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Potato Cream Maccha Omelette

Found this weird little treat at Greater Eastern on Russell St. It is a sweet and soft, delicious tasting (well, it says so on the pack!) potato cream maccha omelette. While the cream was obviously sweet, it was definitely potato flavoured which was a wee bit disconcerting. It felt like I [...]

Written by mellie on August 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , | 2 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

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.

Written by mellie on June 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | 5 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Three More Kit Kats

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 [...]

Written by mellie on June 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , | 4 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Collon

A rather unfortunate choice of product name, especially when this version comes chocolate flavoured.

For those of you who are interested, this is what your collon looks like on the inside. Scarily accurate isn’t it?

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Written by mellie on March 19th, 2007 | Tags: | 3 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Taiyaki Ice Cream Fish

I do have somewhat of a penchant for trawling ethnic food stores for weird and wonderful ingredients and products. Today’s find was care of Green Mart at 297 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.

Taiyaki is traditionally a Japanese cake shaped like a sea-bream, filled with things such as adzuki red bean paste, [...]

Written by mellie on January 8th, 2007 | Tags: , | 8 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post