Tirol Chocolate – Five Cheese
I often try to keep an open mind, and like to be optimistic about strange, or uncommon food combinations. If only I could apply that level of optimism to other facets of my life. But…
Category: Chocolate
Hershey’s Gold
You know, I write a lot of stuff on this blog and I can’t entirely keep track of what I have and haven’t ranted about. What I am sure of is that I’ve mentioned before…
Tirol Chocolate – Kaki No Tane
Over a year ago, when I did one of my first reviews on Tirol, I mentioned that I was hoping to one day get my hands on the elusive spicy rice cracker Tirol. Well folks,…
Tirol Chocolate – Seven Cafe Ice Cafe Latte
It’s been well established by now that convenience stores like 7-11, Family Mart and Lawson’s run most of Japan at this point. They are so prevalent and convenient that you could probably just live off…
Tirol Chocolate – Potato Apple Pie
There’s an old saying, that there’s no accounting for taste. For the most part I agree with that. But there are some things that I feel can possibly breach that, and create an exception. Things…
Black Thunder – Hojicha Latte
I’ve talked before about how tea flavoured items are largely an asian thing, and that’s slowly starting to change now that matcha is a staple flavour here in the North. The process was relatively slow,…
Black Thunder – Corn
Something that not a lot of people appreciate about me is my perspective that nothing in life is ever as simple as black and white, or yes and no. Life would be too simple if…
Tirol Chocolate – Matcha Warabi Mochi
Food is such a magical, versatile thing. Some people think that it’s simply what we need to sustain ourselves and survive. But long ago I learned that food is so much more for us humans.…
Tirol Chocolate – School Lunch Dessert Mix
School lunches were pretty basic when I was a kid. And by basic I mean depressing. To be fair, our school was so small we couldn’t afford a cafeteria, so the “eat in” option was…
Tirol Chocolate – Japanese Pear
As Gertrude Stein once famously wrote, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”. We could debate about how that line should be interpreted, but fair to say most people will agree it…