Boy Wander
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Favourites: Meltykiss chocs (not pictured) the Pocky and the chips (I'm a sucker for chips, especially trying new flavours). Last month I got some Super Mario Pizza flavoured chips, which I know you'd appreciate
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Japanese Candy & Chocolate & Cookies |OT|
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Favourites: Meltykiss chocs (not pictured) the Pocky and the chips (I'm a sucker for chips, especially trying new flavours). Last month I got some Super Mario Pizza flavoured chips, which I know you'd appreciate
Favourites: Meltykiss chocs (not pictured) the Pocky and the chips (I'm a sucker for chips, especially trying new flavours). Last month I got some Super Mario Pizza flavoured chips, which I know you'd appreciate
Oh I'd definitely appreciate those haha. Any Mario + Japanese candy is going to get my attention. Sadly many Japanese chips I've seen contain MSG or something similar, which is a considerable migraine trigger for me.
I looked up the Meltykiss. They look really tasty.
Thanks for the info!
stopped off on the way home from work thanks to you max
kids were happy
Niiice! What are all of those? And I see you got some
Mattlikewhoa
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stopped off on the way home from work thanks to you max
kids were happy
What is the name of those candies in the tubes? I think that's what I was describing to maxcriden earlier in the thread!
Meiji Gummy Choco
Oh I bet it was! They look just like you described.
Thanks! Those look very tasty.
HLJ has a selection of Japanese snacks available for sale.
Including those green tea (matcha) kit kats: http://hlj.com/product/NSL16821
Including those green tea (matcha) kit kats: http://hlj.com/product/NSL16821
Not seeing a mention here yet, but my wife and I have been subscribing to a monthly box called Snakku for about 8 months.
It's a monthly mix of snacks around a certain theme, and they are generally regional specialties.
The price is a little high but we have really liked it.
It's a monthly mix of snacks around a certain theme, and they are generally regional specialties.
The price is a little high but we have really liked it.
Great link! Thanks for sharing this.
Oh, this is the first I've heard of Snakku. Thank you for linking this!
What have been some of the notable treats you've tried from them?
Additionally, I really liked this article on their site:
https://www.snakku.com/blogs/news/hedonist-monkeys-and-ninja-schools
These chilly monkeys...あいくるしい!
These were amazing:
Zunda Chiffon Cake (ずんだシフォンケーキ
"A local delicacy! This soft Zunda-flavored wheat cake is filled with creamy custard."
and these
Usagi Cream Daifuku (うさぎクリーム大福
"These tasty daifuku are made to look like Japans snow rabbits. The mochi outside is made with matcha green tea from the famous Uji region of Kyoto. The cream filling is made from milk from the snowy regions of northern Japan. Put the daifuku in the fridge for 30mins before you eat it for the best taste!"
Zunda Chiffon Cake (ずんだシフォンケーキ
"A local delicacy! This soft Zunda-flavored wheat cake is filled with creamy custard."
and these
Usagi Cream Daifuku (うさぎクリーム大福
"These tasty daifuku are made to look like Japans snow rabbits. The mochi outside is made with matcha green tea from the famous Uji region of Kyoto. The cream filling is made from milk from the snowy regions of northern Japan. Put the daifuku in the fridge for 30mins before you eat it for the best taste!"
Mattlikewhoa
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Cheers for that!
You need to try them!
Perfect! I'm going to check the site out in a bit. Thanks for the link!
Teriyaki Blues
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Meiji Orangette is a must-try if anyone is going to order from them. Too bad they don't stock the apple and limone flavors.
These were amazing:
Zunda Chiffon Cake (ずんだシフォンケーキ
Usagi Cream Daifuku (うさぎクリーム大福
"These tasty daifuku are made to look like Japans snow rabbits. The mochi outside is made with matcha green tea from the famous Uji region of Kyoto. The cream filling is made from milk from the snowy regions of northern Japan. Put the daifuku in the fridge for 30mins before you eat it for the best taste!"
Oh wow, those both look amazing. Gah, the usage cream daifuku. It looks delicious and just *too* cute. Thanks for the pics and details!
I want to eat an うさぎクリーム大福 while visiting 大久野島. That's the rabbit island of Japan. Here's a tourism link: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jun/02/rabbit-island-okunoshima-japan-holiday-resort-bunnies.
Also, 21 Awesome Pics of Bunny Island.
I also feel like the Japanese snow bunnies (which apparently is similar to making snowmen for some Japanese) inspired the level "Star Bunnies in the Snow" in Super Mario Galaxy.
Well, those snow bunnies, as well as the real snow bunnies of Hokkaido, pictured above.
(You can tell cute animals, Nintendo games and Japanese food take up a lot of my brain space.)
BTW, the snow bunny pic comes from an article about several Hokkaido animals that hide in the snow. Well worth the click IMO, lots of cuteness therein.
