This is the Kit Kat Torokeru Zeitaku Kaoru Koucha, or “To be enchanted with fragrant black tea”. This deluxe version comes two to a box, in a thicker finger individually wrapped in foil. The taste? Well, I kind of like it! It’s quite strong and most certainly fragrant, with the heady aroma of a steaming cup [...]
Meiji has once again provided a worthy candidate for my peculiar obsession with kooky Japanese sweets. Tasty Crunch are nuggets of Hokkaido milk chocolate studded with (the packaging doesn’t lie) salted french fry potato chips. And to be honest, they’re actually not that half bad!
I spotted this snack in the Great Eastern (Russell St) and Central [...]
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 [...]
This is the 20th different flavoured Kit Kat I’ve managed to sample (not including versions we get in Australia), and I’m restraining myself from jumping on ebay to order more to fuel my sick obsession (there is apparently a soy sauce flavoured version!). The first two in this post were sourced locally from Great Eastern [...]
EG spotted some new Japanese Kit Kat flavours when we were in the Great Eastern Grocer (185 Russell St, Mebourne) the other day. His eye for such things is ever so attuned after our recent hunt in trip to Japan (read here and here). These deluxe versions are a little different. For starters they [...]
The Kit Kat bar is considered quite the popular snack in Japan (something I am VERY keen to investigate in, oh…19 days!). Originally created by Rowntree back in 1935, it has grown chunkier, bigger and a heck of a lot more interesting with a STAGGERING array of flavour and regional variations. And trends [...]
Lotte makes a lotta stuff, and in this case it is the Crunky Bar. So let me digress for a moment as I found the company quite interesting. Operating since 1948, Lotte is named after Char-lotte, a heroine of Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe. The company, which primarily commenced as a [...]
