Hori Corn Chocolate
EG’s parents took a recent trip to Hokkaido, and bought us back some local treats. So let me present one of the specialities of the region, Hori Corn Chocolate.
The gift box contains the same chocolate done two ways - in a long finger and a bite sized nugget.
It was a rather interesting snack consisting of popped corn and other chewy corn kernel bits smothered in Hokkaido milk white chocolate. It apparently comes in a regular milk chocolate variety as well.
And taste? Well, my feelings are a little ambivalent. The puffed corn is a little on the stale side, although it does amazingly taste corny (in a good way). The chocolate is also sweeter than we would probably have it here.
I give it points for uniqueness, but wouldn’t be too fussed not to have it again.
Written by mellie on
June 23rd, 2008 | Tags: chocolate, food items, Hori Corn Chocolate, Japanese, quirky | Category: food items
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June 25th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Oh my, I liked this one, although I agree the corn seemed a bit stale. I also want to try making something similar myself - I have a popcorn maker (you know, the ones that air-pop the corn) and wouldn’t mind trying coating some with melted chocolate, see how it goes.
Show us the cheese mochi!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I don’t think I got a photo of the cheese mochi!! And to make matters worse, they are all gone!
And no, I didn’t eat them! They all got given away as gifts!