Zoe
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OMG, that picture of the flying squirrel does not do it justice.
Zoe
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What do you mean? Like, you've seen one in person?
No, just image search. You must see its profile for maximum cuteness!
In case anyone else is interested, I came across this former blog which provided in-depth Japanese snack food reviews. Ethnographically speaking I find it interesting to see the reviews even of products potentially no longer available.
More reviews at the site: http://japanesesnackreviews.blogspot.com/
Oddly, I was just telling my sister about "Awakenings" this morning.
My brain works super fast. In fact, it makes lightning leaps over stepping stones that often see me starting in one place and ending up in a completely different one such that I can greatly confuse my husband with my leaps from one topic to another. This cafe au lait collon set off just such a sequence of thoughts. I will ask you to bear with me as I insanely hopscotch from point to point.
First, there is the obvious wordplay joke about "Collon" and "colon" that makes all of us foreign folks snicker like the juveniles that we are inside every time we see "Collon" for sale in a Japanese store. That made me think about coffee being used in colonics and how silly that seemed. Then it made me think about food stuffs being used for colonics which brought on a recollection of something that I read in the book Awakenings. That book, for those who don't know it, was made into a movie of the same name starring Robin Williams.
In the book, there is mention of one of the comatose patients, a very overweight woman whose head had gone completely bald during her prolonged state of unconsciousness making certain demands upon her awakening. She wanted a quart of chocolate ice cream and an olive oil enema. I remember wondering why on earth anyone would want any sort of enema, let alone one with olive oil.
At any rate, every time I think of the book or movie Awakenings, I remember one of my first experiences in Japan with movie titles that were different there than they were with America. I went to Japan in spring of 1989 and taught at Nova for two years. The movie was released in 1990 and I remember talking about the movie with student's in the conversation lounge ("Voice") that Nova offered. It was impossible for the students to understand the title as I said it, but I learned that the reason was not an issue with the vocabulary, but the fact that the Japanese title was "Leonard no Asa" or "Leonard's Morning".
So, you can see that this product brought about a lot of links in a chain which set me off on the idea of coffee enemas and ended in Japan. You can see where my husband's confusion is based after that sort of jumping about. Add the fact that this all happens in about three seconds (seriously), and you can see that I'm off like a shot and headed in a strange and unknown direction. I guess I'm lucky that he hasn't had me institutionalized yet (which brings me right back to Awakenings as that is set in an institution).
Getting to the matter at hand - which is neither institutions nor colonic irrigation - I found these at an Asian market for $1.19 for an itty bitty box. I'm pretty sure that they had broken up and were selling a pack that was not meant for individual sale, but I wasn't interested in six or eight of these so I wasn't going to turn them in to whatever retail authority is responsible for prosecuting such infractions.
For those who don't know Collon, it's a delicate crispy shell which is layered and flaky filled with a sweet, dense, cream-like filling that is reminiscent of that which is sandwiched between sugar wafers. The textural contrast is a delight, but they are often far too sweet. This one carries an extremely mild coffee flavor as well as little coffee particles in the cream (those are the black spots that you see in the picture). It's tasty and the filling is nice and fatty, but it's just a little too sweet. There is no calorie information on my box, but Collon generally packs a wallop for each small morsel. It's the sort of thing which you have to exercise restraint with, so getting one small box isn't a bad idea.
I like this quite a lot. I think the coffee added some depth to the flavor and off-set the sometimes one-note sense of the sweet filling. I don't think these are better than the basic Collon, but they certainly are just as good and just tad more interesting.
More reviews at the site: http://japanesesnackreviews.blogspot.com/
Oddly, I was just telling my sister about "Awakenings" this morning.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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It does have kind of a milk chocolate+matcha taste to it.
Their regular chocolate is as heavenly
https://order.royceconfectusa.com/
Boy Wander
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I think it depends on what you want to receive. There are quite a few of these now.
I personally recommend Oyatsubox.
Oyatsubox Link
It is $25 per month including free shipping. In addition to getting some good candies and chips (some of which can be seasonal or limited edition items), you also get a gachapon every month. Relatively often, you get some videogame related candies or chips which appeals to me. For instance, Mario Pizza flavoured chips or Pokémon candies or Kirby bubble gum. You quite often also get a candy DIY kit. I think it's decent value for money compared to other boxes and the selection of items is good.
Not trying to sound like a salesman but I don't have much in the way of negatives to tell you - here is an example box:
November Box
I learned recently that J-List does monthly boxes now. No subscription service though.
https://jbox.com/box
The thing I'm looking for a while is a drink (CC Lemon). The store I go to use to have it but no longer carries it got some reason.
https://jbox.com/box
The thing I'm looking for a while is a drink (CC Lemon). The store I go to use to have it but no longer carries it got some reason.
