DIY Candy Magazine
If you've never made a Japanese DIY candy kit before, the worst thing you can do is start with the wrong one. Pick a hard kit first and a beginner ends up frustrated, convinc...
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The Japanese name for these kits is chiiku gashi (知育菓子) — literally "educational candy." It's a big claim to print...
Hand a child a normal sweet and they eat it. Hand them a Japanese DIY candy kit and something different happens: t...
Japanese DIY candy kits come as sachets of powder, and it isn't a gimmick. The format exists first for shelf life, and everything else - the safety, the transformation, the shipping - follows from that one decision.
People assume the hardest Japanese DIY candy kits are the fiddly, detailed ones — the tiny sushi, the miniature bu...
A Japanese DIY candy kit that "didn't work" is one of the most common messages we get - the colours came out dull,...
We turned over a Popin' Cookin' sushi kit from our own Tokyo shelf and read the Japanese nutrition panel. 113 kcal, 27g of carbohydrate in a 29g box — less sugar than a can of cola, and the one question the label refuses to answer.
Ramune, soda and cider are one flavour in Japan, not three. A Tokyo shop explains why Japanese grape candy tastes 'wrong', why the shelf here is replaced every month across 47 prefectures — and the one flavour we would never ship you.
Japanese candy kits are formulated for Tokyo's soft tap water. Here's the one step that genuinely cares about hardness, why New York and Seattle drinkers can relax, how to test your tap with a bottle of soap — and the 50ml rule that means you never need to buy bottled water for a whole kit.