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Brie Larson recently shared a taste test of seasonal McDonald’s Japan menu items on Instagram.She tried the Teritama burger, Shaka Shaka Chicken, pizza-seasoned fries, and a Sakuramochi strawberry pie.The strawberry pie got her highest score, earning a full 10 out of 10.
I am, unfortunately for everyone around me, a full Marvel person, so Brie Larson (the one and only Captain Marvel) already had my loyalty. She also came on our SNACKS! podcast and proved herself to be delightfully opinionated about food, which only made me like her more. So now, watching her casually tear through a Japanese McDonald’s haul in a dressing room has me considering a long, arduous flight to try everything she just ordered for myself.
Larson recently shared a “spring edition” McDonald’s Japan taste test on the Instagram account for her cookbook Party People, and honestly, it’s kind of rude how good everything looked. Filming while getting ready during a trip to Japan, she worked her way through a handful of items and scored each one using her own very important Party People punch bowl system.
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First up was the Teritama burger, which combines teriyaki sauce, egg, cheese, and lettuce. Larson bit in and called it “extremely good,” giving it a 9 out of 10.
Then came the Shaka Shaka Chicken, which she described as a sort of fried chicken patty situation. The gimmick there is that you dump seasoning into the bag and shake everything up yourself before eating. Her packet was labeled “cheddar cheese,” though she noted that the flavor leaned more toward sweet-and-salty than sharply cheesy. That one earned 7.5 punch bowls.
The fries got the same interactive treatment, this time with pizza-flavored powder. Larson joked that McDonald’s could easily season them for you, but clearly understood that the point is to do it yourself. Those landed at 8.5 out of 10.
But the real winner of the whole haul was the Sakuramochi strawberry pie, which Larson immediately fell for. She was already charmed by the packaging before she even took a bite, and once she did, it was game over. That one pulled a full 10 out of 10.
If her goal was to make Japanese McDonald’s look impossibly appealing, mission fully accomplished.