Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Morinaga Hi-Chew Green Apple
Much like, somehow, it took me six months to get around to reviewing a flavour of Pocky, it seems a little silly to me that I’ve somehow missed talking about Morinaga Hi-Chew… Continue reading
Review: “Air-In” Kit Kat White
Back on Friday January 19th, I promised you all that I’d be back with a review of the other new “Air-In” Kit Kat, white-chocolate, on the Monday following. Today being March 12th, you may have noticed that I did not. Well, I’m back to let you know that we’re about to take a journey down the path of the Kit Kat Air-In White, the brand new sort of Kit Kat that mixes the wafer/flavour goodness with the micro-bubbles of Aero (or Mirage) bars. I was powerfully unimpressed with the Green Tea air-in Kit Kats, lets see how White fares?
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Review: Kit Kat Kuro Mitsu (Black Honey)
This is one of the newest limited edition, giftset flavours of Kit Kat that was released just before my last trip to Japan in the fall of 2011. It’s a very Japanese flavour, I’d actually never heard of Kuro Mitsu before and just now I did a bit research. As noted above, the direct translation is “Black Honey” but it actually has nothing at all to do with honey-from-bees honey. It’s a sugar syrup that’s similar to molasses, made of an unrefined black sugar, though apparently it’s got a milder flavour. Continue reading
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Review: Calbee Pizza Flavoured Potato Chips
Review: Calbee Pizza Flavored Potato Chips Best Before: October 18, 2011 Reviewed: February 2012 While this is in name a Japanese snack blog, it is in fact a “snacks available in Japan” blog. It’s on those merits that the various … Continue reading
Review: Cheeza 51% Smoked Cheese
Cheeza 51% Smoked Cheese Reviewed: February 2012 Best Before: June 2012 Oh Glico, you break my heart. I was just about to write the introduction to this review with a dramatic “And now, THE FINAL FLAVOR of Cheeza, Cheeza 51% … Continue reading
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