Teriyaki Blues
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Probably any of them are good, I tend to make a big order on an import store or get a deluxe subscription box (or three) every year for the holidays*, and I can personally vouch for Tokyo Treat.
Think I will be trying Oyatsubox this year based on recommendations in this thread.
*I live in Arizona, and it isn't worth the risk of having beverages and meltables shipped to me in any month outside of the narrow November to February window.
Maaaaaan, I had forgotten about that since I had only grabbed it at NRT while waiting outbound and now I want it!
I've been pretty happy w/ TokyoTreat. They've had a nice variety of things so far (Originally signed up because for my LIFE I couldn't find Sakura Pepsi while I was there in March). I do kind if wish they went less in on the make-your-own stuff though, because I'm -really- lazy.
Teriyaki Blues
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I don't dig crafty stuff either. I watched assembly videos on YouTube and then consumed the "ingredients" of the DIY kits like a lazy jerk.
Do you have any examples of what these crafty products are like? I'm not familiar with them. Thanks!
Teriyaki Blues
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I've only gotten two so far, one was a bunch of small cracker sticks (kind of like the inside part of a Pocky) with a plastic mold and several plastic tube "crayons" filled with chocolate. There were three colors; white chocolate, strawberry, and normal chocolate. The objective of that one is to place the crayons in hot water for a bit, fill the molds with the melted chocolate in layers, then put the sticks in the middle like a popsicle. It made little mushrooms when you let them cool and popped them out. That one was minimal effort, so I did it. (Meiji Kinoko no Yama: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HW1H594/?tag=neogaf0e-20)
The other one was this obnoxious Kracie set: https://youtu.be/phlhljqTxwQ (Just linking the first video I found), which is a huge, involved process for what amounts to a handful of candy. That's the one I ate "raw". (Kracie Ramen Gyoza: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016WUD4O0/?tag=neogaf0e-20)
Even the "toilet candy" you posted in the OP is considered to be in the DIY kit category if you're shopping around online, although the amount of work required to use it as intended is very small.
NintendoGal
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The "crafty" ones, like Popin' Cookin' are so much fun though! I absolutely love making each one.
Teriyaki Blues
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Unfortunately, I have an autoimmune disease that causes me a considerable amount of joint pain and limits my fine motor control. Everything in these kits is tiny and requires an amount of precision I lack. I might enjoy making them otherwise, cooking is one of my favorite hobbies, and they are very "kawaii".
The ingredients are pretty tasty when consumed separately at least. The videos I watch of some DIY kits have a lot of complaints about the flavor of everything once everything is mixed together.
chrominance
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Hi! Just discovered this OT, it's right up my alley! First, shoutout to my favourite Japanese candy:
Hi-Chews, but lemon-flavoured, and with rods of hard candy shot through it so they're soft AND crunchy. They're super addictive and I'm glad I managed to find a place that sells them in Canada. (Also addictive: Poifull, oh god.)
When I went to Japan a few years ago, I went here! It's hard to describe exactly what it's like to have a clump of bunnies follow you around and climb onto your knees when you bend down to feed them, but it's as lovely as you imagine. It rained shortly before our visit, so the bunnies left muddy paw prints all over my jeans. Totally worth it.
Re: crafty snacks. They're a neat idea and I do like making them, but it feels like you get so little for your money. Back when I was still subscribed to one of the candybox sites, I'd be disappointed when I got one because it would feel like a big chunk of cash went to buying something that was ultimately not very substantial (or even tasty!).
Hi-Chews, but lemon-flavoured, and with rods of hard candy shot through it so they're soft AND crunchy. They're super addictive and I'm glad I managed to find a place that sells them in Canada. (Also addictive: Poifull, oh god.)
I want to eat an うさぎクリーム大福 while visiting 大久野島. That's the rabbit island of Japan. Here's a tourism link: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jun/02/rabbit-island-okunoshima-japan-holiday-resort-bunnies.
Also, 21 Awesome Pics of Bunny Island.
When I went to Japan a few years ago, I went here! It's hard to describe exactly what it's like to have a clump of bunnies follow you around and climb onto your knees when you bend down to feed them, but it's as lovely as you imagine. It rained shortly before our visit, so the bunnies left muddy paw prints all over my jeans. Totally worth it.
Re: crafty snacks. They're a neat idea and I do like making them, but it feels like you get so little for your money. Back when I was still subscribed to one of the candybox sites, I'd be disappointed when I got one because it would feel like a big chunk of cash went to buying something that was ultimately not very substantial (or even tasty!).
Spiritwalker
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I don't know if it's pictured in my photos, but there was this delicous round/flat thing that tasted exactly like popcorn, but with frosting on top. No idea what they're called but damn what a tasty combo.
Gonna order some more random shit on Monday. (✿◠‿◠
Well, this is weird.
