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Review: Pocky Hot Cocoa (Kumamon Edition)

Review: Pocky Milk Cocoa (Kumamon Edition) Purchased: August 2013 Best Before: November 2014 Review: September 2013 Website: http://pocky.jp/ Kumamon is the name of the adorable bear who adorns this particular box, and he’s the mascot character for Kumamoto Prefecture, in … Continue reading

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Review: Kit Kat Gran Wafer

… This is a unique Kit Kat in that it’s the first I’ve ever tried without an outer shell of chocolate. It’s just wafers held together by a chocolate filling, and so my first thought was that the texture was wrong. I mean, not ‘wrong’ wrong, just, not a Kit Kat. It’s like the cheap wafer-cookies that you’d get at the supermarket. That surprise was followed by another—the wafers here are chocolate flavoured and coloured chocolate brown, which is another Kit Kat first for me as usually the wafers are just a standard sort of ‘cookie’ flavour, though honestly they have almost no flavour at all. These tasted alright, not spectacular, but it was nice to get a little something extra. All this before the first bite. Continue reading

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