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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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Review: Kit Kat Bitter Strawberry Bar

In Japanese candy production, “bitter” is code word for dark chocolate, and “dark” seems to be code for just slightly darker milk chocolate. I’m always happy to see slightly more complex candy flavours making their way to store shelves, and so I was excited to see the folks at Nestle combining their popular go-to strawberry flavour with their recently successful Adult Dark Chocolate to create a new snack. So let’s see if it lives up to its promise? Continue reading

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Review: LOOK A La Mode Chocolate

I didn’t really dig on my last “Look” chocolate experience too much, designed as it was to capture the joy and sensation of a green-tea-with-red-bean-ice-cream-sundae sort of a thing, but when I saw the 4-flavours-in-one of A La Mode on the shelf, of course I had to pick it up. Banana, Almond, Strawberry, and Caramel all in one? It sounds ‘interesting’ at the very least, and has pretty amazing potential! Continue reading

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Review: Kabaya Puchi Purin Chocolate (Little Chocolate Puddings)

Review: Kabaya Little Chocolate Puddings (プチプリンチョコ) Purchased: December 2011 Best Before: August 2012 Review: January 2012 http://kabaya.co.jp/okitem/cho_putipurin.html My husband is delightful, and for Christmas he got me an assortment of Japanese candies for the blog. I love that guy. One … Continue reading

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Review: Fujiya Red Bean and Green Tea Parfait Look Chocolate

Review: Look Chocolates Gifted: July 2011 Best Before: January 2012 Review: October 2011 Another lovely gift from Deb Aoki, it’s Fujiya’s Green Tea Ice Cream Parfait Look Chocolate. Quite a mouthful eh? Well these little chocolates are much smaller than … Continue reading

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