Tea and Coffee

03/2009

11/2009

So, here's some of the different tea (non-Omiyage ones) and coffee flavored KitKats that we've had. If I remember correctly, I liked the Jasmine tea one (茉莉花茶) and hated the Royal Milk Tea one (ロイヤルミルクティー味). But it's the same for the actual drinks too. I can't stand royal milk tea but I do love Jasmine tea. And, while now I don't really remember them, or know if they taste different from one another, but I'm gonna go ahead and say both the espresso coffee (エスプレッソコーヒー) and the milk coffee (ミルクコーヒー味) were delicious.

04/2009

12/2009

Old TImes #1

Muscat of Alexandria (12/2008)

Apple (01/2009)

Going back through pictures from when I first came to Japan brought me across some of the first KitKats I bought here. Naturally I can't accurately remember their flavors. Some of them I can't really remember at all. Like the first one here, Muscat of Alexandria. I remember the box, but that's it. It's the same with the Apple one.  However I do remember loving the McDonald's collaboration, Caramel Macchiato Flurry, and this Lemon one was definitely a favorite. The lemon may or may not be true. It might just be the fact that I love lemon sweets and I don't actually have a true memory, just an assumption gone rogue. Anyway..... 

Lemon (02/2009)

McFluffy (12/2008)

World Variety

Some of the proceeds went to Tohoku's recovery.

So this is what KitKat has out lately. The World Variety pack. It's got regular KitKat minis from Australia, England, and Japan. I wasn't at all surprised to find that the Japanese one was darker and less sweet than the others. It's pretty well known that the milk chocolate of the west isn't quite so popular here and that the chocolate tends to be a bit more bitter. I wasn't expecting there to be a difference between Australia and England though. I can't really say which one is sweeter, if that's even what the difference was, mainly because this post was written a few weeks after the actual tasting. But I do remember that I liked the Australian KitKat best. But all three were pretty delicious.

Special Packaging

One of my clients knows about my interest in KitKats and he very kindly gave me these. They were past their expiration dates but the flavor was normal chocolate, so that wasn't really a big deal. The exciting bit is that his company had their own special edition box to give people one year! How cool is that? Since then, the company has undergone a few changes - mergers and whatnot, so I think the packaging is even cooler!

Omiyages from a trip to Snow Country

A couple years ago I went up to Hokkaido for the snow festival. The best thing from this trip was a trip to an onsen where I met a lovely older couple from Fukuoka who spoke English and another woman who was trying to set me up with her son who lived in Tokyo. While I was soaking in the outdoor onsen, it started lightly snowing. Nothing is more magical than that!

Yuubari Melon

Yaki-Morokoshi

The second best thing was the jackpot of omiyage KitKats that I found. In Haneda airport, I found the Kanto/Shizuoka one - Wasabi! It's probably one of my favorites. It's spicy and sweet at the same time. Yum! The two that I got from Hokkaido are 夕張メロン (Yuubari Melon) and 焼きもろこし (Grilled Millet). The Millet/corn one was a bit weird because of the buttery flavor. And to be honest, I'm not really a fan of chocolate and melon together. But three KitKat flavors from one trip? Yes!

KitKats from someone amazing

The other day I got an attempted delivery notice in the mail. I wasn't expecting anything so I had no idea what I could be getting. Well, anyway the next day the box was successfully delivered. I was pleasantly surprised to see one of my friends had sent me a box of snacks! She had gone on a trip to Kyoto and picked up one of the local KitKats - Houjicha (Roasted Green Tea). In addition, she sent Rilakkuma's hotcake and Mos Burger's  rich white chocolate ones.


I've had the houjicha ones before but I've never had a box, so the picture I had before was just of one individually wrapped KitKat. It's probably one of my favorites - just the right amount of tea flavor and sweetness.
 
The hotcake ones are what one would expect. Sweet and hotcake-y. Great for kids and Rilakkuma! The Mos Burger Noukou White (Rich white) were suuuuuuper yummy. Neither my friend nor I can figure out white Mos Burger has a special KitKat. We also have no idea why it would be this flavor. But it's yummy and cute!

Adult Flavors

Original Chocolate (Introduced 2010)

White Chocolate (introduced 2011)

So KitKat has a line called オトナの甘さ which translates basically to sweetness for adults. Basically the KitKats aren't quite as sweet as their regular counterparts and the chocolate has bits of biscuits in it, so it's a little more crunchy. The most recent one, the matcha flavored one, is one of my favorites. I might even buy this one a second time! The others are good too, and you can buy the regular chocolate one anytime. 

Matcha (introduced 2012)