Japanese convenience store serves up steamed buns with a whole custard pudding inside
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/01/...med-buns-with-a-whole-custard-pudding-inside/
I can't say I find this one particularly appealing, the cross-section looks too much like pictures from my wife's medical textbooks.
Japanese convenience store serves up steamed buns with a whole custard pudding inside
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/01/...med-buns-with-a-whole-custard-pudding-inside/
I can't say I find this one particularly appealing, the cross-section looks too much like pictures from my wife's medical textbooks.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Is there a suggested place to order from? I want goodies so bad...
Spiritwalker
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Ebay has served me well so far. They have just about anything you'd want and shipping is often free/cheap. You can also buy cheap boxes full of assorted Japanese goodies.
I ordered some new stuff last week :3
I ordered some new stuff last week :3
This thread is killing me... I'm coeliac so I wouldn't be able to eat a lot of the things posted here. Everything looks delicious, the cakey things especially! Regardless, I am quite tempted to try the JBox snackbox just to give it a go, and in my experience they've always been reliable shipping to the UK. Snakku looked tempting to me (1kg of sweets!) but with all the stuff in there I can't eat it doesn't really seem worth the money.
I'm quite intrigued about Matcha chocolate though. I might have to go down to the east asian food shop in town and have a look for some.
I'm quite intrigued about Matcha chocolate though. I might have to go down to the east asian food shop in town and have a look for some.
Saint of Killers
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These guys may be of interest to people based in UK and Europe: https://www.japancentre.com/en/categories/10108-confectionery
Never used 'em myself, but they look pretty professional and have supposedly been in existence since 1976.
Never used 'em myself, but they look pretty professional and have supposedly been in existence since 1976.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
So you just pick a random assortment and go? I'd love to try a bunch of random things and not just stuff like Pocky or generic gummies.
HLJ seems to have great pricing. Too bad they don't have much variety/in stock, hopefully they'll expand on it. I found napajapan.com through an ebay seller on there, they seem to have a lot.
I actually havent tried anything yet so I appreciate the suggestions that have been posted in here. Nice thread!
I actually havent tried anything yet so I appreciate the suggestions that have been posted in here. Nice thread!
Spiritwalker
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There's usually a fair amount of stuff, but if you want a better selection you could try one month of Tokyo Treat or Japan Crate. They're subscription-based, but you can cancel at any time.
Purin is one of the things I love when I'm in Japan, but we can get similar easily in the uk - M&S creme caramel are really nice, and you can also get DIY powder mix to make them yourself - they're super easy to make so worth trying
The random selection has a fun sense of mystery box whimsy to it, that's for sure. If you want to be guaranteed a thoughtful selection the box services mentioned above are a potentially a safer bet. though. Just depends what you're looking for.
Those look great. What was your favorite? I'd like to see how the cola flavor compares to (IMO) awful root beer barrel candy in the US.
Grape and Ramune are my favs. The cola tastes like hot cola.
That sounds pretty gross. Thanks for the info, though. I wonder how the flavors compare to my grape and ramune gummies in the OP.
glaringradio
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This stuff is incredibly good. They sell a lot of it in airports and give you a little freezer bag with itto keep it cool, which is pretty essential because the stuff literally begins melting the second it touches your tongue.Anyone have this before?
Its gold.
Like figuratively gold.
It's $18 per bar, $100 for this box^
Its pretty damn good though. Probably the best chocolate i've ever had.
Some of my favourite chocolate you can get anywhere. So good.
Teriyaki Blues
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I hate going over near ASU these days mostly because I spend way too much money, I'll have to check it out sometime.
New Pocky flavors added in Japan a few days ago:
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http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/01/...e-new-flavours-to-their-regional-pocky-range/
As I've tried more Japanese chocolates and candies I've found the Pocky I can get in the states at least more dull in flavor and texture. These seem pretty intriguing, though.
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http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/01/...e-new-flavours-to-their-regional-pocky-range/
As I've tried more Japanese chocolates and candies I've found the Pocky I can get in the states at least more dull in flavor and texture. These seem pretty intriguing, though.
Starbucks has unveiled their new Sakura beverages for 2017.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/02/...p-of-sakura-beverages-and-drinkware-for-2017/
I always like seeing the sakura desserts in Japan even though I haven't gotten to try them, or to see sakura IRL yet.
My only apprehension is the maple flavor in those drinks. I don't usually care much for maple in hot drinks.
Anyone here tried any good (or bad) sakura treats?
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/02/...p-of-sakura-beverages-and-drinkware-for-2017/
I always like seeing the sakura desserts in Japan even though I haven't gotten to try them, or to see sakura IRL yet.
My only apprehension is the maple flavor in those drinks. I don't usually care much for maple in hot drinks.
Anyone here tried any good (or bad) sakura treats?
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