Cronuts may be all the rage here; but in Japan their donut obsession is a different animal altogether. I mean that literally. In Japan, a slew of donut shops have drawn animal faces on donuts and, in the process, founded a whole new trend.
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Kotaku has the story and several photos of the cutest photos to prove it. Like our cronut, it all started within the last year and has the culture with a love for all things kawaii crazy for them as ours is for croissant-donut hybrids.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.