Tirol Chocolate – Hokkaido Milk Mochi
I have reached a point in my Tirol tasting career that it’s getting harder and harder to find new flavours. I don’t feel like today’s flavour is a new one, but likely a slight rehash…
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Tirol Chocolate – Young Donuts Dagashi
It’s often that we have chocolate in or on pastries and baked goods, but how often do we have bake goods and pastries inside the chocolate? As it turns out, it happens a lot with…
Hi-Chew – Umai-Chew Muscat Grape
I’m working my way through another Umai-Chew flavour, something that has become quite commonplace currently. A theme that is somewhat similar to a lot of Umai-Chew varieties of more common flavours – the texture is…
Bourbon – Mochi Truffe Strawberry Cocoa
As I get older I become more ingrained in certain habits and get accustomed to certain things. Try as I might, I can see myself becoming more and more resistant to trying new things and…
Tirol Chocolate – Yatta Men Ramen Dagashi
Before it was popularized as a snack, I used to take instant noodles and eat them “raw”. When I say raw, I really mean uncooked. They aren’t technically raw because the way they are created…
Tirol Chocolate – Sakuranbo Cherry Dagashi
As is customary with Tirol, they do some seasonal crossover/collaboration flavours each year, and this is part of the most recent rotation. Dagashi is a general term for cheap or inexpensive snacks. These are snacks…
Tirol Chocolate – Green Tea
There are some flavours that I wonder if I’ve come to appreciate more as I get older, or if it just so happens to become more popular and mainstream and companies just learn how to…
Hi-Chew – Soda Mix with Melon
Hi-Chew typically does what it does best, fruity flavours. They do have a little bit of fun with non-fruit flavours on occasion, but those are more of a novelty and aren’t what keep me coming…
Tirol Chocolate – Azuki Mochi Matcha
When you’ve had as many flavours or varieties from a brand as I have with Tirol, it’s hard to keep track of what’s new and what’s a rehash or reissue. I’m actually surprised I haven’t…
Black Thunder – Strawberry
Black Thunder is one of the brands that I think to myself, if I was in Japan, I would be eating way too much of these products. Even when I was in Japan, I stocked…