Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Kit Kat flavors

Kit Kats are one of those fairly standard, not-very-exciting snacks in the US. It's a crunchy wafer coated in chocolate, and the biggest schtick about them is that they came 4 (or 2 for snack size) to a pack and you snap off each stick to eat. It comes in milk chocolate.... and that's about it. Sometimes you encounter white chocolate Kit Kats, sometimes in the Winter or near Halloween. Japan has all sorts of Kit Kat flavors. I've had purin (pudding/flan) Kit Kats, which were actually quite nice. I have seen packages of green tea, mango, and yuzu Kit Kats and know there are plenty of other flavors floating around. Anyhow, this past weekend one of my coworkers from Mountain View was in Japan (family vacation, visiting her brother who goes to school here) and we hung out in Shinjuku. At one point we ended up in a Taito arcade and amongst all the wacky toys you could try to win out of the crane game machines (Bunny dango plushies! Desk-sized Roomba knock-off! Mah Jongg sets!) were two machines where you could win candy. One of them featured a tall stack of Royal Milk Tea Kit Kats. We promptly spent about 800 yen trying to knock down the tower, and in the end scored two boxes of Kit Kats.
When you open the package it smells very strongly of royal milk tea. Like other flavored Kit Kats, instead of a chocolate coating you have a flavored coating, and this tastes like, well, royal milk tea. With a wafer in the middle. Exactly what it says on the tin. Delicious.

1 comment:

  1. Hi! It was so natsukashi talking about Japan at dinner the other day. I like matcha kitkats. I also like the games at Ikebukero (Sunshine City's Namjatown to be exact) Why? B/c they're easier and they have some big prizes. I got a giant Pooh bear for only 200Y which I consider to be cheap for those types of UFO catcher games.

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