Jagabee – Royal Purple Potato Sticks
Jagabee is a product line by Calbee that creates what is essentially a dehydrated french fry. It looks like a french fry, kind of smells like one, but texturally it’s very different. It’s been a…
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Japan
Tirol Chocolate – Macaron
Macarons are something I see often, visually drawn to, but rarely end up buying. My issue with macarons is more of a me issue rather than with the dessert itself. As someone who doesn’t enjoy…
Tirol Chocolate – 7-11 Cafe Latte
Some people may not truly understand the depths of how entrenched 7-11 is over in Japan. They have their own TV programming that is just various ways to advertise and sell their own brand product.…
Hi-Chew – Strawberry Daifuku
It’s not too often that Hi-Chew does non-fruit based flavours, but they do tend to do some fruit adjacent flavoured ones like sodas, and today’s flavour which is technically fruit adjacent. Maybe it’s a cultural…
Bourbon – Mochi Truffe Hojicha Latte
Bourbon has cemented itself has one of the brands where if I see their label, I have my attention caught. The Mochi Truffe line in particular is just all sorts of delicious from what I’ve…
Meiji – Takenoko No Sato – Strawberry & Chocolate
Meiji is known for many of it’s chocolate products, one of which is a mushroom cookie where the top is a chocolate cap and the stem is cookie. This is a variation of that mushroom…
Glico Bitte – Matcha Chocolate
From the maker of Pocky and Pretz, is a product called Bitte. I won’t speculate on the correct pronunciation (is it bite? or bi-tay?) but what I will say is that it’s definitely caught my…
Shoei Delicy – Winter Crunch Chocolate
I have no clue what this brand is, or what they are known for. All I really know is they released a really tasty strawberry chocolate bar that had equal parts crunch and chocolate that…
DARS Chocolate – Fragrant Muscat
As part of my haul in my travels, I chanced upon DARS in what appeared to be a limited flavour, and my tiny collector brain lit up like a Christmas tree. And so here we…
Hi-Chew – Golden Pear
For those unfamiliar, across Asia there are a variety of pears that fall under a general umbrella known as Asian pears. These pears are different from the western ones like the Bartlet in that they…