cola gummy you can play rock, paper, scissors with!!
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Agree completely lovey. That was one of my fav items…deffo worth a whirl hun 🙂 x
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This looks amazing! I’ve not tried any Japanese snacks but this is such a good way to try out some new things! xo
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Well worth purchasing hun -a fab box 🙂 x
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I love Japanese food but can’t say I’ve ever tried any everyday snacks, looks really good though!
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They were fab and the box was a great experience 🙂 x
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