![]() Perhaps I should have eaten the whole pack when I had the chance. The others said that they found the taste overly sweet after a few bites, but I was content to eat the whole pack (I didn’t, but I would have been very content to do so).Ī word of caution: upon trying to bring the open packet home, I found that it had gone stale after an hour of being opened. Our thoughts: Sweet potato has no place in jelly.Īfter being thoroughly punished by the yokan, we tucked into the weirdly hard to open bag of “caramel corn”, which turned out to be crunchy little biscuit things similar to Cheetos or Twisties, but in a really delicious caramel and apple pie flavor. The texture and the flavor hit you all at once, and then the flavor stays in your mouth for ages afterward. ![]() We carved off the most reserved slices and tucked in. This yokan is a seasonal winter sweet potato variant. Yokan is typically made with sweet red bean paste, with the same jelly consistency. Our thoughts : Wouldn’t eat a whole box, but definitely tasty.Īnd while we’re on a delicious taste high, let’s bring ourselves back down to a crushing reality that includes something that is basically baked sweet potato jelly. But, if I was going to go out searching for such a thing, I would definitely try to find the Morinaga variety if I could. Honestly they’re not that much different from a little single-serve caramel you could get basically anywhere. The caramels are individually wrapped in cute little silver papers and the candies are smooth and tasty. The Morinaga Milk Caramel isn’t any different. In my experience, a lot of Morinaga candy and chocolate is individually packaged with cute, clean designs on the box. If you’ve ever eaten those mixed fruit drops in the metal tin (made popular by the Ghibli movie Grave of the Fireflies ) or eaten DARS chocolate, you’ve had a Morinaga product. These were powerfully delicious and were the undisputed highlight of the whole box.Īh, Morinaga. That was a damn lie as the little cone-shaped candies you see in the picture are the only shapes available. Apparently the gummies are supposed to come in a puzzle shape so you can put together a picture of the mascot on the front of the packet. These little semi-hard gummies are powerfully tangy and full of juicy mikan (so basically orange-y, citrus-y) flavor. ![]() ![]() Holy crap, are there any more of these? Seriously, just send me a box of these and nothing else. Our thoughts: Don’t try to eat it, but it’s cute. It’s now sitting on one of the tables in my house, waiting to be added to my overflowing keychain. While I was busy complaining about the awful taste the Kinako Stick had left in my mouth, Bridget made short work of the packaging for our little inedible gift – a rice ball keychain! Like most fake food items from Japan, each grain of rice was carefully detailed and was a cute addition to the pile of goodies. Our thoughts: A very aggressive “NO THANKS!” The worst part of this, and that’s saying something considering that the flavor was pretty nasty, was that it was so chewy and dense that it was hard to get rid of. Disgusted looks all around, with an added gagging sound or two from me. That said, we pulled apart the weird, dense stick into three pieces and gave it a go, coating Bridget’s tabletop in soybean flour. My experience from the last Tokyo Treat box candy that had roasted soybean flour was that I absolutely do not care for the stuff. The Kinako Stick is apparently a semi-soft chewy candy covered with an ample amount of roasted soybean flour. Look at that sorry excuse for a piece of tree bark. And we shuddered to think it could actually be made worse. Neither of us used the mayo because we figured the papery fish leather we were chewing could not be improved by anything. In the end I did tear off a tiny bit and spent a long time trying to chew through it just to get rid of it. Not a particularly thrilling “treat” to taste-test, especially for the disqualified vegetarian, Bridget. The product description in the Tokyo Treat booklet basically billed Mayotara as a fish-flavored jerky with a little packet of mayo on the side. This one was so small that we didn’t bother splitting it, and in fact Seth was the most daring out of all of us and immediately volunteered for the role of taste-tester. Our thoughts: Fun texture, nothing too exciting. If you’ve ever had a Pucca or similar brand of squeezy bubblegum paste as a kid, the texture and flavor of the candy sticks were very similar. And finally, the pink was – well, it tasted like pink. The green was a pleasant apple that Bridget and I both liked a lot. The yellow stuff was banana flavor, which I avoided. I was given no supervision while filling the mold and naturally I went way overboard, as you can see
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