{"id":990,"date":"2013-10-02T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oyatsubreak.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-09-29T03:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T07:54:41","slug":"990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oyatsubreak.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Review: Pocky Panda Cookies & Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Review: Pocky Panda Cookie & Cream<\/strong>
\n Purchased: August 2013<\/strong>
\n Best Before: January 2014<\/strong>
\n Review: September 2013<\/strong>
\n Website<\/strong>: http:\/\/pocky.jp\/pokitomo\/top.html<\/a>
\nWebsite<\/strong>: http:\/\/pocky.jp\/products\/panda\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Seriously, how can you not just want to buy that immediately? That Panda is amazing! It\u2019s just an adorable panda!<\/p>\n

Oh, and I guess there\u2019s Pocky inside?<\/p>\n

Packaging: <\/b>As mentioned, PANDAS! The packaging is fantastic! It\u2019s covered in cute pandas, including a really bold, simple design on the front. It\u2019s got a great hand-drawn aesthetic, and the panda is actually Hugging a photographic image of the candy contained inside! While \u201cCookies & Cream\u201d doesn\u2019t appear anywhere on the packaging in English, it is fairly prominently written in Kana, and the photograph does look delicious.<\/p>\n

Scent and Taste: <\/b>It\u2019s a pretty weak scent, just a little sweet with no \u2018cream\u2019 or \u2018chocolate\u2019. Mostly it just smells like Pocky, if you\u2019ve ever had Pocky before.<\/p>\n

The taste\u2026 doesn\u2019t live up to how cute the panda is. I mean, it\u2019s not bad, but I feel like my expectations were pretty high. The cookie\/cracker that makes up the stick of the Pocky is pretty good, not too-sweet with a little bit of a cocoa touch, but only very little. The cookie and cream coating is sweeter, without much in the way of cream flavour or even really cookies. It’s just sort of… sweet coating. The coating and biscuit together balance out to a very edible snack, which is maybe the very definition of damning with faint praise?<\/p>\n

My husband Andrew rather liked it though, for what it’s worth.<\/p>\n

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Verdict: <\/b>Well, I ate the whole package, so points there, but I\u2019ve got a sort of an oily aftertaste in my mouth, which isn\u2019t very pleasant. It\u2019s too bad, because I really want to buy these, they\u2019re awesomely packaged and I generally enjoy Pocky, but the flavour on this one is just a total miss.<\/p>\n

Sorry, Panda-kun.<\/p>\n

But, hey, at least there’s a free cute wallpapers on their website!\u00a0http:\/\/pocky.jp\/game\/wp\/index.html#wp_pockypanda<\/a><\/p>\n

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